I have been reading Sawyer’s books for a long time on-and-off.\u00a0 This one I acquired recently and got inscribed to me when I met Rob at Balticon this year.\u00a0 I just got to the book this week and finished it in a couple of days.<\/p>\n
Like all of Sawyer’s books, it takes an interesting premise and creates an engaging story around it.\u00a0 I will say that while I figured out one minor plot point in advance, I missed a couple of biggies, which makes for wonderful reading!<\/p>\n
The only “negative” point I’d have about this story in particular is that some of the details hinge around the O.J. Simpson case from 1995.\u00a0 This is a case of “in 1997” this stuff was fresh with everyone; however, I never watched a moment of the trial and to this day still don’t know a lot about most of those involved.\u00a0 It’s a minor quibble as I remembered enough, but not as much.\u00a0 I had a similar feeling about the WWW trilogy because of the tech involved, some of which I never used, but it was cutting edge when written.<\/p>\n
One of these days I’m going to have to print off a list of Sawyer’s novels and figure out which ones I have missed reading.\u00a0 If you didn’t know, Sawyer now controls most (if not all) of his backlist and it’s easy to find his stuff at sfwriter.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been reading Sawyer’s books for a long time on-and-off.\u00a0 This one I acquired recently and got inscribed to me when I met Rob at Balticon this year.\u00a0 I just got to the book this week and finished it in a couple of days. Like all of Sawyer’s books, it takes an interesting premise … Continue reading “Illegal Alien<\/i> by Robert J. Sawyer (1997)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,40],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-book","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}