nicanical
Interesting ideas, bad execution, frustrating read.
Famous singer Jason Taverner wakes up to find all records of his existence have vanished. His efforts to figure out why draw police attention, starting a chase that lasts the whole story. It lasts the whole story because Jason repeatedly makes unbelievably boneheaded moves at odds with the urgency of his situation. For example, Jason: discovers a woman helping him is a police informant, but willingly accompanies her back to her apartment; overstays in a safehouse although he knows the police are likely on their way; consumes drugs with Alys, the Police General's sister in the General's apartment.
Jason gets up to all this bumbling despite proudly being a 'Six'—a genetically-engineered human with enhanced smarts and resourcefulness, although I never saw it.
There are several attempts at redeeming Jason's character—when he contrasts his life with the people on the streets and also when he meets the potter—but these never coalesce to any satisfaction.
The idea of a drug that gives reality-changing powers was interesting but wasted, receiving only a few throwaway lines in the denouement.
Interesting ideas, bad execution, frustrating read.
Famous singer Jason Taverner wakes up to find all records of his existence have vanished. His efforts to figure out why draw police attention, starting a chase that lasts the whole story. It lasts the whole story because Jason repeatedly makes unbelievably boneheaded moves at odds with the urgency of his situation. For example, Jason: discovers a woman helping him is a police informant, but willingly accompanies her back to her apartment; overstays in a safehouse although he knows the police are likely on their way; consumes drugs with Alys, the Police General's sister in the General's apartment.
Jason gets up to all this bumbling despite proudly being a 'Six'—a genetically-engineered human with enhanced smarts and resourcefulness, although I never saw it.
There are several attempts at redeeming Jason's character—when he contrasts his life with the people on the streets and also when he meets the potter—but these never coalesce to any satisfaction.
The idea of a drug that gives reality-changing powers was interesting but wasted, receiving only a few throwaway lines in the denouement.