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A review by kake
The Collected Kagan by Janet Kagan
funny
fast-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
I found this collection of short stories a bit disappointing after reading the author’s excellent novel Hellspark. They’re fairly standard “classic” SF, with the main exception being that they have a reasonable proportion of female characters instead of the usual bunch of men plus occasionally one (1) woman.
I found one of the stories (“Love Our Lockwood”) completely incomprehensible, as it seems to be a satire on something to do with voting in America, but I couldn’t work out what the something was. And several of the others focus on overly simplistic solutions to complex political problems, which isn’t really my thing.
I found one of the stories (“Love Our Lockwood”) completely incomprehensible, as it seems to be a satire on something to do with voting in America, but I couldn’t work out what the something was. And several of the others focus on overly simplistic solutions to complex political problems, which isn’t really my thing.