Cuckoo's Egg

[read_warbler]

When I finished Carl's Science Fiction Experience earlier this year I made the decision to try hard to carry on reading some sci-fi throughout the rest of the year. I don't know why but it kind of falls by the wayside as I get my teeth into his Spring, Once Upon a Time challenge and return to the crime fic that I really enjoy these days. It's a

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[byslantedlight]

Sounds interesting! I like quiet think-y books too, perhaps I'll have to find some Cherrryh. (Although actually I was looking for SF books very carefully at my nearest library today, and there were hardly any> I even asked the librarian, and she really didn't know - even she found it hard to find one of the wee rocket stickers they use to indicate SF - or the castles for Fantasy. And actually she almost didn't know what I meant at first, kept calling it "fantasy" instead, as if the two genres were interchangeable - ack!

[caffyolay]

It wasn't bad even though I only gave it a three on Goodreads. It needed a three and a half but of course Goodreads doesn't *do* halves. It didn't get a four because it was sometimes difficult to follow. More information would have been good. But I loved its thinkiness and am pleased to have read it. Now thinking about Samuel Delany and Babel-15 and where to get it. :-)

Oh gosh, that's not good for a library to be so sparse with its sci-fi books. Ours is not bad, but not wonderful either. (I came home the other day with Floating Worlds by Cecilia Holland and another Michele Paver book: A Place in the Hills.) Exeter has *loads* and when the all singing, all dancing new library opens there in a couple of months it ought to be wonderful!