Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Boring,Cardboard Characters,UN Hating Author

This novel read like it was written back in the 50's instead of the 80's. Like a B-grade SciFi movie and not a very good one at that. The author cannot seem to flesh out the characters and relies upon stereotypes for each one. His laughable attempt at making any of the female characters seem realistic falls flat totally. Honestly I don't see why anyone would give this story anything more than one star. This is supposed to be a first contact scenario with not one or two but multiple races but the humans just look at it as some pesky aliens that have to be dealt with instead. Sort of like how the main military jerk, I mean commander looks upon the Latino population there. The author loves to flag wave and Americanize everything. I guess just us Americans are going to populate the universe. Too many flaws to list them all but the story just leads to one amazingly bad ending after all the build up. NOT recommended.