It’s hard to review The Mongoliad: Book 1 without going into any of the supplemental material available online, but I will try to limit this review to strictly what happens in the book. With the number of authors listed on the book, it’s easy to think that this is some sort of anthology. But this is on novel with three linked storylines going through the book. It isn’t listed who worked on which sections, so it is somewhat assumed that everyone had some sort of hand in the whole novel. So this doesn’t seem to be like one of the Tom Clancy books where he comes up with an idea and farms out the writing to others. So, lets head back to 1241 and see what is going on with the Mongols.
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Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson, et al.
The Mongoliad is an idea conceived by Neal Stephenson about European fighting arts (e.g. swordplay) and experimental storytelling (the book was originally released as smartphone app with videos, maps and other non-written pieces). The writing was done by numerous folks (Stephenson and Greg Bear are the most well known) and was finally collected in a novel. Click in to see the humorous book trailer (featuring Neal Stephenson) and stay tuned as I’ll have a review in a few days.
Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
I’ve had a rocky relationship with Greg Bear books. They always look interesting, but when I read them, I’m ultimately unsatisfied. And it’s never anything I can point to and say “I didn’t like that”. It just a vague sense of not liking it. I recognize that Bear is a good writer and there are a lot of fans (and critics) who love his work, but he’s never really appealed to me. Having said that, I decided to try his latest book Hull Zero Three