Is Zona believable?
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Is Zona believable?
It was a bit annoying that the novel was slow to start, and I think this contributed to my impatience surrounding the Zona.
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The level of detail about the location gave me the baseline I needed to use my imagination to fill in gaps. Because it was a work of science fiction, I didn't need the area to be especially well-defined for the book to be an interesting read. From the geopositions in Randall's journal, you can also build a better idea of where in the world the expedition is supposed to be. You'd have to do a little legwork, which the author could have removed by inserting a graphical representation, but you can see the general area to which the satellites would triangulate.
As to why the area was forbidden, I thought the explanation was more or less sufficient. It might have been useful for the author to include more information about governmental differences between the US and Russia, but I thought there were sufficient implications to paint a mental picture. The maps at the beginning of the book supplemented my reading of the text for the specific encampments and activities, so I was satisfied.
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Agreed. I thought the opening chapters were pretty suspenseful, and I agree that the explanation was adequate.shynmr wrote: ↑04 Jul 2020, 21:58 I found the beginning pretty suspenseful because I was waiting for something to happen. I thought there would be more early conflict between the characters, so I was a bit disappointed that it never really came to fruition, but I don't think the beginning of the book detracted from the overall quality of the novel.
The level of detail about the location gave me the baseline I needed to use my imagination to fill in gaps. Because it was a work of science fiction, I didn't need the area to be especially well-defined for the book to be an interesting read. From the geopositions in Randall's journal, you can also build a better idea of where in the world the expedition is supposed to be. You'd have to do a little legwork, which the author could have removed by inserting a graphical representation, but you can see the general area to which the satellites would triangulate.
As to why the area was forbidden, I thought the explanation was more or less sufficient. It might have been useful for the author to include more information about governmental differences between the US and Russia, but I thought there were sufficient implications to paint a mental picture. The maps at the beginning of the book supplemented my reading of the text for the specific encampments and activities, so I was satisfied.
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