Got this because I have enjoyed a lot of Flynn’s other work, but I bounced hard off it and gave up after 70 pages. Discovered only afterwards that it is the second in a series; maybe I would have done better to start at the beginning. If you like, you can get it here.

This was my top unread book acquired in 2011. Next on that pile is The Deer ( Read more... )

13) Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn

Flynn's The Wreck of the River of Stars was one of the best sf books I read last year, and I had high expectations of this Hugo nominee: a story of aliens landing in 14th century Germany, and the contemporary historian (and his physicist girlfriend) who works out what happened way back then. Flynn puts a lot of effort ( Read more... )

Dear author,

I am enjoying your book, with its medieval German setting. But please note that "Lover-God!" is not a good translation of "Lieber Gott!"

Yours helpfully,

nhw
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In 2006 I read over 200 books - lost count but I think the final tally was 207 - up considerably from last year's 137. This was partly because I read quite a lot of shorter books, but also I think I did more travelling where it was easy to keep reading. In addition, I had a few attempts at sertting up small reading programmes for myself, such as ( Read more... )

4) The Wreck of The River of Stars, by Michael Flynn ( Read more... )