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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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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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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To try and shorten our right-hand column, here's a consolidation of all my reading links. The current year will always be available in the right-hand column, as well as on this list.

Best Fiction
Best Non-Fiction

1996: The Year in Books
The Missing Years: 1997 to 2000 (with some overlap on 1996 and 2001)
2001: The Year in Books
2002: The Year in Books
2003: The Year in Books
2004: The Year in Books
2005: The Year in Books
2006: The Year in Books
2007: The Year in Books
2008: The Year in Books

2004: The Year in Shorts
2005: The Year in Shorts
2006: The Year in Shorts
2007: The Year in Shorts
2008: The Year in Shorts

The Death of Captain Future and Other Stories (and Other Stories)

My World Turned Upside Down

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Omnibus review can now be found here.

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Destinies: Volume 1, Number 1 (November/December 197 , edited by James Baen (Ace Books, 1979 ISBN 0-441-14281-8, cover by Stephen Fabian).

The review can now be viewed here.

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The Endless Frontier; edited by Jerry Pournelle (Ace Books, 1979, ISBN 0-441-20667-0, cover by Vincent di Fate).

The review can now be found here.

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Planetes #01 (Tokyopop, 2003). Planetes #02 (Tokyopop, 2003). Planetes #03 (Tokyopop, 2004). Planetes #04a (Tokyopop, 2004). Planetes #04b (Tokyopop, 2004), Makoto Yukimura.

Combined review can now be found here.

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Necromancer, Gordon R. Dickson (Ace Books).

Tactics of Mistake, Gordon R. Dickson (Ace Books).

(Both also found in an omnibus edition called Three to Dorsai, published by the SFBC.)

Combined review can now be found here.

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The Rackman Chronicles; Dean Ing (Baen Books, 2004, ISBN 0-7434-7183-0, cover by Stephen Hickman).

The review can now be found here.

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The omnibus review can now be found here.

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A variant upon a well-known poem. It is widely surmised that Sir Martin N. Rowan wrote this sometime during the Napoleonic Wars. more...

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly; Anthony Bourdain (Harper Perennial, 2007, ISBN 978-0-06-089922-6).

The review can now be found here.

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So, according to this, my obsession with collecting books and games is actually good for the environment.

Like I needed an excuse...

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