Gerald Lizee
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- Verk
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 8
- Popularitet
- #1,038,911
- Betyg
- 2.8
- Recensioner
- 2
- ISBN
- 1
The year is 2025, and Lydia, whose “gently innocent appearance belied the fact that just a few months before she had obtained a doctorate magna cum laude in physics,” receives a parcel containing two USB drives and a crystal pendant, with instruction from her grandfather to hide them. (Reader beware! Some perfectly normal women with doctorates might take offense at Lydia's description.) Meanwhile Mafia specialists with “infallible methods to make the toughest of their victims talk” are out to get her, and an “ultra-secret group of scientists” is coming to the end of its work deciphering secrets surrounding the amulet.
The Amazing Crystal is an amazingly detailed story, where every room of a house and every item of clothing is lovingly described before an abduction. Scientific discoveries are laid out at similar length, frustrating perhaps for scientists who might wonder why the world’s best representatives can’t ask better questions, and also for lay-readers who might struggle to care about string theory in three pages. But Lydia conquers her “legendary shyness,” becoming positively loquacious as she divulges the world’s new history, science and social science on global TV. Religions object and scientists cling to old ways in dismay; the Mafia fights back; and the power of the mind (combined with the alien of course) might conquer all.
The English translation reads somewhat stiltedly, especially where dialog is concerned, and, while the storyline contains the sort of serendipity you might expect in a middle-grade novel, an underlying romance leads to a somewhat more adult scene. Meanwhile the science, despite an “annex... meant specifically for readers having an adequate mastery of the science of elementary particle physics,” remains unconvincingly supplied with loopholes and unasked questions, at least in the eyes of this Cambridge mathematician. The "What if" definitely intrigues, but I guess I'm not the intended reader.
Disclosure: I was given a free ecopy and I offer my honest review.… (mer)