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(998 posts)Have only read the first few chapters so far, but it has been very interesting. So we shall see.
JoseBalow
(2,418 posts)It's a compilation of three novels about time travel. One of the stories in it (I forget which one) was mentioned and recommended by someone here on DU (I forget who) in a thread where we were discussing time travel paradoxes, particularly relating to historic events getting crowded with time traveling tourists from the future.
I ordered it via inter-library loan, and just picked it up last week. I haven't gotten through the introduction yet, but already I can tell that I am going to enjoy it based on the background and writing style of the author. I hadn't heard of Robert Silverberg before this, and I usually read non-fiction these days, but I am a fan of time travel stories, so I am looking forward to it.
In Hawksbill Station, political prisoners from the 21st century are sent on a one-way journey to the late Cambrian era a half billion years in the past. Their struggle to survive the privations of this bleak, almost lifeless world forms the centerpiece of a deeply affecting account of loss, exile, and repression.
Up the Line, by contrast, is a comic/erotic romp featuring Judson Daniel Elliott III, Time Courier and tour guide to the wonders of the past. While on a routine assignment in ancient Byzantium, Jud unexpectedly encounters his true Heart's Desire, and his well-ordered life slides inexorably into chaos.
In Project Pendulum, identical twins Eric and Sean Gabrielson become the primary participants in the very first experiment in time travel. From a fixed point in time, they move by equidistant, steadily increasing arcs toward both the remote past and the unimaginable future. Their alternating viewpoints constitute a dazzling portrait of the wonders and terrors of a constantly evolving universe.
birdographer
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(7,688 posts)I've only begun it, but I'm definitely intrigued (I'm a fan of iconoclasts!)
The Blue Flower
(5,444 posts)About Alexei Navalny and putin's persecution of him.
Chainfire
(17,587 posts)I have been a Grisham fan for years, but this book is dreadful... I am two thirds through it and I don't think I care enough to read it to the end. It is as if the publisher called and said, "John, we need a new book by next week." He was busy so he paid the the neighbor's 8th grader $20.00 to write this one. The plot can't carry water and I don't give a damn about any of the characters. But other than that ...
Grisham is going to end up as the man who had dozen good books in him but wrote 40.
PJMcK
(22,040 posts)Were planning a sailing trip from NYC to Maine and back this summer.
I can only recommend it if one is a boater on the east coast! Its an excellent reference.
Rizen
(721 posts)But tbh it's a bit disappointing. The word crafting is really good but it drags on and on with very little happening. I'm well over 200 pages in and it's just now that a key plot event is taking place.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940
It's the second volume of William Manchester's biography of Churchill.