Book #348 of 2021: Strange Dreams edited by Stephen R. Donaldson Rating each story in this 1993 collection individually, they average out to just three-out-of-five stars overall for me. It’s an uneven bunch, yet there are still some winners among the lot. (No fives, but 10 fours, along with 11 threes, 5 twos, and 2 …
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Book #284 of 2021: Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon I’ll be charitable and say that this strikes me as a novel that really requires readers to get on its particular wavelength, which I was unable to do. It’s graphically sexual, albeit with the occasional giggle-inducing word like “dong,” and deeply rooted in a religious tradition that’s …
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