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Slow, tedious and unaffecting. It takes 200 pages just to get to the global disaster, then another 400 pages to tell the story -- very slowly and boringly -- of 10 or 20 survivors. There must be at least 100 pages describing nothing but people driving on muddy roads and incessant rain trying to find sanctuary. The road was muddy, the rain was incessant. The road was muddy, the rain was incessant. The road was muddy, the rain was incessant. You get the picture.
The comet impact itself occurs mostly off-stage, as do many of its devastating effects. The characters are not terribly interesting and the main threat in the book -- an army of cannibalistic ex-soldiers and religious nuts -- just never really becomes believable. A supposed love quadrangle is equally unbelievable and emotionally flat and unconvincing. Pat Frank's "Alas Babylon" is far superior and a heck of a lot shorter than this weighty doorstop. "When Worlds Collide" does a far better job of communicating the dread of a planetary collision, and its love triangle is believable and affecting.
The comet impact itself occurs mostly off-stage, as do many of its devastating effects. The characters are not terribly interesting and the main threat in the book -- an army of cannibalistic ex-soldiers and religious nuts -- just never really becomes believable. A supposed love quadrangle is equally unbelievable and emotionally flat and unconvincing. Pat Frank's "Alas Babylon" is far superior and a heck of a lot shorter than this weighty doorstop. "When Worlds Collide" does a far better job of communicating the dread of a planetary collision, and its love triangle is believable and affecting.
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