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On top of that, there were also more plot gaps and poor copy-editing and editing choices than in the first two books. In no particular order: We get a very specific number of alien gates , I believe and then, at the very end of the book, that number changes to several thousand. Apparently, the fearsome Martian marine recon armor can be taken out with one sniper shot to the faceplate. Sorry, Bobbie, but six guys with rifles could have taken out your whole squad.
One of the secondary characters changes their gender back and forth in the space of two pages. There is nothing else to push off from, so no matter how much you maneuver your legs, you will not get any additional velocity. What is this - the original "Uncanny X-Men" comic? When a mass murderer is apprehended and it's established that she has combat-tailored gland implants, they just leave those glands in place and lock her in a cell designed for a horse.
Brilliant planning, just brilliant. If removing the glands is not an option, then just put her in the medical coma - problem solved. At the end of it all, not a single participant of the counter-coup got thrown out of the airlock or at least jailed? This is too much like modern politics to be escapist fiction. Also, if your grand plan depends on a mentally unbalanced person to have a crisis of conscience in your enemy's command center, then maybe you deserved to lose in the first place. The book's writing is occasionally good, with a few genuinely LOL-inducing moments and some highly quotable lines.
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I just wish I knew what on earth or on Mars, or on the Belt compelled the authors to make their book an unreadable mess full of gunfights and theological discourses I can't give this more than two stars. In his second sci-fi novel, Andy Weir, the author of "The Martian," tried to do a turn and write something different. His novel "Artemis" was only partly successful. Jazz is a year-old full-time porter, part-time smuggler, whose family left Saudi Arabia when she was a kid, and who ends up getting in the world of trouble as the novel begins.
It's unclear what Weir was going for with this character: John Scalzi's "Zoe's Tale" came much closer to adopting the persona of a female protagonist, and he said that it took him ages to hone in on that writing style. It doesn't help that Jazz is Mary Sue incarnate: To be fair, the science part of this science fiction novel was beautiful: Weir goes to great lengths to explain why Kenya would end up as a spacefaring superpower with its equatorial location; how to survive a fire in an oxygen-rich moon city; how and why an aluminum processing plant would prosper on the moon.
The economy he describes is interesting as well: Overall, the book is great sci-fi but with a supremely flat main character. When it inevitably becomes a movie, the screenwriters will probably do yet another and give Jazz a personality transplant. Until then, however, I don't recommend picking up "Artemis" until and unless you finish everything else on your "to read" list. I give this book two out of five stars. I received an advance reader copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
Grigory Lukin rated a book liked it It Devours! I really, really wanted to enjoy the new Welcome to Night Vale novel. As a faithful podcast listener who went to the live shows and enjoyed the first novel two years ago, I'd expected something as fulfilling and creative, but I was a bit disappointed I really, really wanted to enjoy the new Welcome to Night Vale novel. As a faithful podcast listener who went to the live shows and enjoyed the first novel two years ago, I'd expected something as fulfilling and creative, but I was a bit disappointed in what I found.
The new novel focuses very little on the characters we all know and love from the podcast. Instead, Cecil, his family, and the protagonists of the first novel make a brief appearance, and Carlos shows up for a little while, but most of the action is concentrated on brand new characters. This novel is yet another attempt to approach the ancient debate between science and religion. The two main characters, unfortunately, are two-dimensional stereotypes with a fair amount of personality slapped on top.
As they team up to investigate the strange phenomenon or possibly a creature that devours parts of Night Vale, the anti-religion scientist learns to accept unscientific things and hunches, while the super-naive religious guy reconsiders his beliefs and offers some moral pointers to Carlos and his merry team of scientists. This novel has some great writing, and oh-so-many quotable passages, as well as little jokes that make Welcome to Night Vale so great.
But overall, it's not an entertaining novel that was written to entertain the reader. It's a story about science and religion, with some characters thrown in to keep it going and bring a preachy ending that's relatively easy to see coming.
Without giving away any of the plot, let me put it this way: If, on the other hand, you want your leisure reading to have a concise story where everything ends well and everyone lives happily ever after, you might want to skip this book - or get it from the library. Come to think of it, a good analogy would be the Narnia books by C.
In this case, the preaching is balanced out and neither side is fully right, but that doesn't make it better in my eyes. I give this book three out of five stars. I love time travel novels: There are inventive plot twists, creative time machines, and tons of historical trivia. Paradox Bound, the new novel by Peter Clines, is all that and much more.
According to Cli I love time travel novels: According to Clines, he'd spent more years writing Paradox Bound than he did any other book - and that certainly shows!
It's tough to describe the plot without giving away the wonderful, delicious surprises, so I'll just state the very basics. It's a story about a Millennial guy named Eli who lives in a boring small town in Maine and who has a crush on the mysterious woman who passes through every few years, wearing antique outfits and driving a souped-up Ford Model A.
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It's a story about America and its history, both the heroic past and the uncertain future. It's a story about a community of time travelers or "history travelers," as they prefer to be called who travel through history in their antique cars. It's a story about the pursuit of a dream above all else. It also features faceless government men, an ancient Egyptian god, the Founding Fathers, and subtle references to every other novel Clines has ever written.
The many, many plot twists kept me glued to the book: It helps that Clines used to be a Hollywood writer and knows his way around pacing, dialogue and overall structure - the book flows like a dream. Or like the Tesla X! The only other time travel novel I've read that achieved this level of beauty and twisted complexity is The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold, an underappreciated masterpiece that was ahead of its time. Clines left enough loose ends for there to be a sequel, which I'll await most eagerly.
Paradox Bound also touches on some deeper themes. There is an interesting encounter with a folk hero from the 19th century whose story is told from a different angle. There's the uncomfortable fact that female time travelers have a much easier time if they disguise themselves as men in their trips to the past. There's an interesting subplot of cops forcing another cop to sign a document that would permanently change his life. And not for the better. The book doesn't preach, but it gives more than enough food for thought to its careful readers.
One word of caution: If, however, you're buying this book for yourself and if you enjoy time travel yarns, inventive plots, and strong female characters with low tolerance for nonsense, I can't recommend this book highly enough. I give this book five out of five stars. Have you ever wondered if our world made a wrong turn somewhere?
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Sure, we have computers and smartphones and shiny video games, but what happened to the yesteryear dreams of jetpacks and space travel and flying cars? Well, now we know whom to blame: Tom Barren, the world's worst time-traveler and the protagonist of Elan Mastai's debut novel "All our wrong todays. The Goettreider Engine revolutionized everything, solved the energy crisis and turned the world into a utopia.
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