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« Reply #1825 on: February 24, 2010, 10:59:10 pm » |
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I'm reading The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft, and thumbing through various issues of Steampunk magazine. My next read will be Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett.
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« Reply #1826 on: February 25, 2010, 12:28:33 am » |
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Dream Quest... is an awesome story especially with the follow up stories The Silver key and Through the Gates of the Silver Key are some of my fave HPL stories..
Just finished
The Scar - China Mieville [awesome as always]
Just started
Heart of Veridon - Tim Akers [opens with a zepliner crash and a mysterious cog... very promising]
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« Reply #1827 on: February 25, 2010, 02:08:11 am » |
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Just finish Meivile's Unlondon and am starting his newest novel City City....so far very difficult read.
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« Reply #1828 on: February 25, 2010, 02:51:09 am » |
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Dream Quest... is an awesome story especially with the follow up stories The Silver key and Through the Gates of the Silver Key are some of my fave HPL stories..
I've read both Silver Key stories...I have the Necronomicon anthology, and the stories must've been added to that book out of order, because Dream-Quest is the final story. My favourite Lovecraft stories are The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Colour Out of Space. |
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« Reply #1829 on: February 27, 2010, 06:10:46 pm » |
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Just about to start The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. IN LATER YEARS, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini. |
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« Reply #1830 on: February 27, 2010, 09:21:54 pm » |
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Just finished retromancer by Robert Rankin. Funny funny stuff.
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Each Man is in his Spectre's power
Until the arrival of that hour
When his Humanity awake -William Blake
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« Reply #1831 on: February 28, 2010, 12:26:02 am » |
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Tolstoy short stories!
Good one about the Crimean war.
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« Reply #1832 on: February 28, 2010, 12:38:58 am » |
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« Reply #1833 on: February 28, 2010, 01:49:58 am » |
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just started perdido street station by china mieville so far pretty good.
Anything by China is great! |
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« Reply #1834 on: February 28, 2010, 02:48:32 am » |
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just started perdido street station by china mieville so far pretty good.
Anything by China is great! this is the first of his ive read but i am impressed |
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« Reply #1835 on: February 28, 2010, 09:48:18 pm » |
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Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic crime fiction which is nice and bleak and much better than the likes of la Cornwell et al.
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« Reply #1836 on: February 28, 2010, 10:40:09 pm » |
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Saturday afternoon I picked up Robert Rankin's 'Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse' and it's sequel 'The Toyminator'. I'm about half way through HCBOTA and really enjoying it so far.
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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« Reply #1837 on: March 01, 2010, 12:10:11 am » |
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Halfway through 'Mortal Engines' by Philip Reeve.
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'This job looks complicated, get a bigger hammer!'
'The 4lb lump hammer, also known as a Birmingham Screwdriver'
'Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is never putting them in a fruit salad.'
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« Reply #1838 on: March 01, 2010, 03:17:17 am » |
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Well, thanks to Pennie Nevan and Thalesia Turnblood I'll be reading Steamed (Katie McAlister) and waiting on Iron Seas (Meljean Brook). Road trip to B&N tomorrow. Otherwise Paul Christophers' Templar Cross. A light weight story involving Templars, Nazis, Vatican assasians and just good adventure.  |
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« Reply #1839 on: March 01, 2010, 07:12:22 am » |
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just started perdido street station by china mieville so far pretty good.
Anything by China is great! Thanks for the recommendation - I went straight out and bought Perdido Street Station today, and I am on holidays for five days soon so I get to read it in one hit. |
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'...Lockstock stonedead shock of a Dog Fenn frown'.
Iron Council - China Mieville
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« Reply #1840 on: March 02, 2010, 02:11:27 am » |
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"The Poe Shadow"--Matthew Pearl
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« Reply #1841 on: March 02, 2010, 03:21:44 am » |
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Just finished Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett. Started Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume two B edited by Ben Bova (novella's) Its got million ton steam space ships! (Isaac Asimov, The Martian Way)  |
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« Reply #1842 on: March 02, 2010, 05:12:43 am » |
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Steamed by Kate McAlister...thanks to those sultry wenches over the in erotic area for mentioning this....a darn good story so far.....of course, now that my fair lady has snagged the book, I won't know how it goes till she's done with it. Thanks....thanks alot.  |
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« Reply #1843 on: March 02, 2010, 12:04:48 pm » |
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Getting towards the end of the final volume of Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time trilogy, and must say I enjoyed it muchly.
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« Reply #1844 on: March 02, 2010, 03:22:10 pm » |
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Dancers at the End of Time is one of my favourite reads and has often been picked up and reread and also pressed onto unsuspecting friends to read.
What would you rather - Live forever at the end of time, or start mankind afresh in a new garden of eden?
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Well I like science fiction - but I also like victoriana.
There's only one way to settle this...
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« Reply #1845 on: March 02, 2010, 07:46:54 pm » |
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Getting towards the end of the final volume of Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time trilogy, and must say I enjoyed it muchly.
One my all time faves. So beautiful, filled with melancholy, this is a masterwork imho. |
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« Reply #1846 on: March 03, 2010, 02:07:11 pm » |
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I must say I'm glad that I read The Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy a few years back, so when Oswald Bastable and Una Persson suddenly appeared I had to suppress a cheer!
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« Reply #1847 on: March 06, 2010, 12:21:26 am » |
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Been having a (somewhat guilty) Mercedes Lackey binge. "Foundation" and "Aerie".
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« Reply #1848 on: March 06, 2010, 12:47:22 am » |
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I'm attempting 'Declare' by Tim Powers for the third time.
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« Reply #1849 on: March 06, 2010, 10:01:07 am » |
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I'm attempting 'Declare' by Tim Powers for the third time.
I've not read that one, although I've read quite a few of his and enjoyed them all. Is that one difficult to get into? Currently reading the Difference Engine- so far, much better than I expected, I'm pleased to say! |
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