![]() ![]() Hamilton will go off on wild tangents that won't pay off for hundreds of pages. Even after a five-year gap, I had little to no trouble recalling people and events in A Feast for Crows. For all his novels' complexities, Martin's story structure is pretty much bulletproof. He is much less consistent in structuring narrative than Martin. If the entire galaxy is my backdrop, he reckons, by golly I'm going to use it! What good is an interstellar war unless hundreds of thousands of warships are going at it at once, entire planets are lost, and a single bomb can make a star go nova? Hamilton approaches this kind of story in classic go-for-broke fashion. Hamilton knows: too much is never enough. Judas Unchained delivers on the promise of Pandora's Star in the only way Peter F. If I didn't also say that these are the very qualities that make it such a breathlessly entertaining experience to read (and read and read), I should be disbarred from ever reviewing again. If I didn't say that Judas Unchained was a bloated exercise in writerly overindulgence that is easily three hundred pages longer and about a half-dozen plotlines more involved than it needs to be, I'd be lying. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book cover art by John Harris (left) Jim Burns (right). ![]()
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