EW Reviews SF/F

Posted on January 20, 2007 by John DeNardo in Books // 2 Comments

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.

Josh // January 21, 2007 at 5:50 pm //

“Doctorow is rapidly emerging as the William Gibson of his generation.”

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No.

Trent // January 23, 2007 at 11:31 am //

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.

:-@