Let the Children Come....
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| Title: | Let the Children Come.... |
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| Author(s): | Rory Cottrell |
| Cover Artist(s): | Susan L. Cooper |
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| Date(s): | 1990 |
| Medium: | print zine |
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| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | War of the Worlds |
| Language: | English |
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Let the Children Come.... is a gen first-season War of the Worlds 47-page novel by Rory Cottrell. It was edited by Patricia Ames. The cover is by Susan L. Cooper.
Summary from the publisher in Comlink #46: "An unusually high number of rabid wolves have been sighted in the U.S. Northwest. The Blackwood team is investigating."
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Reactions and Reviews
WOW fandom is lucky. Besides having an interesting universe peopled with engaging characters, we've also been able to see the maiden flights of a couple of very promising fledgling writers. Rory Cottrell has done an impressive job with "Children." Her dialog is sharp and believable — not only do the main characters sound like themselves, even minor players have distinct personalities. There are a couple of pretty sophisticated psychological subplots, too -- not something one would expect from an author barely out of high school. Quite a bit happens in "Children's" 47 pages.On the down side, point-of-view wandered in a few places, the coincidence of Debi and her uncle going camping just down the road from the aliens was awfully predictable, and I wondered why, since the aliens first used a cold environment to hatch their young, they would choose a host animal with a body temperature considerably higher than a human's.
But these problems are minor. The story flows well, and one short scene near the end, where Suzanne has been wounded and is struggling with pain, shock, and confusion, convinced me that the author had either done some serious research or had first-hand experience with an injury. Brava! This final draft was reduced from a manuscript nearly three times as long, without losing the story's direction or personality. Author and editor must have worked pretty hard at this distillation, but the results were certainly worth it.[1]