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intensityxx said:
Wow, some amazing book binges around here lately. :)

I hadn't heard about this new one. While I've steadily been buying her books, I haven't read one yet. Which of hers is your favorite?

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Me too :) So I don't have one yet.
 
I recently bought:

The Ship Who Sings by Anne McAffrey
a Tor double: Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree, Jr. and Souls by Joanna Russ
Impossible Things by Connie Willis
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
The Dark Path by Walter Hunt
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
 
I had an order come in tonight:

Life by Gwyneth Jones, TP

Her stuff is not usually published in the US but this one has been. It may not be found in SF section but it is:

"A wonderful day-after-tomorrow novel about science, sex, love and its limitations, achievements and ramifications ......" Karen Joy Fowler

"Deals with social and gender inequality and asks what will it take to end it .." Suzy McKee Charnas

There is no label on the spine, and the cover is funky.
 
I just received the Robert Sawyer books I'd ordered:
Calculating God
Flashforward
Factoring Humanity

Which one first, as my introduction to the author?
 
intensityxx said:
I just received the Robert Sawyer books I'd ordered:
Calculating God
Flashforward
Factoring Humanity

Which one first, as my introduction to the author?
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Of your list I have only read Calculating God it is his most recent before the current Neanderthal trilogy. I liked it, though find him to be hung up on certain themes (religion being one) and find his stuff to be science light with often very one dimensional characters.

Calculating God had pretty good characters, I could see improvement from the other Sawyer books I have read. On the plus side they are quick reads that engage, and he often starts with a really interesting or provocative idea. I know others who have read both Flashforward, and Factoring Humanity and really liked them, as well as Calculating God. All three are stand alone, so you can pick the one that interests you most.

Good luck and enjoy.
 
Ethan of Athos - Lois McMaster Bujold
Red Mars, Green Mars - K.S. Robinson

all used papaerbacks
 
I bought The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom and Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury.
 
I bought some new books:
Lois McMaster Bujold - Brothers in arms
Lois McMaster Bujold - Falling Free
Julie E. Czerneda - Ties of Power
Niven/Pournelle - The Gripping Hand

I'm still waiting for them to arrive though...
 
I recently made a trip to a cool Sf/Fantasy bookstore in Berkeley Ca called The Other Change of Hobbit. I got:

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (signed, 1st HB)
Light by M. John Harrison
 
I've seen that shop on the Internet, K!

It made me laugh.


I have just bought a John Varley reader, in part because of the recent debate round here and also because it was newly published. :)

Hasn't arrived yet, but should in the next few days.

Hobbit
 
Checked out a secondhand bookstore I hadn't been to before. I wasn't as fruitful as I'd hoped to be but picked up a few titles that were on my 2 page list:

Michaelmas by Algis Budrys
Engine Summer by John Crowley
Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Body of Glass by Marge Piercy
Blue Champagne by John Varley
Juniper Time by Kate Wilhelm
The Humanoids by Jack Williamson
 
I got an Amazon gift certificate for my birthday, so I knocked a couple of hard-to-find titles off my to-buy list:

"The Book, The Writer" by Zoran Zivkovic
"Budayeen Nights" by George Effinger.

I'm looking forward to both of them, I've heard great things about them.
 
Inspired by the Hugo winners thread, I've bought some great big slabs of sacred cow:

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlien
London, UK: Berkley, 1966 reprinted 1982. Mass market paperback. Secondhand.

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
London, UK: Panther, 1967 reprinted 1973. Mass market paperback. Secondhand.

The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
London, UK: Orbit, 1991. Mass market paperback. Secondhand.

Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
London, UK: Earthlight, 1997. Mass market paperback. Secondhand.

Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
London, UK: Earthlight, 1998. Mass market paperback. Secondhand.

A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
London, UK: Earthlight, 2000. Mass market paperback. Secondhand.
 
Literbug said:
Inspired by the Hugo winners thread, I've bought some great big slabs of sacred cow:

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Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
London, UK: Earthlight, 1997. Mass market paperback. Secondhand.

Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
London, UK: Earthlight, 1998. Mass market paperback. Secondhand.

A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
London, UK: Earthlight, 2000. Mass market paperback. Secondhand.
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These are great books, but they are also part of a series. They are some of the more recent books in the series, and you may find you will enjoy them and understand them more if you read the earlier books first. Of course you may have already done so, but I don't remember if you posted about it or not.
 
Thanks, Ficus. No, I've not read the earlier books though I was aware of them. I'll look out for the them, but a friend just read these three in reverse order, starting with A Civil Campaign (don't ask me why), and said he didn't have any problem with it. I haven't really pushed him on what he thought but he did say that there was some great laugh-out-loud moments. Is comedy the main feature here, or is there more to them?

I noticed that The Snow Queen has a few fans here, so I'm looking forward to that one. And my first taste of Heinlein.
 
Literbug said:
Thanks, Ficus. No, I've not read the earlier books though I was aware of them. I'll look out for the them, but a friend just read these three in reverse order, starting with A Civil Campaign (don't ask me why), and said he didn't have any problem with it. I haven't really pushed him on what he thought but he did say that there was some great laugh-out-loud moments. Is comedy the main feature here, or is there more to them?

I noticed that The Snow Queen has a few fans here, so I'm looking forward to that one. And my first taste of Heinlein.
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Bujold does write good comedy. But it is not in any sense an SF version of Terry Practchett. Miles, the main character is just very good at creating plausible diversions to mask what he is really doing. He is probably the only handicapped super-hero type that I have ever heard of, so there is more to the books than just laughs. By the end of the books he has overcome a lot of problems and had a lot of his body replaced so for a while he seems a bit normal. Memory is one of the most moving and emotionally devestating books ever written, but if you haven't followed Miles from the start you probably won't have the same impact. Still read and enjoy, and at some point you can read them all in order.

The Snow Queen, The Summer Queen, Worlds End, Tangled up in Blue are all part of her series and they are also wonderful. Your Heinlein choices were good too.

You seem to have a good haul. :)
 
I picked up at the store tonight:

Hybrid by Robert J. Sawyer, PB
 
Terminal Beach by J.G. Ballard
Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton
 
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