However, this book commits a monumental literary sin, a colossal cheap shot ending. He is described as that “actor” who lost in a landslide presidential election in 1980 - the year Reagan won in a landslide. The book is almost worth reading for an oblique reference to Ronald Reagan. The last encounter between Brian Chaney and Kathryn van Hise was poignant though their romance and the triangle of them and Arthur Saltus is rather dopey and hackneyed. Tucker’s contention that the Book of Revelations is an example of Hebrew “biblical fiction” using biblical concepts and characters is intriguing. To be sure, the novel does have some points of interest: the tone is lonely and bleak and the time travel mechanism is rather novel. It seems very … quaint now, a charmingly naïve nightmare of childhood. I’m sure that, in 1970, a future of race war and conflict with China leading to apocalypse seemed imminently plausible. This is one of those minor sf classics that has not aged well. Raw Feed (1990): The Year of the Quiet Sun, Wilson Tucker, 1970. So, how does this blog honor the occasion?īy interrupting the Lovecraft series with a cranky riposte to a recent mention of The Year of the Quiet Sun. Well, in America it’s the final hours of Thanksgiving.
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