{"id":8032,"date":"2022-02-05T21:26:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T03:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=8032"},"modified":"2022-02-05T21:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T03:26:33","slug":"eclipse-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=8032","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse at Noon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A thing you would have no real reason to remember: Circle Thrice<\/a>[1] ended on a cliffhanger. (Also, I read that a year ago?? I do not read enough. This is not the first time I’ve said this lately, but.) So anyway, though, cliffhanger.<\/p>\n

That aside, Eclipse at Noon<\/a> is mostly about old enemies and new riverboat rides. I’ve never been on a riverboat, but it mostly sounded like what I expected cruise ships to be like, except for the paddle and all. Also: smaller than that. This continues to make me wonder if cruise ships were just a lot fancier in the ’80s and ’90s versus how they are now, which is sort of middle class chic, for some reason.<\/p>\n

Anyway: the story was approximately what I’ve come to expect, with guns and mutants and the promise of more teleporting around (although not any just lately). Also, some random old enemies that we’ve never heard of before, but as good a job as this series does of recycling old encounters into new ones, I cannot fault them for once in a while saying, look, guys, remember this stuff that happened to us before the series started?<\/p>\n

The title thing, though: I can perform some mental gymnastics to force a metaphor about how just when things were finally going nicely for the first time in a while, with the cliffhanger resolved and some fancy big meals and a riverboat ride in the offing, oh no, their “high noon” is being “eclipsed” by this sudden old enemy machinations thing, but… yeah, I’d prefer more literal and less maybe metaphorical but maybe just “this sounds kind of cool, right?” titles, for my cheap men’s adventure sci-fi thriller series. I guess I’m just old-fashioned that way.<\/p>\n

[1] That is, the previous Deathlands book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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