The Thing in the Attic
Kindle Edition
Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · August 24, 2015
A small group of intellectuals from a primitive culture of modified monkey-like humans are banished from the treetops for heresy.
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- Who it’s for
- A speculative adventure where questions of faith meet the hard business of adapting.
- Themes
- Exile and adaptation, Heresy and belief, Questioning the gods
- Pacing
- Mixed
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A small group of intellectuals from a primitive culture of modified monkey-like humans are banished from the treetops for heresy. In their exile on the ground they have to adapt to vastly different circumstances, fight monsters resembling dinosaurs, and finally happen upon the godly giants, whose existence they had questioned.
Belief Meets Survival
A speculative adventure where questions of faith meet the hard business of adapting.
Come here for
- Survival under strange new conditions
- A thoughtful clash between belief and discovery
Expect
- A collision with beings once doubted
- An unusual scale of speculative adventure
Where it sits
| Sci-Fi | 92% |
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Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Fantasy Adventure
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Authors
- James Blish
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- August 24, 2015
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Exile and adaptation · Heresy and belief · Questioning the gods
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure