I Just Bought ... SF Remix Volume 2

[Rob B]

With over 500 posts in over a year and a half, I figured the time was right to startup a new one of these threads.

I'll kick it off with my most recent purchase, Book 4 of E.E. Knight's Vampire Earth saga, Valentine's Exile. Some very good reviews are blurbed on that first page, btw.

Version 1 resides HERE

[ArthurFrayn]

Sure wish I had some:

Atrocity Archives-Charles Stross
Old Man's War-John Scalzi
In store impulse purchase for the above 2 items
The Garments of Caean/Star Winds-Barrington J Bayley
The Palace of Eternity-Bob Shaw

[Skaidon]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Jem by Frederik Pohl
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
Mars Plus by Frederik Pohl & Thomas T. Thomas
The List of 7 by Mark Frost

[odo]

Recently I bought:

* The collapsium by Wil McCarthy
* Raft by Stephen Baxter

Today I have bought (my first Amazon order ever):

* Old man's war by John Scalzi (for the book club)
* Accelerando by Charles Stross
* Newton's wake by Ken MacLeod
* Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds

The last three are "Bargain HC".

[Ropie]

Old Man's War for the Book Club - don't say I never do anything for you!

[clong]

$62 at the used books store yielded:

Hardbacks:
Approaching Oblivion by Harlan Ellison
The Futurological Congress, Memoirs of a Space Traveler, and Return from the Stars by Stanislaw Lem
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Paperbacks:
Foreigner by CJ Cherryh
Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin
Phule's Company by Rober Asprin
The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! by Harry Harrison
The Killing Machine by Jack Vance
The Starchild Trilogy by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
The Goddess of Ganymede by Michael Resnick
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
The Book of Brian Aldiss by Brian Aldiss
Mindswap by Robert Sheckley
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

[Archren]

The Fiction:

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days - Alastair Reynolds
Gridlinked - Neal Asher
The Wilding - C.S. Friedman
The Hidden Family - Charles Stross
Lady of Mazes - Karl Schroeder
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
The Stonehenge Gate - Jack Williamson
Mists of Everness - John C. Wright
Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner
Horizon Storms - Kevin J. Anderson
The Collapsium - Wil McCarthy
The Wellstone - Wil McCarthy
Ventus - Karl Schroeder
The Maquisarde - Louise Marley
The Briar King - Greg Keyes
The Tower of Fear - Glen Cook
A Million Open Doors - John Barnes
A Princess of Roumania - Paul Park
Mammoth - John Varley
Carthage Ascendant - Mary Gentle
1610: A Sundial in a Grave - Mary Gentle
The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow
Three Days to Never - Tim Powers
The Chains That You Refuse - Elizabeth Bear
Adventures in Time and Space - Healy & McComas, ed.
Rocket Science - Jay Lake
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - Cory Doctorow
Gradisil - Adam Roberts
The Cuckoo's Boys - Robert Reed
No Present Like Time - Steph Swainston
The Etched City - K.J. Bishop
Glass Soup - Jonathan Carroll
The Fourth Circle - Zoran Zivkovic
Snake Agent - Liz Williams
Shriek: An Afterword - Jeff VaderMeer
Viator - Lucius Shepard
Practical Demon-Keeping - Christopher Moore
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore

And for Non-Fiction:

The SEX Column and Other Mistprints - David Langford
Finding Serenity - Jane Espenson, ed.
War Stories - Joe Haldeman
James Tiptree, Jr. - Julie Philips
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction - Justine Larbalestier
The Pythons - The Pythons

Forgive the mix of genres. This is what happens when you haven't bought a physical book in 8 months, and WorldCon lands in your backyard.

[ArthurFrayn]

Hokey smoke!!

[ArthurFrayn]

Not as depraved as Archren but:

An Ornament To His Profession/The Ring of Ritornel -Charles Harness
Brain Child-George Turner
Escape Across The Cosmos/The Hunter Out of Time-Gardner Fox
China Mountain Zhang -Maureen F. McHugh
The Gate of Worlds -Robert Silverberg
Mockingbird -Walter Tevis
Slipstreams -edited by Martin H Greenberg and John Helfers
Stranger Things Happen-Kelly Link
Man Plus -Frederik Pohl
The Game of Kings -Dorothy Dunnett
Sarah Canary -Karen Joy Fowler
The Heat Death of the Universe -Pamela Zoline
The Riddle -Master - Patricia A McKillip
The Silence of the Langford -Dave Langford
Rossum's Universal Robots/War With the Newts -Karel Capek
The Cat Who Walks Through Worlds-RAH

[intensityxx]

As (another?) one who firmly believes it's better to be depraved than deprived:

Catalyst: A Novel of Alien Contact, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Mappa Mundi, Justina Robson
Infoquake, David Louis Edelman

[Archren]

Intensity- Have you read any other Justina Robson books? I read Natural History and it really didn't work for me. I was wondering what you thought of her stuff.

[Archren]

Post-Birthday Amazon order came in:

Soundings by Gary K. Wolfe, collection of Locus reviews from 1992-1996.
x,y,z,t: Dimensions of Science Fiction by Damien Broderick, collection of critical essays.

Every so slowly I'm working on building an sf-focused personal little reference libarary. My wonderful spouse also managed to find these for me:

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 2nd ed. edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn.

[Gildor]

Camouflage by Joe Haldeman, Carrion Comfort (Yeah its horror I know) by Dan Simmons, The Centauri Device by M.John Harrison and Air by Geoff Ryman.

[Phantos]

at my local used store:

Out of the Dead City by Samuel R. Delany
(very cool cover art on this old pulp)

Look to Windward by Ian M. Banks
(I have been looking forward to getting into Culture for a long time.)

[north]

At the local store also:
Olympos by Dan Simmons
To Say Nothing of The Dog - Connie Willis