Chasm City

Just finished reading Alastair Reynolds' "Chasm City". This is the second book of his I've read, The first being "Revelation Space" which I found very absorbing. Chasm City takes place in the same broad time period as RS with a few common references as to places, people and history which adds to the depth of the storyline. Again the reader gets to follow along on several different storylines which end up combining in a completely different manner than the ones in RS and were very cleverly done as story connections were revealed. This book entails deep space travel, civilizations 100s of years in the future, dark times, misdeeds, wondrous technology and technology gone mad. When I had time for my mind to wander I often thought back to parts of the story I had recently read, mulling over what had taken place and what it might be leading to. If you like your science fiction deep and dark as a good French roast this book will make a dent in your desire.

Alastair Reynolds Blog

Waiting out the season

Been awhile since I've taken the time to post a new blog. Keeping busy on a number of things then I hit a point where I crash on the couch, watch a bit of TV, hit the sack and do it all again the next day. The one thing that stands out to me over the last couple of weeks is the weather. Rather average mid-winter temperatures but no new snow to speak of around our region while the southern Atlantic region including Washington DC have been getting clobbered. Now if you'll notice I'm not complaining given my usual laments and preference to the warmer seasons. No matter the weather this winter I've been making an effort to live in the moment, accept what nature delivers and bide my time until spring. I've been doing a good job of it too, so much so that I'm almost disappointed that it hasn't been snowing occasionally. What I am disappointed about is that the Vacationland RV and Camper Show we usually attend has changed their dates from February to April. That's low... it's always been my bridge to get me through winter. There is going to be a RV show in Augusta next month so maybe we'll end up going to each of them. Carol and I did manage to go to our camper dealer's open house a couple of weeks ago where we scoped out the new models. Pretty much concluded we liked the new version of the same one as at last year's open house.

Oh yeah, Friday, as usual, I had lunch at Marcy's. Steak and cheese sandwich was on the specials board. Couldn't go wrong there?