Robert Kroese
Autor(a) de Mercury Falls
About the Author
Séries
Obras de Robert Kroese
The Force is Middling in this One: And Other Ruminations from the Outskirts of the Empire (2010) 40 cópias
Confidential 1 exemplar(es)
Heretic's Game: A secret history sci-fi adventure 1 exemplar(es)
Codex Babylon: A secret history sci-fi adventure 1 exemplar(es)
A Scammer Darkly (A Rex Nihilo Adventure) 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 20th Century
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
- Educação
- Calvin College (Philosophy)
- Ocupação
- software developer
- Pequena biografia
- Robert Kroese's sense of irony was honed growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan - home of the Amway Corporation and the Gerald R. Ford Museum, and the first city in the United States to fluoridate its water supply. In second grade, he wrote his first novel, the saga of Captain Bill and his spaceship Thee Eagle. This turned out to be the high point of his academic career. After barely graduating from Calvin College in 1992 with a philosophy degree, he was fired from a variety of jobs before moving to California, where he stumbled into software development. As this job required neither punctuality nor a sense of direction, he excelled at it. In 2009, he called upon his extensive knowledge of useless information and love of explosions to write his first novel, Mercury Falls. Since then, he has written two sequels, Mercury Rises (2011) and Mercury Rests(2012), and a humorous epic fantasy, Disenchanted. [from Amazon.com, 6/26/2013]
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Wonderfully, whacky-lly plotted. Filled with lots of wink-wink, nudge-nudge allusions to other stories and movies in the grand SF tradition. I loved this and seriously hope there will be other novel-length Rex Nihilo adventures in the future.
[AUDIOBOOK NOTE: I very much liked the reader, Kate Rudd. She brought the perfect level of dryness to the narrator character, Sasha, the robot.]
[AUDIOBOOK NOTE: I very much liked the reader, Kate Rudd. She brought the perfect level of dryness to the narrator character, Sasha, the robot.]
II really wanted to like this book. I gave it way past my 100 page rule. It had some genuine funny moments but ultimately it just kept dragging on without feeling like it was getting anywhere. I picked it up and put it down a bunch of times before about 60% of the way through the book I just didn't care anymore. I am quite sure others will like this but it was time for me to move on.
Occasionally amusing is as apt a description as I can apply to this silly book. I think what the author was going for was something more along the lines of consistently hilarious in the vein of Douglas Adams. Alas, it is somewhat wide of that mark.
One area of shortcoming is the cast of characters. Instead of the hapless every man Arthur Dent, we get the wallflower journalist Christine Temetri, reporting on apocalyptic cults for a religious tabloid. Despite being the purported protagonist, you hardly notice she's even there after the first several chapters. Instead of the almost too cool Ford Prefect, the stranded alien from Betelgeuse, we have the randomly absurd Mercury, an angel of dubious reputation. He turns out to be not so much our sometimes charming guide through this absurd take on the end of the world as a sometimes charming instigator. And instead of the overconfident sometimes Galactic President and starship thief Zaphod Beeblebrox, we get the reticent full-time slacker and purported Anti-Christ Karl.
But if the reader allows themselves to overlook the underdeveloped characters, the contrived plot, Scripture twisting, and sometimes stilted dialog, the story and pop culture references are occasionally amusing.… (mais)
One area of shortcoming is the cast of characters. Instead of the hapless every man Arthur Dent, we get the wallflower journalist Christine Temetri, reporting on apocalyptic cults for a religious tabloid. Despite being the purported protagonist, you hardly notice she's even there after the first several chapters. Instead of the almost too cool Ford Prefect, the stranded alien from Betelgeuse, we have the randomly absurd Mercury, an angel of dubious reputation. He turns out to be not so much our sometimes charming guide through this absurd take on the end of the world as a sometimes charming instigator. And instead of the overconfident sometimes Galactic President and starship thief Zaphod Beeblebrox, we get the reticent full-time slacker and purported Anti-Christ Karl.
But if the reader allows themselves to overlook the underdeveloped characters, the contrived plot, Scripture twisting, and sometimes stilted dialog, the story and pop culture references are occasionally amusing.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 44
- Membros
- 1,342
- Popularidade
- #19,173
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 88
- ISBNs
- 52
- Idiomas
- 1
The book was a very fun book with a pretty in-depth roundabout story. Just when you have it all figured out or assume it's almost over, some wrench gets thrown in for Rex and Sasha to overcome. It's funny, campy, and cheesy ... just how I like them. So glad to see this is a series so I can get into more of them!… (mais)