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Writer's Block: You're Outta Here
May. 31st, 2012 09:53 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
The obvious answer would be Twilight, but I'm not one to play that game.
Stephen Baxter wrote a book years ago called Evolution. I'm a firm believer in evolutionary theory, but this may be the worst book I've ever written. The narrative is stiff and dry, the characters are cardboard and exist only to espouse his questionable scientific viewpoints, his hatred for religion causes him to spout off very improbable sociological screeds, and the misogyny made me - not the most feminist man out there - deeply uncomfortable.
I don't like Stephen Baxter's other work either. The man exploited a frail, elderly Arther C. Clarke to ram his work through under Clarke's name and exploit the more recognized author's prestige. But this was the first of his stories I read, and probably the worst.
The obvious answer would be Twilight, but I'm not one to play that game.
Stephen Baxter wrote a book years ago called Evolution. I'm a firm believer in evolutionary theory, but this may be the worst book I've ever written. The narrative is stiff and dry, the characters are cardboard and exist only to espouse his questionable scientific viewpoints, his hatred for religion causes him to spout off very improbable sociological screeds, and the misogyny made me - not the most feminist man out there - deeply uncomfortable.
I don't like Stephen Baxter's other work either. The man exploited a frail, elderly Arther C. Clarke to ram his work through under Clarke's name and exploit the more recognized author's prestige. But this was the first of his stories I read, and probably the worst.
