This is just the most perfect weather for staying indoors with a good book in hand. I’ve refrained from starting anything new as the 1^st is around the corner and I’m expected in Scandia at that time. Wouldn’t do to be elsewhere when the Scandians arrive, now would it?

Oh alright, I have been stalking the streets of Desolation Road. But only a page here; a page there, mind you. I’m forcing myself not to get too attached. This is a very good book and I’ve already found a connection with Dr. Alimantando. Too bad too because the sublime is very captivating, and if I let it, I could easily be consumed.

Actually Desolation Road is not a road at all. It is a small and dusty town sired, quite by happenstance, on the futuristic planet of Mars. Theoretically uninhabitable, but for some oddity, Desolation Road is attracting a plethora of misfits………

I will be returning there myself after my journey to Scandia, and of course my visit with Flavia.

DESOLATION ROAD
2009 soft cover reprint
Published by Pyr
365 pages
original publication: 1988

[Exquisite] Cover Art by Stephan Martinier
British Science Fiction Association award for Best Artwork 2009