Sunday, 16 February 2020

Thursday Club, Prey


I'm using up a bit of annual leave (still) so was free to try out the new Club LIV, which recently moved from Peter St to Deansgate.

It was a fun night at Thursday Club but it's much the same- music, crowd, décor, MC yelling over the mic etc- just larger. Pics here. It was a quiet night- and I expect a quiet weekend overall, for the club- due to Storm Dennis charging through the Northwest. That and I gather some students are doing their exams now.

£10 entry without guestlist felt excessive. They charge that on a Saturday. It also didn't feel as big as Suburbia, the last outfit to inhabit the unit. It was completely unrecognisable from its previous occupancy- much darker décor with a lot more neon and LCD. Plenty of women as per. I still want to see what a Friday and Saturday are like.

I've just finished Prey, by Michael 'Jurassic Park' Crichton. Unemployed scientist Jack Forman finds that his also-scientist wife is acting strangely, leading him to find his old teammates have been poached for her company. Out in the California desert, the team are developing nanotechnology- swarms of microscopic flying robots- which have ran amok. Can he put a lid of the situation, and figure out why his wife is behaving weird?

It's a fun, fast-paced SF romp set in the not-too-distant future. Good twists, and like with Jurassic Park, well-researched, taking current tech and pushing things one step further.

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