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Bane of the Builders

Author:Bogdan Baliuc
Genre:Science Fiction>Space Exploration
Released:2001
Review:

Mostly competent if uninspiring sci-fi effort in which you're looking for a professor who's disappeared on an alien planet. There's one nicely done sequence with an event that has effects in multiple directions at once, progressing over time, so that you see some of the immediate effects in some places and see the aftermath elsewhere. The rest, though, isn't particularly interesting--there's a maze (though a very easy one), and some puzzles whose logic is apparent only in retrospect. Standard sci-fi with a few good moments.

Rating: ***

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (11 Jan 2002)

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Awards:
28th place, rec.arts.int-fiction competition 2001
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