This book came recommended. After a 15 month wait to get a copy from the public library (they had 5 copies in circulation but they all managed to either go missing or be destroyed so they eventually ordered a replacement copy) I was disappointed.

Perhaps I didn’t give it enough time to get into it, but I put it down after the first little while and didn’t finish. It had some interesting notions but it just felt like typical, bland, 70’s SF to me. /shrug