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Date: 2017-05-20 09:58 pm (UTC)It looks like superhero novels are on their way to becoming their own subgenre, and this is definitely a readable example, but I'd definitely like some better world-building and plotting.
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Date: 2017-05-24 10:19 pm (UTC)I've taught high school for a generation now, and what Danny worried/obsessed about in the book is the kind of things that adolescents worry/obsess about. Likewise taking the world for granted (in this case, superheroes).
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Date: 2017-05-20 11:43 pm (UTC)Anyway, I keep buying books you review positively. This will be another one.
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Date: 2017-05-21 10:24 am (UTC)His lair is, of course, modelled on Hilbert's Hotel.
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Date: 2017-05-21 10:04 pm (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_cardinal_properties
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Date: 2017-05-21 12:13 pm (UTC)Which is great and wonderful and very very inconvenient for Danny, who would be much happier if it was either a costume-change or didn't happen until she gains legal majority. Of such things are plots devised, though.
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Date: 2017-05-21 10:10 am (UTC)And "Doctor Impossible" sounds a lot like "Mister Fantastic" to me. Or maybe "Mister Immortal". Both flexible in their own way.
"Utopia" though implies a better society but possibly with strict rules, and, as the title of another novel portraying such a society, literally means "nowhere". So is Utopia an idealist? Maybe the kind of idealist who needs a lot of other people's money or a significant population reduction as part of their plan?
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Date: 2017-05-21 09:19 pm (UTC)The solution to this problem is, of course: always more pouches.
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