Nightfall

I am not big on Sci-fi / disaster awaits the world kind of books, but this I liked. The story of a planet with no nightfall is fascinating. But the fear they feel about it something I couldn't relate to. Particularly the part about stars. I mean how can you be scared of the? Go crazy at the sight of those sparklers in the sky?

The book has 3 parts, one - leading up to the night fall - brilliant! two - nightfall itself - Fascinating! three - was post nightfall, I didn't enjoy that so much. It felt very cliche. I suppose in 1990 it wasn't so but with so many paranoid hollywood films...

But overall I liked it.

A midsummer night's gene

A classic case of never judge the book by the cover! The blurb on the back cover was very funny, the book was not. To give myself credit I did try very hard. Read more than 50 pages and didn't see the humour promised in the back cover. Considering this is a sci-fi parody (based on Shakespeare's midsummer night's dream if you haven't already guessed by the title) that I was reading right after Douglas Adams, made things only worse. I gave up! I am going to be wary of author Andrew Harman from now onwards, that is for sure!

Life, the Universe and Everything

What can I say? It was brilliantly Humourous. Just what was the man on to come up with stuff like this? The bizarre names he comes up with for characters itself is a subject of study. And in this book he converts Cricket into a intra galaxy war of "Krikkit" simply awesome!

I bought this book, an omnibus with six of his books in 2005. Despite my urge to finish of the series, I have been savouring one book at a time. It is simply is more fun this way.

No rating n all, I simply love this book :)