Björn recenserade Edison's conquest of Mars av Garrett Putman Serviss
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Intriguing but disappointing. Serviss does come up with a lot of concepts that are, if not entirely brand-new to SF, then at least new enough to feel really innovative. And the sheer lunacy of the plot paired with the dry journalistic I-swear-I'm-an-actual-scientist prose does lead to some chuckles. But the complete lack of any characters whatsoever, the tendency to solve any problem by simply having Edison magically invent something like he's Dr Snuggles, and the... shall we say less-than-well-aged discourse on the supremacy of the Aryan race really drag it down.
Intriguing but disappointing. Serviss does come up with a lot of concepts that are, if not entirely brand-new to SF, then at least new enough to feel really innovative. And the sheer lunacy of the plot paired with the dry journalistic I-swear-I'm-an-actual-scientist prose does lead to some chuckles. But the complete lack of any characters whatsoever, the tendency to solve any problem by simply having Edison magically invent something like he's Dr Snuggles, and the... shall we say less-than-well-aged discourse on the supremacy of the Aryan race really drag it down.