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An Encounter in Atlanta
61,716 words (176 pages)
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Copyright 2003 by Ed Howdershelt.
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Chapter Two
Mandi Steele had landed behind a support column in the drive-through of the Rivage Hotel, then stepped out to briefly join a group of costumed conventioneers on their way up the walkway ramp.
As she neared the taxi at the front of the line, she spun the two-foot piece of pvc tubing she'd found behind the column like a baton. Letting it escape her grasp in the direction of the taxi gave her a pretext for going through the motions of pretending to look for it as she studied the car.
The paint was new, but the car wasn't. It was full of luggage and rode so low that it must have had a ton of extra weight aboard. No normal luggage would weigh that much.
Mandi pretended to search for her missing baton beneath the taxi's rear. She discovered that the inner side of the fender was solid, not hollow. A pinch of the clay-like plastique came away between her fingers and she let it fall under the car befo
It was a good night time read. However, it ended rather abruptly for me, so hopefully there is more to come in a sequel?
Interesting, entertaining if a bit adolescent. Fun to read but no more than that to recommend it.
This is essentially an adolescent masturbatory fantasy about how great it would be if girls thought your weirdness was cool and you were a secret agent who could kill people without getting excited and also supergirl came and had sex with you at a science fiction convention and then licking her super-snatch really well made you super too, and then supergirl didn't even mind if you had sex with other girls, and even brought you a hot one you really liked!
Aside from that, the prose is clumsy and didactic and plodding, the characters completely flat and unbelievable, the villains puppets, and the plotting nonexistent.
(Sorry for the poor review; it feels like the author enjoyed writing it. But publication opens one to criticism, and this badly needed an editor who would say: no!)
A book based on wishful thinking instead of hard facts. While it may have pleased the author when writing it, and some head-in-the-sand tell-me-fairy-tales readers, as SF it's as floppy as Star Trek, and IMHO d--d useless.
A good, quick read. It feels like a prelude to quite a bit more, though I haven't located any other works by this author.
You get: superheros (sort of), a scifi/fantasy convention (in snatches), a hardboiled detective type (though really he moonlights for a three letter agency), some sex (which is tastefully done and easily skipped if you must), and the foiling of a terrorist plot. All of it by thoroughly adult characters. Adult as in 'solid and mature', not as in XXX.
I really enjoyed this book. I look forward to reading about more "encounters"...
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