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80% complete! penwing reads (they/them) has read 40 of 50 books.
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune …
The future of storytelling is here.
Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped …
Blue Light is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter Mosley, published in 1998 …
I just can't 8-(
Blue Light is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter Mosley, published in 1998 …
Well... He's tried his hand at horror and failed. He's mistaken gore and ick for horror but not really been able to commit to the bit.
Mosley is a mystery writer and I think that he's trying to bring that style of gruesome (murder scenes with dissected bodies) as if it were gore and horror. The worms thing though - it's icky but not a patch on the horror that it can be (or I'm just inured thanks to Brainwyrms...)
And we end this section with a few paragraphs on reproduction attempts and (non-"Blue") women largely reduced to that role and fall ill due to that role with little reflection.
And I dislike all the characters with maybe one exception (a bit character so far) and I'm holding judgement on one just introduced...
But Octavia Butler and Mary Doria Russell have given good quotes?
Blue Light is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter Mosley, published in 1998 …
Horace was dead, of course. He was gone when the Grey Man came, but the pieces of him were still there. like the movie of the man named Frankenstein and the monster of the same name.
— Blue light by Walter Mosley (Page 68)
Oh, please tell me you didn't?
Oh... They're maybe not all straight. We have a temptress (with her dog) luring men and women out of the main group our PoV character is in - so she's clearly being set up as an evil bisexual female antagonist... Hurray??
Blue Light is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter Mosley, published in 1998 …
Ok... How do you write a book in 1998, set in San Francisco, make all the characters straight, write mindbogglingly dull sex scenes and then throw in some beastiality.
Is Mosley hoping to shock? To disgust? Sorry, but I've read Teen Wolf A/B/O slash fic... Hell, I've read Delany, and Vurt even gave us DogMen didn't it (or did they come later?)
I... Ummm... I may have underestimated: "The middle part - our mission, our individual purpose - is most of the light, almost twelve light-seconds in length." That's four times as long...
@floppyplopper@todon.nl I did have a sneak peek at one after seeing your comment the other week...
Blue Light is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter Mosley, published in 1998 …
But I was also a sleeping streak of blue light, scant seconds in length, jarred to consciousness after an age of silence... ... that needle of light, no wider than a meteorite, traveled forth.
— Blue light by Walter Mosley (Page 1)
Errr... How big... "Scant seconds" what's that? 3 seconds? Or, nearly 900,000km long...
"No wider than a meteorite" - according to NASA that's typically between a pebble and a fist... Shall we call it 3cm by 2cm in cross section?
So that's a volume of... 540,000,000 litres - that's um... 216 olympic swimming pools.
Right...
Blue Light is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter Mosley, published in 1998 by Little Brown & Co.
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune …
The future of storytelling is here.
Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped …
Decadent cyberpunk cities. Greek mythology and giant mechs. Hades and Persephone as you've never seen …
The book grew on me, but it took a while.
Decadent cyberpunk cities. Greek mythology and giant mechs. Hades and Persephone as you've never seen …
I have barely started this book which people have largely been raving about and... I'm struggling. I will give it more, but... Mecha is not a genre I particularly care for and the physical book has not had quite enough glue to hold the pages firmly in place making it (literally) difficult to read.
So I keep distracting myself with other books and the like...
But I should definitely persevere a little more
