Re: Prey (was RE: Fiction Books)

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 01:01:44 MDT

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    and again:

    >>Seems like such a formula would be easy to spin in the other direction.

    I haven't read DARWIN'S CHILDREN yet, but Bear's latest sounds as if it
    fits the bill:

    http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue312/books2.html

    < The book has many features
    associated with near-future disaster
    thrillers--fast-paced narrative, an apparent
    threat to all mankind, multiple characters
    and viewpoints, self-serving bureaucrats,
    duplicitous political insiders--but it is at
    heart and soul purely a science-fiction
    novel. >

    < But the characteristic that uniquely
    distinguishes this as SF is that the
    protagonists welcome instead of fear
    change, while the antagonists are all
    xenophobes who fear change and all
    things alien. The heroes of this book
    instinctively know that the new children
    are a diversity to be embraced >

    Damien Broderick

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