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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I love Ben Bova, but I was kind of disappointed in this book. Partly it was my own fault, because I went in expecting a more SF experience without really reading the blurb, but partly I didn't really like most of the characters very much. ( ) As a big fan of Ben Bova, I thought I'd give this non-scifi series a try. The main character, Jake Ross, is a down-in-the-dumps widower desperately looking for a new love interest. Behind this, is a story of a senatorial candidate promoting a new power generation technology to get elected. Not great, but still entertaining. The one star is for the great cover. Why this book is considered Science Fiction I couldn't guess. It's also not a mystery, and, and...it's just a story, badly written, with boring characters who resemble, if anything, cardboard cut-outs. Plot is well hidden if there is one. I'm surprised since i heard good things about Ben Bova and was looking forward to enjoying some sci fi which I haven't read in years. Sadly, Power Play was dull and boring whatever genre it's part of. This book is NOT science fiction even though libraries and reviewers classify it that way. It is political fiction, a political thriller. The only science in it is descriptions of a magnetohydrodynamic power generator. (Yawn). As political thriller the book is tolerable but just barely so. I found it rather juvenile. The plot was thin. The characters were poorly drawn. Not much to like about it. The best I can say for the book is that chapters were short so that you could read the book in snatches. Ben Bova is supposed to be a good writer, a good science fiction writer, but his talents are not displayed here.
The winner of multiple Hugos puts the science in sf; his large following will appreciate another rapid-fire sf thriller. Pertenece a las seriesJake Ross (1)
Recruited by an ambitious senatorial candidate, astronomer Jake Ross is directed to promote a new innovation for cheap energy, a situation that is complicated by the technology's hazards and the extreme tactics used by both political rivals. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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