Book Review: Stories from New Tibet Shadows in Snow Volume 2 Reread

 

Book: Shadows in Snow Volume 2 Reread

Author: Tim Susman, Et Al
Pages:179
Hard Core Scale: 2.6/4
Normal Scale: 8.8/10
Publish Date: 2004
About:  A further collection of stories set on New Tibet and the people who suffer there.

Sprinting, Mick Collins 2/4  8/10

A cheetah is addicted to drugs to help him re-experience the joys of running on New Tibet.

Had strong concepts, but the plot got odd and contrived with Deus ex. Plus seemed rushed (kek).  

Life is Beautiful, Tim Susman 4/4 10/10
Carlo and his son survive New Tibet by every miracle they can find. Kindness can make all the difference in the world.

This story is PERFECT in EVERYWAY. UMBASA! AND THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT!

Chains of Circumstance, Alopex 2/4 7/10
Jeskal of the lemmings of the Titianbore mining corporation have found a new shaft. The price is a wounded leg that leads him to an off-world lemming nurse with impossible dreams. Plus, told the entire ending.

This just an insane massively long Dialogue chain. The story is sweat and good in nature, but the more you think on it the less its resolution seems to make sense.

Isolation Policy, Jeffy Eddy 2/4 6/10
The story of a early surveyor on New Tibet making contact with the native Alien otter Population, only to get way more than he bargained for.

I rarely say this, but I really, really do not like this story.  However, after rereading it I have to give some mercy because it was approved and makes somethings apparent now in the previous volume, though still questionable to eyebrow raises. If it was standalone it would get its torch. It is not. I must admit, it is well written. However, it is painful in the larger scope of things. It breaks the gaps of things that do not need to be, when a story and world can thrive without any of it. Now our mysterious otter with problems has some sense, but is still a mysterious otter with problems. Our weird Grays in volume one are even more in Limbo. Eddy must really like hax level races writing about them twice. However, this is canon, the editors let this through. There is evidence of it elsewhere.  The plots and themes of New Tibet can exist without any of this and can be debated far more enjoyable without. Just tarnished suspense of disbelief and care in that greater scope.

Spook, Tim Susman ¾ 9/10 (Oh no I went there)

A wolf cleaner for the Vishion gang finds a surviving wolf cub after a hit and must come to terms with who he is while trying to find the cub a home.

Beautiful heart wrenching story. It is just losing that point due to a messy frame that Tim eventually gets over. Frames are hard, and when there is nonexistent audience, then things get messy. Still, amazingly done and done well in concern of the story.

 


 
Cover the great Odis Holcomb, Sofa Wolf Press
Fernis Press 

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