Thursday, July 01, 2010

Got books?

I've several books going at once though I'm still not reading for any long spells at a time. I do expect to finish up two of them before leaving on vacation. One of those is "The Universe Between" by Alan E. Nourse. Copyrighted in 1951 the story takes place in the late 1980's and I'm sure the author never saw Devo coming (or maybe he did?!?). This may have been the first SciFi book I ever read. Based on the existence of a fourth dimensional parallel universe and the developing conflicts with our own reality. The story follows a young man who grew up utilizing his ability to travel between the two universes. It was written at the reading level of an adolescent and at my age mildly interesting as an exercise in revisiting something that was a lingering memory of what I had read when I was about twelve years old. I had searched off and on over the last few years for a copy of it and recently found several. My first purchase was lost in shipment I was told though the seller refunded the $2.50 plus shipping. The second attempt from a different buyer went very well and I received my copy in about five days. It was a paperback which were originally published in the mid-60s. Worn cover with yellowed pages as I gradually read through it I accepted the level I was reading at and set aside how unimaginative the future was perceived to be and pushed on. I'm glad I read it and am surprised by how much of the story I don't remember and I don't remember the ending at all. Just goes to show that sometimes we must revisit the past to put things in their proper perspective.

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