Another month has passed and I had only managed to read one book. I blame this on my workplace due to the fact that I have to work extra hours in order to finish some projects that were overdue; not because of me, thank you very much. So extra hours and fatigue have taken their toll on me and my ability to read a book. Without further ado, I bring to you "Other unusual stories" by a Romanian author.
The book reminded me a bit of "The Twilight Zone". Short stories with a bit of an unexpected ending. Since the book was in Romanian, I shall try to translate the name of each story so that you might get a whiff of the action: Letters from Arcadia, The Hermeneuts, The 10 Lost Tribes, Too Much Intelligence is Bad, The Interview, In Cold Blood, The Crisis of Imagination, Why is the Sky Blue, The Loneliness of the Long Race Runner, The Alternative. 10 Sci-Fi stories about the future of man kind will keep you interested and longing for more.
Since I am an engineer by profession, I must admit that some of the principles related in the book were familiar to me and I must admit that I had sensed the author's engineering background, given the fact that we come from the same polytechnics university. The stories are very well thought out and they show rigorous research for each of them, be it quantum physics, engineering research, religion or philosophy.
Each of these stories starts a bit abruptly and after a few of them you'll find yourself avidly reading so that you can discover how each story ends. They are not your average and predictable literature and they do give you a bit of a chuckle if you're a nerd. All in all it was a good read. I recommend this book if you manage to find it in English or Romanian.
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