Issue #917 of Entertainment Weekly offers some brief reviews of science fiction and fantasy books. Here's a snippet...
Overclocked by Cory Doctorow
Studio Pitch: I, Robot meets Dr. Stangelove.
Lowdown: The four page opening fable is as absorbing an prescient as the gruesome 76-page war story that ends the book. Doctorow is rapidly emerging as the William Gibson of his generation.
Grade: A.
Ice Vladimir Sorokin
Studio Pitch: George A. Romero meets Nikolai Gogol.
Lowdown: Sorokin's inventively sliced plot doesn't make room for a proper climax, bu the particulars of his pulp allegory are eerie enough to chill.
Grade: B+.
Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber
Studio Pitch: Battlestar Galactica meets Master and Commander and the Protestant Reformation.
Lowdown: A thin sci-fi frame for a sometimes rousing, often sluggish age-of-sail epic.
Grade: B.
From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust
Studio Pitch: Super Friends meets Analyze This.
Lowdown: While fanboys might wish Faust had played it more straight, Brain is entertaining and impishly savvy about comics.
Grade: B+.
Elsewhere in the issue is a review of Voices in the Street by Philip K. Dick which gets a B+ rating.
Comments (2)
| PermaLink
| Category: Books
Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday January 20, 2007 at 9:33 PM
© 2008 SF Signal
"Doctorow is rapidly emerging as the William Gibson of his generation."
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No.
Posted by Josh on Sunday January 21, 2007 at 5:50 PM at 5:50 PM
Amazon.com:
"In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mindbending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology -- and its various uses -- run amok."
So describing the obvious and pushing opinions he garnished from marketing materials is now referred to as: "wields his formidable experience in technology and computing".
LOL!!! ok....
I will never get tired of bashing this goofball. I feel like I need a lithium IV drip just to get through one of his painful articles.
Posted by Trent on Tuesday January 23, 2007 at 11:31 AM at 11:31 AM