Susy Gage
Auteur de A Slow Cold Death
2 oeuvres 21 utilisateurs 11 critiques
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gnomereviews | 1 autre critique | Dec 17, 2014 | Finding a dead mouse in the lab is not usually such a big deal. But when the lab is a Biosafety Level-3 containment facility designed to keep things in and out, and when the mouse has a brain tumour that fluoresces under blue light, it's time to start worrying. When graduate students start glowing, then it's time to panic. Especially when they could be spreading a mutant virus in ways you can only guess. An academic satire that tackles timely issues, from biosafety breaches to fraudulent science that preys on the most desperate.
This is a really interesting book with an unusual theme. There are plenty of strange characters and peculiar occurrences, and it was hard to predict what was going to happen next.
At times, I found the scientific words and jargon rather challenging, and the plot a little disjointed - there was a lot going on all at the same time, making it hard for me to concentrate and really enjoy the funny aspects of the story.
I'm sure this book will be a hit with the scientific fraternity, who will no doubt give it much more credit than I can.… (plus d'informations)
This is a really interesting book with an unusual theme. There are plenty of strange characters and peculiar occurrences, and it was hard to predict what was going to happen next.
At times, I found the scientific words and jargon rather challenging, and the plot a little disjointed - there was a lot going on all at the same time, making it hard for me to concentrate and really enjoy the funny aspects of the story.
I'm sure this book will be a hit with the scientific fraternity, who will no doubt give it much more credit than I can.… (plus d'informations)
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claireh18 | 1 autre critique | Oct 30, 2014 | I love a good mystery set in Academia. The setting is so cozy that it always seems just ripe for a little murder or two and author Susy Gage's description of the academic life in A Slow Cold Death doesn't disappoint. It is chock-a-block with department jealousies and snark, jockeying for tenured positions, department politics, and all-out wars for lucrative grants.
However, much of the rest of the book was a bit disappointing. Lori Barrow has just returned to the Physics Department at her Alma Mater in Pasadena after a stint in Montreal which, judging from its description in this book, is somewhere in the Arctic Circle. The department is dying for lack of grant money and it is hoped that Lori can bring it back to life. When one of her grad students is found frozen to death in a 'cold room', Lori is convinced that politics are behind the death and soon she is embroiled, not only in the battle for money, but in the race to discover the murderer before the entire department is dead, not only financially but literally.
This all sounds much more exciting than it was and therein lies the problem. The book should have been much more engrossing. The pace is so slow at the beginning that it could be called frigid (ha, a pun on the title if you will) with long and wacky (and not in a good way) descriptions of people riding 'go-tards which I believe are golf carts but don't quote me on that and a lot of other collegial ephemera which would probably only appeal to people who actually work in Physics Departments in universities in Pasadena.
However, once you get past the first half of the book, the pace picks up and the story becomes much more interesting. Still, even at its most thrilling, it seemed more a novel about life in academia than a high octane or even a solar-powered thriller. Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate the book, I actually enjoyed the foray into the world of higher education and author Susy Gage really knows how to bring this world to life. I just didn't find the mystery all that compelling. My recommendation: if you are interested in the world of academia and like a good math joke, you will probably enjoy this book but if you are looking for a thriller with lots of heart-pounding twists and turns, you might want to give this one a pass.… (plus d'informations)
However, much of the rest of the book was a bit disappointing. Lori Barrow has just returned to the Physics Department at her Alma Mater in Pasadena after a stint in Montreal which, judging from its description in this book, is somewhere in the Arctic Circle. The department is dying for lack of grant money and it is hoped that Lori can bring it back to life. When one of her grad students is found frozen to death in a 'cold room', Lori is convinced that politics are behind the death and soon she is embroiled, not only in the battle for money, but in the race to discover the murderer before the entire department is dead, not only financially but literally.
This all sounds much more exciting than it was and therein lies the problem. The book should have been much more engrossing. The pace is so slow at the beginning that it could be called frigid (ha, a pun on the title if you will) with long and wacky (and not in a good way) descriptions of people riding 'go-tards which I believe are golf carts but don't quote me on that and a lot of other collegial ephemera which would probably only appeal to people who actually work in Physics Departments in universities in Pasadena.
However, once you get past the first half of the book, the pace picks up and the story becomes much more interesting. Still, even at its most thrilling, it seemed more a novel about life in academia than a high octane or even a solar-powered thriller. Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate the book, I actually enjoyed the foray into the world of higher education and author Susy Gage really knows how to bring this world to life. I just didn't find the mystery all that compelling. My recommendation: if you are interested in the world of academia and like a good math joke, you will probably enjoy this book but if you are looking for a thriller with lots of heart-pounding twists and turns, you might want to give this one a pass.… (plus d'informations)
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lostinalibrary | 8 autres critiques | Jul 26, 2013 | Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.
A mystery set in an academic research facility and based around the general bitchiness of academia. I enjoyed this book although I thought the plot got unnecessarily bogged down toward the end.
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gimboid13 | 8 autres critiques | Jun 8, 2013 | Statistiques
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The gnomes received a free copy of this book from Netgalley.
Not Easy Being Green is part thriller, part hard science fiction, and part satire, and it’s wholly entertaining. It follows the mis-adventures of Lori Barrow and Lou Maupertuis, genius physicists with a five hundred million dollar grant from NASA. The grant money is supposed to fund an ambitious project: making individual neurons fly a spacecraft.
They have to share their BSL-3 lab with Oriol Ortiz, a young superstar in the field of biology. When a mouse appears in the lab, bites someone, and then promptly dies, they become slightly concerned that their colleague is up to no good. Animal testing isn’t permitted in the lab, and Ortiz is the only other person who had access.
When they discover that the mouse has a glowing green brain tumour, they become very concerned and start to investigate. They need to be very stealthy, since if NASA finds out about the mouse and Oriol’s secret experiments, they could lose their grant. When people start dying, the investigation becomes even more urgent.
Gage’s writing style is casual and sarcastic, something that is rarely found in hard science fiction. So many books in this genre read like dry scientific papers, but Not Easy Being Green is not one of them. The science is explained so clearly that even the gnomes could follow along and enjoy the story.
This book is the second in the Lori Barrow series, a follow-up to 2012’s A Slow Cold Death. The gnomes hope that a third book is on the way.
Rating: 4 Gnomes out of 5… (plus d'informations)