Ooh

[jack]

Ooh, boooks. PSA: I am *not* a materialistic book whore.

I have acquired:

The Hallowed Hunt (Bujold's latest Challion!)
Several Greg Egan
Atrocity archives (second hand, still on its way)
Wacom graphics tablet. Grpahical representation of my humours, here we come!

It all makes a surprisingly small compact package[1].

I don't think I deserve the tablet though, we may agree to make it a retrospective early christmas present from family, on account of if I keep buying cool and unnescessary stuff myself there'll be nothing anyone can get for me if they want to.

[1] Typo of the week: passage. Ick :)

Comments

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

I read Permutation City first out of those, and really liked the first half. The second half went a bit strange, to my view (I don't think that's really a spoiler!). His more recent books seem to have suffered from that sort of thing less. Luminous was another good collection of shorts, but I think Axiomatic was more memorable.

Rather like Baxter in his own area, Egan seems to have "strip-mined" a well-defined set of SF concepts through his writing :-)