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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7547221" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>I'm reading <em>All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault</em>, a superhero novel by James Alan Gardner. He's using the same writing style as he did with <em>Expendable</em> (an excellent book - I highly recommend it), where there are chapters, but each chapter is broken into smaller (sometimes very small) "chunks," each with its own header in bold. It makes reading through it very addictive and almost impossible to stop until you hit a chapter break, because you can read "just a little more" over and over until you're gobbling down dozens and scores of pages at a sitting.</p><p></p><p>In any case, this is an interesting take on "superhero science" and the hows and whys of how superpowers work. (Bottom line: superbeings draw their energy from alternate universes, some of which have different laws of physics). He also does a great job explaining away how costumes and masks "work" in protecting superhero identities, all while weaving an origin story about four young college women who first gain their powers in a science lab explosion.</p><p></p><p>I'm about 150 pages in an am thoroughly enjoying it. (I still like his <em>Expendable</em> novel and subsequent series a little better, but this is a good read and it'd be hard for him to top <em>Expendable</em> in my eyes anyway - I still think it's his greatest work.)</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7547221, member: 508"] I'm reading [i]All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault[/i], a superhero novel by James Alan Gardner. He's using the same writing style as he did with [i]Expendable[/i] (an excellent book - I highly recommend it), where there are chapters, but each chapter is broken into smaller (sometimes very small) "chunks," each with its own header in bold. It makes reading through it very addictive and almost impossible to stop until you hit a chapter break, because you can read "just a little more" over and over until you're gobbling down dozens and scores of pages at a sitting. In any case, this is an interesting take on "superhero science" and the hows and whys of how superpowers work. (Bottom line: superbeings draw their energy from alternate universes, some of which have different laws of physics). He also does a great job explaining away how costumes and masks "work" in protecting superhero identities, all while weaving an origin story about four young college women who first gain their powers in a science lab explosion. I'm about 150 pages in an am thoroughly enjoying it. (I still like his [i]Expendable[/i] novel and subsequent series a little better, but this is a good read and it'd be hard for him to top [i]Expendable[/i] in my eyes anyway - I still think it's his greatest work.) Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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