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RichardAbbott
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- Science fiction, fantasy, some historical fiction
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I think further adventures of... would be a poor choice with not a lot of good opportunities. The shared setting idea is much more appealing to me
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Yes I reckon this worked - their involvement began with the purely personal then gradually morphed into something bigger and more political. There's potential for getting a few more stories out of it I think
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Other than the aforementioned juvenile aspects, it worked for me. Except - call me weird if you like - I kept being perplexed anatomically! Would an alien amphibious creature, however appealling on many interpersonal levels, have sexual apparatus th…
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I couldn't decide if the idea of a cryo prison was inspired or crazy - I have always assumed that part of the purpose of prison was to force the prisoner to feel the passage of wasted time, whereas by definition this totally fails in that purpose. B…
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I thought the two main characters were well drawn (if a bit juvenile :) ) and there was enough variety and depth to the secondary ones that they had some substance. I guess the black vs white sides were a bit too sharply delineated for me, so for ex…
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Aha I didn't see this question when I burbled on with the first one. Yes the setting - both historical and spatial - intrigued me once I got used to the fact that although there was interstellar travel, this book didn't participate in it and the tra…
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It was interesting reading this only shortly after How to Find a Nameless Fae as although set in entirely different worlds they covered somewhat similar territory! I have to confess that personally speaking I liked Signal Lost better, mainly because…
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How's everyone doing with _Signal Lost_? @clash_bowley how are discussion starters coming along?
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and also the one for The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach.
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Discussion area for Air by Geoff Ryman now set up.
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(Quote) It's available in ebook or p/b from the UK bookshop.org site and Amazon
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(Quote) In the UK it can be obtained from bookshop.org and no doubt elsewhere
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Looking ahead to the next few months, the normal rota has: July @clash_bowley Signal Lost by Onyx Sullivan August @kcaryths September @Apocryphal October @NeilNjae then back to me. @BarnerCobblewood any time you have a title just let me know an…
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From a quick bit of research today none of his adult fiction suggests a response which is collaborative and community-based - apparently some books include short alliances of convenience, but these then crumble under further pressure, and leaders ne…
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(Quote) :D
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My impression from the UK is that there was a real urban vs rural style of response, which persisted afterwards because "rich folk from the city" who could work remotely bought up rural housing and were able to outprice "poor folk fro…
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I haven't read much of his work other than the Tripods series, which (as you probably know) is focused on a much younger audience. However, I do know that he got a reputation for writing a lot of books about how catastrophe might sweep over the worl…
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Discussion area for Signal Lost set up
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@clash_bowley let's go for Signal Lost by Onyx Sullivan this month if you're OK with that. I'll set up the discussion area this week
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I agree that point 5 "The Decisive Battle of the Elect, which is a fancy way of saying there's a final conflict between good and evil, in which the reader recognizes how much they have in common with the evil characters" doesn't really hap…
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Two very interesting parallels!
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Here in a Cumbrian village there was a lot of suspicion during the lockdowns about strangers, and certain factions within the village became quite accusatory about vehicles or people they presumed were outsiders trying to take advantage ("he wa…
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It reminded me in part of a mid-1970s TV series here in the UK called Survivors (see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(1975_TV_series) ) where again a pandemic reduced vast numbers of the population leaving only scattered groups. It is def…
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(Quote) I'll wait until after the weekend
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(Quote) No news from @BarnerCobblewood, so @clash_bowley would you be happy to do this as the July choice?
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Discussion starters posted for The Death of Grass.
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@BarnerCobblewood would you like to select something for July?
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> @clash_bowley said: > Also my next book will be Signal Lost by Onyx Sullivan I'll set that up in a bit
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Hi all, how's everyone doing with _The Death of Grass_?
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Discussion area for The Death of Grass is now set up