Just finished
Intervention by Julian May.
I so much love her Galactic Milieu Trilogy, and Pliocene Exiles Saga, I'd start all over again if only I didn't have other books to read
Naturally, what she wrote in
Intervention has been overtaken by now, as that book starts in 1945 and ends in 2013.
But one thing struck me last night:
Quote:
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My mention of the great innovation in communication struck a sour note with the publisher. The programmable liquid crystal reader-plagues had already spelled the doom of printed periodicals and paperback ephemera; and the newer large-format plagues with improved colour-imaging that had just come out of China were bound to take a nasty bite out of conventional book publications.
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This book was written in 1987. So, she's not that far off with her predictions (as the point in the story where that is said is in 2013).
I'll finish a few more short stories (by Robert J. Sawyer mostly), and then move on to the Galactic Milieu Trilogy, starting with
Jack the Bodiless.
Edit:
forgot to say why I love the stories:
All characters are down-to-earth, they can be anybody you meet on the street. The "hero" of the story isn't a hero at all, he's rather somebody who just want to live his life.
I also like the writing style she uses. You're not an all-knowing reader, but sometimes you do know a bit more because she goes back to events that already happened (but on a different location). And there are places where you must really think the story through before you really comprehend what is going on.
The last four books (
Intervention and the Galactic Milieu Trilogy) are written as some sort of biography, but with some parts "told" by others. So, part of the book is in first-person, others are "supplied" by a third-person and written as such. It also enhances the fact that you are not an all-knowing reader, you know as much as the one writing the story. You will learn things at the same time he does (as he is told part of the story by that third-party so he can write it down).