June, 2009

DatePost TitleAuthorWorkSeries
Mon Jun 1: You may not know it, but you want to read this: Francis Spufford's Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin [Post] [Francis Spufford] [Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin]
Tue Jun 2: The addiction of time travel: Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand [Post] [Daphne Du Maurier] [The House on the Strand]
Wed Jun 3: Something old, something new? [Post]
Wed Jun 3: Advertising dystopia: Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants [Post] [Frederik Pohl] [C.M. Kornbluth] [The Space Merchants]
Thu Jun 4: Faster Than Light at any speed [Post]
Sun Jun 7: Being clever with mythology: John James's Votan and Not For All the Gold in Ireland [Post] [John James] [Votan] [Not For All the Gold in Ireland]
Mon Jun 8: Gender and glaciers: Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness [Post] [Ursula K. Le Guin] [The Left Hand of Darkness]
Wed Jun 10: Licensed to sell weasels and jade earrings: The short stories of Lord Dunsany [Post] [Lord Dunsany]
Thu Jun 11: The Net of a Million Lies: Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep [Post] [Vernor Vinge] [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Fri Jun 12: The other woman: Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride [Post] [Margaret Atwood] [The Robber Bride]
Sun Jun 14: The worst book I love: Robert Heinlein's Friday [Post] [Robert A. Heinlein] [Friday]
Tue Jun 16: India's superheroes: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children [Post] [Salman Rushdie] [Midnight's Children]
Wed Jun 17: Clocks and stars and magic: Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett's Point of Hopes [Post] [Melissa Scott] [Lisa A. Barnett] [Point of Hopes]
Thu Jun 18: Starman Jones, or how Robert A. Heinlein did plot on a good day [Post] [Robert A. Heinlein] [Starman Jones]
Fri Jun 19: Packing books for a trip [Post]
Mon Jun 22: A funny book with a lot of death in it: Iain Banks's The Crow Road [Post] [Iain Banks] [The Crow Road]
Tue Jun 23: More dimensions than you'd expect: Samuel Delany's Babel 17 [Post] [Samuel R. Delany] [Babel 17]
Fri Jun 26: Characters and cryptography: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon [Post] [Neal Stephenson] [Cryptonomicon]
Mon Jun 29: Not so urban fantasy: Nina Kiriki Hoffman's The Silent Strength of Stones [Post] [Nina Kiriki Hoffman] [The Silent Strength of Stones]



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