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\nNot the best of pictures, but good enough to show off the books I bought yesterday. And yes, I know I have too many books already, not to mention a fair few library books that need to go back soon. But I can’t help it; every now and then I get the urge and need to get more. What’s nice is when that urge is satisfied, like it was this time. Sometimes you have to let a bookstore lie fallow for a while, not visit for a couple of weeks or months to give it time to surprise you. The secondhand English bookstore near Nieuwmarkt I got all this from certainly did.<\/p>\n
\nFrom the bottom up: The Kaiser Battle<\/cite>, about the first day of the last German offensive in World War I by Martin Middlebrook, Justina Robson’s Keeping it Real<\/cite>, the William Tuning sequel to H. Beam Piper’s Little Fuzzy novels, a pre stroke Keith Laumer novel I haven’t read yet (Galactic Oddyssey<\/cite>), Karl Schroeder’s debut novel Ventus<\/cite>, Cordwainer Smith’s The Planet Buyers<\/cite>, Tatja Grimm’s World<\/cite>, an early Vernor Vinge novel, a Zelazny novel I didn’t know yet (The Dream Master<\/cite>), Robert Holdstock’s The Bone Forest<\/cite>…\n<\/p>\n \nMoving on to the female writers: there’s Ann McCaffrey’s The White Dragon<\/cite> which I foolishly had gotten rid off a few years ago, the first three Eluki Bes Shahar Hellflower<\/cite> space adventure stories and Justina Robson’s debut novel, Natural History<\/cite> which had been on my wishlist for ages.\n<\/p>\n