Short Trips: Transmissions

[louisedennis]

I first met* Richard Salter when he tried to organise an Internet coordinated Dr Who short story collection for the emerging Decalog series published by Virgin. There's been a lot of water under the bridge since then and the idea of using Internet coordination to put together a short story collection no longer seems remotely radical. Richard has

Comments

[mondyboy]

I'm not sure who it was who said that Author Notes are a bit like a magician giving away his magic trick.

Anywho, thanks for the very thoughtful review.

[louisedennis]

I think, particularly in this case, there was a sort of enjoyment to be had from discovering that the way of telling the story actually worked which was spoiled by reading the notes first. I liked it though it just wasn't clutching me by the throat. I particularly liked Rachel's part of the story, that was very movingly written.

Thanks Louise

[anonymous]

Thanks for the review, Louise. Glad you enjoyed the collection. I, er, think you did anyway :)

Richard (formerly of the Halibut)

Re: Thanks Louise

[louisedennis]

I liked it very much. Re-reading the above it comes across as a bit nit-picky which, I guess, is partly because I haven't quite worked out how one reviews a collection - compressing a normal here are the good points - here are the bad points review into three sentences seems to over-emphasize the bad, at least the way I do it, it does.

I still think Transmissions is head and shoulders above most of the other Short Trips.