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A review by dee9401
The Girl Who Was Plugged In/Screwtop by Vonda N. McIntyre, James Tiptree Jr.
3.0
I didn’t enjoy Vonda McIntyre’s “Screwtop”. There were interesting ideas but they were never developed.
James Tiptree Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” had a fantastic premise but the beginning and end suffered from the writing style. Too experimental? Too clever? There was a point where the story was climaxing with Paul, P. Burke, and Delphi that was masterful, but then the ending reverts to the ‘too clever by half’ writing style of earlier.
So, 1 star for Screwtop and 3 for Tiptree’s story (should have been a 4 easily and could have been a 5).
Overall, since these Tor volumes are hard to rate, I’ll go with 3. If I was just rating the Tiptree piece, I’d probably go for 3.5 or 4 stars.
James Tiptree Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” had a fantastic premise but the beginning and end suffered from the writing style. Too experimental? Too clever? There was a point where the story was climaxing with Paul, P. Burke, and Delphi that was masterful, but then the ending reverts to the ‘too clever by half’ writing style of earlier.
So, 1 star for Screwtop and 3 for Tiptree’s story (should have been a 4 easily and could have been a 5).
Overall, since these Tor volumes are hard to rate, I’ll go with 3. If I was just rating the Tiptree piece, I’d probably go for 3.5 or 4 stars.