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Loading... Sputnik's Children: A Novelby Terri Favro
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A literary, genre-bending novel full of heart Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era-inspired superhero series, Sputnik Chick: Girl with No Past, for more than 25 years. But with the comic book losing fans and Debbie struggling to come up with new plotlines for her badass, mutant-killing heroine, she decides to finally tell Sputnik Chick's origin story. Debbie's never had to make anything up before and she isn't starting now. Sputnik Chick is based on Debbie's own life in an alternate timeline called Atomic Mean Time. As a teenager growing up in Shipman's Corners -- a Rust Belt town voted by Popular Science magazine as "most likely to be nuked" -- she was recruited by a self-proclaimed time traveller to collapse Atomic Mean Time before an all-out nuclear war grotesquely altered humanity. In trying to save the world, Debbie risked obliterating everyone she'd ever loved -- as well as her own past -- in the process. Or so she believes . . . Present-day Debbie is addicted to lorazepam and dirty, wet martinis, making her an unreliable narrator, at best. A time-bending novel that delves into the origin story of the Girl with No Past, Sputnik's Children explores what it was like to come of age in the Atomic Age. No library descriptions found. |
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Debbie has coasted along writing the series, detailing the adventures of a hardass heroine who thinks nothing of facing down mutants to save the planet. However, readership is down and her remaining fans demand a prequel. Reluctantly, Debbie is faced with writing her own story. She is, indeed, Sputnik Chick herself. Sputnik Chick’s adventures have been her own.
The book’s premise is creative, and Debbie is an interesting character. However, there are technical problems. Divided into three sections, the first and third sections detail Debbie’s current life. Section two recounts Debbie’s past in Shipman’s Corners, a 1950-ish Rust Belt town of no distinction. This is Debbie’s past - in the alternate reality world of Atomic Mean Time. It’s a world that shadows and magnifies problems of the Eastern Standard Time world. The shifts in time and place can be abrupt and painful.
What starts out as a fast paced witty book, slows down in section two. And the reader is left wondering if the author ran out of quips or just decided to present a different side of her protagonist.
The premise is creative, but the execution too rough. (