Break out your old Palladium books...

Radioactive Wild Boars on the rise in Germany

And once boars get radioactive you know what comes next...



Yeah...
Tom

Break out your old Palladium books...

Radioactive Wild Boars on the rise in Germany

And once boars get radioactive you know what comes next...



Yeah...
Tom

Shades of Review

Hi,

So I burned through Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde.

It is best described as: Jane Austen writes Paranoia fanfic.

That sounds flip (and possibly back-handed), but it pretty much fits.

So in this far-future world, people are defined by their ability to see color. Specifically, people are either color-blind (Greys), or they can only see one of the major colors. So you've got Reds, Yellows, Greens, Purples, etc. Just as in Paranoia, shorter wavelength colors out-rank longer wavelengths. So Reds are at the bottom and Purples are at the top (there is mention of Ultraviolets, but no details are given).

However, although most people are colorblind to a severe degree, it's possible to create artificial pigments that can be viewed by everyone. So towns have color gardens where all the plants and flowers are fed the artificial color and so appear as they do in nature to everyone who looks at it. Additionally, these artificial colors can have strong mental and physical effects on people. The main character is Eddie Russet and his father is a swatchman -- a doctor who uses colored lenses to project colors into patients eyes and affect their healing. All of these people live in a highly regimented society with Rules That Must Be Followed and a system of Merits and Demertis and regular purges of facts and technology.

So Eddie Russet and his father are temporarily relocating to East Carmine where Eddie's dad will be filling in for the local swatchman who recently died and where Eddie will be conducting a chair census for the head office to make up for some infractions committed at home. East Carmine is on the very fringe of the Collective and the Rules get bent very hard and loopholes abound. Aside from the linoleum factory, the town sifts through the trash of the Previous civilization searching for colored trash that can be rendered into artificial pigment National Color. All Eddie wants to do is finish the survey and get home so he can marry Constance Oxblood and have a cushy job in the string business.

Sadly, Eddie is a very inquisitive and curious young man and the strange goings-on at East Carmine quickly suck him into uncovering a lot of the hidden machinery that makes the Collective run smoothly.

Overall a light, breezy book that was a fun read. Unabashedly the first in a trilogy, it finds a good place to stop.

later
Tom

Shades of Review

Hi,

So I burned through Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde.

It is best described as: Jane Austen writes Paranoia fanfic.

That sounds flip (and possibly back-handed), but it pretty much fits.

So in this far-future world, people are defined by their ability to see color. Specifically, people are either color-blind (Greys), or they can only see one of the major colors. So you've got Reds, Yellows, Greens, Purples, etc. Just as in Paranoia, shorter wavelength colors out-rank longer wavelengths. So Reds are at the bottom and Purples are at the top (there is mention of Ultraviolets, but no details are given).

However, although most people are colorblind to a severe degree, it's possible to create artificial pigments that can be viewed by everyone. So towns have color gardens where all the plants and flowers are fed the artificial color and so appear as they do in nature to everyone who looks at it. Additionally, these artificial colors can have strong mental and physical effects on people. The main character is Eddie Russet and his father is a swatchman -- a doctor who uses colored lenses to project colors into patients eyes and affect their healing. All of these people live in a highly regimented society with Rules That Must Be Followed and a system of Merits and Demertis and regular purges of facts and technology.

So Eddie Russet and his father are temporarily relocating to East Carmine where Eddie's dad will be filling in for the local swatchman who recently died and where Eddie will be conducting a chair census for the head office to make up for some infractions committed at home. East Carmine is on the very fringe of the Collective and the Rules get bent very hard and loopholes abound. Aside from the linoleum factory, the town sifts through the trash of the Previous civilization searching for colored trash that can be rendered into artificial pigment National Color. All Eddie wants to do is finish the survey and get home so he can marry Constance Oxblood and have a cushy job in the string business.

Sadly, Eddie is a very inquisitive and curious young man and the strange goings-on at East Carmine quickly suck him into uncovering a lot of the hidden machinery that makes the Collective run smoothly.

Overall a light, breezy book that was a fun read. Unabashedly the first in a trilogy, it finds a good place to stop.

later
Tom