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Post by **Vector** » Mon May 16, 2005 6:53 pm

I just bought "The Worm Ouroboros"

Post by **FizbansTalking_Hat** » Mon May 16, 2005 7:13 pm

I have Worm Ouroborus(sp?) sitting on the shelf, need to get to it, I've heard nothing but good things, cheers.

Post by **danlo** » Mon May 16, 2005 10:51 pm

Better go buy a copy then we can have a Group Read!

Post by **gyrehead** » Tue May 17, 2005 12:05 am

My copy of Esslemont's Night of Knives arrived on Saturday and was dropped off at the neighbors. And is now safely in my hands!

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu May 19, 2005 11:47 pm

My signed copy of No Present Like Time arrived today.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri May 20, 2005 7:00 am

Great day for me yesterday, picked up:

Day of the Triffids - Wyndham

Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Jack Finney

Proteus Unbound - Charles Sheffield

Brothers of the Head by Aldiss

Ambassador Without Credentials -- Strange format book of short stories by Sergei Snegov, translated from Russian.

Mission by Patrick Tilley. (IIRC, a story about Jesus returning to the modern world, and getting treated as a mental patient.)

And one other one that I can't remember right now either. Oh well. More books to lie around because I'm short of shelf space.

--Avatar

(Edited to fill in what I remembered to find out about them.)

Post by **Vector** » Fri May 20, 2005 8:55 pm

danlo wrote:Better go buy a copy then we can have a Group Read!

Hey, that sounds like a good idea - I would enjoy doing a group read on a book I have not yet read...

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Sat May 21, 2005 9:42 pm

The Stardragons by Bob Eggleton and John Grant, a stunning art book of paintings of dragons flying through outer space. There's text, too, but this is the sort of book one gets for the art, not the words.

Used copies of the Ghormenghast (spelling?) books, and a little kids' fantasy series called The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper. Also used copies of the two classic Frank Herbert Dune books I haven't read, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:24 am

Not familiar with The Dark Is Rising, but have read several of Susan Cooper's books, and enjoyed them all. Great sci-fi/fantasy for kids.

--A

Post by **Myste** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:54 am

The Dark is Rising sequence is one of my favorite series of all time. I reread it at least once a year. It is a kid's series, being about a bunch of kids, but it's still a story about Good v. Evil in the very best style.

I'd even go so far as to say that in its own way, it's as powerful as LOTR. It's less grandiose--and definitely not as high-falutin'--but it, like LOTR, is a story about simple, honest people (who happen to be kids instead of hobbits) caught up in a fight that is much bigger and scarier and greater and more wonderful than anything they should really be exposed to. In other words, it's absolutely brilliant. I can't recommend it enough.

Post by **Avatar** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:35 pm

Wow. I'll have to look for it. Personally, I think there is a lot of great sci-fi/fantasy out there masquerading as children's books.

I frequently hit the childrens library to re-read some of the really good ones.

One of my favourite is a book called Earthseed by Pamela Sargent. If you see it, read it. It really is excellent.

--Avatar

Post by **Myste** » Wed May 25, 2005 5:18 pm

I'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks!

Post by **Ainulindale** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:56 pm

Went ahead a pre-ordered Hal Duncan's forthcoming Vellium. Jeff VanderMeer has been praising it substantially and it sounds damn interesting.

Post by **Warmark** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:15 am

Just got "A Game of Thrones"

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:45 pm

Bought City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer.

Post by **Ainulindale** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:07 pm

Went ahead a pre-ordered Hal Duncan's forthcoming Vellium. Jeff VanderMeer has been praising it substantially and it sounds damn interesting

Which sucks now that I know I'm getting a manucript copy to review

Both Murrin nnd Warmark just bought soem good books it seems as well

Post by **Encryptic** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:42 pm

Picked up Perdido Street Station. I'll be re-reading that probably after I finish re-reading Book of the New Sun.

Post by **gyrehead** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:33 am

The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher
The Divided Crown by Isabel Glass

Post by **Ainulindale** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:58 am

Just found out I'm getting somethig sent to me by Ian R. Macleod, not sure what exactly, maybe Summer Isle? Whatever it is, I'll take it

Post by **Ainulindale** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 8:45 am

Did a littel shoppign today, I had some of them already but they were showing some wear in those cases (not including pre-orders):

Galveston - Sean Stewart

Helliconia Spring - Brian Aldis
Hellicona Summer - Brian Ladis ( I uncharacteristicaly let someone borrow my copies and they came back witha corner bent which is simply unacceptable)

The Skinner - Neal Asher

Innocents Aboard - Gene Wolfe

Heat of Fusion - John M. Ford

Dark Sister - Graham Joyce

King of the City - Michael Moorcock (found me a first print)

The Risen Empire - Scott Westerfeld

Dreamside - Graham Joyce

Smoking Poppy - Graham Joyce

The Monsters of St Helena - Brooks Hansen

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