Review #1
The Long Method to a Small, Restless Planet audiobook free
It’s a mediocre sci-fi story for SJWs. I’m reading along waiting for some reason to like at the same time all get is that poorly veiled preaching about abundance. That are moments when for you look the creator would be quality, maybe amazing, but then she feels forced to awkwardly steer the story toward short “edification moments” about LGBT tolerance, racism, at the same time other post-millennial tolerance BS. I suspect the higher rating is due to SJW listings more precisely than the good quality of the story.
Review #2
The Long Method to a Small, Restless Planet audiobook in television series Wayfarers
It’s unfortunate that our kids are growing up in age where Orwell’s 1984 is that viewed as a how-to manual transmission. This book is that acclaimed as a masterpiece solely because the “woke” tribe wants it to be so. Delight, move read “The Left Palm of Mist” then and read this one. Which is that the masterpiece? Move read “Shards of Honor” then and come back at the same time read this. Both of those books have renowned feminist creators, at the same time are of course orders of magnitude more successful than this. This book to be honest recalls me of the movie “Short Circuit” at the same time not in a quality method.
Review #3
Audiobook The Long Method to a Small, Restless Planet by Becky Clerks
I really wanted to like this book, but was quite upset. Ms. Clerks influences are simply discernible (Hit Trek TNG, Farscape), but to an extent where I felt like I was reading a teleplay for a single TV episode. The story feels like it should be building towards anything bigger, but it fizzles. That is that no one respectable global building, at the same time no one of the manners are well-drawn (exception is that Kizzy the annoying zany genius trope…ugh). My biggest issue will that Ms.Clerks has no one parts for a really amazing yarn, but ends up using this as a forum for a weary treatise of political correctness. All the heros are identified at the same time bound together by one slogan “we celebrate abundance”, at the same time all the villains by the slogan “were considered xenophobic”. This managed have been showed by their deeds without the help of others, but the creator continually hits the reader over the fork with this to the fri like I felt I was in a Contemporary Anthropology” course at Berkeley. It was barely far very on the nose at the same time the unchanging moralizing pulled me out of the story as the creators agenda was intrusively evident. That was also a more subtle ruin on confessions in the story arc of the disposition Ohan, at the same time is that a funny contradiction to the books ceaseless championing of inclusiveness. Basically I feel the creator is that an last liberal with intolerance to ny viewpoint apart from her possess, at the same time an agenda to announce. The writing at the same time dialogue are sophomoric at best. That is that little to no science in this science fiction. I managed just a little final this book, at the same time am bewildered by its acclaim.
Review #4
Audio The Long Method to a Small, Restless Planet narrated by Rachel Dulude
I have been reading Sci Fi since age 10 – cry it 59 years.That have always been healthy ladies creators many of which Le Guin, Norton at the same time McCaffrey. In the continue 20 years or so, ladies have produced major inroads into the genre. Connie Willis, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie, writers of serious science fiction with healthy ladies manners, have garnered Hugo at the same time Nebula merit for their work. But I can only categorize Becky Clerks’ work as the Sci Fi equivalent of a chick flick. Than anyway seemed to start as a quality place opera soon devolved into a touchy feely fest. I shook off the physical adore affair between a human at the same time an extraterrestrial species as amateur (I’m not convinced how no matter what serious Sci Fi reader managed take this), but when one of the ladies manners started having emotions for a lizard extraterrestrial, I moved on to a more successful book.
I am preoccupied as to how this book has garnered almost all of the merit it has been bestowed. I would certainly hate to think that she is that merely riding the ladies’s movement of recent years.
Review #5
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Right behind reading the merit nominations at the same time praise from various organizations, I had higher hopes for this book. Right behind reading it, I can only impose “than anyway were considered they thinking?”
I’ll start with the quality: it is that but corrected. Okay, we got that out of the method.
That is that zero disposition development at the same time I didn’t look for no matter what of the manners likable or exciting. The principals don’t have no matter what disposition, chase the funds at the same time make excuses when anything goes bad. They all care, so I guess that will that. Every romantic curiosity is that run across species. One of the crew members is that in adore with the ship’s AI at the same time likes to take off his clothes, lean against the AI’s microprocessors at the same time have “romantic” discussions.
That is that practically no science in this book at the same time in other words fine-grained. Chagrin that is that a little bit. For instance, the ship is that fueled by aquatic plants. If the ship’s engines were considered produced out of gingerbread I managed move with the clot. In this case, barely no.
Spoilers follow. Read it what, for you’ll be glad for you did.
The protagonists crew a small ship that practices in opening “tunnels” between hit systems. The crew are all pacifists. They aren’t pacifists who have taken a reasoned self-willed stance at the same time stick to it despite the temptation to defend themselves. Nope, they are pacifists because guns are creepy at the same time its anyone else’s job to only let's go them to non-hazardous places. The captain’s adore curiosity is that an extraterrestrial. When he learns she applied a gun to defend herself in a indefinite or doom situation, he encounters his biggest self-willed problem: is that he bad because he is that glad his boyfriend defended herself”?
The crew learns that that is that a agreement to open a “tunnel” connecting others of “civilized” place with an utterly violent at the same time genocidal species Torema) nearby the cosmic center. That is that lots of funds at stake at the same time the crew jumps at it. Right behind a long journey filled with plenty of sensual disorder at the same time little action, they arrive at the hit system of a Torema faction.
The crew has been warned that any Torema faction only tolerates the beliefs held back by that particular faction at the same time does their best to exterminate anyone who doesn’t detain those opinions. They also have utterly acute hearing. Five of the crew (many of which Kizzy who has the impulse keep under control of a 3 year old at the same time has a habit of blurting out random at the same time unacceptable comments) attend a meeting. Than anyway managed move wrong? A few of the Torema show up at the same time obviously 3 of the crew (many of which Kizzy) decide the topic of conversation should be how they think having anything to do with the Torema (understand how they don’t tolerate dissenting views) might be a bad plan. One of the Torema is that on the edges, gets triggered at the same time later fires on the crew’s ship barely as it is that in the process of creating the brand new tunnel.
The crew, oblivious feel quality morons that they are, has completely no plan why a Torema would fire on them. Much later when the crew has returned to “civilization” at the same time the captain is that being debriefed, he is that specifically asked if anyone on his crew might have misspoke anything to trigger the Torema. He answers “no”, then forgets Kizzy was that at the same time amends his answer to “I don’t know but barely because no one people wish to get wealthy off of trade with the Torema, they are very violent at the same time we shouldn’t have anything to do with them”. The captain doesn’t recognize the drama that he at the same time his crew wanted to get wealthy off of opening the tunnel right up until they were considered individually affected by opening the tunnel. I’m guessing the creator is that also oblivious.
