Steven Piziks
Autor(a) de The Doomsday Vault
About the Author
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(eng) Steven Harper Piziks publishes under the names "Steven Harper" and "Steven Piziks".
Séries
Obras por Steven Piziks
Writing the Paranormal Novel: Techniques and Exercises for Weaving Supernatural Elements Into Your Story. (2011) 107 exemplares
Patterns in the Chain [Mother Berchte] 1 exemplar
Servants to the Dead 1 exemplar
A Quiet Knight's Reading 1 exemplar
Enforcement Claws 1 exemplar
Smoke and Mirrors 1 exemplar
Witch Warrior 1 exemplar
Ion Shells 1 exemplar
Bait and Switch 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Five Seasons of Angel: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Vampire (2004) — Contribuidor — 202 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Harper, Steven (pseudonym)
Piziks, Steven Harper (pseudonym) - Data de nascimento
- 1967-01-11
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Saginaw, Michigan, USA
- Nota de desambiguação
- Steven Harper Piziks publishes under the names "Steven Harper" and "Steven Piziks".
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scifi nanobots universe takeover em Name that Book (Agosto 2013)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 35
- Also by
- 27
- Membros
- 1,810
- Popularidade
- #14,214
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 42
- ISBN
- 58
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
It wouldn't be quite right to call this steampunk with traditional zombies either. The 'Clockwork Plague' victims that becomes zombies don't feast on the flesh of humans and except for the machinations of the villain don't attack humans either it would seem. They're just kind of there. The steampunk aspects are solid and inventive--plenty of cool and nifty gadgets running around (some of the Clockwork Plague victims become genius inventors until they burn themselves out and go crazy), but as I said earlier Harper spends a lot of time info-dumping to make the gadgets seem cool. More often than not we are told how cool the gadgets are and when presented with the reality in action, it's taken care of quickly and as dryly as possible.
The romance subplot was also dry. Alice is torn between wanting to do right by her family and her obligations as a daughter and wanting to do just about anything else in her life. As a consequence her romance with Gavin is put on the back burner. Not that Gavin is any better, he detests London and is only there because of his nominal interest in Alice (or so it seems). Their lack of clear communication on their wants is a real sticking point throughout the novel.
More than anything else however the novel drags on. The moments of excitement are ruined by over simplification or too much information or over much too quickly to gain much momentum. In the end this was just unsatisfying and not very enjoyable to top it off.
Review originally posted at Night Owl Reviews… (mais)