![]() ![]() I had trouble getting started with the alternate history portion since it was also super technologically advanced and that threw me off, I guess I am too used to these types of books occurring in the future. Overall, this was a quick and pretty engaging read. Thank you so much to Angry Robot for the free digital arc of Mercury Rising by RWW Greene in exchange for an honest review! All opinions are my own! I would recommend this one to readers who are looking for a unique story that blends together the past and future into a fun space romp.ĭisclaimer I received a copy of this book from the publisher. I would definitely love to read more by him. The author has a fantastic range within his work. I enjoyed both novels but they are very different from each other. I read and loved this author's previous novel, The Light Years. This book was certainly fun, but I personally need stories with more emotional depth in order to fully connect with the narrative. The tone of the story is lighter, which fit the story, but held this one back from being a five star read for me. I mean, this book opens with a character named Jet! The characters and worldbuilding are just plain cool. While this is set in the past, this alternative history explores futuristic ideas surrounding space travel and aliens. I didn't know how much I love this subgenre until I read this book. This is an alternative history science fiction novel. When I try to describe this book, the word that comes to mind is… cool. There is more, should you wish to visit my blog to read all the progress notes. So I consent to set aside my niggling nuh-uh generator. (Look around, tell me, and him, we're wrong.) I quibble with some details, but I believe he's exactly correct that even an existential threat with ample death and destruction to demonstrate its reality won't create more than a façade of unity among the irredeemable mass of humanity. This is the world, and honestly I agree with Author Greene's take on it. This takes place among Americans! Of course you can! The whole planet pulls together to combat the Enemy from Beyond.and there are ignorant goofballs talking conspiracy theories, there are hemi-hippies rebelling against the controlling hand of the grown-ups. Can't argue with the presence of stonking hostile warships and evaporated cities, can you. This time they're Mercurians, the patent absurdity of whose existence gives even the Hero of the piece (who apparently dies early on) some pause. But the reason he's able to flout that social control mechanism is simple: Invaders from Outer Space! The ultimate Golden Age of SF trope. Which, of course, our PoV character (Brooklyn Lemontagne) flouts. Wouldn't the world be more law-and-order oriented when the Oppenheimer Nuclear Drives are dangling before the lust-drenched gaze of every young testosterone factory? Can't get in one of those unless your nose is clean. Elvis electrifying the country is one example, the Beatles knocking off his cool-cat cap is another, but both of those came in response to specific cultural stimuli. ![]() ![]() The planning window of a car in those days was five years.so the 1958s wouldn't've been much altered from our world, as I understand the timeline, which diverges first in the middle 1940s and so those cars can be explained. Cut that crap out, dirty-old-man-in-training!) I was calmly enjoying the mental soundtrack, the 1970s jukebox that's permanently cued up in my head, when *wham* another revolting w-bomb.īut about that jukebox.would we, in fact, have the precise same pop-cultural artifacts in a world that didn't slow down its climb to the stars? The 1968 Cougar, well, okay, that was already on course from 1958. Mortally wounded that this wingèd not my way until I groveled. ![]() I PRACTICALLY HAD TO BEG THE AUTHOR FOR A DRC. Real Rating: 4.75* of five (rounded down because the w-bombs! the w-bombs!) ![]()
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