Books read and heard in March / April
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gervase_fen 8) Doctor Who - Colditz by Steve Lyons
9) Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
10) The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg
11) The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
12) Hitler's Peace by Philip Kerr
8) was up against some tough competition - I'd recently re-watched the BBC's Colditz series on DVD. The eccentric post production doesn't do Steve Lyon's script any favours. Probably an episode too long.
9) an influential piece of SF has aged well in places (some of Duncan Jones' movie Source Code shares its central conceit) and less well in others (the female characters are... a bit odd to be honest.)
10) is a book I stumbled across in Fareham Library when I was ten or eleven I think ; I only read the first few pages then but they've stayed with me ever since.
I've had a proof of 11 for years but only got round to reading it after watching the film of The Lincoln Lawyer. Very good, as always.
12) was disappointing - too baggy, but has one of my favourite variants of Chekhov's Gun that I've encountered so far - Himmler's Emergency Ejection Seat.
9) Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
10) The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg
11) The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
12) Hitler's Peace by Philip Kerr
8) was up against some tough competition - I'd recently re-watched the BBC's Colditz series on DVD. The eccentric post production doesn't do Steve Lyon's script any favours. Probably an episode too long.
9) an influential piece of SF has aged well in places (some of Duncan Jones' movie Source Code shares its central conceit) and less well in others (the female characters are... a bit odd to be honest.)
10) is a book I stumbled across in Fareham Library when I was ten or eleven I think ; I only read the first few pages then but they've stayed with me ever since.
I've had a proof of 11 for years but only got round to reading it after watching the film of The Lincoln Lawyer. Very good, as always.
12) was disappointing - too baggy, but has one of my favourite variants of Chekhov's Gun that I've encountered so far - Himmler's Emergency Ejection Seat.
