Saturday, November 22, 2014

Daily Thoughts 11/22/2014

Amazing Stories, Scientifiction, September 1928

Thoughts 11/22/2014Daily 

I checked the Twitter and Facebook for the library.

I read a graphic novel this morning, Blacksad Amarillo by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido.  The characters are different types of animals.  The main character is a black cat, Blacksad who is trying to escape from his life as a detective.  The series is in a noir style 1950s.  This was a fairly dark story.  I especially liked the character Chad, a writer with a homicidal streak who ends up killing some especially ill intentioned villains.  Neal Adams did an introduction praising the style.  The comic is a translation from Spanish.  I enjoyed the different animal characters; parrots, hyenas, lions, elephants, and dogs. I put the previous book, Blacksad A Silent Hell on hold.

I started reading The Goliath Stone by Larry Niven and Matthew Joseph Harrington.  It is a near future thriller set in the 2050s with nanotechnology and asteroid mining.  You can recognize our earth with some changes in the politics.



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