Many mistakes, has nothing to do with the games, generally below average

Many mistakes, has nothing to do with the games, generally below average

Mass Effect: Ascension (Paperback)

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After I read the first novel of the Mass Effect series, which was not so bad, I thought the second part would have at least a similar quality.

Anticipation first, some things that bothered me from a scientific point of view.
The author asserts several times that in about 200 years, the blonde hair color is extinct because blonde is a recessive gene. This is a myth and nonsense, which is already alone refuted by the fact that there are blonde ever though they have been around for millennia, paired with non-blonde. Recessive genes do not disappear just like that. He has already mentioned in the first book and he has not learned.
Elsewhere he says that all alien peoples are much more uniform from her appearance (compared to men), which results from the greater genetic variation of mankind. This of course is just nonsense, as the blonde with the hair. It looks more like this than have people less genetic variation than similar species on Earth, suggesting that our ancestors were decimated time not so long ago, what our genetic diversity has been reduced. In this respect, more people should be more uniform than most alien species. He says here that variation is lost by mixing which is of course nonsense.

The disappearance of genetic variation (especially in the utopian future of Mass Effect) by mixing of peoples would simply not happen. First 200 years (or even 2000) far too little time that such a thing could staff Inden and secondly would in a world where there is no selection pressure a lot more new variations / mutations arise instead of disappearing. ie his claims are not only false, they are exactly the opposite of the Wiklichkeit.

The absolutely most embarrassing point is however that when he asserts, by cardiac massage and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation could a heart no longer be made to strike, which is of course correct (he says this would happen only in movies). Unfortunately, then the affected heart is coagulated using a defibrillator to strike again (like in the movies), what any more work and a huge Facepalm moment is precisely because he does so before as if he knew of what he speaks. Hearts are brought by injection of adrenaline or similar to beat again.

Of course it's sci-fi fantasy, so it makes me eg not mind that people collect "dark energy" and thus spells or be produced with a "Zero Elemento" gravity fields. But if he already does so as if he had a clue of genetics or a revival techniques, then the author would at least take the time to read through the corresponding Wikipedia article, which I'm sure he would have created clarity. Or he should also make the eyes to see, that there is Blonde. When these die slowly would have to yes say that there used to be virtually only blonde people and there are fewer and fewer. For some reason this part annoys me particularly. Probably because he repeated several times him.

The plot of the book has not convinced me. The "good" characters were not very sympathetic to me and I was hoping that the win "angry" at the end. The change of heart is one of the main characters came to me rather suddenly and not as convincing or understandable in consideration of its history.

What has continued to bother me was that the protagonist with a military basic training, which decades ago! took place and has never trained, can do members of a mercenary group and later trained elite troops. In both the near and long-range combat. I thought that was very ridiculous and reminded me of the benefits of Princess Leia in the fight against the stormtroopers.

With video games, the novel has nothing to do. Absolutely nothing. Not even in the approach. Just a small note that the Citadel was attacked and a man is taken up in the Council, that's it. I thought that was very disappointing.

The whole thing was pretty forgettable and several times I wanted to put the book down and almost stop. As for it was even an advantage that the pages are printed and barely one is by in no time. Positive is the low price.

I highly recommend this book to anyone. Who SciFi like the other novels are warmly recommended, as there are much better (eg Asimov). Fans of Mass Effect game (like me), I can only advise against this book. Unlike Volume 1 of this book does not describe events that affect the games even begin, which can disappear into nothingness here the interest in the below-average story. The ignorance regarding inheritance and medicine are just the icing on the cake.

Edit:
At one point is a quarians a man a Aufputschspritze, he has this to get him awake. I do not complain that he has such a remedies case, can indeed be useful for emergencies. However, in the ME universe is often noted that the amino acids of quarians (and Turian) a D-chirality have (clockwise) as opposed to the human that are L. It is then also always said that they can not even eat the same Nachrung without getting anaphylactic shock. Yet this may be quarians, tailored to its amino acids and his body means a person squirt! Even if it should not kill him, it's probably very unlikely that the components in humans act the same as in Quarianern.
It sounds again like a little thing but at the things have heaped up and stabbed again particularly out.

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