Low and behold, I discovered that Bayley expanded an unpublished short story for the first half of the novel -- i. Bayley still has not figured out how to pace a novel. While good ideas abound alchemy as the science of a stagnate future, protein tank based society, etc , the characters are unlikable and almost as brutal as the Rotrox. Only pick up the work for it's cover and the first half As a reader, I wanted to personally toss the main character in a protein tank. One person found this helpful.
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As with everything this man wrote, the number of ideas per page is enough reason to buy this book, even if the plot was rubbish. But the plot is not rubbish. It's engaging, fast-paced, and as always with Bayley profound.
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A handful of gangsters fleeing one of many self-contained cities on the otherwise lifeless planet of Killibol colonized by humans in the mist-shrouded past through a 'gateway' based on an all-but-forgetten alchemical technology would have considered themselves doomed to starvation and probably killed themselves were it not for the overpowering personality, drive and brilliance of their ruthlessly ambitious leader, Becmath, who, having kidnapped and questioned the city's one remaining alchemist, knows the location of the gate and the fact that, despite common-knowledge of its destruction, it may have reconstituted itself over the intervening millennia.
His gamble pays off and Becmath's rise to power begins. Klein, Becmath's right-hand man and the protagonist of the novel if it could be said to have a protagonist is, as my fellow reviewer points out, not especially likable. None of Bayley's characters are especially likable. They're merely products of their environments like everyone else.
There's no room for heros is Bayley's universe. The writer with the hardest of all 'hard science-fiction' outlooks I have ever read, is not a feel-good writer. He looks at the world as through a precision instrument, writing with the closest I have ever seen to a purely objective point of view. While not to everyone's tastes, anyone who respects the true essence of science fiction--fiction based on SCIENCE, should not miss a word he wrote.
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Empire Not knowing much about the drug world, or about the Latino drug world in Brooklyn in particular, I was fascinating on the basic level of curiosity. And some amazement, I suppose. This isn't a badly made movie. The leading actor, John Leguizamo, is subtle enough as Victor Rosa and has an inner core of decency to keep you identified enough to watch.
The plot needs that because there's a lot of the well worn drug violence to wear you out. There is also, however, a second plot element that you don't quite expect—Rosa finds an opportunity to invest his drug earnings into high yield stock deals through a very non- Latino Wall Street man. So there is a big twist or two to come, and this really makes the movie more of a fictional bit of creativity. Written and directed by Franc Reyes, "Empire" is about all kinds of rivalries.
It's also wants to be about love and is thin there. You wish he had taken the slightly different tack the script offered him and tilted away from the shooting and strutting lots of cocks hanging out here and more into the minds and hearts of these people, who start to become real for us.
Somehow they managed to get Isabella Rossellini in for a small but good part—if you're a fan you'll enjoy that.
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