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wetherspoonsgf's reviews
60 reviews
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slightly rushes the final 50 pages but writes location very stylishly. popcorn movie of a book
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
this writes the countryside really well, managing to insist on its beauty while making it a little bit too unsettling to love.
I liked how this was written and was enjoying the concept but opening it made me nauseous
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Love a book where central horror of the novel is nominally being semi-kidnapped into an unreal desert society but is actually the social contract.
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
is doing more than most space operas and knows it
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
There is nothing Delany can't do. Cage of Brass is strangely beautiful and terrifying, The Star Pit turns pulp space mechanics to meditations on fatherhood, High Weir is an empathetic take on the horrors of space archaeology a la 2001's obelisk, and Time Considered As a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones is maybe my favourite crime story.
He covers all these semi-connected stories with genuinely beautiful writing and the collection ends with a real mindmelter in the vein of Fritz Lieber. Every single story explores far more than the sum of its parts with humour and the occasional gut punch which he seems to have done just to remind you that he can.
This guy's good, shoutout Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.
He covers all these semi-connected stories with genuinely beautiful writing and the collection ends with a real mindmelter in the vein of Fritz Lieber. Every single story explores far more than the sum of its parts with humour and the occasional gut punch which he seems to have done just to remind you that he can.
This guy's good, shoutout Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A book so good at writing pain that you don't want the characters to be happy, that also endorses ecoterrorism? Yes please!
shouldn't really be that surprising that the foundational cyberpunk text is a massive She Breasted Boobily offender, but it's still annoying.
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
badly paced and structurally misogynistic but incredible worldbuilding