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Philip K. Dick "The Golden Man"
15 stories of which eight are 1950s, six 1960s, one 1970s.
Good stories (though I couldn't stomach the last and gave up on it).
Many thanks for the recommendation @hitmouse
 
I read some more of Karla's Choice last night. At about 18%, something was niggling me, but I couldn't put my finger on it. So I read the first couple of chapters of Tinker Tailor for a comparison. It was instantly like being able to breathe at last, and I figured out the difference. For all le Carre's waffling tendencies, the characters in his writing feel real, and the writing has real heart and interest in people. It all feels authentic. I don't get that from Harkaway's book. His characters feel like constructs, even the ones he's made up.
 
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I read some more of Karla's Choice last night. At about 18%, something was niggling me, but I couldn't put my finger on it. So I read the first couple of chapters of Tinker Tailor for a comparison. It was instantly like being able to breathe at last, and I figured out the difference. For all le Carre's waffling tendencies, the characters in his writing feel real, and the writing has real heart and interest in people. It all feels authentic. I don't get that from Harkaway's book. His characters feel like constructs, even the ones he's made up.
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I was getting a similar feeling, I've DNF the book for now, I might return to it some time when I'm bored
 
Now I'm starting one from the early 1970s that's set in the 1990s.
Fallen Angels by Mick Norman

Some blurb:-
The time is a little in the future. The place is England. Repression has driven the Hell’s Angels underground. But they are still around!

Gerry Vinson wanted to join ‘The Last Heroes’. Suddenly, he found what he was looking for.
Just in front of him, appearing from the ground like a pantomime demon, was Tiny Terry.
In an age of smart suits and short hair, the Angel looked literally unbelievable. He stood a couple of inches over six feet and was big-built. His hair was shoulder-length, matted.
 
Comic book SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES
Vol.1 .EC ARCHIVES.
Dark Horse books.1952.2016.
Forward by Steven Spielberg.
 
I've managed to get one I haven't read for a long time.
Kuldesak by Richard Cowper, a very underrated SF novel that I'm reading right now
 
Reliquary by Douglass Preston and Lincoln Child it's the second book in the agent Pendergast series. :)
 
Beszel said:
I'm just starting Alan Moore's new book The Great When.
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I'd never heard of this so I did a quick Google, I was somewhat bemused to see that our long time Chrons member @Harpo is the author (or maybe not)
Anyway welcome to Chronicles.

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I'm on book two of JK Nemesin's Broken Earth Trilogy (The Obelisk Gate). I'm really loving it, and hugely impressed with her vision, worldbuilding, and narrative skill. Quite daunting for the aspiring author, as I guess all the best stuff is :)
 
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Gonna read The Stand, for the first time.
Complete uncut edition, complete with illustrations...
See you on the other side...
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Good luck with that, I personally thought the original 1978 version was a lot slicker and a better story
. There's too much "I'm such a cool author" self admiration and padding in the complete edition.
 
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