![]() ![]() ![]() I mention this because right from the first page, Galouye made the choice I favor less, and went a little overboard, to the point of raising goose eggs on my noggin with his invented slang and cursing and expressions of folk belief. I realized, as I read through this, that I prefer the latter. The trick is to be telegraphic, to let every line convey something about the plot, characters and setting all at once - or to just let the world building take care of itself, let the reader's imagination do that work. Galouye's Dark Universe, is small and confined by nature. It's tricky to do a whole lot of world-building in just 154 pages, even if that world, as in Daniel F. ![]()
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