Slow Bullets

Alastair Reynolds
Slow Bullets Cover

Shallow Bullets

Bormgans
9/27/2015
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First things first: when I received this book after ordering it, it felt like a total rip off. Slow Bullets is not much more than a short story printed in a large font to spread it out over 190 pages, and then sold for the price of a regular novel, although it's hardly a novelette.

Marketing & packaging aside, the content doesn't amount to much. Slow Bullets is underdeveloped. Not a lot happens, it's basically a couple of people waking up on a sleeper ship without knowing where they are and what year it is. They then find out because someone tells them, and then they try to cope with the fact that the ship's vast memory banks are slowly degenerating.

Memory is the theme of this book, but it's hardly explored. (...)

Please read the remainder of this review on my blog:

https://schicksalgemeinschaft.wordpress.com/2015/10/09/slow-bullets-alastair-reynolds-2015/