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dustydigger
Posted 2017-06-24 4:34 PM (#15937 - in reply to #14249)
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Location: UK		I started Dan Simmons's Rise of Endymion,but found it very heavy going,a bit bleak and depressing for my tastes,so I have put it aside for a while and chose James P Kelly's short story collection,Think Like a Dinosaur.Very interesting,well written,nice characterisation and made up of stories from a variety of genres.
I tried Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace last year,and as the early part seemed to a war book,dark and downbeat,and I had been very lukewarm about the other Forever War books,I abandoned it. Reading it now for the challenge I persevered and was a bit surprised and relieved when after about 100 pages it veered off into a tale abouta group trying to to prevent a Doomsday weapon getting into the hands of a religious fanatic,and a method of turning humankind into pacifists! Fast paced action,but as ever with Haldeman I dont find his plot scenarios very credible. But at least it was a fast moving adventure,and a mere 350 pages. That is very small among most 90s books!
Now for 1998 I intend to read Ken McLeod's Cassini Division,and Butler's Parable of the Talents,possibly in August.Then I will have to locate Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky as my final book for this challenge!

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