The protagonist of "Pirate Latitudes" is Capt. It's simply an entertaining tale filled with crafty privateers, despicable villains, treasure hoards, double crosses and a sea monster. It's not a pirate novel with a secret gimmick. Set in the Caribbean in 1665, "Pirate Latitudes" is pretty much a straight-ahead adventure story. It reads like something its author would not have minded seeing published with a cover emblazoned with his name above the title. The good news here is that "Pirate Latitudes" doesn't seem to have been assembled from drafts, notes and the input of after-the-fact collaborators. When Michael Crichton died of cancer in 2008, he left in his files a complete manuscript, now published as "Pirate Latitudes." Posthumous publications are a notoriously dicey proposition, even for writers as professional and competent as the author of "Jurassic Park" and " The Andromeda Strain."
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one of the best collections that I've ever read ' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'This book contains a brilliant collection of short stories, all of them highlighting Reynolds' great imaginative powers and his first-class worldbuilding ' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'These stories of his are SO COOL. I'm impressed - this is good stuff!' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Reynolds is at his best. Readers are hooked on Alastair Reynolds' short stories: 'This collection was my first introduction to Alastair Reynolds' work. One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers. Alastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' The Times This collection includes ZIMA BLUE, one of the standout episodes in Netflix's LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes ZIMA BLUE, one of the standout shorts in Netflix's LOVE, DEATH AND ROBOTS, as well as MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG. Foer also prints blurry photos of a figure in midleap from the World Trade Center - they're items in young Oskar's Sept. Cryptic communication between other fathers and sons shows up throughout the book, along with accounts of other attacks, like the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima. The discovery inspires Oskar to search all around New York for information. In the story, Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father, a year after he is killed in the September 11 attacks. The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. In his lifetime, the father devised puzzles and scavenger hunts to force his fearful son into the world, and Oskar's convinced there's a message at the finish line of his dad's final challenge. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell struggles to find meaning after his dad dies in the World Trade Center. That book had an American trying to come to terms with the legacy of his Jewish forefathers, to counter the elusiveness of memory Extremely Loud also has a son hunting for clues. 11 so much as using it to explore themes he introduced in his Eastern Europe-set debut, Everything is Illuminated. 11 for such a sentimental work is exploitation. 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