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Saturday, July 05, 2008

A little too much, but so what

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RECENT BOOK REVIEWS

  • Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
  • Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
  • A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
  • Prophets by S. Andrew Swann
  • Keeper of Light and Dust by Natasha Mostert
  • City Without End by Kay Kenyon
  • Other Earths edited by Nick Gevers & Jay Lake
  • Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
  • The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett
  • End of the Century by Chris Roberson

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INTERVIEWS

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  • David Louis Edelman (2008)
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  • Sean Williams
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CURRENTLY READING

  • Darkest Hour (Age of Misrule #2) by Mark Chadbourn
  • METAtropolis edited by John Scalzi

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Books I've Read

The Amber Wizard: The Osserian Saga: Book One
Keeper of Light and Dust
Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
Other Earths
The Judging Eye
Warbreaker
The Temporal Void
River of Gods
Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy III - The Last Command
Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy II - Dark Force Rising
Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy I - Heir to the Empire
Gateway
Solaris
The Gods of Riverworld
The Magic Labyrinth
The Dark Design
The Fabulous Riverboat
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Children of God
Contact
The Sparrow
The Time Machine
A Clockwork Orange
Snow Crash
Consider Phlebas
The Warded Man
City Without End: Book Three of The Entire and The Rose
End of the Century
Black Man
The Steel Remains
The Steel Remains
Enclave
The Baby Merchant
The Empress of Mars
A Shadow in Summer
The Summoner: Book One in the Chronicles of the Necromancer
The Destiny Mask
The Liberty Gun
The Affinity Trap: Book I of the Structure Series
Killswitch: A Cassandra Kresnov Novel
Breakaway: A Cassandra Kresnov Novel


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