Anderson lied: It wasn’t the first!
Posted By SandChigger on January 10, 2011
On Saturday, January 8th, 2011, at 2:55 pm, Kevin J. Anderson wrote in his blog post “Starred Booklist review for HELLHOLE” that they had received their
first review on HELLHOLE! From Booklist: …
Well, that may have been the first one HE “received”, but it wasn’t the first one out there. From the Publishers Weekly site:
01/03/2011 Fiction
Hellhole
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Tor, $25.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2269-2Bestselling authors Herbert and Anderson (The Winds of Dune) start a space opera series with a tale quite similar to Frank Herbert’s Dune in setting, theme, and conflict. On the dangerous frontier planet Hellhole, defeated and exiled rebel Gen. Tiber Adolphus continues his honorable opposition to the political scheming and selfish machinations of the Crown Jewel worlds and grandmotherly Diadem Michella Duchenet. Adolphus and his companions work in secret to undermine the royal space travel monopoly and form a coalition of Deep Zone planets. Diadem Michella, embroiled in the schemes of the ancient noble families on the decadent capital planet Sonjeera, is too distracted to recognize the danger Adolphus poses. Repeated mentions of minor details bloat the novel’s length, characters are one-dimensional, and the tale has an unsatisfying cliffhanger conclusion. (Mar.)
Bloated with minor details, with one-dimensional characters and an unsatisfying cliffhanger ending. Gee, didn’t see THAT coming!
How much you want to bet that Kevin J. Anderson never once mentions this review anywhere?
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“Royal space travel monopoly?”
What.
*Facepalm.*
Lemme guess, there’ls also a planet simply named Nine that makes machines and an order of guys who can compute ideas in their head really well and….
Lemme guess, there’s giant worms on planet Hellhole too isn’t there?
I LOVE the thought of The Journeyman eagerly reading the review, twitchy little fingers poised to link to it from Twatter and his blog, and then …
… and then he gets to the part where PW pretty much says the books sucks hard.
And The Journeyman? Well, let’s just say that The Journeyman is NOT pleased.
God, that makes me so happy.