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I finally finished Paul Cornell's first original SF novel, Something More. I confess it took me three tries to get into it, but the slow beginning is deceptive - the novel's pace and head-exploding-ness increase the longer you stick with it, so persistence paid off in the end. Looking forward to British Summertime now.

I've also been reading The Birth of Time by John Gribbin. The topic is fascinating - how scientists over the last 500 years have realised the universe was bigger and bigger and older and older - but the book itself is too dry for my taste and badly needs diagrams. My favourite bit is where early thinkers realise that fossilised snails on mountaintops wouldn't have had time to crawl that far from the sea during the Flood. It must've been another of those head-exploding moments.

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[campion7.livejournal.com]

Don't you love books that get into your head like that? The kind that you have to hold onto with both hands because you're in for one hell of a ride?

BTW, love the icon!