This novel took almost thirteen hours (within a six day period) to read in its entirety. I started reading it last year, but since I found most of the content absolutely tedious, I stopped doing so for nearly an entire year. Well, I decided to give it another go (starting again from the beginning) and through a lot of sheer will, finally managed to read it all this time around. 'Twas a very tedious science fiction novel. I didn't find the stories and articles featured in it interesting (aside from a couple such as "Judo: The Art Of Self-Government", "Underground" and "Insight". Those were somewhat decent).