Re: The Deviant Strain: Oh yeah, Russian stereotypes. It wasn't even that they got whatever they wrote about wrong - it's that every time Russia\former Soviet Union appears in any Western book/film, it's either villains or some other ugliness and danger. Sometimes I want to ask the authors if they know that Russia is a more-or-less modern state with electricity and computers and normal people who have normal jobs? That it's not only mobs or totalitarian ugliness or bears in the streets? Really. I haven't read Trace Mamory because when I was looking through it in the shop, I saw it has Russian villains and decided against buying it.
I haven't read "City of Truth", but I liked the kind of anti-utopia they created in the book, and how it was all explained. Also, in that book, every one of three characters had something to do! In The Deviant Strain, Jack is mostly running around having a guilty conscience. (Or so it felt at the moment. I've read all three books quite a while ago.)
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It wasn't even that they got whatever they wrote about wrong - it's that every time Russia\former Soviet Union appears in any Western book/film, it's either villains or some other ugliness and danger. Sometimes I want to ask the authors if they know that Russia is a more-or-less modern state with electricity and computers and normal people who have normal jobs? That it's not only mobs or totalitarian ugliness or bears in the streets? Really.
I haven't read Trace Mamory because when I was looking through it in the shop, I saw it has Russian villains and decided against buying it.
I haven't read "City of Truth", but I liked the kind of anti-utopia they created in the book, and how it was all explained. Also, in that book, every one of three characters had something to do! In The Deviant Strain, Jack is mostly running around having a guilty conscience. (Or so it felt at the moment. I've read all three books quite a while ago.)