3S10

Following up the earlier post on 'The Three Body Problem' (Cixin Liu), I've just ordered ‘The Dark Forest’ (The Three-Body Problem, Book 2) from Amazon, and bought the 3rd book 'Death's End' last week (it's on the waist-high books-to-be-read toppling-over heap next to the bed); I'll probably get 'The Dark Forest' off Audible to listen to in the car as well (that's 23 hrs 11 mins)   .. let's see, 23hrs 11 minutes ... that'll  https://www.distancecalculator.net/from-bristol-to-algiers  - get me to, er,  Algiers, driving at an average speed of 70mph in my supercharged Bentley, bien sur ... Anyway, reading the 'reviews' of The Dark Forest' on Amazon after viewing the current sales figures of 3S10: The Saving Remnant (Something Needs To Be Done About The Humans) on Amazon cheered me up. Some people will like your book, some will hate it, some don't give a damn either way. Just keep on pushing that plough thru...

Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels destroyed by steamroller  "The unfinished books of Sir  Terry Pratchett  have been destroyed by a steamroller, following the late fantasy novelist’s wishes." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/terry-pratchett-unfinished-novels-destroyed-streamroller?CMP=share_btn_fb "The author of over 70 novels, Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2007. He became  an advocate for assisted dying , giving a moving lecture on the subject, Shaking Hands With Death, in 2010, and presenting a documentary for the BBC called Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die." https://freedocumentaries.org/documentary/terry-pratchett-choosing-to-die From 3S10: The Saving Remnant (Something Needs To Be Done About The Humans) : JULIETTE – WHAT’S THE POINT? ‘How’s Mum?’ asked Ronnie. ‘Juliette looked at him. ‘Whadya mean, “how’s Mum”?’ she said. ‘Ok, Ok, just asking,’ said Ronnie. ‘How d’ya think,’ said Juliette. ‘N...

UP 'blow-you-away' visuals in 3D (1st half hour I was thinking, 'yes! This is where it's at! I have seen the future and it rocks!') scenes where they arrive at the desert city on the tourist coach/battle-cruiser (being in two realities at once was impressive; so was the take-over of the guard guy in the tower) Cara De-whatsername's eyebrows (and, possibly, combat suit...) DOWN really dreary military types nothing interesting for the actors to do (what WERE they doing? What for?). Still, must be boring as hell to have to 'act' for umpteen hours in front of a blue-screen. tooooooo long................. really cheesy love story vehicle that creature which eat some ball-thing and then went cross-eyed and shat energy balls oh c'mon - wafelike ethereal androgynous beings who 'lived in harmony with Nature' and perfect peace between them on-a-helluva-boring-perpetually white sand beach on a planet and fed it energy from the crea...