All the packages I was expecting from Nemira have arrived. Just so you know, 8kg of great books, almost 170ron. Photos of the entire collection when Bigbro arrives with the 17 books I left behind in Paris.
The plan was to entertain myself with two Brussolos, but I ended up reading just one, and The Demolished Man, a great science fiction noir by Alfred Bester. The story is somewhat a combination of the yet-to-be-written-then Ubik & The Minority Report, which, for all accounts and purposes, should be enough of a reason to make anyone read it. Although brief, this proto-cyberpunk police procedural is a dazzling bit of writing that hooks you just as tight as any Raymond Chandler yarn could. With stunning twists & turns, great characters & a mystifying subplot, @ just 250 pages, The Demolished Man is not only the first Hugo Award winner, but a hell of a good read.
Moving on – Krucifix – a delightful and engaging story about an elite squad of soldiers who end in a place where they really shouldn’t be (and that’s all you get if I plan to not spoil the plot). Suspenseful and terrifying almost the entire way through, the novel is winning a combination of Scott Smith and George A. Romero. The characters weren’t as well defined as I’d hoped because the spotlight was always on the action, and that wasn’t bad at all. Short, concise, baroque, adorable.