Literary Spotlight #2

Sometimes I have plenty of time for reading, another time it took me several weeks to finish a book. Either way, I always have a current book to read (and myriads of unread at my bookshelf, kindle reader and watchlist ). I also think it's worth sharing and dicussing about books, to suggest and attract attention to the personal favorites.
If you have a favorite author or genre you often look/search at the same direction for new books. There is the big chance to overlook really good literatur. Some of the best I read I found accidently or due to a random suggestion from a friend. That's the main reason I'm starting with 'Literary Spotlight', to spend a word or two about the book I recently finished reading. Maybe one of them will be your favorite, too? I'll add some dA art to underline the atmosphere and nature of the book I felt during reading.

Book: Elleander Morning
Author: Jerry Yulsman
Genre: Science fiction / Alternate history
Publication date: 1984
Pages: 308
Personal rating: 7.9/10

Elleander Morning is the debut novel from Jerry Yulsman.The protagonist Elleander Morning travels back in time to kill the young Adolf Hitler already in Vienna of 1913. 60 years later her granddaughter discovers two volumes of the "Time Life" magazine about The Second World War. She's really confused about this, because a war called WW II never happened... this is the starting point of an interesting alternative history novel, which plays in a very familiar but at the same time very different world. The novel won the australian Ditmar Award in 1986 and the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in 1987.

Some miscellaneous information: The first alternate history story I read was 'Fatherland' from Robert Harris (It's too long ago to rate it meaningfully). Besides this book, I only remember 'The Man in the High Castle' from Philip K. Dick, which has at least a backround in alternate history (spontaneous rating 8.5/10 ). Since reading a lot of fantasy, science fiction and dystopian book recently, it was very refreshing to get back to this genre. I like it very much, when facts and fiction are mixed together to something new. I think, I'll keep on reading books of this genre in the near future.

Please let me know if you read this book too and how you liked it. Also, I'm always looking forward for book suggestions.

See also Literay Spotlight #1
  Literary Spotlight #1Sometimes I have plenty of time for reading, another time it took me several weeks to finish a book. Either way, I always have a current book to read (and myriads of unread at my bookshelf, kindle reader and watchlist ). I also think it's worth sharing and dicussing about books, to suggest and attract attention to the personal favorites.
If you have a favorite author or genre you often look/search at the same direction for new books. There is the big chance to overlook really good literatur. Some of the best I read I found accidently or due to a random suggestion from a friend. That's the main reason I'm starting with 'Literary Spotlight', to spend a word or two about the book I recently finished reading. Maybe one of them will be your favorite, too? I'll add some dA art to underline the atmosphere and nature of the book I felt during reading.
Book: Luzifers Hammer
Authors: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Genre: Science fiction, (post-



 











 

















 








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