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“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award …
A critique of utilitarianism, an exploration of a different type of hero, an alt universe 1984 with a more hopeful ending. I had difficulty getting into it but by the midpoint I was hooked.
Genre: Science Fiction Quality: Professional bakery Note: Written in 1970's Issues: A bit of a slog at the start, a little dated
Jessica Ellicott: Murder in an English village (2017)
As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn't be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But …
London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to …
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, …
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which …
WHERE DO YOU LOOK FOR SOMEONE WHO'S NEVER REALLY THERE?
The Truly Devious case--an unsolved kidnapping and triple murder …
Some eight months after the events of Penric and the Shaman, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the …
When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . .
For more than …
An interesting idea, perhaps not executed as well as it could have been - mostly because it felt rushed. Perhaps pressures from the company dictated the pace of the story but some natural development would have made it better instead of forced.
Still an enjoyable comic - while the execution failed them the characters are memorable.
