Saturday, 4 April 2026

Sensory Inputs And The Reading Experience

In The Fleet Of Stars, 5, the scene shifts to Mars and it takes several pages for the conversation to get going. I am unlikely to reread any further this evening although I think that we have established that it is worthwhile to persevere with this novel. 

My present intermittent sensory inputs are:

this computer screen;
a TV switched on across the room;
the wind whining and howling outside;
pages of The Fleet Of Stars;
pages of Inspector Morse short stories (having finished the novels).

In my childhood, TV's were new and computer screens did not exist. We live sf. Books had been with us for much longer than that and wind howled outside caves.

We contemplate other reading but also continue to find Poul Anderson worthy of rereading and reflection.

Happy Easter.
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5 April 2026 at 05:42

    Kaor, Paul!

    We both grew up with TVs and computers, albeit the latter had to wait till about 1980 before really spreading into common out if the office use.

    The theoreticians/pioneers of rockets/space technology were Tsiolkovsky and Goddard. Albeit SF writers as long ago as Jules Verne's FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON were dreaming of space journeys.

    Happy Easter! Seajn

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