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January 2, 2009

New Year Reading List

Ah, a new year, a time to read even more.

Last year I decided to create an Apocalyptic reading list, which I mostly completed. Hopefully I'll get to read the remaining books this year, in fact a few of them were Christmas presents: Oryx And Crake, The Penultimate Truth, The Stand and The Chrysalids. Also the Wastelands anthology was ordered for me (from Amazon) but didn't turn up, which might mean it's out of print again?  

Other Christmas presents included Spook Country and The Yiddish Policeman's Union both of which I'm looking forward to.

Also on the pile to read are a few from Orbit: 

  

Although I haven't read the book before Chaos Space, which puts me off a bit and highlights the entire problem with series. Talking of series, I have the three Orphanage books to read as well, which have nice covers, but again, the whole series thing is off putting. Also not convinced about reading Gears of War: Aspho Fields seeing as it's based on a video game I know nothing about.


I also have a few old books bought from random Christmas fairs and found lying around including a collection of JG Ballard short stories, some old Heinlein and some old Vogt. None of which I know much about, but they were 10p or something and Science Fiction, and therefore I had to buy them. 

And, on top of that I want to read at least one short story every week. Because I should. Hopefully I'll read all the short lists for the BSFA awards. Nebulas and Hugos. 




By James on 8:07 AM

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