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Arkwright by Allen M. Steele

3.0

Apparently I read the first section of this book in some form, which left me with deja vu, which kind of impacted the rest of the book. Basically this was a set of stories told from the point of view of one generation and then the next in a single family. The pieces on Earth leading up to the launching of the starship was pretty good. The bit on the colony planet, a bit less good - certainly felt like I'd read this before as well. All in all it kind of felt clumsy, though readable enough. The ideas weren't bad, but they really didn't feel all that interesting or original. 3.5 of 5.