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Spider World -- The Tower
by Colin Wilson
Hardback $22.95
Hampton Roads. The Tower is the first of four volumes in the Spider World series. This visionary work chronicals events after a radioactive comet turns the world of man upside down. Spiders, and insects of all variety are now the masters in size -- leaving humans in the ackward position of not being somewhere closer to the bottom of the food chain.
Colin Wilson is thoughtful, erudite, and a damn good story teller. This first installment follows the life of Niall from his birth through capture by spiders, escape, interrupted revolt, and eventually... let's say we leave that to your reading, and in case you are wondering the butler did not do it.
The book has an excellent blend of story-telling, character development, action, budding love, and even a balloon chase. I especially enjoyed the vivid descriptions of Niall's life in the desert.
Good science fiction starts with an outrageous premise followed by self-consistant, even logical, progression of events. In this case, Colin Wilson begins with the presumption of monstrous spiders ruling the earth after the passage of a radioactive comet. From this all follows. In fact, if not for this science fiction premise the book could easily be a combination of adventure, biographical history and nature writing. But it is science fiction and the unnatural situation servers nicely to highlight the development of Niall through the events which follow.
A fine example of good story telling by a thoughtful and educated writer. There's enough to feed many aspects of the reader -- and perhaps leave him or her with more than a few thoughtful questions as well
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I doubt many of you have checked your standard search engine for: "lady mae loves to swat gophers"

If you did do such a search you'd find very few results. The following were the only two Google had at the time I checked:

Problems with house sparrows on the bluebird trail (part 1)
and
THE NEW WAWLI (Wrestling As We Liked It) Papers No. 21-2001.

I suppose if someone was hankering to be at the top of search results they may want to post a page or two devoted to Lady Mae and her odd inclination toward swatting gophers.

Notice: No gophers or other small furry mammals were hurt in the making of this posting.

1:30 pm -- A woman reported that a vandal threw a ball at her apartment window and then fled in an unknown direction.

2 pm -- A bicycle was stolen from the sidewalk.

10 pm -- A woman filled up her tank at a gas station and then drove away with the pump nozzle still attached to her car.

8:45 pm -- A woman reported receiving a telephone call from an unknown man who said he was with the fantasy phone company and that a friend of the victim had paid him to have fantasy phone sex with her.

10:50 pm -- A man used a cutting tool to remove security tags from clothing at a department store, then put the clothes on and exited the store without paying for them.

11:50 pm -- A man upset at a woman for vomiting on the bed pulled the victim to her feet and pushed her.

3:30 am -- Sometime over night, a vandal painted the word "smear" on the window of a business.

The above are extracted from real police reports. Only the names have been changed to protect our sanity.

Today's Funny -- courtesy BardoTown Comics

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