Posted on 06/22/2025 3:31:49 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Hello everyone!
I recently released my very first science-fiction, political-thriller novel on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. I've been told that the work seems to embody the writing style of a Tom Clancy or a Michael Crichton, blended with an Isaac Asimov. While this is high praise, indeed, I want to go to the next level.
Enter an analysis of a very quiet, very low-action scene in the first season of Game of Thrones. That analysis is here.
The analysis is stellar. The writing is stellar. The analysis talks about how:
The character development is incredible, and the dialog is so good that you can feel the feelings of these characters and you can understand their subsequent motivations with a small, quiet scene.
THIS is what I aspire to capture in my writing. My story telling is very good. My technical accuracy is decent. And I've found that I have a good skill in weaving various threads together and presenting it as a coherent and engaging work.
What I *don't* yet have skills in this arena -- the arena of character development -- and I intend to master it in my second novel.
As the narrator and analyst in the video says, "The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself." I may disagree with this a little, but it is more right than wrong.
Happy writing, my fellow authors!
You see the review I gave you?
If it is on Amazon, it may take some time to show.
I sent it to your email hours ago
Ok! I’ll go look!
Humanity, Machines, Science, Spirituality, and Love…
This book may be sci-fi, but it is humans, and specifically our frailty, that take center stage. Fear, greed, misunderstanding, and especially miscalculation dog the steps of all the players, good and bad. And these emotions and failings are apparent on every human level, from international and geopolitical, to cabinet meetings, and particularly interpersonal.
All this human element makes this book supremely and wonderfully unpredictable. All the plans and the plotting and the grandest schemes on even the global and national level, can fall completely to pieces for the smallest of reasons, like one cautious woman engaging in some CYA. “The best laid plans of mice and men,” are often nothing in the face of a world populated by individuals, by unpredictable humans.
The science and the machines in this book are riveting and one can see Tom Clancy in heaven, nodding his approval. The dissection of the physics and energy calculations surrounding star travel are especially impressive, and lead to one of the best lines in the book, “I guess all the science-fiction writers got it wrong.”
The surprise ending, like so much great writing, is an uplifting message of hope and love. Because in the end, we are not alone, and there is much more to us than the selfish, the petty, and the unthinking.
If you would be so kind, order a paperback version, and post this very review on Amazon! Wait until you get the book itself, though, because Amazon is sensitive to fake reviews, which this is most assuredly not. In fact, this is the opposite: This is the sort of review that gets people’s interest.
I’ll reimburse you for the amount, tell me the way to get you money in freepmail or email!
Paperback preferred over Kindle versions?
No, but I got some paperback proofs today, and they are of exceptional quality. 😊
Order however you like and I will make up the balance right away to you! That review simply MUST get up on Amazon!!! 😁😁😁
Purchased 2 minutes ago.
Do I post the review now, or is Amazon clever enough to say, “Hey! You bought the book 30 seconds ago, how can you be reviewing it so quick!?”
Let me know.
Don’t even think about reimbursing me.
Wait a few days please.
Don’t even think about reimbursing me.
Well crap. I already thought about it. Dammit! 😂
nice
I thought so! Great review!
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