Jim Fulner reviewed Roswell by Sonny Whitelaw
un-be-lievable.
3 stars
un-be-lievable. This term can be good as in "this book was so good it was unbelievable" or it can be bad as in "this book was so unbelievable it wasn't very good" This is the later. I think good Sci-Fi needs to be believable. That's one of the reasons I think Stargate works, it creates an interesting story based on some off-the-wall ideas (namely ancient aliens and unaccountable military budgets).
This SG-1 story missed that mark. First off being book 9 in this "series" is really irrelevant it its reminded of how little the fandomonium series is a series right off the back by all of a sudden featuring Colnerl Mitchel and Vahlalla. But since everyone loves McGuyver General O'Neil comes along on the ride. returnreturnSpoiler AlertreturnreturnWith little explenation apparently T'ealc loves all things human science fiction, has seen Star Wars dozens of times and is a …
un-be-lievable. This term can be good as in "this book was so good it was unbelievable" or it can be bad as in "this book was so unbelievable it wasn't very good" This is the later. I think good Sci-Fi needs to be believable. That's one of the reasons I think Stargate works, it creates an interesting story based on some off-the-wall ideas (namely ancient aliens and unaccountable military budgets).
This SG-1 story missed that mark. First off being book 9 in this "series" is really irrelevant it its reminded of how little the fandomonium series is a series right off the back by all of a sudden featuring Colnerl Mitchel and Vahlalla. But since everyone loves McGuyver General O'Neil comes along on the ride. returnreturnSpoiler AlertreturnreturnWith little explenation apparently T'ealc loves all things human science fiction, has seen Star Wars dozens of times and is a vested UFO-ologist. He knows every detail of the most likely stories of Roswell, because of course we go back in time to the incident. Oh but first we need to go to 1908 and have H.P. Lovecraft save SG-1, where do you think he came up with all those monsters? And in the end, the future version of General Carter is married to H.G. Wells. Its like a really off the wall fan fic somehow found a publisher.