What Science Fiction/Fantasy are You Reading?
I happen to like science fiction and fantasy, although I probably read more fantasy. I also tend to read fantasy that is for children and teens instead of for adults. I'm not sure why.
For the next two weeks I am going to be reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. When I was working on the handout of Science Fiction & Fantasy books that I put together for the library display, I came across this book several times. I also saw Connie Willis giving a wonderful talk about her writing.
Doomsday Book won the Hugo & Nebula Award. It is a book that is going to take me to the future and to the past, specifically the Middle Ages during the plague. It looks like someone studying history leaves the 21st century to go back to the Middle Ages, and encounters danger.
posted by Holly @ 2:23 PM
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A couple of years ago a friend recommended Michael Crichton's novel "Timeline." He was right to recommend it to me. I loved the mix of history with science fiction.
"Doomsday Book" reminds me of "Timeline." I know "Doomsday Book" was written before Michael Crichton's novel, so as I'm reading "Doomsday Book" I can't help thinking why I heard of Michael Crichton's book before I heard about Connie Willis. It probably just has more to do with timing than one book being a lot better, but as I read I can't help but compare them.
I recently read "Smack" by Melvin Burgess. Wow! It is a stomach twisting book about life as a runaway in the UK. It is such a different world for the homeless there.
The book tried to tell the story with as much truth as possible. I got a kick out of the dictionary in the back and found it funny that I had to use it!
I am reading "Black and White" by Paul Volponi next.
I just finished "Doomsday Book" last night. It is a very good book. My biggest problem with it, was that it was set in the future. It was a little hard to relate to some of the things that happen in the book because it is in the future. The part where they send the historian back in time was a little easier to relate to, simply because I was familiar with everything.
I am now reading one of the books by the authors who will be here at Louisburg Library on Thursday, Jan. 26.
"A Time to Sow" (Star Trek the Next Generation) by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore is set in the future, but I'm familiar with that future. I happen to have been a fan of Star Trek the Next Generation (and some of the shows since then).
I have to admit I have never read any of the books associated with Star Trek, I just watch the shows. This novel takes Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his Enterprise crew to the survivors of a distress signal centuries old.
I finished "A Time to Sow" last night. I really enjoyed it, because it has been so long since I even thought about the characters. My only complaint is that now I have to read the next book "A Time to Harvest," to find out what is going to happen to the people Captain Picard and the crew discovered when they responded to the distress signal.
Last night I spent a couple of hours reading "The Frog Princess" by E.D. Baker. This was a delightfully fun read. The book is meant for young girls, which makes it an easy read.
The story is about a princess who tries to save a frog prince by kissing him, but ends up being a frog also. The rest of the book is spent trying to become human again.
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