Review: Brilliant! Golden Age of Science Fiction is alive and well!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2014
I'm only on Chapter 7 but I'm utterly smitten with the heroine, a WWII pilot, and the illustrations. What a team of artists! The writing could be horrible but I'd keep turning pages just to see what amazing aviation and military inventions show up next. The thing is, the writing is as competent as the cover art. That's an understatement. I will review this novel for the August issue of Perihelion Science Fiction, along with information I'll pillage from the author's website. Charles A. Cornell has given waaay more thought to steam punk, diesel punk, and punk culture in general, than I have. Click on his name under the title of this book and visit his author page, twitter, facebook and web pages. What a world! People lament that the Golden Age of Science Fiction is dead. They are wrong. It has simply changed, as all progressive thinking and imagining should.Buy this book, if only for the illustrations, but also with the bonus of a great story with great characters. The Nazi villains are horrifying and I hate to read of their cruelty, but that part, sadly, is historically accurate. The Dragonfly, also sadly, is not historical, but imagined. The way great things appear in sci-fi first, then in real life, hey, who knows? Water-fueled aircraft may be in our future!Rare, oh, rare indeed, is the book that has me so enthralled and so eager to promote a new genre. Steampunk goes back only to 1987. Dieselpunk is even newer than that. I hadn't even heard of it until this year. I hope that means most other people haven't heard of it, either (I do hate being the last one to the party).I LOVE THIS NOVEL!More to come at the Perihelion ezine.