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@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ Oshii certainly did!
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-*** DONE Time of Contempt (1995)
+*** DONE Time of Contempt (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1995)
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@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ Sad, scary - sure; but not funny. Just like the movie.
 It was already too much.
 
 
-*** DONE Baptism of Fire (1996)
+*** DONE Baptism of Fire (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1996)
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@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ I hope that Ciri's plot will develop in interesting ways, as her teenage rebelli
 [fn:toc] vide [[/brain-rot/witcher/andrzej-sapkowskis-time-of-contempt/][my review]]
 
 
-*** DONE Tower of the Swallow (1997)
+*** DONE Tower of the Swallow (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1997)
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@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ But even if this makes the entire series a bit pointless, it is still a pleasure
 [fn:nerds] at least amongst us, nerds.
 
 
-*** DONE Lady of the Lake (1999)
+*** DONE Lady of the Lake (Andrzej Sapkowski, 1999)
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@@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ Those were simpler times.
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-*** DONE  Interesting Times (1995)
+*** DONE  Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett, 1995)
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@@ -1899,6 +1899,53 @@ Dune
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+*** DONE Heaven Makers (Frank Herbert, 1967)
+CLOSED: [2024-06-19 Wed 12:06]
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+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: heaven-makers-1967
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :abstract My review of an early Frank Herbert novel
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image brain-rot/covers/herbert-heaven-makers.jpg
+:END:
+
+Chems are a race of aliens being who learned technology allowing them to live forever.
+With everlasting life comes boredom.
+To mitigate it, they watch and record lives and history of /lesser/ races, one which being humanity.
+They can not intervene, but current team foreseeing operation on Earth may have broken this rule.
+Therefore, Kelexel is sent to investigate if this is the case, but he is pretending to be just a tourist.
+
+At the same time we are observing humans whose lives are being recorded and (maybe) manipulated.
+
+/Heaven Makers/ is a 1967 novel written by Frank Herbert about an immortal race of space beings who treat humanity as a toy.
+OK, there's more to that, but it all boils to this - it's a simple story which gives no indications that just a few years before Herbert published /Dune/.
+
+Let's get this out of the way: /Heaven Makers/ is not a great book.
+It's not bad, by any means.
+The plot is decent, the twists are cool, the characters are (mostly) OK.
+It's not insulting, but it's never great.
+It's also short, so all the underdeveloped or missed parts of the book never develop into real frustration.
+
+#+attr_shortcode: 3.0 "herbert-heaven-makers.jpg" 
+#+begin_rating
+Cover
+#+end_rating
+And while I have enjoyed reading it over the course of 2 evening[fn:slow] and would not call the time /wasted/, I'm afraid in a year I'll have very little recollection of the events that I've witnessed.
+If anything, it reminded me that I really need to watch /Twilight Zone/.
+/Heaven Makers/ is very much like an episode of that type a show.
+We've got an interesting question (what would you do with eternity?) with added twist (what if you are the victim of such creatures) developed into a full story.
+
+One thing reader needs to keep in mind is the age to this book.
+Your life being subjected to constant surveillance was something not only seen as scary, but also incomprehensible.
+We're now treating is as entertainment (/Big Brother/) or even a way of living.
+As always, SciFi comes with a twisted idea and warns us about it.
+What we do with it?
+Of course!
+Let's build our lives around it!
+
+If /Heaven Makers/ finds a way in your hands, sure - it's a nice read.
+But I would not propose people actively search for it.
+
+[fn:slow] I am a slow reader
+
 ** Severance 
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@@ -2249,3 +2296,5 @@ Too bad that there's a game attached.
 
 [fn:qte] And it still ended in a QTE.
 Shame.
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