I was on a business trip this week from Monday through Thursday so I got a bunch of reading done in airports, on the planes, and in the hotel room. I blew through Idlewild and Edenborn, the first two novels by Nick Sagan, son of Carl Sagan, which I had picked up for half a dollar each at a library book sale based mostly on a cover recommendation by Neil Gaiman. They were good reads, both of them...but they were unfortunately books one and two in a three-book series, and I don't have the third. Bummer. I don't want to give away too much about the plot because part of the fun of reading through the books was the frequent charges to genre as things became apparent. The third book is called Everfree and I'll be keeping an eye out for it, although both books definitely have an ending of sorts while still making you want to see what happens next.
The book I started on the second plane home (and am currently reading) is After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress. It's a weird little setup, dealing with aliens having wiped out all but two dozen or so humans on Earth, said humans now living in an alien enclosure and using the provided alien technology to go back in time 20 years for ten minutes at a time (at random intervals, you never know when the platform is going to activate), during which time they steal whatever they can to bring back to the suck-fest future. Top items on their "things to steal" list are clothing, blankets, cookware, and kids - because the six remaining adults are sterile and they're going to need to work on repopulating the human race if possible. Half of the novel deals with these future strugglers, the other half with a present-day detective and a probability analyst trying to make sense of the pattern of child kidnappings and oddball thefts slowly making their way up the coast.
Johnathan
The book I started on the second plane home (and am currently reading) is After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress. It's a weird little setup, dealing with aliens having wiped out all but two dozen or so humans on Earth, said humans now living in an alien enclosure and using the provided alien technology to go back in time 20 years for ten minutes at a time (at random intervals, you never know when the platform is going to activate), during which time they steal whatever they can to bring back to the suck-fest future. Top items on their "things to steal" list are clothing, blankets, cookware, and kids - because the six remaining adults are sterile and they're going to need to work on repopulating the human race if possible. Half of the novel deals with these future strugglers, the other half with a present-day detective and a probability analyst trying to make sense of the pattern of child kidnappings and oddball thefts slowly making their way up the coast.
Johnathan
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