From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 18:15:38 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki says:
>I bought and read John
> C.Wright's "The Golden Age". As Greg said, this is a great book.
It has many virtues, and some weaknesses. E.g.:
> The book suffers to some extent from
> a rather stuffy style, at times resembling the sci-fi from the early
> sixties,
Sixties?! (To borrow an annoying punctuational device from THE GOLDEN AGE.)
That was a time of stylistic brio. Wright is a throwback to the 1930s.
Clever and inventive and clunky, he's the Ghost of Gernsback Past. I
elaborate on this in my review of the book in The New York Review of Science
Fiction for November 2002, which I'd repost here now if I could find the
damned thing.
>but even so, it rates an 8 out of 10 on my scale
Yep, it's a lot of fun. Not to end on a sour note. :)
Damien Broderick
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