Picnic on Paradise

• Poul Anderson Picnic on Paradise Joanna Russ   An extraordinary book!

  Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments

• Fritz Leiber Picnic on Paradise Joanna Russ   Picnic on Paradise is the only science fiction novel I've read in a single sitting in the past ten years. The tough little heroine Alyx grabbed my interest in the first sentence and never let go, any more than she ever lets go of her job of herding a fascinating bunch of future tourists across a winter-resort planet which is the battlefield of an eerie war and glitters with peril. Here is adventure, not romanticized, but as it really is: rough, dangerous and dirty, a-bristle with the unexpected, though with moments of high humor and surprising beauty.

  Submitted Jul 21st 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments