![]() ![]() ![]() He was simply Ryan's plumber, who earned the man's respect by not trying to inflate his bill, and taking offense at the suggestion that he might. One of my favourite details is how McDonagh got the job of building the impossible city in the first place. McDonagh now has a family desperate to escape for instance, while we get to know Ryan back in his days as a visionary, rather than the paranoid, power-hungry king of a doomed Atlantis. ![]() The first is that while it sets out to chart the history of Rapture, from Andrew Ryan first deciding to build the place to the death of his effective conscience, engineer Bill McDonagh, but offers very little that we don't already know about its rise and fall, aside from a little padding. The sad thing is that this is one of the better tie-in novels I've read, with just two major problems. It's the place that was so awesome, before we were blown away by Columbia a few weeks ago. Timing-wise, the long-in-development Bioshock prequel novel couldn't have landed at a worse one. ![]()
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