Posts tagged “books”
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Considering the Kindle
via amazon.com I've been keeping an eye on Kindles since launch. The idea of a very small, very light reading device is very appealing. Two things where I would use it every day are The Guardian and C…
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Fat Man in a White Hat
I discovered Bill Buford having watching Fat Man in a White Hat, a seemingly-truncated BBC4 series broadcast earlier this year. It featured a passionate and highly-articulate American guy who'd thrown…
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Tim Flannery tonight!
Last night I went to the launch of Ryan Heath's book Please Just Fuck Off, It's Our Turn Now (Holding Baby Boomers to Account) at Australia House. Quite a fun evening, and the debate was quite enterta…
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Snow Crash, again
I'm out of books (read all the ones I bought off Amazon with my xmas gift voucher) and am back to reading the excellent Snow Crash yet again. Loving it, but I'd like to discover something written this…
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Stamping Butterflies
I really like Jon Courtenay Grimwood 's books. He writes science fiction that tends to be based in North Africa, with all the flavour you would expect from that. This, his latest, is a bit more sedate…
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pred.txt arrived
I just got my copy of pred.txt, the book form of the collected writings and rantings by pivotal C@talyst hardware geek <predator> who died this year and will be sorely missed. The book collects his va…
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Omega by Jack McDevitt
Just finished his book. It's a great sci-fi novel in the post-space opera vein. The story is quite understated, but involving. Drags you in but isn't an adrenaline rush. Basic story is this: A future…
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Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
There are two big sci-fi book releases I've been hanging out for this year. The first is Gibson's Pattern Recognition and later this year will be Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver. So this one was pretty…
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Quicksilver
My copy of Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver arrived last week and I've been reading it. Quite good so far, though not the roller coaster ride that was Snow Crash. Anyway, page 92 appears to abruptly end.…
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Two new books from the cyberpunk masters
Advance warning that two new books will soon be out by cyberpunk masters Neal Stephenson and William Gibson. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson will be released in February, at least in the US. Qui…