Today is National Science Fiction day so I thought a few “out of this world books” would be appropriate to display. The first is “The Day of the Triffids” by John Wyndham, 1951. It is a wonderful book about Triffids, venomous, moving plants that are killing humans (as well as being harvested by humans). Were they DNA-ed by the Russians? After most people have gone blind by staring at the glowing green sky, which may have been brought about by Russian spy satellites, the world order breaks down. How does it end? Ahhh, read the book.
I also have a shelf of H.P. Lovecraft books that I began collecting in high school. A few of the first edition paperbacks were bought at Leekley’s Rare Bookshop in Winthrop Harbor. His books were very unusual, many with the view that there is a much larger universe than man could understand; It is horrible, and one could/would go crazy it tried to understand it.
Today, with the idea of Covid 19 perhaps lab-made by the Chinese, and with the Webb and Hubble telescopes discovering thousands of galaxies in such small sections of the night sky, there could be something to these old science fiction books. Keep looking over your shoulder as you read tonight.
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