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dustydigger
Posted 2015-11-10 11:21 PM (#11791 - in reply to #9182)
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Location: UK		I completed Jack McDevitt's Seeker,about antique hunters(tomb robbers?) looking for an ancient space ship and a lost colony. It was OK,quite fun,but I found the long time periods very unrealistic. Searching for plastic artifacts from 9000 years before time of the story,which is still a couple of hundred years ahead of our time?No real serious attempt at worldbuilding over 9000 years in the future,the world is very like today.Enjoyable fluff really,but I just cant see how this was a Nebula winner,and Campbell nominated!
I really was charmed by Jack Finney's romantic take on time travel,Time and Again. Very little time travel,the details of the time transfers are sensibly glossed over.this is an elegy to 1880s New York. One little thing that gives us a bit of a frisson is that the Dakota building is repeatedly mentioned and admired,in a book written 9 years before John Lennon's death.Charming and romantic.I found it better written than Finney's more famous Body Snatchers.
The book is delightfully illustrated ,the old pictures fitting beautifully into the story. Much better that in Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,for example.

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