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DrNefario
Posted 2016-01-26 7:35 AM (#12500 - in reply to #11652)
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Location: UK		I've just finished Keith Laumer's Dinosaur Beach for 1971. Not really the book I wanted to read, but the one I already owned (in the Baen omnibus/collection Odyssey.)

It was a fairly wild time travel romp. Short. Quite fun, but feeling a bit dated, even for 1971, I thought. It reminded me a little of The Big Time by Fritz Leiber.

Technically my third time travel book in a row for the chronological challenges, after Slaughterhouse-Five and The Year of the Quiet Sun, and I have The Man Who Folded Himself coming up soon, too.

For 1971, I had previously read To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Lathe of Heaven. I was hoping to read some Silverberg or Zelazny, but decided just to go with the book in hand instead. Roger Zelazny's books are beginning to appear as ebooks, but Jack of Shadows is not available at the time of writing.

Next up is Beyond Apollo by Barry N Malzberg, which I don't really know anything about. I just happened to find it in a charity shop when I was looking for something for this year. For 1972 I have previously read The Gods Themselves and I'm sure I must have read The Fifth Head of Cerberus given how long I've owned it, and how much of a Gene Wolfe fan I used to be, but the synopsis doesn't sound very familiar.

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