#46 To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

[missingvolume]

Yet another Hugo winner I hadn't read until it came upon the book club. I haven't even seen the 2 separate movies that were made out of it. The premise was interesting but I didn't care for any of the characters at all. The ending left more questions unanswered and I still wasn't sure even after the discussion if they get answered in the later books.

                                                                                                            

Comments

[rtred.livejournal.com]

This is definitely a series that's more about the journey than the destination.

The SyFy movies were both pretty awful.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Got that warning from someone that had watched one but not the more recent version. Thanks for the heads up and I'll skip it on Netflix then.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The ending left more questions unanswered and I still wasn't sure even after the discussion if they get answered in the later books.

Not in any way you'll want to know about.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

I had that feeling from the discussion we had with someone that had read further along in the series.

[laurahcory1.livejournal.com]

Well, as you know from the book group discussion, I wasn't too thrilled with the ending, either and am feeling no need to seek out the rest of the books in the series.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Well at least I can now say I have read it. It is the plus side of the group that I am reading I filling in gaps in knowledge. In a few years when we are done with the list maybe we can switch to the Nebula winners.

[laurahcory1.livejournal.com]

*nods* It's doing that for me as well (filling in the gaps). Once we're done with the Hugos we'll definitely have to hash out what's next.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Well either the World Fantasy winners or the Nebula's. I'm not that interested in the Stokers.

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

I read it and couldn't figure out why it got a Hugo.

Must've been slim pickings that year.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Every meeting the question comes up so what else was on the ballot.
Ursula K. Le Guin Lathe of Heaven 
Anne McCaffrey Dragonquest
Roger Zelazny Jack of Shadows
Robert Silverberg Time of Changes

[lwj2.livejournal.com]

Oi veh is mir!

Says something about the Hugo voters.

1) McCaffrey
2) LeGuin
3) Silverberg
4) Zelazny
5 - 10^24) Almost anything else, including the collected wit and wisdom of Sen. William Spong (VA), once voted by his peers to the office of "the stupidest man in the Senate."
10^25) Farmer