Windigo Soul eBook Robert Brumm
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A Death Sentence on Your 60th Birthday is Just the Beginning...
It's Hank Reed's birthday. As a citizen of the United Federation of Nations that means a mandatory death sentence simply because he turned sixty years old. Referred to as "retirement," it's one of the desperate steps the government has taken to curb overpopulation. Retirement is a widely accepted fact of life on a dying planet ruled by a tyrannical government. Hank's execution goes ahead as planned but state sponsored euthanasia isn't what it seems. The Reed family learns what really happens to retirees when secrets the UFN keep from the public start to unravel.
This book is intended to be read by adults and may be unsuitable for children under 17. Contains indecent language and descriptions of graphic violence.
Windigo Soul eBook Robert Brumm
Robert Brumm's science fiction novella plows a lot of familiar ground-- a dystopian future with a tyrannical government; an overpopulated world with vanishing resources; mandatory "retirement" (euthanasia) at age 60. We've seen this movie before (the story echoes major elements from "Logan's Run" and "Soylent Green, " with a bit of "The Matrix" thrown in), but Brumm writes well, and the pages keep turning. In fact, the story's fast pace is the only thing that keeps you from noticing that some of the plot elements make no sense at all. Despite the implausibilities and the lack of originality, I read this in a single afternoon. Not great SF, but certainly a fast, fun read.Product details
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Windigo Soul eBook Robert Brumm Reviews
This is definitely a book that keeps you on your toes from beginning to end! I read it in two sittings, and was actually disappointed when the novel ended. I want more!
There is definitely room for a trilogy here, and I hope that the author will follow-up with at least a sequel. In fact, (if Hollywood made a movie out of this story - but religiously follow the plot), it would be great to see it on the big screen.
Keep on writing, Mr. Robert Brumm. Great job!
I didn't read the first version so I can only say that THIS version is an incredible, page-turning ride that won't have you forgetting the storyline anytime soon!
The scary part is that I CAN envision a world where it's the end of the line for people after a certain age in this case, 60 is that number and it's government-enforced that you are 'put to sleep'. I mean, we already have a world where some nations enforce the number of children born---and some parents murder one sex to keep the preferred.
When you think you've just got a grip on where the story is going, there goes another zinger---something Robert Brumm has a habit of throwing into his incredible storylines and plots.
While this is not a book that will have you nail-biting for days due to length (it's about 160 pages or so), most will not be able to put it down and finally catch their breath at the end of it in one sitting. It's that good.
This is a review for the 'first edition' of "Windigo Soul." Brumm has since updated his novella to a longer prose, but I would have to purchase the book again to review it as such.
I came into this novella as a fan of Brumm's other work, Desolate, and knowing that people often compared it to the 1966 novel "Make Room! Make Room!" (or Soylent Green, as it was renamed for the film adaptation). I don't think it's nearly as good as either, however. The first quarter of the novella is well written and presents readers to main character Hank Reed and his 60th Birthday predicament. But what happens after his 'retirement' is briskly told to readers as opposed to shown. From that point on, the plot gets very rushed into the second and third act. The latter of which seems more rushed of all. I feel as though Brumm just wanted to be done with the book and wrapped it up as fast as possible, leaving the ending feeling rather rushed, anti-climatic and blandly predictable. It read like a short novelization of a Saturday night popcorn flick, and that's not a good thing.
That being said, the story has promise and given it could have been executed better, I would be happy to re-review it as such, but in the form I was given, "Windigo Soul" just isn't good.
Right from the beginning, this novel sucks you with a very stark and depressing opening, which carries through most of the rest of the novel to create a quick sci-fi thriller tent-poled around a strong central concept the government euthanizes everyone over the age of 60 in a desperate attempt to save an over-crowded world from destruction. The opening chapters of this book follows one of these unfortunate "retirees" right up to the day of his "retirement", creating an atmosphere of such strongly dystopian themes as to be reminiscent of "Brave New World". Indeed, so many of the characters and people in the book just accept the way things are as to create a crushing sense of hopelessness. Reinforcing this is the fact that the author constantly slips in quick off-hand statements about the way this future society works, subtly building the story without resorting to long streches of exposition.
But that tends to be the author's strongest ability setting up concept. Once the story has to move into plot building and action sequences, things get a little more muddled and unoriginal. Don't get me wrong Robert Brumm is on the right track when the story breaks into action sequences, the pacing is good, the fights are realistic, the details are rich, but it just lacks a certain ... pop. A certain pizazz. And often, the author forgets to work on scene building. Additionally, while he does provide more than a few internal monologues for most characters, I found myself not quite able to relate to anyone, just because there was never enough ... emotion, enough specific or strong reactions to events. I see that this author doesn't have a large library of works yet, so I get that he might still be coming into his own.
Finally, the biggest area the author fails at is the details of the concept he establishes for the story. The strongest part of this novel is the first few chapters, before you get behind the curtain and see the truth of things. When you do get to that point, and you find out what the government is hiding, the story crumbles a little. A few quick internet searches would have revealed why the specifics of certain ideas are either misguided or flatout wrong. And as soon as one of the post-reveal scenes start, you'll probably roll your eyes due to the blatant rip-off of a very VERY well known cyberpunk sci-fi movie from the late 1990s. If you know what movie I'm talking about, it's not what you think (probably), but the SECOND titular concept from that movie, which made SOME sense there, doesn't really work here.
Other than that, the book is quick, well-paced, and starts out with a strong opening that creates an element that carries through the whole novel excellently. While the author falters on the details, I would like to see a sequel or another free-standing story take place in this type of future ... it seems like he had a lot of ideas that didn't get to be fleshed out completely.
Robert Brumm's science fiction novella plows a lot of familiar ground-- a dystopian future with a tyrannical government; an overpopulated world with vanishing resources; mandatory "retirement" (euthanasia) at age 60. We've seen this movie before (the story echoes major elements from "Logan's Run" and "Soylent Green, " with a bit of "The Matrix" thrown in), but Brumm writes well, and the pages keep turning. In fact, the story's fast pace is the only thing that keeps you from noticing that some of the plot elements make no sense at all. Despite the implausibilities and the lack of originality, I read this in a single afternoon. Not great SF, but certainly a fast, fun read.
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