Ryan Boudinot's The Octopus Rises Is Pedestrian Sci-Fi Blahness

Ryan Boudinot's The Octopus Rises Is Pedestrian Sci-Fi Blahnessby Rich SmithRyan Boudinot has done many things to showcase the prestige and excellence of Seattle literature, but writing The Octopus Rises was not one of those things. The Octopus Rises is a collection of merely competent, semi-humorous Twilight Zone–like short stories. Like that TV show, almost every story is fueled by a Premise. A big "What if..." For instance, "The End of Bert and Ernie" asks readers to imagine "What if...