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Eifelheim by Michael Flynn. Has anyone here read it?
I love the story line.
I'm reading
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers - it was published in 1988, and appears to be the basis for the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Interesting so far!
I enjoyed Eifelheim.
I envy you reading Canticle for the first time. It's a mind-blowing experience. I've found no book quite like it (unless someone has ripped it off…Anathem?)
What other Tim Powers would you recommend?
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I haven't read enough Tim Powers, but the one I liked most so far was a piece of short fiction called
The Bible Repairman, from Subterranean Press. In it, you can give your Bible to the Bible repairman, and he'll burn out the parts you don't want in there. Want adultery not to be a sin? Burn, burn, burn - there. It's gone. Great story.
I also read part of
The Anubis Gates and liked it very much, but never got back to it for some reason. I have it and Declare and
Last Call on my tbr list.
I loved
A Canticle for Leibowitz! Absolutely loved it.
I review audiobooks (for SFFaudio.com) and started to listen to
Anathem, but didn't get more than one CD in before realizing that another reviewer had it. I liked
Snow Crash and
The Diamond Age, but haven't read any more Stephenson than that.
May I recommend to your members FALLING TO DESTINY by Peter Fleming?
That's me.
Hymoliga Eight (a mobile talking Martian plant), Kim Hawthorne (a Catholic "space ethicist" from the not so distant future) and the mysterious narrator who goes by the name of "Ishmael Starbuck" join together as fugitives through space and time, travelling to Titan, where all art has been banned, to renaissance Finland (where they encounter the alien race known as "sea monks") and to distant Tarsarsus, which is being ravaged by self-perfecting robots called the Pelagyans.
Adventure science fiction with a Catholic touch a good dose of wit.
Check out the blurb at amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com.
Paperback. Great cover great title, fun blurb, great read. It'd look good on your shelf.
It's made it into amzon's hot new releases for adventure the past few weeks a few times, so people must be enjoying it.
Gratefully,
Peter Fleming
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