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At the rate YOU read you should be starting AATE on Monday! :mrgreen:
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Hahaha, which could be tricky, since I suspect it won't arrive in SA for maybe 6 months. :D Perhaps I should squeeze in a reread of Erikson and Jordan first. :lol:

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Well I just purchased SRD "Against all things ending" :biggrin: :cheers: :banana:
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Av wrote:I suspect it won't arrive in SA for maybe 6 months.
I would have taken up a collection and sent you a signed copy, had I known...(I'm serious--actually PM me you addy)
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Just started on Matter by Iain M Banks. No doubt I'm gonna enjoy this book as usual.
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Av wrote:I suspect it won't arrive in SA for maybe 6 months.
I would have taken up a collection and sent you a signed copy, had I known...(I'm serious--actually PM me you addy)
:) Thanks for the offer Danlo.

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Just finished 'AATE', right after 'Considering Phlebas'.
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How's "Considering Phlebas?" Are there lots of drowned Phonecians? :P :lol: ;)
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Orlion wrote:How's "Considering Phlebas?" Are there lots of drowned Phonecians? :P :lol: ;)
:D

After reading it I got very curious about the title, having no previous experience with the poem from which it is lifted. Some searching online solved that.

Still, I've enjoyed the book quite a bit. Reminiscent of the Gap, certainly in the exquisite plotting of the climax.
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I loved Consider Phlebas (and it is Consider, not Considering) slugging through AATE with my eye on Bakker's The Judging Eye...
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The Bug Wars by Robert Asprin
"Let's not fight. I don't like fighting" Frostheart Grueburn
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I've read some of his Thieves World anthologies and enjoyed them. He's dead now though.

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:LOLS:

The Enemy Within, 3rd Mission Earth book.

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Apart from Banks' Matter I'm now also listening to House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds on the bicycle.
Fun fact: Reynolds lived in the Netherlands for several years.
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the Last Colony ;Scalzi

Im loving on Scalzi lately. Old Mans War was also really amazing.
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Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
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Kathe wrote:Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Good book :D
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Lord Darcy by Randall Garrett
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An Alien Affair

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