rules of sci-fi cheese, #21
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You know you're dealing with a cheesy sci-fi the book/film/whatever when it is set far in the future and it references figures or events from the 20th century. Lacking the talent or time to come up with some equally credible, yet fictional background, the author resorts to their own timeframe to provide some colour and flavour.
As proof, I present: That Star Trek film, Peter F. Hamilton's The Neutronium Alchemist and pretty much every Battletech source book ever made.
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PFH is a fucking fraud.
I can't believe I waded through N thousand pages of that interminable Night's Dawn trilogy, thinking occasionally "gee, that's cool and all, but get to the point man" and then, latterly, "far out, how's he going to sort THIS out?"
Only to have him go, "And they found the magic thing and used it and it fixed everything. The end."*
Actually, I'll go one further and give him the most damning review I can think of: Peter F Hamilton is the Robert Jordan of sci-fi.
*sorry if I spoiled the ending for you, but if you're just starting The Reality Disfunction and thinking it's actually pretty good to begin with, you're sort of right but you need to know in advance that the trilogy as a whole is a pile of shit.
Posted by: Joel on April 7, 2005 08:43 PM
effing robert jordon. he should have to stuck to writing conan novels in 200pgs instead of dragging them out so we can all pretend we're not reading pulp. i think there is a trend that people write one book that is an okay read and then sell franchise licenses to their 2nd cousins and next door neighbours to write never ending sequels for them, while they go down the pub and drown their self respect with enough long island iced tea's that it doesn't care anymore.
btw: we lived in arizona, the sky used to always...
Posted by: luke on April 7, 2005 10:08 PM
So Mike, are you going to LCA?
Posted by: Tim on April 7, 2005 11:42 PM
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