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It sounds interesting ... I'll need to see if I can get hold of a copy.
OK, name the book and author:
A narrative split across three characters: one based in the UK and the USA in 1999, featuring a physicist/serial killer, who thinks he's being hunted by an alien horror; a run-down spacebum in a backwater planet near the edge of a vast space-time anomaly, who's pursued by debt-collectors; and the cybernetically altered pilot of a stolen, bleeding-edge warship prowling the fringes of the same anomaly, who's being chased by just about everybody. Both the spacebum's and the pilot's stories are set in the same timeframe, in the 25th century.
OK, name the book and author:
A narrative split across three characters: one based in the UK and the USA in 1999, featuring a physicist/serial killer, who thinks he's being hunted by an alien horror; a run-down spacebum in a backwater planet near the edge of a vast space-time anomaly, who's pursued by debt-collectors; and the cybernetically altered pilot of a stolen, bleeding-edge warship prowling the fringes of the same anomaly, who's being chased by just about everybody. Both the spacebum's and the pilot's stories are set in the same timeframe, in the 25th century.
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Score! And there's nowt wrong with using Google, I think ...
Light is a staggering book. It's not always pleasant, by any means; it's often brutal and bewildering and you don't even get the comfort of a character to identify with, really. It's just about the most alienating thing I've ever read – but since this is the point of this book (and the point of a lot of SF in general, to remove readers from the everyday and fling them into the strange and unknown) this is part of what makes it so great. There's an intelligent review online here, with a link on to an extract from the book.
Light is a staggering book. It's not always pleasant, by any means; it's often brutal and bewildering and you don't even get the comfort of a character to identify with, really. It's just about the most alienating thing I've ever read – but since this is the point of this book (and the point of a lot of SF in general, to remove readers from the everyday and fling them into the strange and unknown) this is part of what makes it so great. There's an intelligent review online here, with a link on to an extract from the book.
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Snap! That's the site I read about it on.
Anyway...to the next question. I've ran out of books and films, so I'm delving into one of my hobby areas - webcomics!
In this series of tales, a space station at the event horizon of a black hole allows travel in all parallel universes. The story follows two travellers who manage to get themselves lost in these universes and are doomed to randomly hop around the dimensions hoping that the next hop...will be the hop home...
I would like the name of the comic and the names of the two creators!
Anyway...to the next question. I've ran out of books and films, so I'm delving into one of my hobby areas - webcomics!
In this series of tales, a space station at the event horizon of a black hole allows travel in all parallel universes. The story follows two travellers who manage to get themselves lost in these universes and are doomed to randomly hop around the dimensions hoping that the next hop...will be the hop home...
I would like the name of the comic and the names of the two creators!
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OK, let's try something a bit different. See if anyone can identify the author of the passage below:
Judicious use of quote-googling will bring it up, I'm sure, but I also think people might be able to guess the author from the style ..."You're worried about something," his wife told him. Nikolai shook his head. "Yes, you are," she persisted. "You're upset because of that deal I made in pirate contraband. You're unhappy because our corporation is profiting from attacks made on your own people."
Nikolai smiled ruefully. "I suppose you're right. I never knew anyone who understood my innermost feeling the way you do." He looked at her affectionately. "How do you do it?"
"I have infrared scanners," she said. "I read the patterns of blood flow in your face."
