Reviews for Storm Over Warlock (Large Print Edition)

The average rating for Storm Over Warlock (Large Print Edition) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-02 00:00:00 Linda Poe One of my first thoughts, as I read, was about those old, old text based computer games where, if you wanted the program to repeat a full description every time you entered a room, you could type the command "maximum verbosity"... Someone typed that command with this book! Keeping in mind this book was written in the wee small years of 1900 this book is a delightful glimpse into the beginnings of Science Fiction. I was tickled with the titles the five men were given as they sat around together in their gentlemen's club in the beginning, and continued to be amused by their use throughout the entire book... we have The Chemist, The Big Business Man, The Banker, The Doctor and The Very Young Man... you do find out The Chemist's and The Very Young Man's name through the character's natural usage of it, but the narrative always goes back to their "title". There isn't much science to this book, and what there is can be very spotty, something we can forgive the author for considering how much science he had to go by at the time, and because it really is, when you come down to it, a delightful little romance. I did enjoy Mr. Cumming's descriptions of how the surroundings changed as the characters shrunk small enough to get inside an atom, but had to giggle at some of his world mechanics. I read this in a digital version and found it was rife with uncorrected format translation mistakes... gaps in the wrong places, capitols letters separated from their word... even missing sentence beginnings... nothing, however that kept you from understanding or surmising what was meant. I gave this book a rating of three, because I want it to stay in my library (anything below 3 gets sent to the charities at PCS time)... however... I doubt I will read it again. I will, however recommend it to certain friends. I thoroughly enjoyed this story, faults and all

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-25 00:00:00 Jonathan Tumin This is a rather odd book, but not without charm. It is 1920s SF'but even by 1920s standards, the science is barking mad. The protagonist theorises that every atom contains a literal universe of its own, and naturally he turns out to be right. He invents a method of seeing inside atoms'apparently it just takes a fancy new lens on your microscope'and inside one of the atoms of his gold ring, he is startled to see a human-like girl. Naturally, he falls in love, and just as naturally he invents a method to shrink himself so he can join her. Delightfully, this method is a drug: one pill makes you larger, one pill makes you small (ho, ho). Fortunately for 1920s readers, the drug is so powerful that it even affects one's clothes! And, gosh, it really is splendid luck that, each time the protagonist shrinks himself (he makes several trips), he manages to find the exact same atom... But don't misunderstand me. I enjoyed the book, I really did. Though I did laugh at some inappropriate places.