Lutz Barz's Blog (4)

Kallandra with a predeliction for ale is at the Gladstenbury rock festival. She is the-youngest trainee astronaut for the first manned Mars mission. Along with her lover Derek an aeornautical engineer for Europsace they witness an amazing event near the ancient Tor . Astounded Kallandra sums it up in just two words: “It’s impossible.” Here we have what must be one of the most orginal of introductions in the genre of science fiction. And so `Exit, Pursued by a Bee’ furnishes us with an unfolding… Continue

`State of Fear’ by M. Crichton. Harper Collins 2005 I have just finished Michael Crichton’s `State of Fear’. At nearly seven hundred pages, promising the reader `as thrilling as they come’ and `gripping’, also `his very best story’, I was soon to find that in reality the propaganda at the back cover is dismally short of the hype. Mr Crichton’s main thesis is presented as an amalgam of some dodgy thesis suffused with subtle and often not so restrained academic posturing. You see his book is abou… Continue

Brian Porter’s Pestilence is a classic. A story one glides into seamlessly. Many authors need to find their métier. Brian Porter has no such difficulties. The ease with which he engrosses the reader is immediate and compelling. A quick narration of the setting: the bucolic countryside of eastern England. The scene is set, destiny weighs her hand upon a village fated to be drawn into a tragedy which, as the story progresses harbors a threat that could easily spiral out of control. For `Every so o… Continue

Without covers they would look pretty blase. Now as a diversion from art I shall post some book reviews which may save some of you the need to read them at all. After all some very famous authors wrote pretty awefull stuff, the DVC is a prime example. However as I have just returned [this morning] from an art's opening of abstract art [whatever that is- 'cause I don't even pretend to bother to know-hoping that for my friend it makes her money] I am suffering from a borderline case of the DT's. A… Continue