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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A collection of science fiction stories from the 1970s. It's hard to know quite what to make of these. Most of them are a bizarre combination of really clever and imaginative SF ideas, oddball mysticism, and flat-out nonsense, written in a style that I'm not at all sure how to describe. I want to use words like "oblique" and "dreamy," but I don't know that that really captures it at all. In their own way, all of the stories are interesting, but very few of them are anything remotely approaching satisfying, and by the time I got to the end I was feeling a little frustrated with the whole thing. It's possible that keeping the reader feeling unsettled and uncertain is partly the point, but if so, well, I've seen it done to much better effect. And yet, several of these stories seem to really almost have... something. I'm just not remotely sure what. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The Very Slow Time Machine arrives on earth in 1985. Its sole inhabitant is old and mad. Soon it becomes apparent that for him, time is going slowly backward. With every day, he is getting younger and saner. The world, and its whole concept of time, science and philosophy, must wait for him to speak. But while the world waits, it changes... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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