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Irritating technique of having characters cryptically hint at things or almost remember them, but get somehow interrupted. Until 10-20 pages later the mystery is resolved. Artificial stakes-building.
— Feb 11, 2021 02:34PM
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Andrew
is on page 220 of 465
Day is clearly attempting to craft high-stakes, tense action scenes, yet fills them up with such incomprehensible technical jargon that the lay reader has no idea what is happening. I'm just skimming to the end of the sequence to get to the outcome.
On a hunch I've looked up Day's bio to find that his day-job is in tech/aerospace. Let's just say that tracks with my reading experience.
— Feb 11, 2021 08:37AM
On a hunch I've looked up Day's bio to find that his day-job is in tech/aerospace. Let's just say that tracks with my reading experience.
Andrew
is on page 210 of 465
Bizarre obsession with G-forces, without ever actually having done the legwork to explain how they work or why we should care.
Feels like the book could have started about where they are now, having established colonies on a new system and dealing with Earth geopolitics they've dragged with them.
Writing still feels pretty bad... at least not as dated/stilted as Asimov but otherwise about at that level.
— Feb 11, 2021 02:32AM
Feels like the book could have started about where they are now, having established colonies on a new system and dealing with Earth geopolitics they've dragged with them.
Writing still feels pretty bad... at least not as dated/stilted as Asimov but otherwise about at that level.
Andrew
is on page 126 of 465
Remarkably poor world-building and character development, with instead a perplexing emphasis on procedural minutiae and (fictional) tech specifications
— Feb 08, 2021 03:19PM