He criticizes the book for lacking ten memorable characters; the book is about an expedition of three people.
Dune story. It’s a work of soft sci-fi, that is epic and small, but transgressive, profound, and often confounding
I stopped taking the author seriously upon reading that.
Because Ramans do everything in threes. ;) Not that this sci-fi illiterate would catch such a thing. I am not much of a Clarke fan (Ellison, Knight, and Heinlein are more my cup of tea), but if you’re not going to follow the source material, then write your own damn story. I shudder when I think that my beloved “At the Mountains of Madness” is going to get the same treatment.