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from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.
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The final exam for Dr. Matson's Advanced Survival class was meant to be just that: only a test. But something has gone terribly wrong...and now Rod Walker and his fellow students are stranded somewhere unknown in the universe, beyond contact with Earth, at the other end of a tunnel in the sky. Stripped of all comforts, hoping for a passage home that may never appear, the castaways must band together or perish. For Rod and his fellow survivors, this is one test where failure is not an option....
The ending was pretty cool and of course very PKD.
Karin wrote: "I started reading Yeats, but am not sure if I can continue. I'm not into poetry about fairies and Druids--it's too bad I didn't find this when I was twelve or thirteen!"Well I'm basically twelve. Sounds like some poetry I might like.
I'm about a third of the way through and not really sure what to think about this. Typical PKD weirdness.
Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dick's most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonny Keller, two unremarkable people bent on the survival of goodness in a world devastated by evil. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction of Dick's undying hope in humanity.
n a work that strives to do for werewolves what Stoker's Dracula did for vampires, Endore's werewolf, an outcast named Bertrand Caillet, travels round seeking to calm the beast within. An episodic tale, the story wanders through 19th Century France and into hotspots like the Franco-Prussian war. Stunning in its sexual frankness and eerie, fog-enshrouded visions, this novel was decidedly influential for the generations of horror and science fiction authors who came after.
I finished Season 2. Trying to do it all this month was too ambitious.Episodes where earthlike planets evolve exactly like earth to the point of having an American constitution with the exact same words are a ridiculous but unavoidable part of classic Star Trek.
But reading The Omega Glory I saw that it was probably inspired by The Red Hawk, with white Americans living like Native Americans and preserving an ancient U.S. flag.
Rosemarie wrote: "I've just finished reading a free on-line copy. It was such a fun read!One of my favourite characters is Mr. Kiku.
And Lummie, of course."
Yeah, I immediately pictured Morgan Freeman.
Well I finished Season 1. Hope I can get it all done this month.I've always liked The Devil in the Dark.
I just read my favorite episode A Taste of Armageddon with my favorite quote: "Death, destruction, disease, horror, that's what war is all about. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided. You've made it neat and painless. So neat and painless you've had no reason to stop."
Pam wrote: "I watched the 1970s mini-series and remember liking it."From what I've heard that one was all from Blackthorne's point of view. The book has a lot of the Japanese character's POVs as well.
Maybe I'll read more of the Asian saga someday.
Lummox had been the Stuart family pet for years. Though far from cuddly and rather large, it had always been obedient and docile. Except, that is, for the time it had eaten the secondhand Buick . . .But now, all of a sudden and without explanation, Lummox had begun chomping down on a variety of things—not least, a very mean dog and a cage of virtually indestructible steel. Incredible!
John Thomas and Lummox were soon in awfully hot water, and they didn't know how to get out. And neither one really understood just how bad things were—or how bad the situation could get—until some space voyagers appeared and turned a far-from-ordinary family problem into an extraordinary confrontation.
The whole thing of doing all those calculations in your head seems pretty silly now but it was still a pretty good story.I really wanted to see what the centaurs and Mr. Chips looked like.
That's one problem with older books, they usually don't describe the aliens any more than absolutely necessary.
Hehe, great ending. If I've ever seen the movie I have no memory of it.I like Ira Levin's fast moving writing style. I'd like to read the sequel. I've also heard about The Boys From Brazil.
Yeah, I found the father pretty annoying with his obsession with ship's order. The boys were what I always wanted to think I was when I was a kid. But wasn't.
