A review by dkhunt
Angelmass by Timothy Zahn

3.0

Fitting neatly into the genre fiction of starships and far-flung colonized worlds, Angelmass outlines a decent, if not entirely thrilling story of a research scientist posing as a spy, a teenage con-artist, and the political machinations of two empires. As a scientist myself I probably found the research angle the most compelling, followed closely by the young girl's trials, although the characters themselves seemed relatively simple and rather transparent. The pages spent with the political and military machine I found distinctly less interesting, even as I concede their necessity to the overall plot development. Mediocre for a Zahn novel.