Category: Rooties Recent Reading
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The Songs of Distant Earth (Arthur C.Clarke)
A wonderful novel, it tells the story of a star ship that leaves a dieing earth behind to continue human life on a new planet around a different sun. On the way they stop at a planet to make repairs and discover that human life is already there. There is a lovely part about how…
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A Dawn Like Thunder (Douglas Reeman)
I saw this in the second hand bookshop and it brought back memories of when I was growing up. Douglas Reeman has writen a lot of fiction about the Navy in World War 2 and I remember reading abridged versions of them in Readers Digests compendiums (the consolidated 4 books in to one slightly larger…
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Issac Assimov's Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
Consuming many hours of my time lately has been a science fiction series written by Issac Assimov. I picked the books up for a few pounds in second hand bookshop and the thing that convinced me to buy was a preface in one written by Arthur C Clarke. I’d been reading and enjoying a lot…