Loren J. Macgregor

As science fiction goes, the author makes an attempt to show how a system called the NET which links mind of a crew allows them to operate as a single unit using all five senses - sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. What is very unclear is how it works. The reader is left with the concept and basically told, "It just does". It actually sounded very silly to me. Still, it is important because the using of the NET is key to the story.
The author is very descriptive of scenes. He will, for example, tell how what a stairway is composed of, how it angles, and more. Someone must have told this author that the setting of the scene is critical and so he does it to excess. Further, the main locale is on a planet with a modern Greek society so the author constantly uses Greek terms, which I have absolutely no idea what they mean and so find them annoying.
Now perhaps this author felt that with his heavy purple prose for the scenery and his inclusion of Greek dialect he was creating something special and so focused on those aspects. What he forgot to do was not make the story BORING! This is a yawner of epic proportions. It was hard to read because I never felt engaged. Maybe if he had spent more time on action and not describing the vistas he might have done something with what, from an outside perspective, was a reasonable premise.
I would only recommend this book to insomniacs.… (altro)