While you’d like to say it is making sense there’s
that discretionary ‘hmm’ which isn't attached to a
concrete stanchion; okay, you defended yourself
quite adequately, & in not tossing the book away
made what could’ve foundered your reputation a
safer compromise because you persisted - even
finishing reading it, altho’ surprised at the ending
less by its resolution than a fraying of tied ends
Whether we’d read her again is hardly an issue -
the ‘hmm’ wasn’t for lack of authorship, far from
it; what irks is the way ‘science fiction’ was used
to conceal a pretty blasé novel based around its
central character’s very today purview of normal
events misfeasance in a commonplace sense
© 11 January 2016, I. D. Carswell
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