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baloonworldI read a pretentious book.
It was pretentions. It was like Amber had a three-headed conjoined crack-baby with some of Moorcock's less coherent Jerry Cornelious books. Also there were archtypes. These gave it a meaningful quality; like Sandman only utterly unreadable.
It was a three-headed baby because it told the same story over and over again, with minor variations, in order to have `resonance'.
Analysis: Tries to be meaningful. Tries to present Jungian ideas about group-conciousness.
Rating:Aweful
Then I read "S.O.S. from three worlds/Super-medic for intersteller catastrophes", which was vastly better - it had a cute animal, and was shorcking and lurid. (Arguably better than "You are in danger from the menace of the green suns" as it did not degnerate into goo and then god). ALSO: 1950s scifi has the best computers- the obcession with micro-fishe as the best way to compress data will never not be awesome.
Analysis: Tries to entertain and educate about public-health issues.
Rating:Sucess!
It was pretentions. It was like Amber had a three-headed conjoined crack-baby with some of Moorcock's less coherent Jerry Cornelious books. Also there were archtypes. These gave it a meaningful quality; like Sandman only utterly unreadable.
It was a three-headed baby because it told the same story over and over again, with minor variations, in order to have `resonance'.
Analysis: Tries to be meaningful. Tries to present Jungian ideas about group-conciousness.
Rating:Aweful
Then I read "S.O.S. from three worlds/Super-medic for intersteller catastrophes", which was vastly better - it had a cute animal, and was shorcking and lurid. (Arguably better than "You are in danger from the menace of the green suns" as it did not degnerate into goo and then god). ALSO: 1950s scifi has the best computers- the obcession with micro-fishe as the best way to compress data will never not be awesome.
Analysis: Tries to entertain and educate about public-health issues.
Rating:Sucess!
