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    Returner 77 is a cinematic sci-fi mystery puzzle game. You are in a giant alien spaceship hovering...

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Chocky in Books

Sep 9, 2019  
Chocky
Chocky
John Wyndham | 2009 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy
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7.5 (2 Ratings)
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The final novel published in John Wyndham's lifetime is something of a return to form, offering a very different and understated take on the theme of first contact with alien life. The Gores are an utterly ordinary middle-class family until twelve-year-old Matthew acquires what seems to be a very strange imaginary friend - Chocky, who keeps asking all kinds of strange questions about life on Earth. As Chocky's influence over Matthew grows, vested terrestrial interests take an interest in this strange situation...

The thing that makes Chocky work so well - the overwhelming ordinariness of most of the characters and settings, contrasted with the always-at-a-remove alien presence of Chocky - is also the thing that will probably pose the biggest barrier for modern audiences. Wyndham was writing SF that would be acceptable to mainstream sixties readers, and his dry, reserved, conventional narrative voice may have done the job back then, but it feels rather dated now. Nevertheless this is a strong story, very capably told, touching upon some interesting ideas about communication with a truly alien intelligence. Not quite like anything else I've ever read; possibly a minor classic.
  
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Adam DeVine recommended Broken Boy Soldiers by The Raconteurs in Music (curated)

 
Broken Boy Soldiers by The Raconteurs
Broken Boy Soldiers by The Raconteurs
2006 | Alternative
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"I’m a big Jack White fan. Specifically, I love the Raconteurs. They’re just fucking great, man. They’re straight-ahead rock ‘n’ roll music and it’s pretty radical. I think he’s just a weird vampire, alien, music god that has descended to bring rock ‘n’ roll music back. The Raconteurs, I think, embody all that."

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Lupita Nyong'o recommended Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) in Books (curated)

 
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
Octavia E. Butler | 1987
10.0 (2 Ratings)
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"I was stunned by how relevant the themes of the book are to today. I did not imagine that sci-fi would be an enjoyable genre to get into for me, but Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct."

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David Gray recommended The Reality Dysfunction in Books (curated)

 
The Reality Dysfunction
The Reality Dysfunction
Peter F. Hamilton | 2008 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
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"Hamilton is a modern master of vast, operatic sci-fi. When an alien probe accidentally comes in contact with a dying man, it follows his soul to the netherworld and accidentally lets loose a legion of raging spirits. Space zombies, galactic war, high tech, rockets, it’s all here in a marvelous first volume of three."

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