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dustydigger
Posted 2015-03-29 11:00 AM (#9956 - in reply to #9182)
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Location: UK		I am having so much fun doing the 1950s SF challenge.and have had a great month. I enjoyed my reread of Double Star,and also my third reading of Day of the Triffids. I find something of interest at each read. The first time,as a teenager I just enjoyed the story - green comets causing blindness,sentient plants with a deadly sting,5he total destruction of society etc. A few years ago I paid more attention to the different forms of government ,this time I was more interested in what could be salvaged of society.,but was less optomistic about the chances of retaking the world from the triffids than Wyndham was. I know that Brian Aldiss called this a ''cozy catastrophe '',but there was only one scene of living it up,which the protagonists looked upon as a farewell to the old life. I think he was a bit harsh
I have also read a few early 50s novels,Like Edmond Hamilton's City at World's End,a light and easy read. Hamilton is Leigh Brackett's husband,and like her work here there was empathy for the characters,who were not quite as cardboard as in the usual fifties SF. I thought the science about reheating a dying earth with its dark red sun was a bit dodgy and simplistic,but that's typical of such works,didnt bother me.
A Van Vogt's Weapon Shops of Isher was a bit of an oddity,I find his style offbeat and often confusing,but it was still rather good fun with some of his trademark time travel to crack one's brain over
I also read Kate Milford's Greenglass Summer,a junior work nominated for the Mythopoeic award. I was puzzled about why it was supposed to be fantasy,till two thirds of the way through it turned out one of the characters was a ghost!. An OK read,but a bit diffuse,even a little confusing at times.
I hope to get round to some reviews for my reads this month,but real life problems have kept me away from WWEnd lately,it may be a while before I get round to something less sketchy.

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