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machine_dove at 07:02pm on 02/11/2005
machine_dove at 07:02pm on 02/11/2005*eyes SFBC Featured Selections* Wait - so you're telling me that Robert Jordan still hasn't finished that series yet? The hell? Someone wake me up when he does - I'll read it for kicks, just to see how many books he can write that contain no actual plot progression. At all.
I also find it Very Odd that Alan Dean Foster is still writing Pip and Flinx books. I read those when I was in middle school. Or possibly elementary school - and I still have my dad's first edition copies. *evil* From the sounds of the description, Foster's fallen into the trap that he built himself - what do you do when your character continues gaining more and more phenominal powers? If you're Anne McCaffrey, you turn your dragons into Magical Swiss Army Dragons, can't figure out where to go from there, and start writing crappy books about a unicorn girl. If you're Foster?
Still, I suspect I'll enjoy this book for nostalgia's sake, if nothing else. They're VASTLY better than the other books I read at around the same time period - E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series. *shudders* Or Doc Smith's Skylark series, which was, amazingly, even worse - "golden age" sci-fi tripe at it's very tripest. Aging fanboys swear by them, I just swear at them.
Oh, and Zooba rocks. They have the vast majority of the SFBC books I was interested, for much cheaper, with no shipping. I like. A lot. Why, you ask, am I buying more books when I have untold numbers that I have not yet read cluttering my shelves? I don't know. Book collecting is a sickness, I tell you!
I also find it Very Odd that Alan Dean Foster is still writing Pip and Flinx books. I read those when I was in middle school. Or possibly elementary school - and I still have my dad's first edition copies. *evil* From the sounds of the description, Foster's fallen into the trap that he built himself - what do you do when your character continues gaining more and more phenominal powers? If you're Anne McCaffrey, you turn your dragons into Magical Swiss Army Dragons, can't figure out where to go from there, and start writing crappy books about a unicorn girl. If you're Foster?
And when the aid he offers involves his vessel's medikit, Flinx suddenly finds himself in a role he's hardly qualified to assume: Godhood.
Still, I suspect I'll enjoy this book for nostalgia's sake, if nothing else. They're VASTLY better than the other books I read at around the same time period - E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series. *shudders* Or Doc Smith's Skylark series, which was, amazingly, even worse - "golden age" sci-fi tripe at it's very tripest. Aging fanboys swear by them, I just swear at them.
Oh, and Zooba rocks. They have the vast majority of the SFBC books I was interested, for much cheaper, with no shipping. I like. A lot. Why, you ask, am I buying more books when I have untold numbers that I have not yet read cluttering my shelves? I don't know. Book collecting is a sickness, I tell you!