Review: Good story, Execution is Lacking
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 3, 2012
I liked the story. Really, I did. It harks back to a fun discovery of space-dwellers, the possibilities of a space station becoming something more than simply a tin can in vacuum. The very youthful protagonist is slightly unbelievable for her age (and I have a very mature, bright 13 year-old daughter, so I know whereof I speak) but enjoyable nonetheless. The other characters live and speak and the ending is satisfying.However. The edition I read was full of typos and badly in need of a copy-editor. I understand the manuscript has been updated, but the formatting problems, lack of quotation marks, and continuity issues were jarring, to say the least. I will read more by this author, but with caution, not buying until I'm sure he has matured as a writer a bit more. The other collection of stories I read by him, Common Ground, was excellent and well-presented. I recommend that whole-heartedly.