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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8674278" data-attributes="member: 508">I finished up Area 51 and it was very good - action-packed throughout, with interesting characters and a very good understanding of the way the military works (not surprisingly, as the author is an ex-Special Forces guy writing under a pseudonym).  It tied up a lot of UFO stuff - long, cigar-shaped craft, flying saucers, foo fighters - in a sensible way and had a nice backstory about what the aliens were really on about here on Earth.  And while it's very obviously merely the first book in an ongoing series, it at least ties up enough of the present story that if you never read any of the subsequent books in the series it at least has a good ending, with the feeling that there's still plenty more story to come if you want to read more.In any case, I'm going to be flying on a business trip next week, which means lots of reading on airplanes and at airports, so I'm starting up a fairly short novel and bringing along a much longer one, figuring the two ought to hold me for four days.  The first one is a 1956 novel by John Christopher, No Blade of Grass, an eco-disaster science fiction novel of what happens when most of the grass and grain in the world dies out.  As you might imagine, things start to devolve pretty fast when the food starts to run out....  But it's only 190 pages, so I doubt it'll last more than the trip there.For the nights in the hotel room and the return legs home on Thursday, I'm bringing a 498-page book (with fairly small print) called Fire Bringer, by David Clement-Davies, that ought to hold me for a while.  Believe it or not, it's a story about a deer - an anthropomorphic fantasy novel in the manner of Watership Down, only with deer instead of bunnies.  It's quite unlike most anything else I've read (although Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker is the story of a velociraptor's life I bought and read years ago, but who could resist a story with a dinosaur as the main character?), but it looks interesting so I thought I'd give it a try.  And there's a bookstore near the place I'll be staying, so in a pinch I can always see what else is available.  (Most of the Firefly novels I've bought were from that store.)Johnathan</blockquote>

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