Dominic Green (1) (1967–)
Auteur van Smallworld
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- Geboortedatum
- 1967
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- United Kingdom
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Smallworld isn't Great Literature, but it's entertaining enough, a set of connected stories set on a very small and weirdly shaped asteroid which nonetheless has a breathable atmosphere thanks to a lump of neutronium at its core, and whose inhabitants include a creatively fundamentalist family, a robotic devil, a prison and a health spa. The folks of New Ararat are subjected to various incursions, which are resisted with varying degrees of success. It's all good fun, and I enjoyed it.… (meer)
Smallworld isn't Great Literature, but it's entertaining enough, a set of connected stories set on a very small and weirdly shaped asteroid which nonetheless has a breathable atmosphere thanks to a lump of neutronium at its core, and whose inhabitants include a creatively fundamentalist family, a robotic devil, a prison and a health spa. The folks of New Ararat are subjected to various incursions, which are resisted with varying degrees of success. It's all good fun, and I enjoyed it.… (meer)
Funny at times. Not so much at others.
Kind of hard not to take offence at the continuous slams against Christianity and other organized religions. I don't know if this was an attempt at humor, but if so it backfired and detracted from what otherwise might have been a pretty soloid effort.
Kind of hard not to take offence at the continuous slams against Christianity and other organized religions. I don't know if this was an attempt at humor, but if so it backfired and detracted from what otherwise might have been a pretty soloid effort.
This one started well but it sort of dragged on a bit and seemed to lose its appeal as it became more serious.
Liked the structure of it with the book being made up of short stories - preferred the early ones to the later ones.
Really liked all the characters' names, that was cleverly done though I understand why some people found it tiresome.
The setting was well thought out. Seemed like something out of Doctor Who.
Liked the structure of it with the book being made up of short stories - preferred the early ones to the later ones.
Really liked all the characters' names, that was cleverly done though I understand why some people found it tiresome.
The setting was well thought out. Seemed like something out of Doctor Who.
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It creates an absurd but almost plausible small (tiny) world and populates it with and extended family of Cult survivors, an intelligent and lethal Made Thing that looks like a devil and an Anchorite who seems to have been an interstellar dictator before he became a hermit. Oh, and goats. Lots of goats. And an ass.
The small world then gets visited by various people who either do bizarre and violent things or have bizarre and violent things done to them or both.
At first, I was stunned into silence by the energy and originality of the story. Then I began to smile at how clever it was. Then, not very long after that, I became bored.
There was nothing for me to engage with. None of these people felt real. The ideas were bright as fireworks but how long can you watch a firework display and keep going "Oooh!" and "Aaah!" with any sincerity? I knew I couldn't manage 385 pages of "My but this satire is as dry as bone, isn't it?" so I'm setting it aside at the 18% mark.… (meer)