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A good, fun book in the fine tradition of large-scale SF. It's like Rendezvous With Rama, only with a plot, or Brin's Uplift Trilogy, only with a halfway sensible conclusion.
This is the fantasy companion volume to New Skies, a collection of noteworthy science fiction stories compiled with a younger audience in mind.
Lost in Translation's Tokyo: What it gets right, and what it gets wrong.
This book falls into the general category of "Smart People Books," a subset of non-fiction in which a Smart Person sets out to explore all the various aspects of some particular phenomenon; large predators, in this case.
This is the second volume of a graphic novel following the exploits of a group of heroes in an alternate London at the turn of the 20th century. It's a marvelous conceit. Somebody really ought to make a movie out of it.
An anthology of "today's Science Fiction," and an excellent one at that.
Quick comments on recent CD purchases.
Muder, life in an ad agency, and twenty pages of incomprehensible cricket.
Susan Cooper's classic series, some of the best children's fantasy books ever written.
The year in music, or at least nine albums' worth of the year in music.
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