(I know we've discussed this in person, but wotthehell archie wotthehell...)
Nagata?
Just say no.
To quote Marvin, "I've seen it, it's rubbish."
Vast: Incoherent, implausible, poorly written, poorly characterised, poorly plotted, loose and wandering, uninvolving, hard to follow and insufficiently interesting to make me want to.
I've read so many plaudits I leapt on the 1st copy I saw, at Octocon last year: a cheap 2nd hand import.
I doubt I will ever read her again. Took me a month of hard effort to finish it.
Just because it's hard to read doesn't mean it's deep.
Hmm. I wouldn't say 'rubbish' but I did bog down and lose interest about half-way through. Partly this was because the writing felt a bit loose, but to a great extent I didn't really find myself caring about the characters. Perhaps this is an occupational hazard of writing about post-humans.
Also, having read Al Reynolds' take on a similar situation (Revelation Space) shortly beforehand didn't help.
The biggest problem with the UK publication of Vast is that it's the second part of a two-volume novel, with most of the work getting to know and care about the characters in the first volume, Deception Well.
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Nagata?
Just say no.
To quote Marvin, "I've seen it, it's rubbish."
Vast: Incoherent, implausible, poorly written, poorly characterised, poorly plotted, loose and wandering, uninvolving, hard to follow and insufficiently interesting to make me want to.
I've read so many plaudits I leapt on the 1st copy I saw, at Octocon last year: a cheap 2nd hand import.
I doubt I will ever read her again. Took me a month of hard effort to finish it.
Just because it's hard to read doesn't mean it's deep.
Re: Run, Luke, Run!
Also, having read Al Reynolds' take on a similar situation (Revelation Space) shortly beforehand didn't help.
MC
Re: Run, Luke, Run!
And Gollancz didn't publish it...