I finished The Gods Look Down today and am starting Conrad's Fate, the latest book from Diana Wynne Jones's Chrestomanci series.

The Gods Look Down was alright as a fun read. I liked the intertextuality of its references to the Bible. There is a wry comment in the Acknowledgements page about the King James Version of the Bible being the "greatest work of science fiction ever written." WHile Hoyle and I obviously have some different ideas about the extent of the uses of the Bible, I can see where he is coming from as far as the Bible's impact on the genre of sci-fi goes.

Speaking of the Bible, I did some more reading from Provers 8-9 and 1 Timothy 3 today.

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