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The Prospect Of My Arrival (2011)

by Dwight Okita(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1460959892 (ISBN13: 9781460959893)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

CreateSpace

review 1: Interesting futuristic premise - what if an embryo could decide whether or not to be born? (sort of a reverse take on abortion...) Placed in a fabricated adult body, the 'pre-born' is given information to traverse the earth for a few weeks, meeting with pre-arranged people to help him (in this case, the story was about a male named Prospect) get to know the world, how people related, etc. At the end of the trial period, Prospect has to decide whether to be born, or go back into the gene pool. Very interesting story, lots of humor mixed in with theoretical, moral, ethical issues.
review 2: The whole idea of this pre-born project is incredibly enticing to me. I love a good science fiction novel, especially with biology, and I really enjoyed the premise of the sto... morery. However, I had a very difficult time with the author's writing style throughout the entire book. Too many things were written in plain English, there was very little foreshadowing, the themes were not consistent, cause and effect relationships were ignored, and each character seemed to exist in his or her own glass bubble with respect to the feelings of other characters. It almost felt more like a play, as if the dialogue was there, and there were instructions to the "actors" as to what they were supposed to feel, or portray, or do, but the words that were used to string out the story were not doing what they needed to in order to bring the characters to life. Aside from that, the author clearly did not do much research into the world of scientific publication, which might be fine for the lay reader, but as a biology teacher and a lover of sci-fi, I was rather disappointed because of the lack of reality this offered. Part of the enchantment of science fiction is the SCIENCE portion of it... the part that makes it seem as if it could almost come true. less

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