pick(1959) Second in Norton's “Time Traders“ series. In this one, time agents discover an alien spaceship crash-landed on Earth in the Pleistocene. When the agents send it through a time gate for studying in the present, they accidentally trigger a return-to-home function, sending the mysterious craft and all on board to distant worlds. It's a big-dumb-object adventure, one of my favorite sf tropes, and I hope Norton builds on it through the series
An early birthday present from a friend who lives on the other side of the world who did get a bit stressed that the Australian release date for this would arrive before the book did (funnily enough it arrived day of). Genuinely hilarious getting a text suggesting that I stay out of bookshops 🤣 This is one of my most anticipated books of the year.
I‘m sad to finish this 7-book post-apocalyptic series but I loved seeing the transformation of each character, the formed relationships, their resilience, and the found-family they discovered amongst each other.
#postapocalyptic #survival #suspense #dystopia #actionpacked #foundfamily
pickPrime Iain Banks, well his second. Interconnected characters across worlds and eons. Is he telling us that there‘s no such thing as coincidence. It was great to re-read this. I first saw this in Paperback Parade in Swindon in 1986, I guess. I then asked for it and the Wasp Factory for Christmas. These were the first contemporary novels I read. Only forty years ago, or so.
pick‘Only death can keep you from the finish line—in the ultimate competition of the all-too-near future...‘
Finished this in June.
A gruesome race where only one can cross the finish line. This was my third time reading this. Good story. Shocking at times.
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#LosersClub #KingFromTheBeginning #TheLongWalk
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It's getting harder and harder to tell the living from the dead.
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This is sad, beautiful, funny, warming as it is unsettling. And in the midst of all this there is wonderful imagery like this:
“There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children‘s playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree.”
quote fr “December 2001 The Green Morning”
pick97/100 I've always thought Harry Harrison was a very underrated author, he doesn't get the mentions other writers of his era does. James "Slippery Jim" diGriz is his best creation. Con man, thief, smuggler and rogue, he knows how to fight but would rather think and talk his way out of bad situations, also he tries never to kill anyone unless its self defense. This book contains 3 of his short novels, and is a great introduction to
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Short story by Ray Bradbury, a parody of Poe‘s “House of Usher“.
I‘ve finished reading Martian Chronicles for the second time this year, but this time I read “Usher II” separately. It turns out I didn‘t need to, I didn‘t know my eBook had an update, so I updated it and it now includes “April 2036 Usher II” and “May 2034 Wilderness”. ️⬇️
Waking up first thing in the morning w/ a bloody reminder (🩸👃🏻)that the cold is on its way wasn‘t the best way to wake up today, but receiving my first SK book shortly after that resolved was a good way to redeem the morning!!
I can‘t really do gore, violence, scary stories, horror, or super morbid reads, but I have started to collect & will eventually start reading select SK books in honor of my dad who is living w/ terminal prostate cancer.
