I Just Bought ... SF Remix Volume 2

Self control!!!

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

I just bought.....

Fitzpatricks War-Theodore Judson


Can someone tell me what they thought of this book?
 
My latest SF haul, courtesy of the Borders Rewards program, Personal Shopping Day. I posted about it in the Fantasy books bought, so I won't bore people by repeating it here.

SF Haul:
Living Next Door to the God of Love, by Justina Robson, TP
Sequel to Natural History, strangely it has been published pretty quickly here in the US. Usually it is a year or more before we get stuff from the UK. I had to import the first book, the wait was so long.

Wizard and Demon by John Varley, PBs
Reissue of the Gaian trilogy ( I got the first one last month when it came out)

Migration, by Julie Czerneda, PB
book 2 of Species Imperative

Also ordered from University of Washington Bookstore (Due to Meisha Merlin's incompetence in supply. The book was 'published' on February 25th and no other outlet seems to have the book, and some like B&N think it is out of print. SRM had a reading there, so they actually sent in books.)

Warring States, by Susan R. Matthews, TP
Latest book about Andrej Koscuisko in the Jurisdiction series

Clong:

FYI on the Foreigner book by CJ Cherryh, it is the start of what has become 3 trilogies. There are 7 out in paper now, and the 8th is in HC. I really loved the first 3, and thought the next couple (published years later) were a bit weak and muddled. I have put off reading the rest of them (last of the 2nd trilogy, and all of the 3rd) until they are all out in paper and I can read them all back to back. Cherryh is still one of my favorite authors but she has lost some of her edge since the recent Gene Wars series anyway.

Let me know if you want the titles of the books after Foreigner, or the order.

CptNoaln, I have Fitzpatrick's War, but have yet to read it. I got it because it looked interesting, and seemed to have an historical component. Be sure to post what you think in the monthly reading thread when you read it.
 
recent purchases

Just picked up Spin by Robert Charles Wilson and for the book club picked up Old Man's War by John Scalzi
 
FicusFan said:
Living Next Door to the God of Love, by Justina Robson, TP
Sequel to Natural History, strangely it has been published pretty quickly here in the US. Usually it is a year or more before we get stuff from the UK. I had to import the first book, the wait was so long.
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Ahhh, no. LIVING NEXT DOOR TO THE GOD OF LOVE is *not* a sequel to NATURAL HISTORY. It is Justina's first fantasy novel.

And it's good.
 
Actually, Silver Screen is her first book, published in the UK in 1999. Also an excellent book.
 
So here's where you've all been. Glad I stumbled across the new thread. In preparation for LA Con IV (WorldCon 2006) I purchased:
Old Man's War, John Scalzi
Learning the World : A Scientific Romance, Ken MacLeod

And because I enjoyed a podcast interview with Neal Asher at the Agony Column:
The Skinner, Neal Asher (I found Gridlinked already on my shelf)

And just because I like the Bull Geek, as Rick Kleffel once referred to him, I bought Charles Stross' The Atrocity Archives.
 
Rob B said:
Actually, Silver Screen is her first book, published in the UK in 1999. Also an excellent book.
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It is Justina's first fantasy novel.
 
Back to the topic at hand, I picked up Old Man's War for the May BOTM.
 
Got a copy of Golden Transcendence by John C Wright which means I've now got the complete trilogy, which I will shortly begin.

Also picked up the third in Richard Harland's Heaven and Earth trilogy, Ferren and the Invasion of Heaven. Same as above.

As well as a couple of SF Masterworks titles:
Grass - Sherri S Tepper
Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
 
Mathain said:
It is Justina's first fantasy novel.
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From Justina Robson's web site:

Roz Kaveney, Time Out (London): "" A sequel to Justina Robson's excellent 'Natural History' but a very different book in its charm, pathos and phantasmagoric imagery.""


Also from her web site:

snip [...]
Jalaeka has been many things in his short lifetime: a war captive, a prostitute, a pilgrim, a pirate, a princess in a glass coffin and a physics student at MIT. Now he's looking for someone to make him into something better, for the entity which created him is coming to take him back. It has consumed a million worlds, a billion lifeforms. It's power is unrivalled, its evolution relentless.
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I went on a trip to Amsterdam last week and found a nice English bookshop:

http://www.abc.nl/

From the bargain SF section I bought two hardcovers:

* Lady of mazes, by Karl Schroeder
* Camouflage, by Joe Haldeman
 
The Watchmen by Alan Moore (who is a friend of my mother :D ). Does it count as SF (it won a Hugo)? Anyhow, I read it years ago and am looking forward to reading it again.
 
Big book exposition in my city this weekend. Went today and controlled myself :). Just bought one book.

I bought Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds and another fantasy book by an author from the province of Quebec, Canada. The version of Revelation Space I bought is in french.

Seems I'm able to control my urge to buy books every week these days, was in New York city 2 days this past week and manage to control myself to not enter a used bookstore :( ack! maybe I'm sick! I'll go see my doctor!:D
 
Just wanted to make a little anouncement that now would be a good time to buy the books for our book clubs.

On the SF side of things:
May's Book of the Month, discussion just beginning is on John Scalzi's Old Man's War. This is a quick easy read that gives one a lot to think about. This is a Hugo nominee for this year.

June's discussion, which will open on the 1st of the month is on Charles Stross' Accelerando. This is also a Hugo nominee, and it has garnered a great deal of critical acclaim.

And in fantasy:
The May book, discussion just opened is Caitlin Sweet's A Telling of Stars. Caitlin has her very own forum here at SFFWorld and seems like a really great gal. On top of that, the book is really, really good.

The June book, just elected will be Peace by Gene Wolfe. Wolfe is a favorite around here, and Peace is considered by many to be one of his best books.

Now would be a great time to pick up these books.
 
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