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John Scalzi: Young Adult Author?
YES! this enjoyable book was not just enjoyable for its story, but also for how it helped me realize that John Scalzi has been writing like a YA author since the beginning of his career. it just took an actual YA novel penned by him for me to realize that.
he has so much in common with the modern YA authors I've read:
- pleasant but generic writing style that has no interest in impressing its reader with challenging prose
- pleasant characters who are sympathetic but ...more
YES! this enjoyable book was not just enjoyable for its story, but also for how it helped me realize that John Scalzi has been writing like a YA author since the beginning of his career. it just took an actual YA novel penned by him for me to realize that.
he has so much in common with the modern YA authors I've read:
- pleasant but generic writing style that has no interest in impressing its reader with challenging prose
- pleasant characters who are sympathetic but ...more
Henrietta Potter in Space. Horatia Hornblower. Dime adventure novels from a hundred years ago, repolished. Sci-Fi comfort food. Likable characters that provide escape without stress. The prose is lucid, the underlying themes are engaging without being threatening. Scalzi uses the large toolkit of past creations in the genre, and to his credit makes a novel that is fun to read.
If you liked Zoe...try The Forever War or Rite of Passage. Panshin won either a nebula or hugo almost 40 years ago for R ...more
If you liked Zoe...try The Forever War or Rite of Passage. Panshin won either a nebula or hugo almost 40 years ago for R ...more
An interesting retelling of The Last Colony from a YA POV.
Not sure it was totally necessary but enjoyable all the same. It did fill in a couple of gaps that added to the overall story. ...more
Not sure it was totally necessary but enjoyable all the same. It did fill in a couple of gaps that added to the overall story. ...more
This is a side story to The Last Colony. It doesn't cover much new ground, except for what Zoe did on her errand, but it is an interesting read.
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Just a fun, good old-fashioned SF story.
Sep 30, 2008
Jeffrey
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Michael
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Jul 22, 2009
Shellie (Layers of Thought)
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Jan 31, 2010
Stephen
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Michelle
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