Feb. 23, 2024, 11:28 p.m.

The Left Hand of Dog

rinsemiddlebliss

Hi friends,

This week, I reviewed a book I just finished and enjoyed .

Review: The Left Hand of Dog by Si Clarke

Our hero, or point of view character anyway, is a pretty normal human named Lem. While enjoying a vacation in lovely Canadian wilderness with her dog, Spock, Lem gets abducted by aliens, yes along with her dog. The aliens travel in a spaceship that looks like a huge, pink teapot. I don't want to give too much away, but hijinks ensue. We get scifi classics like universal translators, and learn about their pitfalls, like the false familiarity of Figurative mode and get the running gag of them saying "No frame of reference" when things don't have an equivalent--which is fairly often.

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Thanks for reading and see you on the internet!

AK

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