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I would like to note this, for SF/F authors who are wondering.
Having your main character raped by page two is not edgy, interesting, or ground-breaking.
It's actually pathetic, cliche and dull.
I say this, because I picked up a cyberpunk book called something stylized with 'angel' in the title by some wacko named Marianne de P-something or other a while back. And from the back and a brief flip through the pages, it seemed like it wouldn't be bad--cyberpunk meets LKH, with a bit of Domino thrown in, I thought.
But, no. It wasn't. It was just bad. And not even the kind of bad I'd want to force myself to read. Let's put it this way: Keith deCandido's Halo: Ghost book was better, and I don't even know a frakking thing about the source material.
It was bad for many reasons, but mainly because, by page two, you knew the 'heroine' had been gang-raped at her boss's order, to 'break her spirit'.
OH EDGY LOL.
Yeah.
It's sad. The Jani Killian books kind of spoiled me, y'know? Just enough cheese mixed with politics, action, wacky genetics and a heroine who resemblesAeryn Sun Domino herself, really. *coughsIdonothaveatypecoughs*
Stupidfanfic writers make the baby Jesus cry, you know.
In other news, I picked up a book called 'Recursion'. Seriously, people, that's like waving a red flag in front a bull.And so far, way better than most of BSG season three.
eta: It kind of helps that this book is mostly not taking itself seriously. I mean. The lead character's name is Herb. HERB, people. That's like naming your kickass heroine DAISY. And Herb accidentally created the Replicators. Bad Herb. No cookie, man, no cookie.
It's actually pathetic, cliche and dull.
I say this, because I picked up a cyberpunk book called something stylized with 'angel' in the title by some wacko named Marianne de P-something or other a while back. And from the back and a brief flip through the pages, it seemed like it wouldn't be bad--cyberpunk meets LKH, with a bit of Domino thrown in, I thought.
But, no. It wasn't. It was just bad. And not even the kind of bad I'd want to force myself to read. Let's put it this way: Keith deCandido's Halo: Ghost book was better, and I don't even know a frakking thing about the source material.
It was bad for many reasons, but mainly because, by page two, you knew the 'heroine' had been gang-raped at her boss's order, to 'break her spirit'.
OH EDGY LOL.
Yeah.
It's sad. The Jani Killian books kind of spoiled me, y'know? Just enough cheese mixed with politics, action, wacky genetics and a heroine who resembles
Stupid
In other news, I picked up a book called 'Recursion'. Seriously, people, that's like waving a red flag in front a bull.
eta: It kind of helps that this book is mostly not taking itself seriously. I mean. The lead character's name is Herb. HERB, people. That's like naming your kickass heroine DAISY. And Herb accidentally created the Replicators. Bad Herb. No cookie, man, no cookie.
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fanficwriters make the baby Jesus cry, you know.That really needs to be iconned.