From the Blitz to Beagles: Sci-fi Book Roundup | September 2023

blackout by Connie Willis was a book I really enjoyed it's pretty thick but I ripped through it in no time 600 pages and didn't feel like a um a big overhead

the best thing I can say about children of June is that it gives June itself a run for its money yes much more so than June messiah in fact it had more of a dune vibe to it

I enjoyed it I like windham's I haven't read a huge number of his books but I like his writing style it was a bit dated It Was Written in the early 1950s so it's not a huge surprise but in general I I really liked it

my overriding impression was that this book was as pointless as the narrative was and then frankly I didn't enjoy at all

I enjoyed the way these kind of alien encounters and the way that they handled them was interesting and you know I'm always up for a first Contact type story but more interesting for me was the was the interplay of the characters

I like the contrast between that and the morally ambiguous means that the culture employs it at his edges via special circumstances to tweak sometimes quite dramatically the outcome of battles or political Shenanigans to topple Empires or whatever it might be that's gonna result in a benefit to the culture so I like that I like that contrast and it and it in this book it's really um really played out really clear