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Newton's Interrogation
Author: Prataaraka
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(Added on Jun 9, 2010)
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Two young scientists from the future - including one so-called 'space elf' - are sent back to the time of Sir Isaac Newton when an experiment goes wrong. The girls must negotiate imprisonment, torture and slavery in their quest for freedom. |
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| Reviewer:
Michael247
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Jun 16, 2010 |
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I sort of enjoyed this. I'm a big sci-fi fantasy reader and have always enjoyed tales in that genre. Adding in a bit of BDSM just improves it. After reading Jimmy's review, I sort of feel a little ignorant. I am not much of a Gamer, so I have no experience with the PC Game "Mass Effect", but I felt that the various names and descriptions provided were well thought out and added depth. As an erotica reader and writer, I was disappointed. As a sci-fi lover, I enjoyed the tale.
*** Grammatically, the story was well written. Descriptions were relevant, though sometimes a little sparse, but the action and dialog moved the steady plot along nicely. Granted, there wasn't really much in the way of a plot arc leading to a climax, it was more of a steady "journalistic" type story. I've been told that it's the journey, not the destination that matters. But one tends to question that particular proverb when you're heading to the bathroom. In this case, their wasn't really a climax, either in the story, the characters, or the reader. To be honest, this was a sci-fi story with just a touch of sexual sadism in it as a seasoning, rather than a main ingredient.
*** I thought that technological babble and the historical descriptions were well done, well researched, and quite interesting. The author obviously knows something about quantum mechanics, not to mention some of the prevailing theories of FTL and Warp travel, and from a scientific perspective, actually used today's real theories to add depth to the story in a realistic way. As a founding member of the Prevention of Cruelty to Reality Association, which tries to prevent authors, movie writers, and illustrators from screwing up reality, I found this rather refreshing. Hey...look...science CAN be used to make a fictional story! And used properly! um...what the hell is a dimensional python anyway? What the hell was this machine they were working SUPPOSED to do? I hardly think it was designed to create a time bubble/alternate universe as a standard product...
*** Sir Issac Newton. Um... this just didn't sit right with me. Newton TORTURED them? Ok...I guess. It just seemed... wrong for some reason. I admit I ENJOYED it... wished he would have done more... but... Issac Newton? Oh well. Oh... and he should have been eating an apple when he came into the room.
*** In short, I kind of liked it. It was interesting. I gave it a seven rating because though it technically should deserve an eight for what I thought was pretty good story telling, the fact that it's a sci-fi story posted on an erotica board just keeps me from recommending it for other erotica readers. Let's be honest, the author could have pulled the erotica out completely and the story would have made just as much sense. Yours Faithfully, Michael Alexander (www.michaelalexanderstories.com) (7/10)
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JimmyJump
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Nice try at a Science-Fiction based BDSM story. But I felt the whole thing lacking in imagination. Calling a space station 'Odyssey' after Clarke had his books and Kubrick his movie is okay I guess, keeping Homerus in mind. Only, an odyssey is a trek, while a space station is stationary...
Adding 'Cerberus' as some kind of background organization proves you know about the PC (or console) games 'Mass effect' and 'Mass effect II', but also shows my point. Besides, in the aformentioned games, the name 'Cerberus' is used because of its sinister connotation; Cerberus being the three-headed dog guarding the gates of Hades (the underworld in Greek and Roman mythology).
The story itself is a tad stilted and sometimes reads like a cheap episode of the first 'Star Trek' series. You know, the ones with an overacting Shatner and the cardboard set pieces.
"Newton's Interrogation" has its moments, but not to the extent of making me go "fascinating!!", but rather "totally illogical, captain"...
Besides, after the defeat of the Turks in 1699 (end of the Great Turkish War), large parts of the Ottoman Empire went over into European hands, effectively ending the possibility of expansion...
Anyway, overall "Newton's Interrogation" is a rather poor attempt at integrating/connecting all sorts of real-life happenings into a coherent storyline. It only half fails though, as, like I said, the story has its moments, though I don't know why anybody would want to portray Sir Isaac Newton in an SF/BDSM story.
Okay, so maybe, just maybe, he could have been a Masochist, at the most, and maybe that's why he constantly dropped apples on his head, but I myself wouldn't venture any further than this rather thin premise...
JJ (7/10)
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