{"id":313,"date":"2008-10-13T23:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/book-and-backlog\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T14:00:32","slug":"book-and-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/13\/book-and-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Book and Backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"floatleft\">\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0441014186&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0441014763&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0441015670&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0441016197&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I went to America last month, and as usual, I read a storm on the plane.  I&#8217;ve been meaning to post this for ages, but I&#8217;ve been ridiculously busy so I haven&#8217;t gotten around to it.  I&#8217;m finally going to just take some time this morning and post stuff.    <\/p>\n<h3>Space Opera<\/h3>\n<p>I read the first four books of the &#8220;Lost Fleet&#8221; series by Jack Campbell.  I really enjoyed these four books from a standard space opera point of view.  They are very interesting from a military \/ tactics point of view.  A fairly easy read, and the pages go quickly.  I&#8217;ll definitely pick up the final two books in the series when they come out.  I found these books because when I was shopping for some John Scalzi stuff they kept coming up as recommendations from <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/\">Amazon.com<\/a> so I thought I would give them a try.  Good job, Amazon!  I really enjoyed them!<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<h3>Fantasy<\/h3>\n<div class=\"floatright\">\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0345459407&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0345460014&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0330468278&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I already wrote about China Mi\u00e9ville&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Perdido-Street-Station-China-Mieville\/dp\/0345459407\/ref=pd_sim__2\">Perdido Street Station<\/a> a while back (it was plane fodder on a trip to Singapore) but it has taken me a long time to read his later two novels, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Scar-China-Mieville\/dp\/0345460014\/ref=pd_sim__1\">The Scar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Iron-Council-China-Mieville\/dp\/0345458427\/ref=pd_cp__0_img?pf_rd_p=413864201&#038;pf_rd_s=center-41&#038;pf_rd_t=201&#038;pf_rd_i=0330468278&#038;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_r=0W3K9TP383KJK07XH58Z\">Iron Council<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>I really liked Perdido Street Station &#8211; the world of Bas-Lag is a very interesting turn-of-the-century with magic sort of place, and doesn&#8217;t feel like the standard sorts of high fantasy or science fiction that you come across, but is a blend of both.  The Scar was a great follow-up.  There were things about it that I didn&#8217;t like: I didn&#8217;t like the protagonist much, and had trouble caring about what happened to her, but there were other great characters, and the story itself is really great.  I feel like you will enjoy The Scar more if you have an understanding of quantum mechanics at some level, but it was really impressive the way that the novel takes a very modern and scientific concept and works it into the fabric of the story in a natural way.  There were also some elements of science that surrounded Perdido Street Station as well.<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>If The Scar was about Quantum Mechanics, then Iron Council was about politics, revolution, and governments.  I didn&#8217;t enjoy Iron Council as much as the other two, but it is still a great read.  China Mi\u00e9ville has a real way with building interesting worlds and giving you a personal view of large-scale events from the people involved in them and on the fringes.  I highly recommend all three Bas-Lag novels, you should give them a try! <\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to America last month, and as usual, I read a storm on the plane. I&#8217;ve been meaning to post this for ages, but I&#8217;ve been ridiculously busy so I haven&#8217;t gotten around to it. I&#8217;m finally going to just take some time this morning and post stuff. 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