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Indlæser... Chiller: A Scientific Suspense Novelaf Gregory Benford
Work InformationChiller af Sterling Blake
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Blake enters the arena of consummate suspense writers with a novel that pits a scientist working in the misunderstood field of cryonics--freezing corpses for future revival--against a serial killer. A fascinating subject explored realistically . . . thought-provoking.--Dean Koontz. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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I don't normally do this, but it seems warranted in this case: DON'T READ IF YOU EVER INTEND TO READ THIS BOOK!
That said, at six hundred pages it feels a bit bloated; you could cut at least a hundred, if not more, and accelerate things quite a bit. Around the midpoint I started to get bored waiting for things to pick up. Conversely, I wish we'd gotten to see a bit more of
Also, the small press 2011 reprint is a bit rough: "straight quotes" instead of proper “curly quotes” look amateurish, and lots of paragraphs are missing their indentations. The whole thing read like it was printed from the file Benford sent to his publisher back in 1993, not the properly copy-edited version they would have prepared.