What did you read this year?
Paul’s
average rating for
2024
4.3
4.3
I read this after learning of Drake's passing. For all of the sci-fi and militaria I consumed in my teen years, it's baffling to me that I never read more than a couple of the Slammers stories (I DID tear through the "Fleet" anthology series, co-edited by Drake, when I was in high school and finally moving on from my middle-school diet of Star Trek serial fiction.) Maybe it is only later in life that I can appreciate how well-written, how thought
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Solid rock bio-- this book reminded me that, even before the band exploded with "Out of Time," they were already a part of the soundtrack of arty, left-of-center kids, even in the small-town world in which I grew up. Someone had "Lifes Rich Pageant" or "Green" playing in the background for some decorating project or another... in true form, the band's benevolent non-participation (as Carlin explains, no interviews, but gracious help connecting an
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