- Joined
- Oct 6, 2004
- Messages
- 43,031
- Reaction score
- 12,995
Couple more in this category I've read not too long ago...
The Company Man, by Robert Jackson Bennett.
Another Genre mashup. Suggested to me as "Diesel Punk" and "Urban Fantasy", I'd still place it as Noir/Scifi. A decent read too. Definitely a winner for it's atmospheric world building.
Red Planet Blues, but Robert J Sawyer.
Didn't rate it. Seemed to lose out by being expanded from a short story.
In fact there didn't seem to be significantly more of the things I'd expect to justify such a process, ie world building, character building, plot/subplot elements.
The expansion to full length novel just made it seem more hollow and 2-dimensional. I actually found the genre cliches became irritating and the setting became pallid and rinky-dink.
The Company Man, by Robert Jackson Bennett.
Another Genre mashup. Suggested to me as "Diesel Punk" and "Urban Fantasy", I'd still place it as Noir/Scifi. A decent read too. Definitely a winner for it's atmospheric world building.
Red Planet Blues, but Robert J Sawyer.
Didn't rate it. Seemed to lose out by being expanded from a short story.
In fact there didn't seem to be significantly more of the things I'd expect to justify such a process, ie world building, character building, plot/subplot elements.
The expansion to full length novel just made it seem more hollow and 2-dimensional. I actually found the genre cliches became irritating and the setting became pallid and rinky-dink.
