Review: Interesting Parameters
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
I really liked how Christopher made his aliens to be similar/dissimilar/ advanced/ retarded/ human/alien all at once. For a writer so prolific as he is, I am amazed that his stories never follow predictable pathways. He is always taking each of his "universes" as completely separate entities. The rules for one universe do not apply in another. Here, he has made rules that truly are head scratchers, at least for the characters in the book. Me, I just assumed that the aliens will be aline, and that if they were more powerful, there would be no book to read. It would have all been over and done by the end of the prologue's first page. There is another axiom he follows;  "no plan survives contact with the enemy". So this work did not become predictable.This work is very visceral. It was written as if he hopes it will become a major blockbuster movie, a television series, or at least some form of Japanese anime. It is so easy to "see" what he is writing as if it actually was happening. I do not feel that I am using less of my imagination, but am seeing things more closely to how he wants his audience to see what is going on. It leaves little room for misinterpretation in my view.I am very glad he does write as much as he does. I only started reading his works this past winter, and already he has become one of my favorite authors to read. As soon as I finish another of his novels, I will probably jump right in to the sequel to this book.