Downbelow Station offers a fascinating glimpse at mankind’s future in space, but its narrative is so lifeless and gratuitously expositionary it is nearly impossible to care for the novel’s characters or plot.
| Positive: | Negative: |
| A thoroughly detailed, well-built futuristic setting | Dull, lifeless prose |
| Dull, lifeless characters | |
| Dull plot |
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