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scarahliz's review
2.0
Despite some cool concepts and interesting (if poorly crafted) imagery, this book was awful.
Reason the first: the writing was just bad. the author waffles between overwrought, confusing metaphors used to describe small details and single sentences used to describe entire civilizations. The dialogue is unnatural, but not in an interesting, "oh they are speaking an alien language," way. He also shifts at random in a few spots to using very modern-earth-based similes which unnecessarily and incongruently break the fourth wall..and also...
Reason the second: ...are racist. When you describe the "voluptuous" undulations of the tentacles on a carnivorous plant as being "like a depraved oriental dancer" under the hot lights of a theater, you have lost me. It's not only racist, but also...
Reason the third: ...super sexist. This in addition to the human society only allowing fertile women to contribute by breeding, and only allowing sterile or menopausal women to work. So.
fuck you and your bullshit Stephen Wul. I have no idea how this novel has survived into the 21st century.
Reason the first: the writing was just bad. the author waffles between overwrought, confusing metaphors used to describe small details and single sentences used to describe entire civilizations. The dialogue is unnatural, but not in an interesting, "oh they are speaking an alien language," way. He also shifts at random in a few spots to using very modern-earth-based similes which unnecessarily and incongruently break the fourth wall..and also...
Reason the second: ...are racist. When you describe the "voluptuous" undulations of the tentacles on a carnivorous plant as being "like a depraved oriental dancer" under the hot lights of a theater, you have lost me. It's not only racist, but also...
Reason the third: ...super sexist. This in addition to the human society only allowing fertile women to contribute by breeding, and only allowing sterile or menopausal women to work. So.
fuck you and your bullshit Stephen Wul. I have no idea how this novel has survived into the 21st century.
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