Writes a good book does Crichton [writes or wrote?]
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I am listening to Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky and I am 70% through and it's such good alien world SF that I just had to post..
[reading] What have you read recently? (continued)
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In other news.
I am listening to Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky and I am 70% through and it's such good alien world SF that I just had to post..
Chrichton died about 15 years ago, but like Tolkien it hasn’t stopped him publishing new books recently.
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Rune Priest
Or John Le Carre. Seems to be something that happens when an author becomes a "brand"?
Whilst I was away a week or so ago I read Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell. Gosh, now I have to admit to not having read him before. I know. I know. Well, I am sold. Slow, creepy, unceasingly worrying, building to a very satisfying and nasty end. However.. not overly gory.. more the threat until the end when it delivers.
8/10 and I want to read everything he's written.
8/10 and I want to read everything he's written.
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Just finished Salvation by Peter F Hamilton, which I mostly enjoyed; very clearly the first of a series but then one expects that from Hamilton.
There's a find-the-aliens-among-us plotline (that is set up in the first chapter, so not much of a spoiler), a lot of flashbacks told by main characters which delve into the detail of how the setting's ubiquitous teleportation technology is used and works, and a parallel flashforward storyline which I think I will have to read the other books in the series to understand properly.
Well worth the 99p I paid for it.
There's a find-the-aliens-among-us plotline (that is set up in the first chapter, so not much of a spoiler), a lot of flashbacks told by main characters which delve into the detail of how the setting's ubiquitous teleportation technology is used and works, and a parallel flashforward storyline which I think I will have to read the other books in the series to understand properly.
Well worth the 99p I paid for it.
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I'd argue that isn't one of his best, although it's by no means bad. I very much like his early period novels like The Doll Who Ate His Mother, The Parasite, Incarnate, and The Nameless (one of the few books I've read that genuinely scared me) but found a lot of his post 1990s stuff unreadable. He seemed to have been consumed by his own stylistic tics, and became incapable of writing believable dialogue. That said his short stories are always worth a look and are arguably where his strengths as a writer really lie.
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I think a fair few of his books are on Kindle now.
I've a soft spot for his collection of Lovecraftian short stories "Cold Print." They run from youthful pastiche to rather more mature efforts where you find him developing his own voice. My Mum's family hail from Gloucestershire so I also find it entertaining to see how he crams his own version of Lovecraft's Miskatonic into the Vale of Berkeley.