If I have to grab a few books to save, to take with me somewhere, I take my Dowling SF with me, no doubt about it. Dowling and Arthur Conan Doyle would be the first two that come to mind, for fiction. Lyrical, beautiful. The Rynosseros and related stories can make you want to cry, make you angry, make you gasp.
Rynosseros : Colouring the Captains - Terry Dowling
Rynosseros : The Only Bird in Her Name - Terry Dowling
Rynosseros : The Robot Is Running Away from the Trees - Terry Dowling
Rynosseros : What We Did to the Tyger - Terry Dowling
Rynosseros : Spinners - Terry Dowling
Rynosseros : So Much for the Burning Queen - Terry Dowling
Rynosseros : Mirage Diver - Terry Dowling
Rynosseros : Time of the Star - Terry Dowling
Tom Tyson, out of the Madhouse, wins a ship and finds out he will become a player between the artificial intelligences and the Ab'O. A sentient belltree names him a Coloured Captain, a Hero, and he must find out why.
5 out of 5
Tom, as an honorary Bird Club member, is in Twilight Beach to try and help the Forgetty survive the last legal hunt, if he can.
4.5 out of 5
Tom tries to talk an artisan out of his experiments with illegal sentient robots to monitor life.
4 out of 5
Tom takes passage on one of the largest charvolants, the combination of a doomed captain, a flawed dreamlock and a separatist failed Clever Man is very bad.
4 out of 5
A theatre manager takes Tom to see a clockmaker creating his own belltrees, haunted by the ghosts of the past.
Tom does what he can to mitigate the situation.
4.5 out of 5
Tom and crew come to the Gaza hotel to watch the match between the two living fire-chess ex-lover Grand Masters. The stakes are very high.
4 out of 5
Tom is asked to investigate the state of a famous painter.
3.5 out of 5
Tom assists an Ab'O prince with the preservation of his tribe in a great battle on Lake Eyre.
5 out of 5
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