Jerry Pournelle writes very hard future military/empire building fiction, and the standalone present-day asteroid strike Lucifer's Hammer is surely going to be adapted into a poorly done movie soon.
Jack McDevitt is an absolutely wonderful writer, and his Alex Benedict series is an historical mystery series, but set 6000 years in the future, after a few civilization collapses so that the technology isn't too horribly advanced. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, but even those two pillars of science fiction aren't generally read by mainstream readers. Some YA SF feels authentic even if it does rely on tropes, this just felt like a checklist.Īlthough I read through the whole book in one night, I never bought or read the sequel-and after reading a summary online I'm glad I didn't.īut seriously, most mainstream readers have at least heard of Arthur C.
IMO he should have taken the idea and written an adult novel out of it-maybe keep some teenage characters, but everything wrong with the novel came down to poor execution in stuff designed to appeal to teens/pre-teens. No, not these ones," that makes the ending pretty incensing. Also, after the first few pages are a smug "Aliens in other media are stupid. The story got massively bogged down in cliché YA shit-the army of kids/teenagers, the rushed forbidden romance with seemingly no reason behind it aside from basic attraction, Cassie's high school crush literally becoming a main character with what's probably a love triangle being set up, etc. IMO the writing was engaging and I wanted to continue reading, but the story itself took a nosedive as soon as the farm chapter happened. I read it because Stephen King said it was good.
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