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A review by scheu
Dead Man's Hand by George R.R. Martin, John Jos Miller, Wild Cards Trust
3.0
My reread review of Dead Man's Hand turns out to have some meat to it, spoilers ahoy:
Coming back to this volume as an adult, I find that I have a lot of strong feelings about it and none of those feelings are positive.
The sex scenes are all terrible. I probably knew they were terrible before but in hindsight they are REALLY terrible.
Lots of time is spent on the Ti Malice subplot, but it's all resolved in the space of a few pages. Compare this to the parallel Hartmann subplot which goes on and on with the consummate Tachyon whining.
Hiram Worchester is NEVER SEEN AGAIN. No one ever speaks of his trial in later books. One of the most public, high-profile aces, and he just vanishes - unless I simply missed something later.
I compare this to Fort Freak (a similar street-level kind of Wild Cards story) and find the latter much more enjoyable. Now I have the Rox Trilogy to look forward to, and I remember disliking a lot of it, so I'd better sharpen my knives!
Coming back to this volume as an adult, I find that I have a lot of strong feelings about it and none of those feelings are positive.
The sex scenes are all terrible. I probably knew they were terrible before but in hindsight they are REALLY terrible.
Lots of time is spent on the Ti Malice subplot, but it's all resolved in the space of a few pages. Compare this to the parallel Hartmann subplot which goes on and on with the consummate Tachyon whining.
Hiram Worchester is NEVER SEEN AGAIN. No one ever speaks of his trial in later books. One of the most public, high-profile aces, and he just vanishes - unless I simply missed something later.
I compare this to Fort Freak (a similar street-level kind of Wild Cards story) and find the latter much more enjoyable. Now I have the Rox Trilogy to look forward to, and I remember disliking a lot of it, so I'd better sharpen my knives!