Monday, 16. March 2009, 13:31:55
Adult, Sci-Fi
It might be the size of a breeze block, but that didn't stop me finishing this off in a little over a week. I won't ramble on for too long here, as there is a third book to go yet. Over the years I've gotten to be fairly patient about waiting for the ends of sagas to be published, but good grief I want to know how this is going to end!
Read it. Having skimmed the reviews on play.com I supect that there are others out there doing a much better job of this than me.
Good thing this is for my own entertainment!
Wednesday, 12. November 2008, 14:39:35
Adult, Sci-Fi
Most. Excellent. Stuff.
I will expand further when I get to the end of the trilogy (book two has just been published, so you are safe for a while).
Read It.
Wednesday, 24. September 2008, 19:27:39
Adult, Sci-Fi
Here is the other doorstop I've been busy with for the last month.
And yes - this is the laziest post ever
Monday, 4. August 2008, 18:25:08
Adult, Sci-Fi
I've had this little hardback sitting about in my bookcase forever and a day, but strangely I can't remember having read it before. Admittedly this one is a bit of a late developer, and it needs the enforced tedium of a train journey for me to really settle into it. Once I did though, it turned out to be another Wyndham classic that's eerily ahead of its time. Written with a combination of thorough subject knowledge and a good old fashioned flair for story telling the whole thing has a horrible plausibility to it.
Hopefully I'm not going to give too much away here, but if you don't like creepy-crawlies don't read this book. I guarantee it will mess with your head.
Read it, or possibly don't read it.
Sunday, 20. July 2008, 18:05:27
Adult, Sci-Fi
Good grief, it's been such a long time that I've almost forgotten how this works. I'll have a stab at it though....
Despite the interesting title this is a pretty standard bit of science fiction. Alien probe reaches human occupied space, humans back track probe and meet aliens - you get the picture. Written in the seventies it manages not to suffer too badly from the passage of time, although the attitudes (post Vietnam) date it just as much as the technologies do. Readable and entertaining, with likeable characters, the odd funny bit and not too challenging for a poor over-tired commuter!
Remarkably it still seems to be
in print!
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