Just finished Michener’s Space. It’s a good piece of historical fiction, and I enjoyed reading it. Michener brings together so many disparate characters, from the German engineers to American politicians to astronauts to a man who sells outrageous stories of Martian invasions and calls them truth. While lacking something in tension—the story is a very detached, matter-of-fact narrative for the most part—it is made up for in the rendition of the characters. Well worth reading, though I am not sure if I would care as much for other Michener novels.
My reading list currently stands as follows:
- The graphic novel Squee!, (edit) Jhonen Vasquez
- The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams
- Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara
And books not in my possession that sit nebulously at the end of the queue:
- Whichever Clancy novel follows Debt of Honor
- Rise to Rebellion, Jeff Shaara
- The Glorious Cause, Jeff Shaara
- A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller
