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dustydigger
Posted 2022-02-27 3:51 PM (#23865 - in reply to #23859)
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Location: UK		Finished Clifford D Simak's The Enchanted Pilgrimage,a lesser and late Simak work ,and an odd mix of Tolkienesque quest,alternate earths,robots and aliens.I much prefer his straight SF.
T E D Klein's The Events at Poroth Farm was a rather creepy mix of gothic merging with weird fiction,with a unreliable narrator who may be a little insane, a creepy cat possessed by something that entered our world through a rent in reality and murder and an ominous feeling that things are going very wrong for mankind soon.Klein goes at a leisurely paced,but quietly ratchets up the tension and unease.A nice tale with many nods to Lovecraft.
Also enjoyed Alfred Bester's Fondly Fahrenheit,the rather bonkers short story about a rich man and his very very expensive robot,which tosses off all of the Asimov robot rules to become a murderer. The owner also becomes crazy and the narration veers between 1st person owner and 1st person robert,often from one sentence to the next. Most strange,but blackly humorous too - and with a very nasty sting in the tale in the last short paragraph.

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