“Ten Thousand Light Years From Home” is a collection of fifteen short stories that take place here on Earth and in outer space. First published in 1973 the stories were collected under a pen name: James Triptree Jr, but were written by a woman: Alice Bradley Sheldon. Sheldon is a fascinating woman, and unlike the […]
Tag: Books Without Pictures
A Feast For Crows – George R R Martin
As mentioned in my Asterix post, Book Club is on hiatus at the moment until things begin to look brighter here in the UK and it’s safer to meet as a group and socialise again. That being said, I’m still actually playing catch up from February when things were tough for me personally (I still […]
Handmaids Tale
A few months ago I picked up a copy of The Handmaid’s Tale from a charity shop, it cost me 50p, it went on the bookshelf with the intent to read it “one day”, that day came sooner than expected when during our previous meet to discuss A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold, […]
I Am Legend – Richard Matheson
Novembers “Books Without Pictures” book was I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. I originally read this book years ago, not long before the Will Smith movie, so its been I’ve enjoyed going back to it, particularly as I’d somehow managed to blur the lines between some of the events of the book and the film, […]
The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch
Book Club get together week again and for September we had been reading “The Lies of Locke Lamora” by Scott Lynch. “The Lies of Locke Lamora” is about an orphan who becomes a thief in a city where certain rules are in place, the key one for this tale is the “Secret Peace” whereby the […]
A Clash of Kings – George R. R. Martin
First Wednesday of the month means book club meeting time! For our September meet, so we read this through August, we covered the second of George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones series, A Clash of Kings. I’m going to start by saying that I enjoyed this one more than the first book in […]
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Yay, its book club meeting time. July’s book was William Gibson’s “Neuromancer”, I book that I’d heard was a big part of the initial cyberpunk movement, a genre that I’ve not read any fiction from but am a huge fan of films such as Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner and The Matrix. Alot […]
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere was the Close Encounters “Books Without Pictures” book club for March-April (as in we read it in March, meet in April). The meeting was originally scheduled for April 3, but had to be re-scheduled due to illness. So, we’re were going to meet tonight, April 10th, but I’ve been unable to go for family […]