Roolipelaaja, seikkailuharrastaja, spefi-kirjailija
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Politics, terrorism, and heavy weather collide over Honolulu in a vividly imagined near-future thriller from the author of The Last …
Yhtäältä on pakko arvostaa kunnianhimoa ja skaalaa, jota tässä kirjassa löytyy. Toisaalta, tämä kirja ei ollut alkuunkaan minua varten. OIen varmaan väärä ihminen sanomaan tästä mitään.
Two twinned worlds are waiting for war …
America is caught in a deadly arms race with the USA, its …
I really liked The March North. However, this sort-of-sequel I really didn't.
The main problem was the undynamic plot. This is a book, where there's hardly any conflict; it is just about sorcerous apprentices working on various projects. The worldbuilding is kind of interesting, but it is so obtuse that often it was a chore to keep reading.
The lack of plot tied to the second problem: the stream-of-consciousness writing style. I couldn't help but hear the rambling back-and-forth style "it's this, not this, something else" mannerisms in the voice of Donald Trump in my head. I'm not sure if March North was written in the same style. Maybe it was, but I could ignore it because I was really interested in what was going on.
The very end was kind of interesting and the world is still really unique, and I approve of what the author is trying to …
I really liked The March North. However, this sort-of-sequel I really didn't.
The main problem was the undynamic plot. This is a book, where there's hardly any conflict; it is just about sorcerous apprentices working on various projects. The worldbuilding is kind of interesting, but it is so obtuse that often it was a chore to keep reading.
The lack of plot tied to the second problem: the stream-of-consciousness writing style. I couldn't help but hear the rambling back-and-forth style "it's this, not this, something else" mannerisms in the voice of Donald Trump in my head. I'm not sure if March North was written in the same style. Maybe it was, but I could ignore it because I was really interested in what was going on.
The very end was kind of interesting and the world is still really unique, and I approve of what the author is trying to do here, but this is one of the weakest three stars I've ever given. I still want to check out the other books in the series, however.
Ei hyvää päivää millainen teos. Kaksisataasivuinen kirjamaailmaan sijoittuva farssi, jossa henkilöiden ja instituutioiden nimiä on muutettu juuri ja juuri riittävästi oikeusjuttujen väistämiseksi, jonka kieli on hengästyttävän pöhköä ja joka ei missään vaiheessa epäröi eskaloida asioita vielä vähän älyvapaampiin suuntiin. En tiedä, kuinka laajaan kohderyhmään tämä vetoaa, mutta eipä sillä hirveästi väliä, koska minuun se kyllä osui.
Video game novel adaptations and tie-ins - are there any good ones? I'm trying to find out.
Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers takes the setting of the game, and tells a very basic, bare-bones science fiction story with it. The epic scale and complicated clash of interstellar civilisations is nowhere to be found; the book only does the bare minimum to qualify as a tie-in. Essentially it's a rather pedestrian story of a very simple anomaly research mission in the early game.
The main characters are uninterestingly humans and no really fascinating aliens turn up either. As a Stellaris player I was rather disinterested, as a sci-fi fan I felt underserved. Rather meh.
