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 Orbital Decay - Allen Steele
 Orbital Decay - Allen Steele ... construction workers hired to assemble gigantic satellites in the vacuum of space. Management and the military think they have the beamjacks under control. They are wrong.Newest Review: ... not the publishing establishment, there seem fe ... more ...
w other elements in the loop other than the man behind the keyboard. Everybody has a book in them- and most have no more than one? No, that would be a more total failure of talent. Many different authors have written the same book- a consequence of overapplication of literary theory- but to write the same book twice yourself takes wilful blindness, if not positive sleazy cynicism; or at any rate unreflectiveness which should prevent you from having done good work in the first place. Familiarity breeding conte...more |
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Orbital Decay - Allen Steele: Steele- and I'm sure many of you- are space enthusiasts; ... (1350 words)
by - written on 19/03/01 (Useful, 45 readings)
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I do have several of Allen Steele's novels, but I have to start somewhere. It is in fact rather galling to have to report that this is in fact one of his best. You have to wonder why that is. It is a noticeable phenomenon, a writer making a splash with the first few novels- something genuinely disturbing and thought provoking- and becoming just another hack by the fourth or fifth, all the distinctiveness gone in a stilted, formulaic, unremarkable read. I'd go so far as to suspect it happens more often than not. I don't think it's a jaded, saturated audience; considering some of the things that people are prepared to read and re- read, I ... Read the complete review
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