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I am such a bus - nothing for ages, and then I make three posts all in a row...

I read my first book for the Sci-Fi Experience! It was actually a book that my Somerset SF-friend loaned me ages (years...) ago and had been on my shelves (in two different counties...) ever since. I tried reading it a couple of times, but I guess I just wasn't in the mood. This time, though, something clicked...

The story follows both a series of agents investigating a man called Hellstrom, a noted ecologist and film producer who lives on a remote farm and has friends in very high places, and Hellstrom and his friends at the same time. It moves between points of view in the way that was totally acceptable when I was growing up, but has very much fallen out of fashion. It didn't bother me, but I must admit that the difference struck me!

( What I did think about the book... )

Also, this counts as my first Mount TBR book this year! Yeay!

1. Helstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert

I have also started the year by reading a book loaned to me by my sci-fi friend here in Somerset (Hellstrom's Hive) and by going to see The Last Jedi, so even though I've missed a month of it (I wish it didn't start in December!) I'm going to join in The 2018 Sci-Fi Experience, hosted by Carl V. Anderson at Stainless Steel Droppings. I love going out on dark and frosty clear winter nights and seeing the stars, and dreaming about all the maybes of it, and a new year always feels a bit that way too. Maybe. *g* And maybe it'll get me blogging more again too. *g*

I was a bit sad to see that there are only four other people signed up for it so far though - is it true, is blogging mostly history now? Even book blogging? I'm going to pretend there's life in it yet, and then I can keep talking to you all and hope that you'll talk back. Or maybe even decide to join in the challenge for what's left of January! *g*

And I can already start a list of Science Fiction Experienced in January 2018!

The Last Jedi (film)
Absolutely loved this. Okay, the odd I-wish-they'd-done-that-differently, but I loved how much deeper it seemed to be, and thoughtful. And I want to see it again. *g*

Hard Sun (tv series)
Does this count as science fiction? The premise we seem to be starting out with is science fiction - in five years time the sun is going to consume the Earth...
( Episodes... )

Doctor Who - an Unearthly Child (tv series)
I've seen this before, and actually I've only watched the first episode of it so far because I dropped my remote control and there's no other obvious way to do anything except "play" and "stop" on my dvd machine - and "Play all" just resulted in looping back to the first episode rather than going onto the second, oddly enough. But perhaps because I have seen it before, and was more prepared for the 1960s-tv vibe, I think I enjoyed it more this time - and I was disappointed that I have to wait for the next one until I can find a new remote. Gaargh!
... ...Gaargh again, and damn, now the dvd disc isn't working for Episode 2 even though I have a new remote. Gaaaah!

Helstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert (book)

Doctor Who - The Daleks (tv series)
( Episodes )

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