A review by futuriana
The Adjacent by Christopher Priest
1.0
Apparently this is a terrifically clever book full of intertwined plotting and callbacks to previous Priest novels.
It didn't work for me, though. Despite a couple of intriguing chucks (the trip to the front lines and the Polish pilot) the rest dragged. The central mystery seemed to have too much vague hand-waving and very little payoff.
Perhaps if the story had less science fiction trappings it would have bothered me a bit less, but we are set up with a very specific technical focus that then seems to have only the most tangential connection with the strange goings on.
Maybe there's just some piece of the puzzle I missed.
It didn't work for me, though. Despite a couple of intriguing chucks (the trip to the front lines and the Polish pilot) the rest dragged. The central mystery seemed to have too much vague hand-waving and very little payoff.
Perhaps if the story had less science fiction trappings it would have bothered me a bit less, but we are set up with a very specific technical focus that then seems to have only the most tangential connection with the strange goings on.
Maybe there's just some piece of the puzzle I missed.