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Mar. 20th, 2016 12:26 amDownbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh (audiobook)
A couple of years ago I listened to maybe ten of Cherryh's Foreigner series and enjoyed them a lot, then they switched audiobook reader and I didn't like the new one, so I stopped listening. Maybe there's something about the style of audiobook narrating that has changed; this is an older recording and it really works for me. Can't put my finger on what it is, though. Anyway, about this book. It's pretty bleak, though not grimdark--just about people caught between a rock and a hard place (on a space station trying to remain neutral in a war). Not my favorite Cherryh, though it's worth reading.
The Blood of Angels by Johanna Sinisalo (originally in Finnish)
Finnish sci-fi. This is a book about three generations of Finnish men, and about a world where colony collapse disorder is caused by the bees just getting fed up and crossing over into a better world (causing havoc with agriculture in the process). Also it's kind of an Orpheus-and-Eurydice story. I liked it! Although I do wish it had been translated into Swedish--it's weird reading stories set in Scandinavia in English.
A couple of years ago I listened to maybe ten of Cherryh's Foreigner series and enjoyed them a lot, then they switched audiobook reader and I didn't like the new one, so I stopped listening. Maybe there's something about the style of audiobook narrating that has changed; this is an older recording and it really works for me. Can't put my finger on what it is, though. Anyway, about this book. It's pretty bleak, though not grimdark--just about people caught between a rock and a hard place (on a space station trying to remain neutral in a war). Not my favorite Cherryh, though it's worth reading.
The Blood of Angels by Johanna Sinisalo (originally in Finnish)
Finnish sci-fi. This is a book about three generations of Finnish men, and about a world where colony collapse disorder is caused by the bees just getting fed up and crossing over into a better world (causing havoc with agriculture in the process). Also it's kind of an Orpheus-and-Eurydice story. I liked it! Although I do wish it had been translated into Swedish--it's weird reading stories set in Scandinavia in English.
