recommended_reading

This is a new feature at my site that I think you'll all enjoy. I am an obvious book worm and read constantly. It's not quite as bad as it used to be but oh well... This will feature many books and authors I have read that inspire my fiction and original stories alike. I'll even try to get links to great sites about them. Have fun!

I bet you're wondering about my change of text color. Well I just read one of the best books on Earth, by one of the best authors on Earth. Tanith Lee has made many novels and short stories that have been translated into over 15 languages including The Birthgrave and Death's Master. My inspiration for the text color comes from the book's title and one of it's characters. The Silver Metal Lover follows 16 year old Jane through a life-changing experience in love, life and human morality. Re-printed, w/out permission of course, here is the summary on the back cover.

For sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children of the privileged class, living in luxury on an Earth remade by natural disaster. Until Jane's life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a robot minstrel with auburn hair and silver skin, whose songs ignite in her a desperate and inexplicable passion.

Jane is certain that Silver is more than just a machine built to please. And she will give up everything to prove it. So she escapes into the city's violent, decaying slums to embrace a love bordering on madness. Or is it something more? Has Jane glimpsed in Silver something no one else has dared to see- not even the robot or his creators? A love so perfect it must be destroyed, for no human could ever compete?