Angelica, I've been blasting through Chaos Walking and am currently in the third volume. I've really enjoyed it, so I appreciate your review alerting me to the books. When I'm done I'll give to a friend and her daughter to read, then it'll come back around to my wife.
The author does an amazing job on this twisty time travel thriller that she must have really thought through hard because of the crazy paradigms in time travel. I liked her writing so much I'm also reading another of her series. Good stuff.
Thank you for a very interesting discussion. I am a sci fi fan but had not run across these books or the film. If you're not familiar with it and if you enjoy telepathy/telepathic societies as a vehicle for sci fi story telling, I'll mention Alfred Bester's novel the Demolished Man which won a Hugo award. Several attempts (one by Oliver Stone) have been made to adapt TDM for film but none were realized (Don't confuse TDM with the film 'Demolition Man'.) perhaps because of the difficulty of handling telepathic dialogue in a visual medium or perhaps because Bester (as a story creator) was (my words) 'outright wild and wooly'. One need only read his novel 'The Stars My Destination' (appeared under other titles) to get that. Bester was (my words) a thorough individualist whose work I enjoy but which I can see might not appeal to others especially TSMD which has some truly bizarre, and in one case outright ugly, moments. I look forward to more Fictionosophy.
I hadn't really read sci-fi as a teenager, but looking back, I see I was definitely missing out! There's tons of fascinating sci-fi out there that deals with important moral issues. I haven't read The Demolished Man but I'll add it to my list - always happy to discover more individualist fiction! And it's certainly the case that some of this stuff can be tricky to adapt to the screen; though film and literature are related genres, they're not the same...
Angelica, I've been blasting through Chaos Walking and am currently in the third volume. I've really enjoyed it, so I appreciate your review alerting me to the books. When I'm done I'll give to a friend and her daughter to read, then it'll come back around to my wife.
I don't think I learned about this trilogy from you, so if you reviewed it, I apologize. Chronos Files. First book in series is Timebound. https://www.amazon.com/Timebound-Kindle-Motion-Chronos-Files-ebook/dp/B00CQC9O16/
The author does an amazing job on this twisty time travel thriller that she must have really thought through hard because of the crazy paradigms in time travel. I liked her writing so much I'm also reading another of her series. Good stuff.
Hey Gary, glad you're enjoying Chaos Walking! It's a great series.
I haven't read the Cronos Files, but I'll add it to my TBR! Time travel gets super complicated, huge props to an author who can handle it well
Thank you for a very interesting discussion. I am a sci fi fan but had not run across these books or the film. If you're not familiar with it and if you enjoy telepathy/telepathic societies as a vehicle for sci fi story telling, I'll mention Alfred Bester's novel the Demolished Man which won a Hugo award. Several attempts (one by Oliver Stone) have been made to adapt TDM for film but none were realized (Don't confuse TDM with the film 'Demolition Man'.) perhaps because of the difficulty of handling telepathic dialogue in a visual medium or perhaps because Bester (as a story creator) was (my words) 'outright wild and wooly'. One need only read his novel 'The Stars My Destination' (appeared under other titles) to get that. Bester was (my words) a thorough individualist whose work I enjoy but which I can see might not appeal to others especially TSMD which has some truly bizarre, and in one case outright ugly, moments. I look forward to more Fictionosophy.
I hadn't really read sci-fi as a teenager, but looking back, I see I was definitely missing out! There's tons of fascinating sci-fi out there that deals with important moral issues. I haven't read The Demolished Man but I'll add it to my list - always happy to discover more individualist fiction! And it's certainly the case that some of this stuff can be tricky to adapt to the screen; though film and literature are related genres, they're not the same...
I wonder if the author is a highly sensitive person as all "HSPs" live with The Noise.