![]() ![]() The short format is actually quite relaxing as you don't have to make a mental effort to follow a novel. Many stories just give voice to a one-line stray thought the author has spun into a few pages, such as not trying to change a bearable situation as you could make it worse. Characters are seldom richly fleshed - there isn't space - and most are one-dimensional male, with few realistic females. I like the occasional concept or story more than others. But I got the hang of reading, my mind translating for me as if from French, and it's understandable. ![]() At times the stories appear to have been translated, so this may be a partial reason still no excuse. Whether the book is self-published or not, there is no excuse for this. Where the book loses a star is on the dire editing - words lost or mis-spelt, the spine title mis-spelt, a story repeated because its name is similar to another which is omitted but occurs in the contents. ![]() Time travel machines pop up a few times, even operated by a mouse from the past. Putin is a recurring theme, as is a supercomputer. Most of the tales are set in recent America, a few in recent Putin's Russia, but only so far as to show us Putin, not the everyday. So, the author turns the precepts of a religion on its head for his new dogma, and suggests this would attract followers in huge numbers. This book is a collection of short stories, seldom more than a couple of pages long. ![]()
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