2009-09-22
Entry tags:
Books
_Fragment_, Warren Fahy
The first chapter or two were unimpressive. It was a bad novelization of a movie. Characters were introduced and their backgrounds and motivations laid out immediately in the authorial narration. Clunky.
Then it started moving, and I read the whole thing. Yes, it's derivative of Crichton and Doyle. But the scientists talk like actual scientists, the grad-students like actual grad-students, and the sailors like real sail-- well, not so much those, actually. But they do act in reasonably appropriate ways.
Likely to be nightmare fuel for some people. The sort of people who like both Neal Asher and Peter Watts should like it a lot.
The first chapter or two were unimpressive. It was a bad novelization of a movie. Characters were introduced and their backgrounds and motivations laid out immediately in the authorial narration. Clunky.
Then it started moving, and I read the whole thing. Yes, it's derivative of Crichton and Doyle. But the scientists talk like actual scientists, the grad-students like actual grad-students, and the sailors like real sail-- well, not so much those, actually. But they do act in reasonably appropriate ways.
Likely to be nightmare fuel for some people. The sort of people who like both Neal Asher and Peter Watts should like it a lot.
Entry tags:
Books
_Fragment_, Warren Fahy
The first chapter or two were unimpressive. It was a bad novelization of a movie. Characters were introduced and their backgrounds and motivations laid out immediately in the authorial narration. Clunky.
Then it started moving, and I read the whole thing. Yes, it's derivative of Crichton and Doyle. But the scientists talk like actual scientists, the grad-students like actual grad-students, and the sailors like real sail-- well, not so much those, actually. But they do act in reasonably appropriate ways.
Likely to be nightmare fuel for some people. The sort of people who like both Neal Asher and Peter Watts should like it a lot.
The first chapter or two were unimpressive. It was a bad novelization of a movie. Characters were introduced and their backgrounds and motivations laid out immediately in the authorial narration. Clunky.
Then it started moving, and I read the whole thing. Yes, it's derivative of Crichton and Doyle. But the scientists talk like actual scientists, the grad-students like actual grad-students, and the sailors like real sail-- well, not so much those, actually. But they do act in reasonably appropriate ways.
Likely to be nightmare fuel for some people. The sort of people who like both Neal Asher and Peter Watts should like it a lot.