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The Triffids are Coming Advantages: Tense, atmospheric, compellingly written Disadvantages: Dialogue feels slightly stuffy in places ...Wyndham's 1951 novel 'Day of The Triffids', main protagonist Bill Masen awakes in a London hospital to find that his eyes are heavily bandaged and nobody appears to be around to attend to him. Tentatively removing his bandages and discovering that he is still able to see, Masen quickly discovers that the hospital is deserted and some terrible catastrophe appears to have occured, with the city in a state of abject chaos. Everyone appears to be blind, ... ...the numerous pubs throughout the city, whist others cling to one another in an attempt to find food and somehow remain alive. Masen remembers the radio reports about strange cosmic phenomena in the sky that played out during the weeks he was incapacitated in the hospital, and it soon becomes apparent that watching these weird lights in the sky has somehow caused 99% of the worlds population to go completely blind. This is not all that humanity suddenly ... Burning_Darkness 02.07.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
Does my second head make me a deviant? Advantages: Thoughtful, intelligent sci-fi... Disadvantages: ... some occasionally long-winded speeches The Chsysalids by John Wyndham is a post-apolaclyptic vision of a world where people are obsessed with conformity to the norm, or in their words, "the image of God". Anyone who does not conform to this image becomes an outcast, and the women who are categorised as Deviants are sterilised before being sent off. The "image of God" has 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, 1 nose, 5 digits at the end of eat hand and foot… etc. You get the idea. The narrator of this ... ...is, so is safe from the religious-minded people around him, chief of whom is his father. Not so lucky is a girl he meets who has a physical deviation, and this causes him to wonder whether it really is the will of God being done by the zealots here… As David realises the danger his special talents wrought from his differences could cause, and becomes aware of others with the same talents, he is drawn instinctively away from his family. He knows that ... CaptainDisaster 31.08.2005 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Chrysalids - John Wyndham	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
Captain Jack is back! Advantages: Compelling read, creepy plot Disadvantages: Not enough page time for Captain Jack! ...series of reviews on the Doctor Who new adventure novels is the fourth, "The Deviant Strain" by Justin Richards. Blurb (from the back of the book) The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten. Until the Russian Special Forces arrive - and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too. But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that ... ...hunting, killing... Can the Doctor and his friends stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain... Plot (minor spoilers) The book opens strongly, with a mysterious passage about a boy who has died. We then see into the TARDIS, where our favourite crew members - the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack - are responding to a distress call. Then the scene cuts to ... amytheduck 16.07.2007 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Doctor Who: The Deviant Strain - Justin Richards	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
This is not Alice's World Advantages: An entertaining Military science fiction story. Disadvantages: Definately not for everybody ...local population. An investigation turned into a full scale alien invasion with the Army, Police and local citizens loosing badly to some weird aliens. So briefly starts the latest book from John Ringo. He burst like a bomb himself on the unprepared world in 2000, and has not looked back since. He writes a good enthralling military hi-Tec adventure type of story. The action in this one starts right at page one and has not let up since. The story ... ...seen and ideas similar have cropped up with other writers as to the style of the aliens. The idea of biological weapons is in itself not knew. We tend to think of germs but that may not be the only type of biology available. What about modified animals and peoples. This idea itself has been also used by other writers. (H Harrison 'Eden' books) The quantum theory of a multiverse is not new either but is now appearing in more works. If you really ... Coloneljohn 13.11.2005 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Into the Looking Glass - John Ringo	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
It is not just about football! Advantages: It's very funny, and oh so true! Disadvantages: None The Disc, for those who don't know, continues to float in space, supported by the elephants who ride the back of the great swimming turtle A'tuin. The Hub about which the planet spins is a centre of great magic, and best avoided if you want to live a happy and contented life. At the outer perimeter is the great circle sea which unendingly streams over the rim into the void, which is best avoided if you want to continue to live at all. Most Discians ... ...Smeems, for instance, is the Candle Nave at the Unseen University. He has to worry about keeping the candles not just alight, but properly melted, artistically, gothicly, dribbled, as it were. Of course, there's Trevor to help. And there's Nutt. With two t's. Trevor Likely has a tendency to skive off work whenever possible, and to kick a tin can around. His dad was a legend. Nutt is… well, no-one's quite sure what Nutt is, even him. Goblin isn't ... hiker 07.12.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...