| Re: Never Go Back
The Anything Of Shannara... I read the first 7 books of the series in high school and college (the first time I was at college) and loved them, but hadn't had much exposure to fantasy before and have since then, and in all of the more recent context the Shannara books have lost their uniqueness to me.
We All Died At Breakaway Station... a little-known novel by little-known author Richard C. Meredith. My father had a large science fiction book collection which I only ever read a few of, and this is one of them. It's a great "desperate last stand against horrendous odds to hold out for one tiny but important success before losing everything" story. But that story is only novella length; it got puffed up into a novel by the addition of filler scenes that weren't really related to it, and most of those were porn scenes that seemed to have been written by someone about 12 years old. Getting past the junk was just too much work. |