Ben Robertson Robertson itibaren Queen's Cove, NL, Kanada itibaren Queen's Cove, NL, Kanada

Bu çok tatlı bir okumaydı. Onu sevdim. Sadece şikayet yol çok kısa olmasıdır. Bu yazarın diğer kitaplarına bakacağım.

Bir sürü böcek ve çok seks ile mücadele.

When I was eight years old, I picked up a collection of science fiction for children, and it's not an exaggeration to say that it changed my life. However, if I had picked up this book or "The Hard SF Renaissance" instead, I would certainly not have been defining myself as a SF fan today. Again with the Idea stories with no humans in them, and the Man vs. Nature adventure stories helmed by generic Heroes whose chief quality seems to be durability. Eventually I began giving each story two pages. If at the end of two pages I hadn't encountered a person whose fate I cared about, I skipped the story. Saved me a lot of time. Stories I did enjoy: James Tiptree, Jr.: "Beam Us Home." But I'd read this one elsewhere. James Blish: "A Work of Art." The one where artists of the future appear to have brought back Richard Strauss to write more music. Connie Willis, "Fire Watch." In her time-travel universe, the one where the student is accidentally sent back to WWII to prevent the burning of a cathedral. George Turner, "I Still Call Australia Home." The one where the explorers spend 30 years trying to find a human-habitable planet, come home to an Earth where 600 years have passed, and are forbidden to stay. Could have been better, more detailed, longer, but still well done.

This is one of the books I've read and listened to while on the stationary bike each of the past two winters. I love Milton's imaginative description of paradise before it was lost. Those passages make me feel wistful. I got my copy at a used-book sale at the library. I'll have to find another one before I read this again; mine is in tatters.

Development of Los Angeles, notably how the excellent streetcar system was supplanted by automobiles.