And that’s every bit as thrilling as I reckon Carroll wanted it to be.īut there’s so much more at play here. And it absolutely has all that huge, impressive, stuff – the don’t think about it too hard, we’re not explaining it, just go with it stuff going on, absolutely. Sure, it’s got beautifully done action and great space scenes – all thanks to two artists on the absolute form of their lives. After all, the way he tells it there it’s all stupid reasons and big fights – and Proteus Vex is so, so, so much more than that. Of course, that rather downplays things on Carroll’s part. We don’t always need to know exactly-how-the plasma guns work, just what they’ll do to the bad guy’s face.” Much as I love Hard SF stories, sometimes it’s refreshing to set aside the hyperspace time-dilation calculations and fuel-to-mass ratios and intricately-designed complex biospheres, and just have a bunch of spaceships made out of “undefeatium” blasting the crap out of each other. “ Proteus Vex is… ‘Science fiction, but where the science part is subservient to the fiction part.
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