Bleh!
I swore I wouldn't do it but I did. I got about a third of the way into Chanur's Venture and I gave up. I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on. I had no idea who anyone was or what they were doing or why they were doing it. The alien 'speech' was impenetrable, it just felt like hard work trying to decipher it. I've payed my money and I want to be entertained. If I wanted to dephier a code, I'd have bought a puzzle book. I wouldn't mind meeting the author half way if I thought I was being exposed to some sort of high art, and there was a chance my soul would be somehow enriched as a result, but from what I could decipher from this drivel it was just a pretty bog-standard pulp sci-fi adventure. No thanks!
Talking of which, I'm now reading Perry Rhodan 1: Enterprise Stardust.
This is pretty standard 60's pulp sci-fi. Lantern-jawed, super-genius, American astronaut, Perry leads a team of 2-dimensional supporting characters on the first manned mission to the moon. It's okay, nothing special. It's a bit confused from a tech point of view. The first chapter has a detailed description of a three-stage rocket launch with all the g-forces that that entails, but then they make it to the moon in what appears to be a few minutes in a lander that inexplicably contains an armed and armoured tank-like moon rover and an armoury of automatic weapons. Eh!?
I'm also a bit fed up of hearing how many copies of Perry Rhodan stories have been sold over the years - over and over and over again, as if that somehow means anything. It certainly doesn't improve the quality.
Anyway, despite being shudder-inducingly sexist in an old-Trek-like way, it's not too offensive and I'll probably finish it.
I've had a bit of a skinfull of Sci-Fi and fantasy for a bit, I think. Perhaps I'll read some erotica for a change, next. :)
Wayne
Talking of which, I'm now reading Perry Rhodan 1: Enterprise Stardust.
This is pretty standard 60's pulp sci-fi. Lantern-jawed, super-genius, American astronaut, Perry leads a team of 2-dimensional supporting characters on the first manned mission to the moon. It's okay, nothing special. It's a bit confused from a tech point of view. The first chapter has a detailed description of a three-stage rocket launch with all the g-forces that that entails, but then they make it to the moon in what appears to be a few minutes in a lander that inexplicably contains an armed and armoured tank-like moon rover and an armoury of automatic weapons. Eh!?
I'm also a bit fed up of hearing how many copies of Perry Rhodan stories have been sold over the years - over and over and over again, as if that somehow means anything. It certainly doesn't improve the quality.
Anyway, despite being shudder-inducingly sexist in an old-Trek-like way, it's not too offensive and I'll probably finish it.
I've had a bit of a skinfull of Sci-Fi and fantasy for a bit, I think. Perhaps I'll read some erotica for a change, next. :)
Wayne