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BOOK REVIEW
I Don’t Like Science Fiction Very Much
Accidental Intelligence by Bryan Chaffin
I am not a fan of the SCI-FI genre in general, be it books or film. Heinlein, Asimov, Star Trek, Star Wars, Apple TV’s ridiculous See and boring Foundation all leave me cold. Cowboys and aliens, inconsistencies, contradictions, total predictability. Yuck.
I only bought Accidental Intelligence because I enjoy the Context Machine podcast where Bryan Chaffin and Jeff Gamet discuss.. well, stuff. The podcast is free, so buying the book was, I thought, just a way to say “thank you” for entertaining me.
I bought it from Apple Books, put it in my library, and ignored it for a few days. I intended to skim quickly through a few chapters sometime, but I wouldn’t be writing a review because I seldom do book reviews and I definitely won’t write a bad review or a fake one.
Then I got stuck having to wait for my wife and, having nothing better to do, I read the first chapter. Sigh. I thought, “Yup, typical sci-fi Western, shoot ’em up, bang, bang.”
But I had more time to kill, so I read the next chapter and no, not a sci-fi Western at all. Fun, imaginative, intriguing, it grabbed me and I read half of it before my wife was ready for me. I wished I had more time, so picked it up…
