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Weekend in a War Zone
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bookshelves: reviewed, short-story, someterrifyingspacemonkeysgotloose, war
Apr 19, 2022
bookshelves: reviewed, short-story, someterrifyingspacemonkeysgotloose, war
Being a bit of a GRRM vet by this point, I made a solid projection of the flow of this short story by the time the first paragraph was done.
A skilled enough piece, I guess. It is solid in its premise: war commercialized, and sold as high-stakes adventure holiday. This one told through the eyes of a resentful participant, trying to impress his boss.
Interestingly, if you had told me the plot points without any character details, I might have guessed it was from the Bachman oeuvre of Stephen King. The character details, however, make this unmistakably Martin's story.
Ok in the real world, but lower on a George-specific scale, I'll round this out to a three star rating.
A skilled enough piece, I guess. It is solid in its premise: war commercialized, and sold as high-stakes adventure holiday. This one told through the eyes of a resentful participant, trying to impress his boss.
Interestingly, if you had told me the plot points without any character details, I might have guessed it was from the Bachman oeuvre of Stephen King. The character details, however, make this unmistakably Martin's story.
Ok in the real world, but lower on a George-specific scale, I'll round this out to a three star rating.
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Thanks Serge! It’s been interesting reading so many of his shorter fictions in a relatively small amount of time. I sure feel like I’m really getting to know him as a writer.
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It’s an author’s collection of work, taken as a whole. (Not just an author. You could you use oeuvre for any type of artist, I think)