M. T. McGuire
Autore di Few Are Chosen
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: M T McGuire and her enormous marrow
Serie
Opere di M. T. McGuire
The Tale of Spam City 2 copie
Night Swimming (K'Barthan 0.25) 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nazionalità
- UK
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Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Utenti
- 75
- Popolarità
- #235,804
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 12
Protagonist Andi Turbot becomes embroiled in intergalactic politics when Eric, her friend at college, reveals he is actually a tall lobster-like creature with 7 eyes on stalks who needs to be smeared with marmite smelling goo in order to breathe. His human appearance has been a projection all along, but he has confided in her because the Earth is about to be devastated by meteor collision in order to allow its colonisation by alien life, on the assumption that humans aren't sentient (despite having a civilisation of sorts). Andi has to help Eric and his husbands (his species are all male) to prove that she and her fellow humans are sentient AND prevent the meteor collision, which is made more difficult by its being steered towards Earth deliberately and protected by a forcefield. Meanwhile, the identity of the real villain of the piece is not necessarily the obvious one.
I liked Eric and his relationship with Andi, though we don't see a lot of Andi's alternative side as a standup comedian. Eric and his fellows are quite nicely alien with their physiological differences and telepathy, though there are one or two things that are brought into the story - such as they seemingly can go and talk to their deity in person? - which are not really developed into a payoff. Also sometimes I found the pacing a bit slow. I did also wonder about the aliens being a bit militaristic when it seems they have an inhibition against actually killing anyone (at least, anyone they deem to be sentient). However, it was a lighthearted and amusing romp with some tension around the fate of the Earth, so I would award it a well-deserved 3 stars.… (altro)