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A review by octavia_cade
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain by Isaac Asimov
2.0
Interesting enough read, if a little didactic and not to be taken too seriously. Its main problem is the problem of so many other stories where a genius (or multitude thereof, as in this case) is the main character.
The big twist at the end was entirely foreseeable. In fact, when (the lauded even by other characters as the most genius genius ever to stalk the earth) Konev burst into his superior's room near the end of the book, all aflutter at plot and consequence, all I could think was "I figured this out 100 pages ago, you stupid disagreeable man."
If your character must be a genius, don't have him out-thought by a moderately intelligent but decidedly not-genius reader. That's the kind of idiocy that loses you an extra star - and I know Asimov can do better, because he has plenty of mystery stories I haven't seen through. This was just too obviously sloppy; the work of an author too interested in the science to give enough consideration to the plot.
The big twist at the end was entirely foreseeable. In fact, when (the lauded even by other characters as the most genius genius ever to stalk the earth) Konev burst into his superior's room near the end of the book, all aflutter at plot and consequence, all I could think was "I figured this out 100 pages ago, you stupid disagreeable man."
If your character must be a genius, don't have him out-thought by a moderately intelligent but decidedly not-genius reader. That's the kind of idiocy that loses you an extra star - and I know Asimov can do better, because he has plenty of mystery stories I haven't seen through. This was just too obviously sloppy; the work of an author too interested in the science to give enough consideration to the plot.