A satire, looking at superheroes and the aggrandisement of media shrinks, as well, presumably.
Faust seems to have some background in the comics from which these come, and the book certainly owes a debt to the Giffen and DeMatteis Justice League along with Robert Mayer's Superfolks novel.
In fact, there's an explicit nod to the former in the form of L-Raunzenu (i.e. L-Ron).
The dysfunctional superteam undergoing therapy has analogues of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, and... Dazzler. Yes, that is right. One of the characters is a graduate of the 'Alison Blair Institute for Advanced Disco Studies'. Now your average novelist wouldn't get that, certainly.
He's taken the character everyone has heard of and are the most famous (and even naming one X-Man, to cover the other famous group, although the guy in question is more Malcom X, not a mutant man from the future).
So for those familiar with the form, a lot of this will be a little on the tedious side. So will the psychological technobabble inbetween the story. Although part of the author's point may be that it IS supposed to be annoying.
The main plot deals with the death of the leader of the Fantastic Justice group - a man that appears to have been somewhere between Captain Marvel and Dr Fate, Egyptian style. Very powerful, together, and not in need of high profile shrinks. Hence now dead.
It appears that it is likely murder, and conspiracies within their organisation erupt cause conflict to erupt.
3.5 out of 5
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Bone Dance - Emma Bull
I waited a fair while before eventually coming across this. As it turns it, it is a pretty average book.
A book about a main character that isn't that interesting, or doesn't do a lot of interest, for all the wandering around inside its head.
Some dystopian voodoo settings, and power structures that could use removing. So people that like that sort of fantasy may appreciate this a little.
3 out of 5
A book about a main character that isn't that interesting, or doesn't do a lot of interest, for all the wandering around inside its head.
Some dystopian voodoo settings, and power structures that could use removing. So people that like that sort of fantasy may appreciate this a little.
3 out of 5
Bone Dance - Emma Bull
I waited a fair while before eventually coming across this. As it turns it, it is a pretty average book.
A book about a main character that isn't that interesting, or doesn't do a lot of interest, for all the wandering around inside its head.
Some dystopian voodoo settings, and power structures that could use removing. So people that like that sort of fantasy may appreciate this a little.
3 out of 5
A book about a main character that isn't that interesting, or doesn't do a lot of interest, for all the wandering around inside its head.
Some dystopian voodoo settings, and power structures that could use removing. So people that like that sort of fantasy may appreciate this a little.
3 out of 5
Bone Dance - Emma Bull
I waited a fair while before eventually coming across this. As it turns it, it is a pretty average book.
A book about a main character that isn't that interesting, or doesn't do a lot of interest, for all the wandering around inside its head.
Some dystopian voodoo settings, and power structures that could use removing. So people that like that sort of fantasy may appreciate this a little.
3 out of 5
A book about a main character that isn't that interesting, or doesn't do a lot of interest, for all the wandering around inside its head.
Some dystopian voodoo settings, and power structures that could use removing. So people that like that sort of fantasy may appreciate this a little.
3 out of 5
Bone Dance - Emma Bull
I waited a fair while before eventually coming across this. As it turns it, it is a pretty average book.
A book about a main character that isn't that interesting, or doesn't do a lot of interest, for all the wandering around inside its head.
Some dystopian voodoo settings, and power structures that could use removing. So people that like that sort of fantasy may appreciate this a little.
3 out of 5
A book about a main character that isn't that interesting, or doesn't do a lot of interest, for all the wandering around inside its head.
Some dystopian voodoo settings, and power structures that could use removing. So people that like that sort of fantasy may appreciate this a little.
3 out of 5
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