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If you are a Science Fiction reader, then you know of Norman Spinrad. (He) has taken what should have been a tired and hackneyed plot, that of ecological terrorists taking a Los Angeles TV station hostage in order to publicize their message, and applied to it enough twists to make it look like the path of a mongoose on crack. Crisis follows crescendo follows climax as the usually sure, formulaic ground of a thriller is shaken like a California quake. Along the way, Spinrad gets beyond the cliched faces of his characters and even beyond the conventionally unconventional faces behind them. The characters turn into real people, able to carry the action where its going. Spinrad has shown his mastery of this genre as well as his preferred haunts along its edges yet again. - Dennis Winters
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:55:18 +0000

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