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Mars the Infomage's Something or Other  http://www.livejournal.com/statisti Pictures: Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marstheinf RSS (last 10): http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/ph Books: Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/49 RSS: http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rs this journal: Livejournal: http://marstheinfomage.livejournal.com/ Atom: http://marstheinfomage.livejournal.c RSS: http://marstheinfomage.livejournal.c ( Read more... ) 2 or 3 posts in this blog are apparently spammer breeding grounds - comments on those posts have been disabled. if you want to talk about something but the Comment link is gone, put your comment in any other post and provide a link to the original. first 3 shelves of paperbacks so far http://tinyurl.com/marsbooks1 (slightly NSFW) am I the only one who thinks... ( Read more... ) random selections from the Clippings file: Cook, Glen - Garrett Files 10 - Angry Lead Skies "Banner-sergeant Hamond Barbidon, the meanest mortarforker ..." ========== Cook, Glen - Starfishers 2 - Starfishers "Archaicism could be damned funny. BenRabi remembered a holocast of pot-bellied old men stamping through modern New York outfitted as Assyrian soldiery off for a sham battle with the legions of the Pharaoh of New Jersey." ========== Banks, Iain M. - Canal Dreams "All this seemed a little excessive to her, but it kept Mr Moriya if not quiet, then at an acceptable volume of terrified hysteria." ========== Banks, Iain M. - Canal Dreams (on statistics) "Did she know, he said, that you were far more likely to die in a car crash than in a plane? But not when you're in a plane!" ========== Anthony, Piers - Alien Plot "The martial artist had laser-zapped Crogs, wrestled Snogs, and sworded Blogs. Now the ultimate challenge: Swami Noname of Dread. 'Champion, I challenge thee! Rapier, cannon, solar flares?' The wizened little ascetic looked up from his lotus position. 'Ten paces.' 'Agreed! Ten paces. But what weapons?' 'Hunger.' " ========== Banks, Iain M. - Complicity " 'Cameron,' Frank Scare says, looking up from his terminal. Frank is fifty, with bouffant white hair and a complexion that succeeds in being moderately ruddy and childishly smooth at the same time. He talks with a sing-song voice and, after lunch usually, a slight lisp. He likes to remind me what my name is whenever he sees me. Some mornings, this helps." ========== Banks, Iain M. - The Bridge "Oh very good. We are coming on. You'll be tying your own bootlaces next ... probably to each other, but anything's a start. What was I saying?" ========== Banks, Iain M. - The Bridge "In the end, he had to admit, he didn't really understand her. He didn't understand women. He didn't understand men. He didn't even understand children very well. All he really understood, he thought, was himself and the rest of the universe." ========== this is just here so I eventually remember to look up these books: Anthony, Piers - Alien Plot "I picture a gathering of the elite of the genre, who are there to determine the critic's choice of the best works of science fiction and fantasy of all time. That is, the List that will be graven on granite for the edification of the lesser aspirants. In the genre these would be Delany's Dhalgren, Aldiss' Report on Probability A, and Hoban's Riddley Walker, and the finest writer of all time would be J. G. Ballard despite his one failure with Empire of the Sun." Gotta give props where they're due http://www.djvu-pdf.com converts DJVU files to PDF and back Got a perfectly readable, high-quality 500 page PDF out of it in under a minute, with no hassles, no downloads, and totally free! moved to GoodReads was thinking to keep the data both there and here, but too lazy, so no more book posts on LJ. here's an RSS link for those of you who care (also available in a reference post at the top of this journal) http://www.goodreads.com/review/list_rs fun KAYAK ad (via http://antonio-j.livejournal.com/33  Brighton Wheel by Barry Chignell (via http://500px.livejournal.com/1386940.ht more fun stuff under cut ( Read more... ) |
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