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Demu Trilogy #2
Proud Enemy
Book by Busby, F. M.
- GenresScience Fiction
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 1975
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F.M. Busby
69 books27 followersFrancis Marion Busby
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November 18, 2021
This one was much slower than the first and really dragged for a majority of its length. Busby has great ideas and fun characters, but completely fails at steady pacing.
For a mass market novel about alien lobsters that want to turn people into lobsters, there is SO MUCH more political and strategic talk than there needs to be. Between dry discussions on what weaponry can pierce Demu shields, there are brief romantic spats that feel more at place in a soap opera. The ending made the journey worth it and I am reading the final book, but I wonder if the awkward pacing was a publisher mandate.
Sci-fi authors didn’t earn that much and quantity over quality was the typical approach. Cage a Man and The Proud Enemy could have easily been trimmed and published as a single book, but one great book might not hit the sales of two decent ones. I’m hoping the final entry will be a more polished read since it was 5 years in the making. Then again, never getting a solo release might not be a good sign...
For a mass market novel about alien lobsters that want to turn people into lobsters, there is SO MUCH more political and strategic talk than there needs to be. Between dry discussions on what weaponry can pierce Demu shields, there are brief romantic spats that feel more at place in a soap opera. The ending made the journey worth it and I am reading the final book, but I wonder if the awkward pacing was a publisher mandate.
Sci-fi authors didn’t earn that much and quantity over quality was the typical approach. Cage a Man and The Proud Enemy could have easily been trimmed and published as a single book, but one great book might not hit the sales of two decent ones. I’m hoping the final entry will be a more polished read since it was 5 years in the making. Then again, never getting a solo release might not be a good sign...
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June 7, 2010science fiction
December 9, 2016
Maybe I'm slow, but the actual details of the big reveal, were muddy to me, in the books second act it drags a bit and meanders
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