Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
My review of LeVar Burton's Aftermath. This novel, from 1997, follows the lives of four characters in America after a race war has caused the country to all but collapse. The only hope is Dr Reynolds' super-machine the Neural Enhancer which cures every ailment of the human body and grants special powers. There are, however, those who are threatened by this breakthrough and will stop at nothing to prevent its manufacture.
LeVar Burton was, of course, Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Aftermath was his debut novel and it would be 17 years before he wrote another.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:08 The Characters
2:26 The Plot
4:30 Concept is not Plot
4:59 Oh that ending
6:15 Throw it and pray
7:27 How not to do backstory
8:14 Hollywood Morality
9:02 Italics
10:25 Smile for Similes
12:36 Triplets
13:39 Narrative Tone is a thing other people do
14:33 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
16:11 Tick-tock aint tiktok
16:52 Repeated Repetitive Repetition
18:09 The Force of the conclusion will be with you, always
My review of LeVar Burton's Aftermath. This novel, from 1997, follows the lives of four characters in America after a race war has caused the country to all but collapse. The only hope is Dr Reynolds' super-machine the Neural Enhancer which cures every ailment of the human body and grants special powers. There are, however, those who are threatened by this breakthrough and will stop at nothing to prevent its manufacture.
LeVar Burton was, of course, Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Aftermath was his debut novel and it would be 17 years before he wrote another.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:08 The Characters
2:26 The Plot
4:30 Concept is not Plot
4:59 Oh that ending
6:15 Throw it and pray
7:27 How not to do backstory
8:14 Hollywood Morality
9:02 Italics
10:25 Smile for Similes
12:36 Triplets
13:39 Narrative Tone is a thing other people do
14:33 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
16:11 Tick-tock aint tiktok
16:52 Repeated Repetitive Repetition
18:09 The Force of the conclusion will be with you, always
