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qjbrown96's review against another edition
1.0
Awful. Terrible. Why was this guy allowed to write this?
mr5z33's review
5.0
You had me at hello.
I immediately got lost in this book from the very first sentence. I was intrigued. It was such a captivating way to start the story, in my opinion. The story, I felt, continued to be extremely well written and sectioned out into distinct units with artistic perfection.
Now, I usually base my final rating decision for a book on one question: has the book left me wanting to know more about the characters and the "what happens next" for them. With Black Star Rising, yes, yes I do want to pick up a sequel and find out what next for our odd little team. I want to, but I'm also happen to play out my own little predictions in my head
I immediately got lost in this book from the very first sentence. I was intrigued. It was such a captivating way to start the story, in my opinion. The story, I felt, continued to be extremely well written and sectioned out into distinct units with artistic perfection.
Now, I usually base my final rating decision for a book on one question: has the book left me wanting to know more about the characters and the "what happens next" for them. With Black Star Rising, yes, yes I do want to pick up a sequel and find out what next for our odd little team. I want to, but I'm also happen to play out my own little predictions in my head
amphipodgirl's review
2.0
I picked this up in a used book store, intrigued by the initial premise and because I very much enjoyed some Pohl that I read years ago (Heechee saga). It starts out with an interesting what if -- what if the US and the USSR blew each other to smithereens, leaving China and India as the great world powers? We start in a rice paddy in Alabama, part of a US administered by the Red Chinese. It's all very interesting, in the way that alternative history is (though when written in 1985 it was actually a speculative future).
Then some aliens show up demanding to speak to the President of the US and the whole thing veers into farcical political satire -- very disappointing.
Then some aliens show up demanding to speak to the President of the US and the whole thing veers into farcical political satire -- very disappointing.
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