Review: A high school homework assignment?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2012
This sci-fi very short story THE RETURN came across as the homework assignment for Writing Composition 1A dashed out by a high school freshman in the same amount of time I squandered to read it - about 30 minutes over lunch. Moreover, the author writes as if English is a second language. While that in itself shouldn't give cause for criticism, the fact that the author didn't bother to have the manuscript or text file checked by a proof reader for problematic grammar should.The plot incorporates clumsily handled themes of extraterrestrial visitation and travel across parallel universes, and finishes with tiresomely simplistic and adolescent political solutions.I wouldn't recommend THE RETURN if it was offered gratis. One can only hope the free marketplace represented by the world's largest on-line retailer relegates this piece of rubbish to the virtual round file.