I am the negative reviewer that every book has to have.The opening premise was quite promising-a world of evolved robots within the solar system, and contact between us and them. But as I started reading the story just consisted of two sorts of people: frauds and religious fanatics, vs. the good guys who understand science. And those good guys did nothing but preach about how stupid all those other people are. The preaching alternated with the frauds and fanatics behaving, you know, fraudulently and/or fanatically.I agree with the author that science is the most correct and most productive way to understand the workings of the world. But it’s just tiresome to read it over and over and over again. When I read a novel, I want to story, not a lot of preaching. The moral of the story should arise out of the events and the characters of the people in the novel. The moral shouldn’t be shoved in your face with page after page of preachy exposition. I gave up after about 70 pages.I gave it two stars instead of one because the scene in which the robot Galileo is punished for saying the world is round is pretty good. Witty, even. But nowhere near good enough to keep reading all that solemn exposition.