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A review by octavia_cade
Afterimage by Pierce Askegren
2.0
Slightly too lengthy but otherwise interesting enough Buffy outing. I've never much cared for Jonathan (and still don't, after reading this), but I really did enjoy the way that Cordelia was presented here: as someone who has useful information, and a source of intelligence as well as snark.
The petty petty thing that is knocking this down from a three star read, for me, is the irritation of a single paragraph: one that claims that science and the scientific method date back to the Renaissance. If you want to ignore the scientists of ancient China, India, the Middle East etc. and claim that early modern science dates back to the Renaissance, you might squeak a pass, but there is no excuse for whitewashing Ibn al-Haytham out of history. al-Haytham was the Iraqi-born Muslim who worked out the scientific method some centuries before the Renaissance. This is not obscure information. In fact it's pretty basic stuff in the history of science, and a bit disappointing that it was let slip through because al-Haytham was a fantastically interesting genius and deserves to be remembered.
The petty petty thing that is knocking this down from a three star read, for me, is the irritation of a single paragraph: one that claims that science and the scientific method date back to the Renaissance. If you want to ignore the scientists of ancient China, India, the Middle East etc. and claim that early modern science dates back to the Renaissance, you might squeak a pass, but there is no excuse for whitewashing Ibn al-Haytham out of history. al-Haytham was the Iraqi-born Muslim who worked out the scientific method some centuries before the Renaissance. This is not obscure information. In fact it's pretty basic stuff in the history of science, and a bit disappointing that it was let slip through because al-Haytham was a fantastically interesting genius and deserves to be remembered.