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A review by wafer
Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord by Olaf Stapledon
2.0
I wanted to like this one so bad, I promise. The concept was so promising, too! This is a story about a dog enhanced with human intelligence being raised alongside a human girl with all of the usual fantastical sci-fi elements included.
It’s too bad that Stapleton’s prose reads as dry as a desert. It all felt like a milquetoast biography, one where everything was told with such a degree of separation that I found myself not getting the slightest bit of emotional investment. The little tidbits of how Sirius adapts to his canid handicaps were all neat to see, but that was really all the book had going for it.
I’m kinda bummed y’all. I was hoping for more here.
It’s too bad that Stapleton’s prose reads as dry as a desert. It all felt like a milquetoast biography, one where everything was told with such a degree of separation that I found myself not getting the slightest bit of emotional investment. The little tidbits of how Sirius adapts to his canid handicaps were all neat to see, but that was really all the book had going for it.
I’m kinda bummed y’all. I was hoping for more here.