"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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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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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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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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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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Vorpal Blade; John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor (Baen Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4165-2129-7, cover by Kurt Miller).

The review can now be found here.

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I have friends that will do this sort of thing for any show. Or book series. It's a game we all play.

Addendum: More nerdness!

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...collection of Philip K. Dick books? (What did you think I was going to ask?) Total Dick-Head, home of all Things PKD, takes a look at a few collections, including his own.

I can't claim to have anything this...um...lengthy. Now if you were to ask "How long is your Heinlein?" or "How long is your Clarke?" or "How long is your Anderson?", etc., I might have these folks beat.

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There's a new book a coming in the Revelation Space series from Alastair Reynolds. I think next year will be time for a re-reading of the series. Bring on the Pattern Jugglers!

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke has released (a little early) his birthday greetings.

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An article implies that Robert A. Heinlein's influence is declining. The evidence? That the literati don't take him seriously anymore. Is being compared to Heinlein a help or hindrance to a new science fiction writer? One such writer speaks up (and to be honest, the main reason I picked up John Scalzi's books was because of the comparison to Heinlein!)

Looks like it is time to trot out this 1980 essay by Spider Robinson again! more...

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Balefires; David Drake (Night Shade Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59780-071-6, cover by Richard Pellegrino).

The review can now be viewed here.

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