Emma Reeves
Autor(a) de Forgotten Lives
Obras de Emma Reeves
Time in a Bottle 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 90
- Popularidade
- #205,795
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 11
The set started off pretty well with Time in a Bottle, by Emma Reeves and Matt Fitton, which sets up the series-long arc about the Discordia, the total cheats who treat the universe like a video game, constantly going back in time and rewriting their history so they always win. Very timey-wimey. Fenella Woolgar makes an appearance in this set, and she was fun.
I lost focus in the second story, Kings of Infinite Space, by Donald Macleary, because there were more synthesized or modulated robot voices than usual, and I sometimes find it hard to understand those kinds of voices. Android River was my favourite character in this story; she’s just as sassy as the original.
The third story, Whodunnit?, by Matt Fitton, was trippy, as you would expect from a murder mystery drafted by Franz Kafka. I pictured the country house like the one in Murder by Death, and the story plays with those sorts of tropes a bit. I didn’t really follow what was going on, but I was multitasking while listening to this story and I may have ended up devoting more attention to the other task.
The final story, Someone I Once Knew, by John Dorney, was by far my favourite of the stories in the box set, and really the one I came for. I get that the other stories had to build up the threat and context to this point, and it wouldn’t have made sense to have this story on its own, but I would have LOVED more Tom Baker. Nevertheless, this was an excellent conclusion to the set, and I was definitely crying at the end.
Overall, this was a good box set, certainly production-wise. I guess for me, I found the Discordia such cheats that they weren't fun to read about, and I wanted more Tom Baker. I still had a good time listening, though.… (mais)