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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon</h1>
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2020-11-18
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fiction/">#fiction</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2020/">#books:2020</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-3/">#stars:3</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-1987/">#published:1987</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12972591-swan-song">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Swan is a nine-year-old Idaho girl following her struggling mother from one
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trailer park to the next when she receives visions of doom—something far wider
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than the narrow scope of her own beleaguered life. In a blinding flash, nuclear
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bombs annihilate civilization, leaving only a few buried survivors to crawl
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onto a scorched landscape that was once America.</p>
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★★★☆☆
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<p>I'm a sucker for disaster movies, so it could be that a disaster book (would
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also pick my attention. And it did, in a way.</p>
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<p>There is this huge disaster of nuclear bombs falling over US and Russia, and a
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few survivors have to take care of themselves. All set for a good story, but
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things get in the way of it.</p>
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<p>For example, the girl in the title (and summary): It could be interesting to
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explore how someone so young would be a survivor in a place completely
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destroyed, but she shows some special powers that are never explained -- and
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no, it was not the radiation from the bombs, a là Marvel super-heroes.</p>
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<p>There is the bag lady in a quest that may be the only story that really fits
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the context: A survivor of the streets, now trying to survive in the rumble of
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civilization.</p>
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<p>And there is the plot from the people who got shelter in a made-up bunker,
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which should be used only for recreation purposes ("This is how you'd live if
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this was a real bunker and there was a nuclear strike outside") that got caught
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in the middle, which should be a good exploration, but end up being the story
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that could be ripped out of the whole with very little loss. And sadly, that's
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not just this plot that gets unnecessary stuff: Fights that lead to nowhere,
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longs explanation of clothing people are wearing that affect absolutely nothing
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in the whole and on and on.</p>
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<p>On top of that, there is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin">MacGuffin
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device</a> floating around that is never
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explained how it works, how it came to be, it's used once, in a test, providing
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a complete game changer which is never used again after that.</p>
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<p>So you end up with an unexplained phenomena (actually, more than one, as the
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story progressed), something interesting and a bunch of completely unnecessary
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stuff. I read somewhere that there were talks to make the book a movie, which
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would be hard for a 900+ book, but if you consider the amount of stuff that
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doesn't add anything, sure, it fits fine in an around-two-hours movie.</p>
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