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The Dark Side Of The Sun
The Dark Side Of The Sun | Terry Pratchett
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DOM SALABOS HAD A LOT OF ADVANTAGES As heir to a huge fortune, he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home world even death was not always fatal. Why, then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?
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Robotswithpersonality
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Mind expanding space quest for answers to some very big questions. Came up against my Classic Sci-Fi hurdle: relaxing enough to absorb salient details and follow the plot, without getting overwhelmed by the initial swell of info dump/world building. I think the fact that it's a short book helped a lot. Wildly imaginative, with my fave bonus: bad ass robot. Here's hoping that ending leads to more equitable circumstances for all robots involved.

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Robotswithpersonality
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Humans are so attached to their identities, I don't know if the idea would gain much traction, but if science could allow for adaptation to and harmony with previously alien environments, rather than terraforming and colonization, I'd feel a lot better about the future of space exploration.

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Robotswithpersonality
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Fabulous spaceship name. 🥂♾️🚀

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Robotswithpersonality
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Naturally! 😄

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Robotswithpersonality
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Context suggests 'shape-hatred' = speciesism/xenophobia/racism, but can't help thinking it would be a uniquely apt synonym for fatphobia/problematic beauty standard/ableism.
Would that we didn't need words to describe different forms of hate/intolerance...😞

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Andrew65
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#IcanSeeTheSunInLateDcember #WinterWonderland

But don‘t blink or you‘ll miss it, such short daylight hours in December!

TrishB Great pick 👍🏻 6y
Cinfhen Look @TrishB @MayJasper a Pratchett 6y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Very interesting early Pratchett novel, full of colorful characters and some deeper philosophy..... plus I can still see some early Discworld and Strata ideas floating around, from made worlds complete with fossils, to mentions of small gods and Hogswatch.

#PratchettPosse
#OokBOokClub
@TricksyTails

And for me #192019 year #1976

Gezemice I have enjoyed this one. It was kind of.... green. But clearly imaginative. 7y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice I agree! And reading it near Strata and Discworld I thought it was fun to see the connections. This one talked about planted fossils, just to make people question...definitely Strata-like. And it mentioned the small gods and Hogswatch night, things I usually associate with the Disc. So it was really a great time to read it. I‘m also really glad to be back on track with the group on this one. 7y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
The Dark Side Of The Sun | Terry Pratchett
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Next up on my list of #PratchettPosse reads, after this one I‘ll be all caught up 😉, except for the current one of course. 😂

I do love the very retro sci-fi cover art though, you can definitely date science fiction by what they thought was the standard cover art design, and the all out techno color of the late 70‘s-early 80‘s is just a visual gift that keeps on giving.

#OokBOokClub

AlaMich There is definitely a lot going on in that cover!! 7y
JazzFeathers You can say the same for fantasy too. There was a definite evolution of fantasy covers over the decades 😆 7y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @JazzFeathers Oh definitely, my original set of LOTR from the 80‘s has some cringeworthy covers. 7y
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JazzFeathers @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yes, l've seen it 😆 7y
Gezemice Indeed, rather terrible covers in the early eighties. This isn‘t too bad. 7y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice No it isn‘t, being a child of the 80‘s I usually enjoy these more than some of the more somber covers of earlier decades. 7y
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everlocalwest
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Mehso-so

I found my groove with this one more easily than Carpet People and finished it in one evening. It's pretty bonkers but I thought the story that was there was a bit more fun. A boy, his robot, and his swamp creature search for the secrets of the universe. Sidenote, is the 'higher beings secretly granting knowledge to the universe' thing an accepted scifi trope? I don't read a ton of it but this is present in 2001 and Contact as well. #OokBOokClub

Gezemice I did not notice this but Pratchett often satirizes tropes, so maybe it was put there as a response to being overused. 7y
everlocalwest @Gezemice I'm super curious about it now! This comes up in Interstellar as well. I love digging deeper into genre. 7y
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CatLass007
The Dark Side Of The Sun | Terry Pratchett
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This parody of Dune was mildly amusing but I struggled to the halfway point and bailed. I may revisit it at a later date.

TricksyTails Same! 🙌😊 7y
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CatLass007
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laurieluna I've just put this one aside for now. Might pick it up again next week. It was a bit too odd for me, possibly because I was reading too many books at once and couldn't focus. Hope you enjoy! 7y
CatLass007 @miralunasbooknook I‘m not sure what I think of it yet. I have several going right now as well but I‘m trying to just read this one and a graphic novel. I will let you know when I get further along what I really think of it. 7y
laurieluna @CatLass007 would be interested to know! I love Terry but have struggled with these early novels. 7y
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Gezemice
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This is clearly early Pratchett: the ideas run rampant, too much is happening, and while mildly humorous, it lacks the wit and wisdom of later works. Yet I found it refreshingly creative and fun. It is really a YA novel - a teenage boy is seeking the secrets of the galaxy while pursued by murderous killer robots. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My library had the original 1976 edition. Isn‘t that cover awesome?
#ookbookclub #pratchettposse #terrypratchett

Jokila YES. That cover is everything 😧 7y
Gezemice @Jokila It is soooo seventies. I love it. 😁 7y
YouReadMyEyes That cover is really cool. 7y
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RealLifeReading Fun cover! 7y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa That is an awesome cover! 7y
Gezemice @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yep! Vintage at its best! 7y
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Gezemice
The Dark Side Of The Sun | Terry Pratchett
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Thank you for the tag, @Grrlbrarian 😊

1. All of them - paper, Kindle, audio. Whatever is available.
2. Ugh, shoes! I wear a size 10, but my feet are slightly longer and narrow. If I go bigger, shoes are way too wide. I need to look for a style that is long and narrow and hope. It is often futile.
3. Yoghurt
4. I don‘t watch much TV, but I do love Game of Thrones and Project Runway
5. @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#friyayintro

Jess7 I love #GOT and #ProjectRunway!! 7y
Gezemice @Jess7 Yay! Let‘s get Tyrion and Tim Gunn together. 😁👍 7y
Jess7 🤔🤭😂 they both are intelligent. So it would be interesting banter lol 7y
Gezemice @Jess7 I would watch that. 😊👍 7y
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Beck_42
The Dark Side Of The Sun | Terry Pratchett
Mehso-so

Interesting/strange sci-fi tale with a lot of high-concept ideas, but not a lot of plot. The search for Joker's World takes Dom on short visits to numerous locations across the galaxy. New characters, locations and concepts are introduced frequently throughout the book, even to the last couple of chapters, which I found very confusing. Interesting to see how Pterry's writing developed, but don't think I'll reread.

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Balibee146
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Very early Sci Fi romp. Really enjoyed this but it still took me ages to read.... I'm a slow reader and Sci Fi seems to go even slower for me. #read2017

MariaW 😍😍😍 And nice, old copy as well. #speakhisname 7y
Balibee146 @MariaW yeah I know. I have lots of old STP paperbacks where his author biography is the then funny one that describes him as 'still not dead' which makes me feel sad. Love the old editions though. 7y
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Balibee146
The Dark Side Of The Sun | Terry Pratchett
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My mission to read all the little bits of unread Pratchett writing left to me continues. Short read for my #tbrbingo too.

WhatDeeReads Is this the point when I admit I've never read any Terry Pratchett. 7y
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