
#weekendreads
I‘m enjoying juggling only two books this Valentine‘s weekend.
“The Bell Jar” for #HashtagBrigade
“The Zero Stone” for #LitsySFBC
#weekendreads
I‘m enjoying juggling only two books this Valentine‘s weekend.
“The Bell Jar” for #HashtagBrigade
“The Zero Stone” for #LitsySFBC
Apprentice gemmologist Murdoc Jern's master is killed as a sacrifice. Can Murdoc escape from Koonga and find out why?
A strange mixture of fantasy faux-mediaeval tropes (apprentices, arcane rituals, quests, rings of power) set in a science fiction world of spaceships, rockets, spacesuits, interstellar travel, and aliens. There were too many threads left hanging and unexplained. They may be explained later, but I'm not sure I will bother.
(1968) I first read The Zero Stone thirty-something years ago, and though I remember liking it unusually well, I remembered barely any of the plot. I'll probably forget the plot again in a couple of months but I loved the revisit: when I enjoy Andre Norton, it's stories like this I enjoy: packed with incident, mystery, peril, and exotic locations; and of course the telepathic cat-creature is a signature bonus.