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PoindexterOglethorpe

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26. Have you read The Doomsday Book

Mon Dec 27, 2021, 06:21 PM

Dec 2021

by her? It's one of my all time favorite novels. I've read it several times, since it first came out. About three months or so ago my science fiction book club did that book. We meet by Zoom. Someone in the group knew her, and invited her to participate, which she did. It was fascinating to hear her explanation of various things in the book, including that one character got invented because she needed to have someone another character could give a lot of information to in a natural, not stop the plot fashion.

Her newest novel, The Road to Roswell should be out some time next year.

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