NEW SCIENCE
FICTION AND FANTASY REVIEWS
Reviews Of
Recently Published Science Fiction And Fantasy Books
Reviewer:
Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
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September 12, 2017
Extremely Unusual and
Fascinating Medical Fiction:
The Characters Create
Realistic Fiction
A Review of
Robin Cook Charlatans (Putnam, 2017)
$27.00 437 pp
ISBN: 9780735212480
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
Although I have been a Robin Cook fan
since he began writing novels, I have never before written a review of them here
because they are not science fiction or fantasy. And, strictly speaking, his latest one is
also NOT in either of those genres, BUT I have decided to review it anyway
because two of the main characters have concocted very elaborate and realistic
fantasies about their own lives, and because these concoctions involve the usage
of the so-called “social media”, about which there is currently a lot of
discussion and debate concerning their harmfulness. So this story is very relevant. And it is also one of the most interesting
and unusual novels I have ever read!
Here is a challenge to you, the reader:
after you have read Cook’s story, try to decide whether or not there is
any justification for regarding these two aforementioned characters as “charlatans”.
