Saturday, March 15, 2008

Reading enough?

Hardly... Finally finished reading the Oct/Nov 2007 issue of Asimov's. I don't mean to make it sound like a chore but I hate being so many issues behind while I have several books I'd like to be reading. I enjoyed all eleven stories in this issue which included one written by Isaac Asimov, Nightfall, which followed a story, Night Calls by Robert Read, that shared a common element. A populated world in a solar system of several Suns which were about to go into eclipse so that the planet's population would experience night darkness that only their ancestors had encountered centuries before and the unknown psychological effects they were trying to deal with. Dark Integers by Greg Egan told of a few individuals who had been spending years of their lives keeping a civilization in a parallel universe from attacking our world (ignorant to this threat) thorough extremely advanced mathematics. The featured story is actually the first of a four part serial, Galaxy Blues by Allen M. Steel which is off to good start and will lure me to the next issue of Asimov's. It will have to wait, I'm going to read a book.

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