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HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:31 pm 0

A continuation but it starts earlier in his Mum's life and continues past the point where she

Spoiler: show

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:16 pm 0

Martin Wainwright: Morris Minor The Biography

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:22 pm 0

I'm just about finished The Magician's Nephew and dear grud it's painful. When I first read it I was too young to see what he was doing. I just thought I was reading a fantasy yarn with parallel universes and magic.

It really is a bit full on isn't it?

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:24 pm 0

Started Robin Hobb's - Assasin's Apprentice after amazon's recommendation and I'm impressed. Great character development so far and subtle end-of-chapter nudges to make you keep reading. Like it a lot.

Istar · Post by **Istar** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:21 pm 0

Just finished Time Enough For Love. Essentially a reportage of Heinleins' psycho-sexual incest fantasies, but a jolly good yarn for all that.

LibraryThing says "The Children of Hurin" is next. Although I might skip over that and dive straight into Newtons' "The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy".

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:13 pm 0

My library seems to have a Neal Asher fan in their buying department and just got a load of his stuff in; currently reading "Brass Man", to be followed by "Voyage of the Sable Keech". Just finished "Prador Moon", a somewhat shorter novellete about future human civilisation meeting Giant Enemy Space Crabs. They attack for MASSIVE DAMAGE! And eat people, too.

Its nice that in this day and age of emo cultured bisexual angelic philanthropic fey cosmic space elves, someone can still create a good old nasty bug-eyed space critter to be X-Ray lasered to death.

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:42 pm 0

Andy Summers - One Train Later. Best musical autobiog I've come into contact with.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:05 pm 0

F-ZeroOne wrote:My library seems to have a Neal Asher fan in their buying department and just got a load of his stuff in; currently reading "Brass Man", to be followed by "Voyage of the Sable Keech". Just finished "Prador Moon", a somewhat shorter novellete about future human civilisation meeting Giant Enemy Space Crabs. They attack for MASSIVE DAMAGE! And eat people, too.

Its nice that in this day and age of emo cultured bisexual angelic philanthropic fey cosmic space elves, someone can still create a good old nasty bug-eyed space critter to be X-Ray lasered to death.

Prador Moon is a good one to start with. Brass Man is the first Agent Cormac book that gets bigger, louder and features more PEW PEW PEW as the series progresses.

It's just a shame the man mainlines the Daily Mail until he sounds like Space Cowboy over on his blog.

The Caffeine Kid · Post by **The Caffeine Kid** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:16 pm 0

I'm waiting for the novelization of this thread.

Failing that another Discworld book would be nice... is one due any time soon?

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:36 pm 0

The Caffeine Kid wrote:Failing that another Discworld book would be nice... is one due any time soon?

Unseen Academicals due in October, according to Wikipedia.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:44 pm 0

Snow Crash.

May be a little late to the party on this one.

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:46 pm 0

Guerrilla Warfare by 'Yank' Levy.

It is a war-time manual for the Home Guard etc for guerrilla tactics - published in 1941.

re-print ISBN: 978-0-141-03927-5

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 6:52 pm 0

HGFB wrote:
F-ZeroOne wrote:My library seems to have a Neal Asher fan in their buying department and just got a load of his stuff in; currently reading "Brass Man", to be followed by "Voyage of the Sable Keech". Just finished "Prador Moon", a somewhat shorter novellete about future human civilisation meeting Giant Enemy Space Crabs. They attack for MASSIVE DAMAGE! And eat people, too.

Its nice that in this day and age of emo cultured bisexual angelic philanthropic fey cosmic space elves, someone can still create a good old nasty bug-eyed space critter to be X-Ray lasered to death.
Prador Moon is a good one to start with. Brass Man is the first Agent Cormac book that gets bigger, louder and features more PEW PEW PEW as the series progresses.

It's just a shame the man mainlines the Daily Mail until he sounds like Space Cowboy over on his blog.

Ah, so the Prador are really illegal immigrants then?

His talent is managing to make things constantly worse yet in a way which you always know the good guys will win, even if "winning" means being the last people standing on a molten, highly radioactive shattered pile of rubble that used to be civilisation. He also obviously is a bag fan of shows like "When Really Lethal Animals Attack!".

Mr Dom · Post by **Mr Dom** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 8:45 pm 0

Mark wrote:Snow Crash.

May be a little late to the party on this one.

If you like it, I would reccomend Zodiac.
None of his others compares IMO.
For other authors with a similar 'feel':
Spares - Michael marshall Smith
Vurt - Jeff Noon

Post by **gribbles** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:26 pm 0

Just to buck the SciFi/Fantasy bias

, I've just finished "If nobody speaks of remarkable things" by Jon McGregor.

Loved it. Loved the way it dips in and out of peoples lives in this one street, dropping in and out of prose poetry at times.

And I just love the phrase "If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be remarkable?"

I'm guessing it's not for everybody, but it's worth a punt for something a bit different.

YakYak

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