Paul Preuss - Starfire
Orson Scott Card Can Be Wrong
It is not every day that one gets to read a piece refered to by the Orson Scott Card himself as "A terrific novel, I heartily recommend it". The photo on the cover was quite impressive Scifi stuff, so naturally I bought it - more like fell for it, actually.
It's hard to put my finger on the source of my disappointment. I've seen worse technobabble on Startrek, and the occasional plot element did occur, although between long burst of slow story telling.
With scarce character development that was basically limited to the final stage, and with recent developments in the real world not quite befitting the "Enthralling near-future space adventure" slogan on the cover, the book quickly fell out of favor for me.
If it wasn't for Asimov & co I'd be selling out Scifi altogether for Fantasy.
on the upside: Hardcore Scifi, creative techno-babble, author very knowledgeable on NASA and space tech.
On the downside: Slow plot, lacking mystery, very Apollo 13-like.
JYRating: 40. Take my copy - I won't be needing it.
It is not every day that one gets to read a piece refered to by the Orson Scott Card himself as "A terrific novel, I heartily recommend it". The photo on the cover was quite impressive Scifi stuff, so naturally I bought it - more like fell for it, actually.
It's hard to put my finger on the source of my disappointment. I've seen worse technobabble on Startrek, and the occasional plot element did occur, although between long burst of slow story telling.
With scarce character development that was basically limited to the final stage, and with recent developments in the real world not quite befitting the "Enthralling near-future space adventure" slogan on the cover, the book quickly fell out of favor for me.
If it wasn't for Asimov & co I'd be selling out Scifi altogether for Fantasy.
on the upside: Hardcore Scifi, creative techno-babble, author very knowledgeable on NASA and space tech.
On the downside: Slow plot, lacking mystery, very Apollo 13-like.
JYRating: 40. Take my copy - I won't be needing it.
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