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pip said:
Its a good read Q 
Quatermass said:
pip said:
Its a good read Q
its quite odd in parts
pip said:
Quatermass said:
pip said:
Its a good read Q
its quite odd in parts
My review of Apocalypse Cow that I did on another site.
Oddly i liked the fact that the characters came across as a bit cartoony. I thought it was part of the charm.
And i did feel a little uncomfortable with certain aspects of the infected animals behaviour i did find the author had a decent level of wit away from the obvious humour.
Mr Brown falls squarly into the cartoon villain slot but a lot of authors have villains go to lengths long beyond there rational provocation so its not that unusual . The disease itself is his Macguffin so i ran with it. Definitely not Terry Pratchett but I enjoyed it for what it was. And its a very good debut novel which is more polished than some of Terrys early stuff.
And Q . High standards are great but are useless if nothing is ever produced. There is only so often you can repolish a story.
Get something out there and it might be better than you think
And i did feel a little uncomfortable with certain aspects of the infected animals behaviour i did find the author had a decent level of wit away from the obvious humour.
Mr Brown falls squarly into the cartoon villain slot but a lot of authors have villains go to lengths long beyond there rational provocation so its not that unusual . The disease itself is his Macguffin so i ran with it. Definitely not Terry Pratchett but I enjoyed it for what it was. And its a very good debut novel which is more polished than some of Terrys early stuff.
And Q . High standards are great but are useless if nothing is ever produced. There is only so often you can repolish a story.
Get something out there and it might be better than you think
It's not repolishing as much as putting the damn thing together to my satisfaction. I criticise my work as I go, and I generally avoid restarting a draft completely from scratch if I can help it. But I am currently working on a story that I might be able to finish in time. I've done, as of this post, 6000 words. I think the problem will be getting it up to length, but I am reusing elements from other stories, as well as characters.
It's a serious novel, and it posits as to whether a mythological creature (or rather, several) was real. What they are will have to remain a surprise, but let's just say that it's one not often used in fiction.
And hey, at least Michael Logan gives two justifiable reasons for the infected animals trying to rape everything in their path: because it helps spread the virus, and because the scientists working on the virus thought it was funny. Gross as the concept was, I accepted that. I didn't expect Mr Brown to have a tragic backstory either. He just seemed to be doing things for laughs more than for Britain's wellbeing. Whereas in The Stand, you at least got the feeling that, as dickish as the people covering up the viral outbreak were, they were trying to do something right, despite the fact that they were doing it the wrong way. They felt human, whereas Mr Brown felt more like a psycho who had been fired from the Umbrella Corporation. :think:
It's a serious novel, and it posits as to whether a mythological creature (or rather, several) was real. What they are will have to remain a surprise, but let's just say that it's one not often used in fiction.
And hey, at least Michael Logan gives two justifiable reasons for the infected animals trying to rape everything in their path: because it helps spread the virus, and because the scientists working on the virus thought it was funny. Gross as the concept was, I accepted that. I didn't expect Mr Brown to have a tragic backstory either. He just seemed to be doing things for laughs more than for Britain's wellbeing. Whereas in The Stand, you at least got the feeling that, as dickish as the people covering up the viral outbreak were, they were trying to do something right, despite the fact that they were doing it the wrong way. They felt human, whereas Mr Brown felt more like a psycho who had been fired from the Umbrella Corporation. :think:
Quatermass said:
It's not repolishing as much as putting the damn thing together to my satisfaction. I criticise my work as I go, and I generally avoid restarting a draft completely from scratch if I can help it. But I am currently working on a story that I might be able to finish in time. I've done, as of this post, 6000 words. I think the problem will be getting it up to length, but I am reusing elements from other stories, as well as characters.
It's a serious novel, and it posits as to whether a mythological creature (or rather, several) was real. What they are will have to remain a surprise, but let's just say that it's one not often used in fiction.
And hey, at least Michael Logan gives two justifiable reasons for the infected animals trying to rape everything in their path: because it helps spread the virus, and because the scientists working on the virus thought it was funny. Gross as the concept was, I accepted that. I didn't expect Mr Brown to have a tragic backstory either. He just seemed to be doing things for laughs more than for Britain's wellbeing. Whereas in The Stand, you at least got the feeling that, as dickish as the people covering up the viral outbreak were, they were trying to do something right, despite the fact that they were doing it the wrong way. They felt human, whereas Mr Brown felt more like a psycho who had been fired from the Umbrella Corporation. :think:
It's a serious novel, and it posits as to whether a mythological creature (or rather, several) was real. What they are will have to remain a surprise, but let's just say that it's one not often used in fiction.
And hey, at least Michael Logan gives two justifiable reasons for the infected animals trying to rape everything in their path: because it helps spread the virus, and because the scientists working on the virus thought it was funny. Gross as the concept was, I accepted that. I didn't expect Mr Brown to have a tragic backstory either. He just seemed to be doing things for laughs more than for Britain's wellbeing. Whereas in The Stand, you at least got the feeling that, as dickish as the people covering up the viral outbreak were, they were trying to do something right, despite the fact that they were doing it the wrong way. They felt human, whereas Mr Brown felt more like a psycho who had been fired from the Umbrella Corporation. :think:
I do like my Mythology 
And hey, at least Michael Logan gives two justifiable reasons for the infected animals trying to rape everything in their path: because it helps spread the virus, and because the scientists working on the virus thought it was funny. Gross as the concept was, I accepted that. I didn't expect Mr Brown to have a tragic backstory either. He just seemed to be doing things for laughs more than for Britain's wellbeing. Whereas in The Stand, you at least got the feeling that, as dickish as the people covering up the viral outbreak were, they were trying to do something right, despite the fact that they were doing it the wrong way. They felt human, whereas Mr Brown felt more like a psycho who had been fired from the Umbrella Corporation. :think:[/quote]
I enjoyed the book it reminded me of two others with a slightly similar theme, Edmund Cooper's Kronk and Charles Platt's The Gas.
I enjoyed the book it reminded me of two others with a slightly similar theme, Edmund Cooper's Kronk and Charles Platt's The Gas.
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