Conference noted::sf

959.0. "Farmer: Dark Is The Sun" by ABSZK::SZETO (Simon Szeto, ISEDA/US at ZKO) Wed Feb 27 1991 22:03

    _Dark_Is_The_Sun_ by Philip Jos� Farmer
    
    I picked this one up as a "pre-read" book.  Even at $1.29 it was money
    wasted.  After 42 pages, I gave up.  I just can't get into the story.
    
    From the back cover:
    "Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet--its skies
    darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies, its molten core long
    cooled.
    
    "But young Deyv of the Turtle Tribe knew nothing of his world's history
    or its fate.  He lived only to track down the wretched Yawtl, who had
    stolen his precious Soul Egg. ..."
    
    This may be SF, but it read more like Fantasy, as far as I went.  But
    it wasn't the kind of Fantasy I like reading.
    
    --Simon