Category: Books
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Amazon’s list of 2008 Award Winning Manga
The good people over at Amazon Japan have just released their list of 2008 award winning manga. The good folks from the book department, whose floor I also sit at, put the list together. I’ve been reading the second series of books (well, comics) on the list, よつばと! and think it is a really good […]
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Books: David Gemmel’s The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend and Natsumi Hikaru’s “The Doctrine of Sex”
David Gemmell’s Druss the Legend This past week has been a busy one, but sometime over the past week or two I picked up the second book about Druss the Legend in David Gemmel’s
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Joe Haldeman’s “The Accidental Time Machine”
On Sunday I picked up Joe Haldeman’s “The Accidental Time Machine”, a novel that I had ordered because Amazon told me to buy it. When Amazon tells me to buy something, I usually listen because it knows what I like. (But then again, I’m biased!) Anyway, by Monday evening I had finished reading it. It […]
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Review of John Scalzi’s Android’s Dream
I became a fan of John Scalzi when I read a book of his that Tor gave away as a free ebook: Old Man’s War. After that I read The Ghost Brigades, and The Last Colony. That took me through the “Old Man’s War” series, except for the new still-in-hardcover Zoe’s Tale. So, I’ve really […]
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Review of David Gemmel’s Legend
While I was busy reading and buying the Caine series of books by Michael Stover Amazon recommended that I read David Gemmell’s Legend (Drenai Tales, Book 1), so I added that to my cart to await an opening in my reading schedule. A few weeks back I started reading Legend, and really enjoyed it. I […]
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Another brief roundup: cheap ebooks, cool indy games, and a neat graphics library
This is another post mostly for myself so I don’t lose track of some interesting looking things. First up, cheap $1 ebooks from Orbit. It looks like this publisher is selling one ebook per month at $1, which is a deal that you can not pass up, even if the books are DRM-encumbered. I’m seriously […]
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The Baen Free Library and a bit on DRM ebooks
Covers from the Baen Free Library I’m sure that I’ve pointed out a few books from the Baen Free Library before, in particular the the books by Rick Cook, which are interesting to computer science people and fantasy people (or possibly only the intersection of the two.) I’ve been meaning to go through and download […]
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Review of Heroes Die, Blade of Tyshalle, and Caine Black Knife
John Scalzi’s “Big Idea” on Matthew Stover’s Caine series Matthew Stover’s blog A while back I subscribed to John Scalzi’s “Whatever” blog and I saw his Big Idea column on Matthew Stover’s new Caine Black Knife book. I read the first bit of the column, but then quit because it sounded interesting and I didn’t […]
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Mini Manga Reviews 2: Crossfire and Yotsuba volume 2
Continuing in my series of mini-manga reviews, we have Miyuki Miyabe’s “Crossfire” and the second volume of “Yotsuba to”. Crossfire is a pretty nice and easy read. There were two words that I learned, basically accelerant (促進) and pyrogenesis (I think that is the English for it – someone that can cause fires with their […]
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Review of Charles Stross’ Accelerando
Charles Stross’ Website Free ebook download of Accelerando Continuing my string of book reviews (or more likely, just bragging that I read a book) is Charles Stross’ “Aceelerando”. The book was published in 2006 (I think) and is a very interesting read in the Science Fiction “Singularity” genre. I have written a bit about the […]