Lost in Translation

By Edward Willett format: mass market paperback publication: October 2006 ISBN: 9780756403409

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Few SF authors are able to design convincing aliens that act in an alien fashion. Regina author Edward Willett makes full use of his considerable science knowledge to create aliens that seem natural. Willet has a prolific and varied writing career, spread across a variety of fiction and non-fiction works from science through politics and rock climbing to biography.

Strong characters and well designed aliens serve to make his first adult novel a success. The S'sinn of Lost in Translation are believable and comprehensible, while providing a welcome change from humans in monster suits. The characters are focussed and believable, the setting is colourful and the action is interesting.

If there is any weakness here, it is the background aliens. Limited by the book's 300 pages, the aliens of the Commonwealth suffer slightly from lack of depth, a hint, perhaps, (or at least a hope) that the book is only the start of something much larger.

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