This is what I’m doing this morning. I’ve piddled around
online a bit, but this is the plan—keep doing this.
Yesterday I finished The
United States of Atlantis by Harry Turtledove. It’s the second in a set of
three (so far). I liked the first a lot, but this one was so-so. A lot of repetitious
dialogue, etc., and a good bit of the time it just seemed like he was setting
up the situation for the next book.
If you’re not familiar with Harry Turtledove, he writes mostly
alternate history. It’s like historical fiction, except there’s always a “what
if” element that creates the setting. Like, what if the South won the American
Civil War? Or, in the case of these Atlantic books, what if the eastern chunk
of North America—from the east coast to roughly the Mississippi River—were actually
a separate continent out in the Atlantic Ocean? And then he writes a story set
there. He’ll often use some actual historical characters along with fictional
characters. In The United States of
Atlantis there are fictional characters who are analogous to various
historical characters from the American Revolution.
Anyway... I just started Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. And that’s my plan for the rest of
the morning, which, at this point, isn’t very long. So, maybe it’ll also be
part of my afternoon—that, and coffee, and being naked. Whee!
