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A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

This was a hard book for me to get through. In the end, I enjoyed it despite my earlier criticisms about the treatment of the female characters–especially since justice was given to the conclusions of their individual plots (and mostly without reference to romantic entanglements).
The biggest hurdle to finishing reading the story was the multiple [...]

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A Deepness in This Guy

Thursday, April 10, 2008

I’m a sucker for science fiction. At present, I am reading Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky, and as science fiction goes, it is pretty decent. There is a good balance between the maybe-impossible and the scientifically plausible, and attention is paid to the hard realities like traveling between star systems at sublight speeds. [...]

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Random Harvest by James Hilton

Saturday, April 5, 2008

[The butler] was certainly a well-preserved antiquity, with an air of serene yet somehow guarded responsibility; in different clothes he might have looked a cabinet minister, in contradistinction to those cabinet ministers who, even in their own clothes, look like butlers.

Random Harvest (1941), James Hilton

I frequently refer to Random Harvest as my favorite work of [...]

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