/Heaven's Shadow/ -- Cassutt & Goyer. Please do not read this book. This is why.

[lproven]

Comments

[mgspiller]

No no Liam, stop pussyfooting around, tell us what you really think.... ;-)

[a_cubed]

Beat me to that comment.

[major_clanger]

Hmmm - the one stand-alone novel by Cassutt I've read, Red Moon, was not at all bad. Perhaps it's Goyer's influence, or maybe Cassutt does better at historical novels than sf.

[a_cubed]

Actually, the fact that (one of) the author(s) works in another genre explaisn two things: why they're so bad at SF (few authors can be good at multiple genres, though there are some) and why they got published with a poor work (publishing houses sometimes screw up their cross-genre editing decisions due to marketing putting their oar in and pushing the "really great innovative SF idea that our hit romance writer came up with - someone goes back in time, kills his apparent grandfather as a young man then falls in love wth his grandmother and becomes his own grandfather - PNH says he's had this kind of pitch numerous times from other-genre editors).

[lproven]

I can well believe this point about pitches, and I salute your insightful synthesis of the bigger picture.

[lproven]

Interesting!

Some of the only stuff that felt at all plausible in the novel was the stuff about NASA groundside operations.

[jhaelan]

I'm wondering why you gave it one star?

[lproven]

That seems to be the lowest rating that Goodreads allows. 1 = bad, 2 = poor, 3 = fair, 4 = good, 5 = great, AFAIUI.