Dimension of Miracles (Ace SF, 14860)
by Robert Sheckley
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Author: Robert SheckleyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1979-05-01
ISBN: 0441148603
Number of pages: 213
Publisher: Ace
Book Reviews of Dimension of Miracles (Ace SF, 14860)
Book Review: Sheckly Was Unique !
Summary: 5 Stars
There was always something about Robert Sheckly's writing style that appealed to me. His chapters were short and usually very to the point so he had already waded through the tendency for authors to ramble and over edit themselves and I was spared having to read all that to get to the good stuff. It isn't surprising that Sheckly was known as a master of the short story. 'Dimension of Miracles' is not a short story but it feels like a short story that got gratuitously extended to novella length. Nevertheless it's still classic Sheckly. He knew science in a superficial way but yet enough to keep his stories believable. He is a nihilist philosophically speaking so if you take your religion or your science very seriously he might offend you. He also can come across as smug because he sees humor in irony and those little ironies continually pop up in his writing. Concretely a paleontologist might be put off by a talking T-Rex who lived 100 million years ago because they were ruthless predators that evolved perhaps 2 million years before the dinosaur extinction. In an Ed Whitten parrallel brane Universe perhaps they talked and were civilized but .... prepared for the big Sheckly ironic ending which I won't give away. I'm still trying to figure out why Carmody's prize was so valuable which ofcourse is just another Sheckly irony !
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