Jeremy Frost
"Monsters All the Way
Down"
By: Ryan
Mcswain
Pithos Publishing. 2014.
I have to admit this wasn't the book I had expected... Which is
always a delight. It had the feel of conspiracy theories and spy
novels to start, and then grew into something else.
While there was a slight matter of... what I call the "hokey factor"
which occurs with some science fiction books. This said, I think the
author did a good job in how it played out. The action was good, the
bad guys weren't just all bad... and the author set about to create a
world that had depth.
"Exo"
By: Stephen Gould
A Tor Book. 2014.
This is a book by the author of Jumper. What I like best about
this book is that the author's characters continue to grow and attempt
to explore their abilities, looking for new ways to push past the
boundaries set by those who came before them, and their own
limits.
I like that.
I like when people explore and test the boundaries of their
environment in fiction, almost as much as I do in real life. It is the
kind of thing I do when day dreaming, and that is another reason I
think it makes for great fiction. It is the kind of narrative you
yourself might do, if you discovered you had the power to teleport.
While I do think there was less action than I might have liked...
The author did make up for it by taking us through a brainstorming
session on how he would explore this ability.
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