{"id":1402,"date":"2002-10-12T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2016-10-25T16:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T16:18:35","slug":"parallelities-by-alan-dean-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/science-fiction\/parallelities-by-alan-dean-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallelities, by Alan Dean Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"parallelities-by-alan-dean-foster<\/a>Genre: Science Fiction<\/strong>
\n Publisher: Random House<\/strong>
\n Published: 1998<\/strong>
\n Reviewer Rating:\u00a0\"half<\/strong>
\n Book Review by Aaron M. Renn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is a typical Foster novel. Take a subculture character from the ordinary world and send him on a whirlwind tour of the absurd. Unfortunately, the joke is wearing thin and even if it weren’t this incarnation is a particularly poor effort.<\/p>\n

Max Parker is a reporter for a supermarket tabloid sent to investigate a scientist who claims to be able to open doors to parallel universes. (Now there’s an original idea. Not!) The scientist, Barrington Boles, gives Parker a demonstration that supposedly fails. But as it turns out Boles’ equipment managed to create a field that allows access to parallel universes, a field that adheres to Parker.<\/p>\n

The rest of the plot I won’t bore you with. The book contains nothing original and leads nowhere. I’d be willing to think that Foster was writing a parody of the parallel universe genre, except that even by that standard Parallelities<\/b> fails miserably. As one might expect of a tabloid reporter, Parker is an unsympathetic protagonist from the get-go and nothing happened to change my opinion of him.<\/p>\n

I’m a Foster fan from way back, so I don’t feel like I’m being unfair to the guy when I say that this book is actively bad. I own virtually all of his novels, and I’d say this is the worst. Unless you, like me, want to keep a complete Foster collection, there’s no reason to buy it.<\/p>\n

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