He at times writes of significant matters, but too many chapters are filled by inane diary entries and games played aboard the ship. There just isn’t enough substance to the book to make it worthwhile, especially at some seven hundred pages.
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Textbook Writing
Surprise, I’m writing a textbook…which you will probably never see.
The Light Ages Review
We continue to use insights developed during the middle ages, sometimes without even realizing it. If Falk spent more time examining ideas like that, rather than diverting into historical fiction, The Light Ages would be a far stronger book.
A Bias of Good Deeds
Better to be a moral individual, in whatever sphere, than to refrain from doing good for fear that you may not do enough good.
The Invisible Man Review
A useful metaphor it might provide, but that doesn’t absolve the author of the need for plausible impossibility.
Character Distinctiveness
I’ve dug into writing Rogue Planet in earnest…which meant realizing that I needed to take a step back and figure out a better way to manage the extensive cast.
A Treatise of Human Nature Review
A Treatise of Human Nature, despite its lofty title, simply does not possess that eternal wisdom and insight that peers at the heart of the human experience.
Emergent Space-Time?
Like the properties of fluids, they are asserting that the properties of what we perceive as space-time emerge from some more basic components – the atoms of space-time. Easy enough to say, but what does it really mean?
The Fires of Heaven Review
The fifth book in Wheel of Time starts Rand al’Thor on a leadership arc that will take many books to resolve, as he wrestles with a question that few of us will ever have to confront, but which bedevils theories of leadership, especially in other periods of history: how much can a leader allow himself or herself to care, on the individual level, about the people around her or him?
Impressions Completed!
I finished the first draft of Impressions, which is now with my writing group and other beta readers for feedback before I start my cycle of revisions, solicit more feedback, and finally begin sending it out to possible literary agents. That the whole revision process lies ahead makes the “I’m finished” a bit less satisfying.
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