Discover something different on a road trip through different worlds and planets with a stylish protagonist and full biotech fun in a seed ship full oDiscover something different on a road trip through different worlds and planets with a stylish protagonist and full biotech fun in a seed ship full of wonder options that will be reality one day.
I am not sure if it´s that I like Martin so much and that my rating is even more subjective than usual or if this is really such an amazing hell of a ride, but the simple, one plotline, masterfully performed story of a cool dude cruising around in space, playing god, changing cultures and evolution, giving some indirect morality lessons, and sometimes even returning back to where he came from is something else.
Especially this idea of not just doing something seemingly Clarketech and walking, or flying, away afterward to do as if it never happened if it fails disastrously, but to go back and see what happened and actually happens, is a multifunctional Swiss army knife of sci fi because it enables to show any period of time of whatever fictional culture one has created.
It makes me wonder why there are thousands of epic fantasy journeys with quest like chapter style, while there aren´t so many adventurous quest novels in Sci-Fi, possible in general because fantasy is so extremely overrepresented in literature in contrast to sci-fi, although science fantasy has the biggest potential of them all, especially when including body horror, psychothriller, and comedy and satire elements. And all these paths, alternative earths´ nature, alien biology, any kind of tech, etc., there would be so many still fresh and unused options and especially combinations, I´ve already read so many never seen ideas of how to use old horse trope and stereotypical genre conventions surprisingly new in sci-fi .
Kind of strange that this novel didn´t gain more popularity after Game of Thrones lifted off, because there aren´t really that many of his novels circulating, so what lies closer than to pick this one to shorten the waiting time. And maybe a few dozens or hundreds of other books for sure. Sorry George, but you provoked it.
Letting the story unfold without much caring about establishing complex magic or fantasy fraction conMinimalist magic for maximum character badassery
Letting the story unfold without much caring about establishing complex magic or fantasy fraction constellations Martin does what´s the possibly hardest thing, writing suspenseful and credible characters, dialogues, and power struggles without wasting too much time with elves, dwarfs, or wizards, just some dragons, and ice zombies. His writing is so incredibly absorbing that I´m close to saying that he´s the best at blending characters with plot, but at the same time circumventing the problem of implementing too complex hard magic systems. That´s kind of
Unique to the genre Most fantasy lives from showing how the magic characters deal with the pros and cons of their talents, abilities, and ethical dilemmas that come with throwing fireballs and mind controlling friends and foes. It´s also possible that I simply still haven´t read enough genre fiction, but from what I´ve seen in the most first few volumes of series I tend to read before losing momentum and stopping the journey, no big one in the game dared to go full medieval warfare mode with just some grains of magic
Brutal, barbaric, and thereby totally realistic This series is just badass as heck, Martin Chuck Norrises each atrocity thinkable throughout the series, and it starts wonderfully bloody, perverted, and disturbing. Definitely, a bit too extreme for some readers, especially because his writing is so realistic.
Not just too much to handle for the audience, but the author too I guess a reason for the time it takes to continue the series lies in the sheer complexity of this thing. In fan wikis and wikipedia one can see the number of protagonists exploding with each part of the series, which makes it impossible to read with big breaks in between the parts, and is even sometimes confusing while reading the series at once. Maybe it´s not just laziness or the attempt to become a legendary master procrastinator, but simply the fact that Martin doesn´t know how to handle the beast he unleashed. But it´s the final consequence of
Incredible characterization Hardly ever reached in the genre. Just a total genius level how Martin creates such inner introspections and monologues, dialogues, and character evolution. It´s a bit like with the Stephen King magic, one just can´t understand how it´s possible to be such a brilliant artist. There are long passages without much action, plot, or any other dynamic, just character evolving and struggling with life and there isn´t a nanosecond of problems with suspension of disbelief or boredom. And it´s also never bad to be a
Total medieval nerd Without that second, important ingredient, Martins´ knowledge about and fascination for these disturbingly primitive and crazy times, he couldn´t have come up with this worldbuilding. What good luck for readers that prodigy writing skills met nerdgasmic knight overkills.
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