The third of my current reading pile, and I forget where I came across this … It was a bit over a week ago, and I thought I should order some new books, but all the ones I really want … Continue reading
My book for Antwerpen, Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 is up for a Hugo this year, and needing something sci-fi to read I thought it might appeal. I also have Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon sitting here, which is the only … Continue reading
A difficult thing to come directly after Iain M. Banks and The Hydrogen Sonata, but still, Hannu Rajaniemi’s continuation of The Quantum Thief, which I’ve read twice already, has been long-awaited by me. And it arrives in hardback! The cover is not as … Continue reading
Two weeks or so to go until my (it seems now firmly) annual revision of whatever I’ve read since last mid-October, and having just finished Jo Walton’s Among Others, which is just wow, I’m filled with a kind of utterly … Continue reading
Right, back from the bookshop. And this time I’ll do it correctly. Belabouring the point here, Reading is not read, nor to be read; it should be done in the first chapter or so etc &c. I’m not writing reviews. (I … Continue reading
Well, read actually. Finished and shelved. Pity China Miéville had to come along with Railsea this year, or my internal discussion over what’s the most memorable fiction work — ok, science-fiction, not like I read anything else — of the past twelve … Continue reading
I finished Kari Sperring’s Living With Ghosts fairly quickly, which was an odd read, and couldn’t help myself order some more books, even though I’m wandering through The Water Margin (yes, still a weird, uneven and occasionally badly proofed translation), one of … Continue reading
Somehow I had got the idea this was vaguely in the realm of science-fiction. Well, the cover should be a dead giveaway; thankfully though no vampires. The cover though is … ah, why do I seem to have a regular … Continue reading
Or rather, read. Gobbled down in a little over a day. I got the US hardback version with the awful cover because I couldn’t wait for the UK one with the one which would match my well-read Fuller Memorandum (which two … Continue reading
“Hi there, ‘The Apocalypse Codex’ by Stross has arrived and is ready to be picked up. Cheers, St George’s Bookshop” … that’s my wknd sorted