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John Shirley
232 pages
Urania
€ 4.10

Just a blink of an eye separates the Nevada desert from the desert of Mars. The portal: Olduvai, striking transit inter-dimensional, the legacy of a mysterious alien technology. But when a scientist makes too bold experiment wrong, it's hell to go wild in the remote station Marian. It's up to Sarge, Grimm, Kid and the members of a deadly team of elite space marines descend into the abyss, facing first-hand the battle of the apocalypse.

John Shirley, wearing a camouflage vest, checked the plasma rifles, and filling up of as much ammunition as possible, has left for Mars in an attempt to kill himself after John Carmack (the guru game industry ) and Bartkowiak (a journeyman with dot adrenaline of the camera), the weird hellish monsters that inhabit the ruins of the red planet. The
here this Doom is the literary adaptation of the movie came out some time ago, which in turn stretch (quite freely) from that game that many years ago, marked an entire generation of worshipers pixel cubes.
John Shirley has just leafing through the script, copied as such dialogues, and expanded the plot with a little bit 'of sound psychological insight and an interesting new feature at the bottom. Obviously, then, that all those who have already seen the exploits of the duo- The Rock Karl Urban in action cinema, will find just a boring novel in that robbery of his free time. For those who, like myself, has clashed with the universe starting from the Book of Doom and reserved then the movie after reading (The videogame saga does not count, given the total alienation in terms of plot), or has not yet penetrated into the obscure passages Martian, let's dissect the work of Shirley.
The American writer is certainly endowed with a lively rhythm, his words are good examples of tight and fast-paced entertainment, and seeing as told by the plot (the soldiers good against evil monsters), his style is well suited to the situation.
Unfortunately, as in the novel as in the movie, doubts remain bound to a characterization of the protagonists too derivative (the good and brave soldier, the braggart, the hateful, the silent and strong, so the inexperienced and clumsy, and so on) . Shirley tries to circumvent the banality that distinguishes them with some digression about their past, but this just adds to their psychological inadequacy. The protagonists are still sufficiently charismatic, and spend some time with them, despite the lack of inventiveness, will altogether pleasant.
Another sticking point concerns the unfolding of the plot, which seems at times to forget the streets, vast portions of history. It follows an occasional loss, which absolutely does not affect the understanding of the plot, but irritated by a lack of continuity and narrative flow.
What remains, ultimately, is a fairly small book fantasy-horror, but even that is not boring amazing - and really do not understand the praise Shirley woven in an afterword, as if to consider the best writer of all time, or something like that. However, at least, is able to entertain. And sometimes it does not do much more.