The Reefs of Taprobane, Arthur C. Clarke (with photographs by Mike Wilson) (Harper Brothers, 1957).

The review can now be found here.

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The list can now be viewed here.

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O.K., the day (and the year) isn't over yet!

So what have I got planned for today:

Buy food for non-vegetarian meal (tomorrow's dinner guests). Buy food for vegetarian meal (vegetarian guests) for tomorrow lunch. Go to pet store and buy dog food and fish food. "Winterize" lawn mower (I think the grass has stopped growing, finally!!!) Finish updating blog with missing reviews, end of year items, etc. Go to firehouse and do the things the idiot president said he would do to relive the treasurer's burden (the treasurer would be me)...but which I found out he hasn't, so I get to do it anyway!

Maybe finish reading a couple more books...almost there, almost there, almost there!

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"We came to your world as fugitives from a great planet that once formed part of the solar system—a planet composed entirely of ultra-violet substances..."

(Clark Ashton Smith, The Invisible City, 1932)

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"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

(Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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I started re-reading this work earlier, but various things caught up with me and I put it down. As it can be seen from previous occasions, this is one of my all-time favorite books.

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With the Lightnings, David Drake (Baen Books, 1998, ISBN 0-671-57886-3, cover by David Mattingly).

The review can now be found here.

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More Than Honor, David Weber, David Drake and S.M. Stirling (Baen Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-671-87857-3, cover by David Mattingly).

The review can now be found here.

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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, Tony Horwitz (Picador, 2002, ISBN 0-312-42260-1, cover by Michael Brennan/Corbis).

The review can now be found here.

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Don't you love when people game the system? more...

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HALO: First Strike; Eric Nylund (Del Rey, 2003, ISBN 0-345-46781-7, cover by Lorraine McLees).

HALO: Ghosts of Onyx, Eric Nylund (Tor, 2006, ISBN 978-0-765-35470-9, cover artist not indicated).

The review can now be found here.

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Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites. Mort. Sourcery. Wyrd Sisters. Going Postal.

The review can now be found here.

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The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld, Terry Pratchett (compiled by Stephen Briggs) (HarperCollins, 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-137050-2, cover by Larry Rostant).

The review can now be found here.

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Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny (Avon, 1972, ISBN 0-380-01430-0, cover by Ron Walotsky).

The review can now be found here.

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The review can now be seen here.

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The New Space Opera; edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan (EOS, 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-084675-6, cover by Stephan Martiniere).

The review can now be found here.

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A friend assures me these are all true quotes.

Q: Now, doctor...is it not true that when a person dies in his sleep he does not know until the next day?

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The chances of that asteroid hitting Mars on January 30, 2008 have increased from 1 in 75 to about 1 in 25. Watch out below!

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I believe I forgot to post this hilarious bit from XKCD.

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I went t the bookstore yesterday in the hopes of picking up two books that should be out. One of them is Michael Swanwick's The Dragons of Babel. I'm not as much into fantasy as I am interested in science fiction, but Swanwick, at his blog, has been writing about the process of writing the book for some time now and it has me hooked enough to want to read the book.

(The other book I was looking for was The Ruby Dice by Catherine Asaro. True, both are "January 2008" releases. However, I did manage to pick up a couple of other "January 2008 releases yesterday. Go figure.) more...

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