Combined review can now be found here.

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Expedition: Being An Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A.D. Voyage to Darwin IV; Wayne Barlowe (Workman Publishing, 1990, ISBN 0-89480-629-7, cover by Wayne Barlowe).

The review is now found here.

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OK, we're just a day or two late on this. Check out Fred's reading report here.

Meanwhile, here's what I've read since my last report:

The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick. This alternate-history novel was an interesting read, especially so soon after I read Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.

The current issues of Architectural Digest, Dwell, National Geographic, and two months' worth of Analog magazine.

In progress:

Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett.

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens.

Still on deck:

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter.

Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World, Carl Zimmer.

About five months' worth of Analog magazine.

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Frank Kelly Freas: As He Sees It; Frank Kelly Freas and Laura Brodian Freas (Paper Tiger, 2000, ISBN 1-85585-848-7, cover by Frank Kelly Freas).

The review can now be found here.

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Fantastic Science–Fiction Art: 1926–1954; Lester Del Rey (Ballantine Books, ISBN 345-24731-0-595, cover by Frank R. Paul).

The review can now be found here.

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Well, I'm not John, but here we are. November is finished, December has just begun. What has the year-to-date brought me? 238 short works completed. I'm hoping for 365, to continue my "short a day" project, so that means I've got 127 to go. That will be more than one short a day..

78 longer works completed. I've got several others that I'm reading. I tend towards as many as 25 books simultaneously. So I'll finish a few more before the year ends.

Back to you, John!

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...Ansible 245!

The Way We Live Now. Radio Clyde Breakfast Show presenter: 'What famous detective features in the Agatha Christie novel The Hound of the Baskervilles?' Contestant: 'Is it Harry Potter?' (Private Eye, 23 Nov)

...and much more amusing stuff!

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To try an shorten the length of our right column, I've put up a posting of my favorite links here.

110 Stories
1632
Ad Astra Games
Altair VI
Angry Astronomer
The Art Department
Bad Astronomy
(I Read) Baen(ed) Books
Stephen Baxter
Baxterium
(The) Best Introduction to the Mountains
Black Five
BLDG BLOG
BoingBoing
(The) Book of Voices
Mike Brotherton
Lois McMaster Bujold
Catgirls
Centauri Dreams
A. Bertram Chandler
Discworld Reading Order
Discworld Wiki
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Bob Eggleton
Eldritch Dark
Greg Egan
(A) Few Notes on the Culture
Flying Sauce
Freefall
Neil Gaiman
Geometry Junkyard
The Gunroom
Stevenhartsite
How Stuff Works
James Lileks
Lord Dunsany
Lunar Captures
The Manifold
George R. R. Martin
Stephan Martiniere
Jack McDevitt
(The) Minister of Minor Perfidy
Moleskinerie
Elizabeth Moon
New Scientist
Numb3rs Blog
Patrick O'Brian Wiki
(The) Panda's Thumb
Pastelogram
Mervyn Peake
Terry Pratchett
Alastair Reynolds
Rim Worlds Concordance
Spider Robinson
Ronzobot
Robert J. Sawyer
John Scalzi's Whatever
(The) James H. Schmitz Encyclopedia
Karl Schroeder
Science Blogs
Science Fiction Time Lines
Space Opera, Miles and Me
Allen Steele
Stellarium
Systemic
Michael Swanwick's Flogging Babel
Talking Squids in Outer Space
Teahouse on the Tracks
ThinkGeek
Tough Guide to the Known Galaxy
Tough Guide to the Singularity
Ultan's Library
Uncyclopedia
Urban Dictionary
(The) Jack Vance Archive
Marc Van Name
Vexxarr
Wolfe Wiki
My World Turned Upside Down
Worlds of Possibility
(The) Year of Living Musically
Michael Yon Online

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