The chamber is about thirty meters long, twenty wide, and five high-larger. Fantasy doesn’t have this problemĪll a reader really needs to know is the significance of a room and what’s relevant to the characters’ problems, what’s meaningful from the characters’ perspective based on their backstory. Please, science fiction authors, I beg of you, find a better way of describing your environments. The writing got bogged down in stuff like:Ī wall with two hemispheric bumps forms the terminus of the twin grooves and at the conclusion of the walkway is a circular indentation about two meters wide, carved or molded into the wall’s grayish surface. I could picture the settings, but I didn’t care to.
The horror aspect was no problem for me, I did not find it particularly scary, but one irritation I did have was with the tedious descriptions of shapes and dimensions of rooms. It’s got monsters lurking the halls of a starship, creepy twin girls, and amnesia. I prefer to go in without preconceived notions, so I didn’t realize this is a horror novel until describing it to my wife:
I try not to learn too much about books before I read them. If you can’t tolerate descriptions of zero gravity navigation and endless starship corridors, if you don’t like characters that are relentlessly subjected to pain and hunger, if you don’t like reading first person, if you’re not into basic scifi tropes, then you’re probably not going to like Hull Zero Three. If you want a clear sense of who the protagonist is, where he came from, who these other people are, what the goal is, what the hell is going on? …then you’re probably not going to like Hull Zero Three.
If you like your mystery layered on thick, if you like stories told in first person, if you like monsters lurking in starship corridors, if you’re a fan of stories asking questions like what does it means to be human? What constitutes a person’s identity? The sorts of themes explored by Phillip K Dick, then you’re going to love Hull Zero Three. If you like science fiction that leans toward realism, includes a small dose of horror, and asks big questions, then you probably already know and love the author, Greg Bear. Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear Part 1: who’s going to love this book No going back without dying, and, apparently no going forward.
Likely the observation blister and the corpse of Blue-Black are already frozen. The faintest breath of cold air washes over me.
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