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Persephone books are an auto-buy for me, but some don't please me as much as others. I loved R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September so I had high hopes for this story where the moon crashes to earth, in the solid English tradition of The War of the Worlds and The Day of the Triffids. However, the scifi part of the story is completely ludicrous, and Edgar Hopkins, the survivor writing the account, is so pompous, I cringed over and over again. All the same, there is something horribly compelli
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Feb 04, 2023
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Dec 29, 2022
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