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River of Dust - Alexander Jablokov


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River of Dust - Alexander Jablokov

 
Description: ISBN 0380778637 / Author: Alexander Jablokov / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Mars appears to have been colonised by religious fanatics, who ... more
River of Dust - Alexander Jablokov ... have gone about naming townships and the like after all kinds of religious icons, according to personal preference.

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 ... personal preference; all very well and good, but rather improbable- and Jablokov doesn't seem to know any; the post-modern, generation-X, rather harsh and lawless life of the ordinary Martian is as utterly alien from the fervour and simplicity of true religion as you or I am from life as a Melnibonean noble. Any damned fool who has even as much knowledge of people as comes from totting up the record would know that it doesn't work that way. All the characters are ridiculously randy. Sexual tension yes, bu...more

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Premium Review River of Dust - Alexander Jablokov: repugnant, a failure of characterisation beyond the bounds o ... (570 words)
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A minor work from an almost unknown author that infuriated me deeply. I really cannot keep silence on this matter; it is repugnant, a failure of characterisation beyond the bounds of the imbecilic. This is postmodernist science fiction, written by the kind of weevil so wound up in politically correct wholesomeness and mushbrained quasi- intellectualism that he never quite got around to looking at his fellow being. Alexander Jablokov is the name, and I wish you could give you an address and a promise of a decent sum of money for delivering me his head, because people like this really shouldn't be allowed to write. It is set on a thoroughly remade Mars - why, ...  Read the complete review

 

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