I read James Blish's short cycle The Testament of Andros
yesterday, and I can think of nothing else. The way the cycle spirals around and around the three characters, the world's end, the sun.... it seems to be spiraling around and around in my brain in just the same way. It's been some time since I last read anything by Blish, but as soon as I read this, I downloaded several more stories for my Kindle. And I am planning on reading more of his longer works when I get back to Singapore, since they are on my shelf there. I had almost forgotten just how good a writer he is.
If you've not read Testament of Andros, it is well worth picking up. It can be read in a very brief time, but will linger in the mind long after the reading, swirling round and round in an eery sort of way. Just like the story itself does in the telling. It makes for a wonderful reading effect, and reading after effect.
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