http://sowacs.no-ip.com/open.htm?page=reading/reading.htm Links accumulated while browsing. en-us http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441012841/ wow - that was - fun. but oddly dated & cliche as well. you may want to keep wikipedia open as you read. online at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/accelerando/accelerando.html Chris Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:51:41 UTC http://manybooks.net/datesort/piperh.html yep, everything in the list except the mystery & the 1927 guns thing. mostly short stories & novellettes here; a few novels. old-style scifi, certainly. tough to evaluate these; would take more space than i have here. Chris Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:02:47 UTC http://www.worlddreambank.org/ arrived via link to the alt planet maps. unusual old-style personal / art website that these days would have been a weblog. Chris Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:27:18 UTC http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/17-StormfromtheShadowsCD/StormfromtheShadowsCD/ these really need to be read along with the main series novels in publication order. consistent with the rest of the books, but it looks like the next ones, being released more than four years later now, fall far short. time to quit these ? probably. Chris Sun, 8 Nov 2009 04:20:41 UTC http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/17-StormfromtheShadowsCD/StormfromtheShadowsCD/ it's been fun; one more to come this spring ? Chris Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:21:31 UTC http://www.amazon.com/Playing-Pizza-Novel-John-Grisham/dp/0385525001/ light, fast read; satisfactory time filler; italy, football, superficially entertaining - but no meat. Chris Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:24:41 UTC http://www.amazon.com/Honor-Queen-Harrington/dp/0743435729/ book two of eleven; more variety of battles in this one. Chris Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:50:30 UTC http://www.amazon.com/Basilisk-Station-Honor-Harrington/dp/0743435710/ the first of an eleven, and shortly twelve, book series (plus numerous side stories). space opera; for me, an engaging time filler. i think i'm just looking for something with extended continuity right now, that is also sufficiently consumable. Chris Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:47:45 UTC http://www.amazon.com/Gripping-Hand-Larry-Niven/dp/0671795740/ sequel to 'the mote in god's eye'; still very good, needs to be read right after 'mote'; problematic for an 18 year gap. some internal continuity problems; very good characterization, _i_ thought... Chris Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:50:37 UTC http://www.amazon.com/Mote-Gods-Eye-Larry-Niven/dp/0671741926/ personal take: i needed to have waited all these years to read this; my original expectations way back when were for a different type of story, and a higher literary value, which i knew this wasn't, despite all the hype. excellent, nonetheless. Chris Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:14:49 UTC http://sowacs.no-ip.com/reading/reading_rss.xml