02-21-2022, 07:06 PM
If you liked Clan of the Cave Bear check out The Many Colored Land. SF, Julian May.
It has depth and mysticism and asks good questions about where we came from and where we're going, with a very Celtic feel.
The Book of Koli MR Carey has zero depth or mysticism, and is just entertaining SF. Way too lowbrow for this crowd, but I liked it.
Neal Stephenson's latest "Termination Shock" opens with the Queen of Holland and her entourage en route to a top-secret meeting with Texan geoengineers in Houston, but climate disruptive weather forces a crash landing in the Gulfstream she pilots, and she ends up in Waco. The doughty royal (Saskia) fights her way out of an attack by wild pigs, and then takes up with a Cherokee gator hunter named Red who has a bitchin' pick up truck. Stephenson is never afraid to use literary references, and Red is straight out of Moby Dick - a thinly disguised Queequeg.
It explores geopolitical factions at cross-purpose trying to solve climate change threats.
It has a cameo of the QAnon Shaman, and had me thinking "Hey, could Neal really be Q ?!?!?!?!"
The book is way better than my review.
These books can be had at Boulder Library - I put holds on 'em and pick up in NoBo.
Support the library!
It has depth and mysticism and asks good questions about where we came from and where we're going, with a very Celtic feel.
The Book of Koli MR Carey has zero depth or mysticism, and is just entertaining SF. Way too lowbrow for this crowd, but I liked it.
Neal Stephenson's latest "Termination Shock" opens with the Queen of Holland and her entourage en route to a top-secret meeting with Texan geoengineers in Houston, but climate disruptive weather forces a crash landing in the Gulfstream she pilots, and she ends up in Waco. The doughty royal (Saskia) fights her way out of an attack by wild pigs, and then takes up with a Cherokee gator hunter named Red who has a bitchin' pick up truck. Stephenson is never afraid to use literary references, and Red is straight out of Moby Dick - a thinly disguised Queequeg.
It explores geopolitical factions at cross-purpose trying to solve climate change threats.
It has a cameo of the QAnon Shaman, and had me thinking "Hey, could Neal really be Q ?!?!?!?!"
The book is way better than my review.
These books can be had at Boulder Library - I put holds on 'em and pick up in NoBo.
Support the library!