Redeeming Factors

by James R. Lane

Redeeming Factors is an alien first-contact tale combined with an unusual love story. It shows that no matter who you are and what you’ve done, your fate isn’t carved in stone until you die. Even then, if you know the right people, there may yet be hope for your soul.

412 pages, Paperback

First published July 28, 2000

Reviews

[Pão Pão · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did not Finish, stopped at 27%, by that point i was just skipping to see if it so bad its funny but it did not.
Its just self-masturbatory content, he rarely lets the love interest speak, when he does he never gives us a decent POV of her, the only well-developed character is the MC who seems to be just an author avatar that spouts elitist political narratives and just gives expositional monologs several times per chapter.
the furry fandom improved a whole lot when it comes to novels in the past 20 years, it looks like.
Not even the sex scenes are special.

[Aleksandar · Rating 2 out of 5]

For readers of "Pride of Chanur", Mazzara's "Transmission Lost" or the "Moreau omnibus" (or perhaps "Sholan alliance") the setup will be familiar, but the execution is not. This story is not event-driven, or action-driven in the slightest, but mimics a slice of life approach; perhaps Phil Geusz's Lapism comes closest, or Alan Dean Foster's "Quotzl". As a benefit, the prose is clean, unlike, say the "Man-kzinti wars", but as a downside, the prose moves slowly.