The main protagonist became an angsty little twit.Īnd the final scene of the book is such a manufactured cliff-hanger, with the authors deliberately having the characters react to information they're deliberately withholding from the readers, that you can tell they were desperately trying to create some tension that would make us want to read the sequel. The main antagonist, previously set up as an exceptionally focused, driven, and intelligent individual, was turned into a mustache twirling villain who lets himself get dragged around by his hormones without any reason.

As competent an exploration of the soft sciences (sociology) as was present in the prequel The Unincorporated Man, the authors managed to prove, before they were even out of the first chapter, that they should not ever include mention of the hard sciences in their future works not only do they lack the theoretical background necessary to be informed, they also lacked the motivation to do even basic research (such as accessing Wikipedia).įrom the idiocy of proposing that there could be a fixed front to an interplanetary space war between two planetary bodies (proving they didn't understand that planets orbit at different speeds), to the suggestion that one side of the conflict could use artificial comets to 'plow a space highway' to allow for high-speed transit of materials, to not even realizing the implications of the emotion altering technology they'd introduced, everything went wrong in this book. My hobbies include roadbike riding, surfing and reading.Ībsolutely horrible, and almost certainly a crime against science fiction as a genre. Happy to say the series has also found a warm welcome here at.

It went on to win the 2010 Prometheus Award for Best Science Fiction novel of the year and the three books that followed in its wake were also nominated, one even making the finals. 8 years later our first book, The Unincorporated Man, hit the shelves. I applied my advertising copywriter skill set (word craftsmanship and reader empathy) to the one idea of Eytan's I felt was strongest and then together we created an outline, basic plot points and an extrapolated world built on that initial concept. Mind you I had no idea how to go about this but I did know that Eytan had some great ideas and little tenacity and I had a lot of tenacity and a gift for knowing how to turn great ideas into a marketable ones. I'm an accidental science fiction author.Ī few years back, broke, desperate and living with my wife and three kids at my in-laws, I decided to get together with my brother, Eytan and write a book.

The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin