tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post3020570206026124086..comments2023-11-09T22:51:59.986-05:00Comments on Dreaming About Other Worlds: Review - The Testament of Jesse Lamb by Jane RogersAaron Poundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11747596648152141394noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post-37383924306431986602012-07-09T09:32:33.772-04:002012-07-09T09:32:33.772-04:00@Julia Rachel Barrett: Exactly. And I would also p...@Julia Rachel Barrett: Exactly. And I would also point out that James' book wasn't even the first to delve into the idea of a world in which humans are no longer able to have children. You can go back to (for example) Brian Aldiss' mid-1960s book <i>Greybeard</i> which explored this idea, and did it fairly well.<br /><br />Books like <i>The Testament of Jesse Lamb</i> always strike me as examples of mainstream authors deciding to "slum" in the science fiction genre because they assume it will be easy. After all, they seem to think, it's only science fiction. It doesn't have to make sense, or so they assume. But writing good science fiction is harder than they think, and the rend result of their efforts is usually mediocre at best, and almost always a rehash of something an author who works in the genre got to a decade or more earlier.Aaron Poundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11747596648152141394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post-32466947119264303982012-07-07T13:51:17.528-04:002012-07-07T13:51:17.528-04:00I was going to say - sounds like a rotten version ...I was going to say - sounds like a rotten version of Margaret Atwood and P.D. James, The Children of Men.<br />Yuck. Thanks for the review. This is why I don't like to read books with teenage protagonists, at least not recent releases.<br />The older work is a world apart.Julia Rachel Barretthttp://juliarachelbarrett.netnoreply@blogger.com