Still not up to speed, due to external factors like work and S.’s stay in hospital. Lots of science fiction read this month.
Altered Carbon — Richard Morgan
Morgan’s first novel, a Chandleresque science fiction thriller.
Good Omens — Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
The Apocalypse was never so funny. Reread for the umpteenth time and still funny.
Tiger Force — Michael Sallah & Mitch Weiss
Proof that US joualists could still do investigative reporting, this is the book version of a series of articles the authors had originally written for the Toledo Blade about the specialised recon unit Tiger Force went on a rampage through Vietnam.
The Quiet War — Paul J. McAuley
McAuley’s first proper science fiction novel in years, as good or better than any of his classic works.
Black Man — Richard Morgan
Another Morgan s.f. detective novel set in a future which though only written in 2006 already feels outdated.
The other Log of Phileas Fogg — Philip José Farmer
The real story behind Jule Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days.
Edmund Schluessel
March 3, 2010 at 11:45 amBlack Man felt dated when it came out. A caricature of the future of the US sketched by someone who seems to only have heard about it from the news.
Martin Wisse
March 6, 2010 at 2:30 pmOr worse: some of the more …emotional… liberal blogs of the time.