{"id":4701,"date":"2021-09-03T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2021-09-03T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:13:12","slug":"we-have-always-been-here-by-lena-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/we-have-always-been-here-by-lena-nguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>We Have Always Been Here<\/b> by Lena Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/55859539-we-have-always-been-here\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1611769417l\/55859539._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"We Have Always Been Here\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/55859539-we-have-always-been-here\">We Have Always Been Here<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/20871440.Lena_Nguyen\">Lena Nguyen<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/4216642482\">1 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was trying to find a good sci-fi book, but ended up instead with this poorly-written overlong fantasy story. The best that can be said about it is that could possibly be a script for the worst ever episode of Star Trek. The author clearly has no knowledge of science and made no attempt to provide even remotely plausible physical events. The story could have been told using zombies or fairies instead of androids. It takes place in a spaceship on a mysterious uncharted planet, but that&#8217;s about as close to science fiction as it gets. The rest is junior high school level squabbles among the crew and a sort of half-assed mind melding. To top it off, the font was too small, with too little white space (i.e. little dialogue and narrow margins) and at 351 pages was obviously a 500-page book crammed down to fit commercially viable size. At least 400 of those pages could easily have been done away with. After the first 100 pages or so I skimmed very liberally, but I did finish it. Why, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen My rating: 1 of 5 stars I was trying to find a good sci-fi book, but ended up instead with this poorly-written overlong fantasy story. 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