Forlag Headline review
Utgivelsesår 2005
Format Paperback
ISBN13 9780755322800
Språk Engelsk
Sider 400
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Richard put his head on one side. "Excuse me," he said. "I know this is a personal question. But are you clinically insane?"
"Possible, but very unlikely. Why?"
"Well," said Richard. "One of us must be."
"A child, a bravo, a fool. May they each get what they deserve."
"Which one am I?" whispered Richard to Hunter.
"The fool, of course," she said.
Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
Richard was thunderstruck: it had been like watching Emma Peel, Bruce Lee and a particularly vicious tornado all rolled into one and sprinkled with a generous helping of footage he had once seen on a wildlife programme of a mongoose killing a king cobra. That was how she had moved.
Door scratched her nose. "There are little bubbles of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber," she explained. "There's a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere - it doesn't all get used up at once." "I may still be hung over," sighed Richard. "That almost made sense."
Av og til leser du en bok som får deg til å skratte på bussen. Noen ganger sitter du med tårevåte øyne. Andre ganger tenker du "wow, jeg lever i en fantastisk verden, i et fantastisk solsystem, i en utrooolig stor galakse...i et tilsynelatende uendelig, mindblowing og fremdeles ekspanderende univers!!! I morgen skal jeg fortelle en venn hvor vakker han/hun er. Alt er så vakkert! Herregud, sa jeg det høyt?"
Min liste over de fem tøffeste jentene som ikke er hovedpersoner.
Hos NPR har leserne stemt frem de 100 beste romanene innen science fiction og fantasy. Her er resultatet, rangert etter antall stemmer.