Dani Kollin
Teoksen The Unincorporated Man tekijä
Sarjat
Tekijän teokset
Day by Day 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1964-06-25
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Pasadena, California, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Ammatit
- advertising copywriter
- Suhteet
- Kollin, Eytan (brother)
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Listat
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Tilastot
- Teokset
- 8
- Jäseniä
- 952
- Suosituimmuussija
- #27,037
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.5
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 28
- ISBN:t
- 32
- Kielet
- 1
- Kuinka monen suosikki
- 1
Good stuff:
1.) I like new authors. New voices are good.
2.) There is a good story here... though, see below.
Main problems:
1.) Getting clubbed over the the head with repeated, repeated, repeated socio-political-economic talk; it's not as bad as e.g. Ayn Rand (maybe 3 - 4 pages is the worst here, no 20-ish pages diatribes), but that's not exactly praise.
2.) Paper thin characters; especially female characters. Even the nemesis is barely a caricature.
3.) Okay, this is just a pet peeve. "Narticles." Really? Don't coin words just to coin words. Man... "narticles." Why?
4.) Gaping holes in history. This isn't a problem per se, except the book goes into the history of this future in some detail. Key things in history don't make any sense: the 'VR Plauges' wiped out most of humanity because first world people all became, essentially, helpless hyper-addicts who died of starvation. Without the economic activity of the first world, the third world all starved. (Wait, what?) China and India and Turkey (I forget, actually, who the third player was) all nuked each other. (Really, just when the US and Europe self-destruct, then China and India decide to go to war?) What was left of the world was dominated by the 'Alaskan Federation', which united the world by force. Everyone is, apparently, some kind of American, just futurized (just how much ethnic cleansing was involved in the Alaskan Federation's take-over...?) One wonders what all of non-third world Africa, South America, Australia, etc. were doing, even in this skewed world history.
Oddly enough, this was one of the things that bothered me the most about this book: it's not just the Ayn Randishness, or the thin characters, or the ridiculous portrayal of current (real) society and government... its that I can't help but feel a kind of not-so-subtle... Xenophobia? No. Rascim? No. I don't think those, per se.... but something. It's the hyper-American-centric libertarian fantasy of it all... so jingoistic. That's it. It's the barely concealed American libertarian jingoism.
It so starkly jars with the real world that using the real world as a touch point in the book just keeps 'breaking the illusion' that this kind of SciFi needs.
Damn, I think I just convinced myself to lower this to two stars.… (lisätietoja)