Re-reading the Berserker books from Saberhagen, for the first time in many years. Oh boy, they did not age well. Many jarring things that often knock me out of the story. I feel a much better editing job could have been done.
Something is explained a second time or third time in as many chapters and not from different character's points of view either. Sometimes these repeating bits contradict what came from before.
This happens in multiple novels.
Maybe, I have not looked it up, it is a byproduct of being serialized in a magazine before being turned into a book? Still, an editing pass would have been advisable.
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