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Altered Carbon
One of my resolutions this year was to read more books but what with swimming and juggling and climbing, that has rather fallen by the wayside. It was only by the serendipitous delay in getting through Immigration at Kuala Lumpur International yesterday (45 minutes flying time, 1 hour standing in a queue) that I had […]
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Leviathan Wakes
My wife and I have just finished reading Leviathan Wakes, a sci find space opera welded to a pulp boot, written by a couple of George R R Martin’s assistants. It took us each about three days to read it from beginning to end: an oddly compulsive few days of late nights.
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The Night Mayor
A long long time ago, when I was obsessed with everything Games Workshop touched, they started commissioning novels set in their not-quite-a-rip-off-of-Tolkien fantasy universe. One of the authors they recruited was Kim Newman, the massively-mutton-chopped film reviewer, who managed to smuggle into the Warhammer milieu a pastiche of Dirty Harry and the fairly terrifying Drachenfels, […]
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Three things on Saturday
This afternoon I bought a BMW branded cup holder for our stroller. I did this because it was the only cup holder available in Mothercare, and after I had to transport a cup of coffee home this morning while carrying La Serpiente on my hip (the coffee precariously balanced in the stroller where La Serpiente […]