Books Obtained
Apr. 23rd, 2003 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coalescentWhat are cons for if not spending alarmingly large sums of money on books, anyway? I got my hands on:
I'm particularly pleased about the Zivkovic; I've been meaning to acquire them for some time now. Also of note: The copy of Colin Wilson's Spider World: The Tower, which I won after succeeding at pin the tail on the beast (no, not that beast). The blurb:
Lastly, a book that arrived courtesy of Amazon this morning: Coyote by Allen Steele. This is marketed as a novel, but essentially it's a collection of novellettes and novellas previously published in Asimov's, chronicling an interstellar colonisation expedition; I loved them. Two installments - the opening Stealing Alabama, and The Days Between - were Hugo-nominated last year; neither won, but given that they were beaten, respectively, by Vernor Vinge's Fast Times At Fairmont High and Ted Chiang's Hell Is The Absence Of God, it's hard to complain. In any case, I'm looking forward to getting stuck in.
- Jupiter Magnified, by Adam Roberts
- The Writer, The Library, Impossible Encounters, Seven Touches of Music, Time Gifts and Steps Through The Mist by Zoran Zivkovic.
- The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, by Thomas M Disch.
- Hearts, Hands and Voices by Ian McDonald.
- Omnibus Two: Inverted World and Fugue For A Darkening Island, by Chris Priest.
- The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
- The Ballad of Beta-2, by Samuel R Delaney.
- Fury, by Henry Kuttner.
- The Insider, by Christopher Evans.
- Grimm's World, by Vernor Vinge.
I'm particularly pleased about the Zivkovic; I've been meaning to acquire them for some time now. Also of note: The copy of Colin Wilson's Spider World: The Tower, which I won after succeeding at pin the tail on the beast (no, not that beast). The blurb:
Under the bleak 25th century desert Niall and his family eke out a meagre existence, hidden from the predatory eyes of the giant spiders that float silently overhead in their silken death balloons.
For Niall has committed the ultimate crime - he has killed a Death Spider, and now it sems only a matter of time before the invincible spiders take their revenge.
However, Niall has one advantage of which the spiders are unaware - he shares their gift of telepathy. And when his family is captured, he turns his mind to the task of liberating humanity from the Spider Lord...
Lastly, a book that arrived courtesy of Amazon this morning: Coyote by Allen Steele. This is marketed as a novel, but essentially it's a collection of novellettes and novellas previously published in Asimov's, chronicling an interstellar colonisation expedition; I loved them. Two installments - the opening Stealing Alabama, and The Days Between - were Hugo-nominated last year; neither won, but given that they were beaten, respectively, by Vernor Vinge's Fast Times At Fairmont High and Ted Chiang's Hell Is The Absence Of God, it's hard to complain. In any case, I'm looking forward to getting stuck in.
