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Noah Robischon of Entertainment Weekly serves up another batch of sf reviewlettes this month.

• THE BOY WHO WOULD LIVE FOREVER by Frederik Pohl
  
  • Grade: B-
  
  
  • Upshot: Returning to his gateway series after a 15-year hiatus, Pohl overlaps timelines, plots, and characters - and produces so many climaxes it becomes burdonsome.


• CRACHE by Mark Budz
  
  • Grade: B
  
  
  • Upshot: Budz loves wrodplay and has an innate, pop-culture-savvy sense of humor (there is a character names L. Mariachi who passes an "Xstream 2na sushi outlet"). But it ends up being a fine varnish on a fairly wooden story.


• EXULTANT by Stephen Baxter
  
  • Grade: B+
  
  
  • Upshot: In the second book of a planned trilogy, Baxter shows off his academic chops - he's an aeroengineer and mathematician - and his storytelling talent.

Share: | Posted by John on Tuesday November 30, 2004 - 9:49 PM | Category: Books | © 2004 SF Signal