Well I'm hopeful that all you early gamblers are wrong. Do we really want to fight an ancient war over again, after facing murder, racism, and a fishing sob-story? And yes, Stephen Fry does write a very clever turn of phrase, and he knows it, but take a look at some of the other contenders. In particular:
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
From the Amazon blurb: "
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again." Again? Keep going, I'm listening. The opening sentences of chapter 1: "
The second catacylsm began in my eleventh life, in 1996. I was dying my usual death, slipping away in a warm morphine haze, which she interrupted like an ice cube down my spine. She was seven, I was seventy-eight." This was the second cataclysm? I want to read this book!
Okay, so I probably want to read
All Our Wrong Todays as well, and
The Bay of Noon and
Time and Again and ... oh, vote for what you want, see if I care.
