James Bow
Author of The Unwritten Girl
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Works by James Bow
Explore The Yukon 1 copy
Associated Works
Time, Unincorporated: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives, Vol. 2: Writings on the Classic Series (2010) — Contributor — 29 copies, 1 review
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- Birthdate
- 1972-04-19
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Places of residence
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - Education
- University of Waterloo
- Relationships
- Bow, Patricia (mother)
Bow, Erin (wife)
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Statistics
- Works
- 68
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 374
- Popularity
- #64,496
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 19
- ISBNs
- 242
- Languages
- 1
6/10, now that I look back I definitely wouldn't consider this book a masterpiece but rather another OK obscure sci-fi novel that should be way more popular than it is now. The worldbuilding is fine but left me a few questions and the characters were just there to move the story along and weren't developed at all since they were just so flat and uninteresting. It begins with Isaac dying in a helicopter accident then it cuts to Simon living in a city called Iapyx which is like a flying refugee city but it doesn't make any sense since no electricity works in Icarus Down and everything runs on steam so how did they fly the ship and place it on the planet, I really don't know. The first half is all about Simon living in the city when someone was sabotaging it and at the first climax since there are actually two climaxes the entire city collapses into the ravine and Simon falls in and somehow survives. He meets some weird creatures and why they were there wasn't really explained and that mildly annoyed me but I moved on from that eventually.
The second half still revolves around Simon and the new main character whose name was Eliza and they discover the old mothership somehow which has a recording of how it got there and it explains some information about the world like the government is evil because it killed an entire alien species and rerouted the remainder of humanity from a nice blue habitable planet to a deserted wasteland planet and the way Earth ended was kind of unoriginal because there were just four big continental powers who wiped the world with nuclear powers but somehow they got together to make one last ditch effort to save all the humans which was kind of hard to believe.
In the conclusion they work together to rally the people and bring down the dystopian government and the antagonists were arrested or face some similar fate, the remaining twelve cities moved from Icarus Down to Icarus Rising and I'm surprised that they still work considering the issue I mentioned earlier and the fact that they've been there for three generations but maybe they worked on the engines just for this to happen, I'm confused but at least the ending was good. If you like an unpopular post-apocalyptic story about humans on another planet this one is for you.… (more)