Review: Entertaining Yet Highly Unrealistic Story of First Contact
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2013
The best thing about this story is the authors imagination. Without giving too much away, I liked the explanation for the extreme weather and the change in the length of a day. However, there are some things I was not as fond of, and mentioning them is impossible without some kind of spoilers, so if you're planning to read this short story you might want to skip the rest of my review.Possible SPOILERS below*********In these types of stories a certain suspension of disbelief is required. However, this story takes things a little too far for my liking. When the characters leave a shop to go walking around in 200mph winds I had to shake my head.I found the characters to be too nonchalant and I found the dialogue to be unrealistic for people who are witnessing catastrophic weather changes.The odds of the main characters running into someone who happens to have NASA communication equipment from the 90's are slim. That someone happening to have a relative about the ISS who is giving him info, even more improbable. The idea that NASA sent a few unprepared astronauts into space (under the pretense of making repairs to the ISS) as their response to discovering the first alien spacecraft mankind has ever known is simply ridiculous. I know this is a fictional story, but I would have liked for it to have a greater element of realism to it.As it stands, I rate the story 3/5 stars (not bad, could be better.)