Daniel Price
Auteur van The Flight of the Silvers
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Daniel Price is a science-fiction author born in Manhattan, N.Y. He spent several years working as layout/production artist for corporate marketing departments. He dabbled in screenwriting for a short time. He then began writing on his own and released his first title, Slick. He then moved to toon meer sci-fiction and released his title Silvers. His other titles include The Flight of the Silvers and The Song of the Orphans. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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I had some stylistic quibbles, the biggest of which was the uneven racist terms. Like, Altamerica is even more xenophobic and insular, so the racism made sense within the context of the story. However, considering that there were several made-up terms (like dusker for brown/black folk and chinny for anyone who even looked remotely Asian) why the inclusion of oriental and negress? What is this, 1940? Especially since the person using negress was not even from Altamerica but Altengland? Reading those broke me out of the story and I just couldn't reconcile it. There were some bits that felt a little exotifying and less friendly to the women, especially regarding Melissa. She was basically a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, with a badge.
Overall, I was just really enthralled by it. It was like later seasons of Fringe, with a little X-Men and a couple other things that I can't name right now because I am not nearly caffeinated enough.… (meer)