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September 12, 2009
Replicant Night
I ended up laid up for a good chunk of the day with a headache, and when I wasn't wishing my head would just fall off and stop hurting, I worked my way through the sequel to Edge of Human - Replicant Night.
I found it better than the first (second?) - perhaps because the events were further removed from the film, but it still leaned too much on the visuals and vignettes from the movie for my taste - as if Jeter was afraid to "lose" his audience by painting something they hadn't seen large swathes of before.
In the end it felt a bit like "Blade Runner Meets The Shining" - and the story hinged on something just a bit too far on the fantastic side of the SF spectrum.
Maybe it's just that it was derivative, but I have this sneaking suspicion that I've read it before. A couple passages in the middle of the book evoked strong memories of taking Dawnise to the orthodontist.
Posted by dberger at September 12, 2009 10:10 PM