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Universal Station
Johnny Burnett, composer and pilot, is killed in World War Two. But that is just the beginning of his adventure! For there is life after death, in the transit hub called Universal Station. Johnny meets those who have gone before, both friends and the Nazi enemy....
392 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1944
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Beth Brown
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July 10, 2016
This volume is by the Beth Brown who also wrote "All Dogs Go To Heaven". Like that book, it's a light fantasy about the afterlife. (Indeed, one of the main characters is a dog.)
Sadly, the charm of a talking dog is overwhelmed by the repetitive, preachy dialogue about the nature of the afterlife and how right Johnny's grandfather, Grand, is about everything.
There's a romance in the backstory, but if anything the dialogue in it is even more nauseating in its preciousness.
There's a different book going on in the background that would be arguably more interesting, and whose midpoint would be about the end of this book. In it are all the actual action scenes, and the adventures of Johnny's love interest trying to escape the Nazis.
This is an interesting curio, but it's easy to see why it's fallen into the memory hole.
For more fantasy reviews, see http://www.skjam.com/tag/fantasy/
Sadly, the charm of a talking dog is overwhelmed by the repetitive, preachy dialogue about the nature of the afterlife and how right Johnny's grandfather, Grand, is about everything.
There's a romance in the backstory, but if anything the dialogue in it is even more nauseating in its preciousness.
There's a different book going on in the background that would be arguably more interesting, and whose midpoint would be about the end of this book. In it are all the actual action scenes, and the adventures of Johnny's love interest trying to escape the Nazis.
This is an interesting curio, but it's easy to see why it's fallen into the memory hole.
For more fantasy reviews, see http://www.skjam.com/tag/fantasy/
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