Ultraverse eBook Andrew J Brown Joseph B Collins
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Arwres Jones isn’t having a good day. Waking up in a fugue, she can’t quite believe that she’s let her life get so, well, boring. Seemingly incapable of escaping her stupid, dead end job she begins exploring strange new worlds through narcotic induced dreams. When she has a dramatic epileptic fit, the boundaries between her dream worlds and reality begin to falter.
Beginning on a sink estate at the end of the 20th century, Ultraverse quickly becomes an irreverent romp across alien worlds, other dimensional realities and the landscapes of the mind. It brings together an intoxicating mix of scifi, fantasy and 90s drug culture.
Ultraverse eBook Andrew J Brown Joseph B Collins
This is a hard book to read.It's apparently hard to review also. This is now my sixth time coming back here to do this, but it took me forever to figure out how to say what needs said. The nook itself is hard to read because it's full of annoying little flaws. But if you can get past the flaws there's something good underneath.
First off, the whole thing is written in British English (flavour, colour, cosy) so if that's gonna bother you then you're already down a peg. It doesn't bother me as I'm a bit of an anglophile already but I know people get picky about that stuff. The thing is, the alternate spellings combine with the (many) grammatical errors so that there's an awful lot of stuff that tends to distract you away from the story.
The errors are another layer of difficulty for readers to stretch their minds around. (if you're not able to stretch your mind around unexpected differences then you won't enjoy this story at all.) The errors range through almost every type imaginable. Only one actual complete misspelling ("gis it here"), but plenty of other typos ("please" instead of "pleased", and "as the [they] fell", and "phony American accept", "grown form [from]" ). Also missing words ("Nena could see [meaning she could not]", and "...which seemed be..."), and a few extra words ("she should would simply fall..."). The Britishisms aren't typos, but I'm familiar with most Britishisms and even still, there were quite a few things that I couldn't be sure about ("s**ttest" instead of "s**ttiest", "chunnering", "eiw-ing", "doing his nut", "the spods in the white coats") - those might be Britishisms or they might just be wrong but I dont know them and my dictionary doesnt help. The most common errors, and also the most annoying, were the wrong-word errors. There's a point, fairly early in the book, where the main char ridicules her boss for referring to someone looking for "escape goats". I can't help but wonder if that is in there because that sort of wrong-word error is something the author gets accused of in real life, because he proceeds to do the same thing in the later text. It happens often enough that I started to wonder if it was intentional, but there's really no possible reason that would make sense, so it must simply be poor communication skills. Here's a few examples:
"...teams with life" (teems)
"they ran passed the man" (past)
"was raised to the ground" (razed)
"air-breaks" (brakes)
"on the forth day" (fourth)
"intraface with" (interface)
"in order to unsure..." (insure)
"we wont for nothing" (want)
"glowing every-so-softly" (ever)
"...how they were fairing" (faring)
And the most often used (9 times) "she could wonder to-and-fro" or "wondering around"
A close second place at seven occurrences was the juvenile sounding "she span around" (spun) - and I took extra care to research that and be sure it is incorrect (or archaic) in both American and British English. Other juvenile errors: "builded" and "he had became more..."
Still, in spite of the errors, within the text there are occasional flashes of brilliance:
"are you ready for reality?"
Shrug; "is anyone?"
Or, "How do you kill an interchange? It's not like a circus where you just go for the juggler."
The book itself is a bit of a brain-Bender. It starts off as if it were telling several separate tales, with the connecting gimmick that a young girl in modern day London is having dreams that show her these stories unfolding. An immortal man in medieval France, a lone alien who has stolen a starship, a princess in a fantastic kingdom entirely encased within the shell of a colossal snail. And a bizarre and ancient city of strange creatures of every description.
As the story progresses, the different stories slowly start to intertwine into a complete whole, and the different realities begin to come together. Eventually, even the main character's modern-day reality gets pulled into the mix. At some point the nature of the book changes from being a straightforward fantasy story into a surreal tale of bizarre dream-dimensions with time-travel, impossible Mad-Hatter physics, and psychopathic gods. And so again, as I said at the start of this review, you need a mind able to adapt to the change in expectations to enjoy this book.
The appeal of the book is all in the plot. the characters are not well developed, or likeable even, the rules of the world are inconsistent and bizarre, and the writing quality is erratic at best. But underneath it all is a dang good story, and an interesting head trip to boot
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Ultraverse eBook Andrew J Brown Joseph B Collins Reviews
This is a hard book to read.
It's apparently hard to review also. This is now my sixth time coming back here to do this, but it took me forever to figure out how to say what needs said. The nook itself is hard to read because it's full of annoying little flaws. But if you can get past the flaws there's something good underneath.
First off, the whole thing is written in British English (flavour, colour, cosy) so if that's gonna bother you then you're already down a peg. It doesn't bother me as I'm a bit of an anglophile already but I know people get picky about that stuff. The thing is, the alternate spellings combine with the (many) grammatical errors so that there's an awful lot of stuff that tends to distract you away from the story.
The errors are another layer of difficulty for readers to stretch their minds around. (if you're not able to stretch your mind around unexpected differences then you won't enjoy this story at all.) The errors range through almost every type imaginable. Only one actual complete misspelling ("gis it here"), but plenty of other typos ("please" instead of "pleased", and "as the [they] fell", and "phony American accept", "grown form [from]" ). Also missing words ("Nena could see [meaning she could not]", and "...which seemed be..."), and a few extra words ("she should would simply fall..."). The Britishisms aren't typos, but I'm familiar with most Britishisms and even still, there were quite a few things that I couldn't be sure about ("s**ttest" instead of "s**ttiest", "chunnering", "eiw-ing", "doing his nut", "the spods in the white coats") - those might be Britishisms or they might just be wrong but I dont know them and my dictionary doesnt help. The most common errors, and also the most annoying, were the wrong-word errors. There's a point, fairly early in the book, where the main char ridicules her boss for referring to someone looking for "escape goats". I can't help but wonder if that is in there because that sort of wrong-word error is something the author gets accused of in real life, because he proceeds to do the same thing in the later text. It happens often enough that I started to wonder if it was intentional, but there's really no possible reason that would make sense, so it must simply be poor communication skills. Here's a few examples
"...teams with life" (teems)
"they ran passed the man" (past)
"was raised to the ground" (razed)
"air-breaks" (brakes)
"on the forth day" (fourth)
"intraface with" (interface)
"in order to unsure..." (insure)
"we wont for nothing" (want)
"glowing every-so-softly" (ever)
"...how they were fairing" (faring)
And the most often used (9 times) "she could wonder to-and-fro" or "wondering around"
A close second place at seven occurrences was the juvenile sounding "she span around" (spun) - and I took extra care to research that and be sure it is incorrect (or archaic) in both American and British English. Other juvenile errors "builded" and "he had became more..."
Still, in spite of the errors, within the text there are occasional flashes of brilliance
"are you ready for reality?"
Shrug; "is anyone?"
Or, "How do you kill an interchange? It's not like a circus where you just go for the juggler."
The book itself is a bit of a brain-Bender. It starts off as if it were telling several separate tales, with the connecting gimmick that a young girl in modern day London is having dreams that show her these stories unfolding. An immortal man in medieval France, a lone alien who has stolen a starship, a princess in a fantastic kingdom entirely encased within the shell of a colossal snail. And a bizarre and ancient city of strange creatures of every description.
As the story progresses, the different stories slowly start to intertwine into a complete whole, and the different realities begin to come together. Eventually, even the main character's modern-day reality gets pulled into the mix. At some point the nature of the book changes from being a straightforward fantasy story into a surreal tale of bizarre dream-dimensions with time-travel, impossible Mad-Hatter physics, and psychopathic gods. And so again, as I said at the start of this review, you need a mind able to adapt to the change in expectations to enjoy this book.
The appeal of the book is all in the plot. the characters are not well developed, or likeable even, the rules of the world are inconsistent and bizarre, and the writing quality is erratic at best. But underneath it all is a dang good story, and an interesting head trip to boot
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