My story "The Filigree" was reviewed at The Fix, and the reviewer thought it suffered from "incomprehensibility" and "paradox."
I'm excited for the story to have been reviewed.
Of course, if you really want to determine whether you agree with the review or not, you're going to have the read the story, ain't ya? Excellent....
2 comments:
The author of the review seems to imply that the ending was rushed when he says that it's not clear what has changed or what it means for mankind. I'll agree with that part; I had to read the last bit twice to understand what had happened and even then, I did feel there was something missing. However, to me, it was made up by the fact that I had thought I knew where you were going with the ending and it ended up going a different way. I like being surprised by the ending of a story.
I'm not sure if he's criticizing the fact that we don't know what the aliens' (were they aliens? I don't remember aliens being mentioned in the story) motivation for the filigree is. I didn't really find that particularly mattered in this story. Maybe if it was a longer story or a novel it might, but I didn't think it was important.
As for the incomprehensibility and paradox, well, at times the theory was hard to understand. I read a few paragraphs a few times to make sure I understood what was going on. (I blame it on my lack of background in physics.) Doesn't mean it was incomprehensible, though. Time travel themes are so hard to deal with in general and you did well. "Incomprehensible" is harsh, in my opinion.
hey,
unfortunately the reviewer seems to prefer hard sci-fi; it seems he doesn't care as much about the plot & development, as the logical structure of the story.
come on alvaro!, i pointed out to you all the logical loop holes in "back to the future II", 7 years ago, and you make the same mistakes that Robert Zemeckis did!!, :D
best,
d.l.
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