Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone
by Ian McDonald

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Book Review: Interesting, but not very original
Summary: 3 Stars

What struck me most about the book was the Ballardesque nature of it. McDonald's always been enamoured of style, and as style in SF goes, Ballard is somewhere between the high priest and the holy ghost. McDonald uses the quick flips between scenes, the sentence fragments that contain only the most important nouns and verbs, and paring down the plot so that the book contains only the most important scenes and actions, the in-between bits to be filled in by the reader's imagination. However, a true Ballard pastiche would have been only 13 pages rather than the 130 here (see Brian Aldiss' recent Ballardesque "FOAM"). McDonald hasn't given up totally on the idea that a story is told in length. SCPWS is not bad, but still not the startingly original novel that I'm expecting one of these days from McDonald.

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