Monday, May 24, 2004
Got my head burried in Greg Bear's Dead Lines.As a rule he's sci-fi writer, but this appears to be an attempt at horror, or at least a chiller. He's done that once before with Psychlone, which to be honest I didn't rate at all, so I don't have especially high hopes for this.
Pity really, coz as far as hard sci-fi's concerned, he's the best there is.
Speaking of fave authors, it's about time Iain M Banks brought out something new. He seems to do two books a year, one sci-fi one straight fiction. Dead Air was a corker, so hopefully his next sci-fi effort will be up to a similar standard.
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Ok, so I'm a 3rd of the way through the book now, and it's really not that bad. Not ground breaking, makes some obscure use of the Bell Theorum in quantum physics, which is certainly unusual for a chiller.
Not scary, not mind boggling, not something that makes you go "Wow! That's clever"... but certainly interesting.
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Steve 2:11 AM [+]
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