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Godplayers by Damian Broderick
01/05/2005 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
pub: Thunder's Mouth Press. 328 page enlarged paperback. Price: $14.95 (US). ISBN: 1-56025-670-2. Buy from Amazon US - Buy from Amazon UK
nb: US titles may only be available from Amazon US, and UK titles from Amazon UK. check out website: www.avalonpub.com
This book starts with a lot of promise. Australian graduate doctor August Seebeck, living with his Aunt Tansy after his parents' seemingly death, returns home to find that she has corpses regularly appearing and disappearing from the bathroom over night. His investigation leads into a series of alternative Earths and discovering he's a member of a distended family possessing the ability to create and step through portals and do other kinds of stuff with advanced technology. He also finds himself welcome and provided with rather powerful weaponry.
What is going on gets into long wordy discussions in the middle of the book before the discovery that every is looking for August's parents which ends up being a crucial element at the end of the story and the prevention of a doomsday weapon going off to destroy the multiverse.
Author Broderick in his afterward spends a lot of time explaining where he got all his source material from and considering the name-dropping within the book and all the explanation spends rather too much doing that and not enough story coming out a little more padded than it should. This isn't to say that this isn't a readable story just that it also has the same kind of problem some authors have with god-like characters in that everything has to be brought down to human level to understand what they are doing. Inevitably, this tends to make the human plus than with greater cosmic awareness and a greater understanding of their situation in the cosmos. Broderick does have the potential to develop as a writer and should be one to watch.
GF Willmetts
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