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I used to love short stories. A collection of Asimov or Clarke or Bradbury short stories? I was a happy camper, as a kid. But something happened along the way. Suddenly, I just had no desire to read short stories at all. I don’t know why. Maybe it was that I wanted a longer commitment [...]
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The latest meme going around is what magazines do you read. Barry
tagged me. This is a subject I can’t answer quickly. What magazines I read now leads into my long and involved history with magazines since I was a child, including lugging magazines across two different continents and the importance of plastic bins. You want to know what [...]
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It’s the Fourth of July tomorrow, and yes — I celebrate it despite being in Britain. In fact, we’ll have our annual party tomorrow with neighbors and friends coming over. But before that tradition, I’m in the midst of another one, reading various books about the 4th of July and America to [...]
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I just finished reading Category Five by Philip S. Donlay, where a big monster hurricane is bearing down on the Eastern United States. It’s a fairly decent airport novel, plenty to keep you entertained while waiting for your flight to depart. It also got me thinking about some other monster storm [...]
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I finished reading SM Stirling’s Dies The Fire last night. It’s the flip side of his Island in the Sea of Time series. In that series, Nantucket gets thrown back in time 3,000 years. In this book, we see how the world copes after Nantucket is ripped from it. Nantucket actually has [...]
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Punched through Richard Morgan’s book Market Forces recently in two gos, partly because I read fast but mainly because I literally didn’t want to put it down. Thanks to my trusty itty bitty booklight, I kept reading into the wee hours of the morning while my wife dozed away. It’s set in [...]
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Some long flights and airport waiting to and from Chicago last week gave me time to whip through The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy of books from one of my favorite SF authors, Robert J. Sawyer. It’s a great alternative history/universe romp.
Hominids kicks it off, with a Neanderthal suddenly appearing in [...]
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One of tonight’s bedtime books was You Wouldn’t Want to Be an American Pioneer! This was another great find I came across on a trip back home recently. It’s both well illustrated and chock full of information on what it was like to cross the country back in the 1800s. The kids especially [...]
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I love science fiction, especially deeply rich universes such as those created by Peter Hamilton. But occasionally, you just want a little something light. Nothing fills that spot better than a nice Star Trek novel. And I’ve got a friend who keeps me well supplied with them (thanks JVC). I just polished off the first two books in the [...]
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While the rest of the UK may be going along like normal, Thanksgiving is coming up in our household and the Thanksgiving books are coming out for the kids, our boys aged 6 and 4. I picked up a great new one while back in California in October,
Thank You, Sarah. It tells the story about how activist Sarah [...]
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