Reviews for The Tranquility Wars

The average rating for The Tranquility Wars based on 2 reviews is 1 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-05 00:00:00 Bryan Prendergast Arthur C. Clarke chose this guy to be his co-writer? Obviously he's an accomplished scientist / engineer, but as a writer ... Cons: Infantile writing about relationships ("me Hunter, you Tehani"); Crude characterization (admittedly not Clarke's strong suit either); YA level politics; Cringeworthy (and frequent) sex scenes; The whole thing has a Tintin-in-space vibe ... Except Tintin has grown up enough to go off to college. En route he reacquaints himself with childhood friend Tehani, who is now The Most Desirable Courtesan in Space. No bonus points for guessing if she falls hopelessly in love with him. Much ludicrously written sex ensues (the weightless shower scene might be the most laughably bad fictional intercourse in print). Nothing hangs together for even a minute's thought (the space station / trading post is so puritanical as to have separate men's & women's dorms, yet allows open trading of sex slaves wtf???). The whole thing's written as a masturbatory fantasy for teenage boys who are afraid of independent women. With spaceships. I want a gif about here with Darth Vader saying "The Misogyny is strong in this one." Literally one of the three or four worst books I've ever picked up. 0.000000005 stars.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-03-31 00:00:00 David Piccolo I only read the first four chapters. After each chapter I told myself, well, maybe it will get better. But I decided life is too short to slog through annoying books. My primary complaint is with the heavy handed way the author telegraphs what's going to happen. He was gravitating into a political black hole where the protagonists' political orientations are either proven or disproven by the events in the book. The author of course is free to write the events to support the desired conclusions. In this way, it reminded me of Atlas Shrugged. (Not the political philosophy, but the way the author sets up the events to support the philosophy.)