DW: Snowglobe 7

Is it Alien? Is it Cthulhu? Or is it Snowglobe 7 by Mike Tucker?


Yep, Mike Tucker is back with a special effects dream, set in the snow and ice of the Middle East. (No, not the result of being back in time, but of a heavy handed message about global warming.) I rather liked the Cthulhu aspect of it all, there's always fun to be had when there're tentacles around! The plot is fairly standard "stop the rampaging creature", but Mike manages to stretch it out to 250 pages quite entertainingly. (Except for the whole Rabley subplot which isn't go anyway, and could easily, and preferable, have been excised.)

Mike also introduces a new race, the Flisk, which settle on Earth, but one can't help wondering if the one and only sole reason he did this was to cheat an escape and search attempt towards the end of the book... which is really sad as it has been done dozens of times before and is a long way to go burdening continuity with this extra race of aliens.

Another faux pas by Mike is to name one character, a nurse no less, Marisha. That is just a stupid basic mistake anyone should have been able to point out as a no-no, and yet there's a whole list of people at the end who failed to pick up that this might just possibly confuse readers by having two characters with extremely similar names...

On the whole, it's a decent book, nothing sterling character-wise, but worth reading plot-wise.


Order: No continuity given, so chuck in with previous one.

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