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For the life of me, I cannot figure out why so many people gave this book 5 stars. There are good ideas in there (although nothing groundbreaking), and the setting could have been the scene for a very good story. But instead the author focuses on useless details. The description of a protagonist going up and down the silo staircase can go on for page after boring page; you'll also learn with excruciating detail how people put on or remove clothes, repair broken stuff, and so on. Sometimes it feel like you are watching a movie in slow-motion. And it gets worse as the book goes - the first novella actually contains ALL the ideas of the series, the rest is just further dilution of already very diluted ideas. The author was obviously surprised with the 1st novella's success and was pushed to write on even if he was clearly out of inspiration. So if you remove the boring drivel out of the 470+ pages of the omnibus, you are left with cliché cardboard-cutout characters whose decisions often do not make much sense and a smattering of teenage romance. That's it ! A complete absence of thought-provoking elements. If the author had stopped at the first novella or condensed the whole thing into 50 pages, the whole thing could actually have been enjoyable. But I feel cheated for having wasted so much time trundling through 500 boring pages for so few ideas and a cliché happy ending. This is IN NO WAY the masterwork of SF that some 5-star review claim it is. Don't be fooled by them, as I was!