American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story
I idly re-read this over the last few months.
Category: Rated
jade?
Flash Forward
Interesting sci-fi approach to foreknowledge issue raised in Replay
soar?
Replay
Outstanding fantasy based on the premise of
target?
You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing
Blog entries about writing and the writing business
brittle?
The Merchant’s War
Merchant Princes 4
spooks?
The Clan Corporate
Merchant Princes 3
tripwire?
The Hidden Family
Merchant Princes 2
beat?
The Family Trade
First of his economic science fiction disguised as fantasy series. It’s a very readable piece of writing
iron?
Marrow
Fascinating debut, almost a masterpiece.
Books 2008
Books Read in 2008
1. The Ghost Brigades John Scalzi B+
2. Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman A
3. Love and Other Near Death Experiences Mil Millington C
4. The Lies of Locke Lamore Scott Lynch A+
5. Roadside Picnic Strugatsky Bros A-
6. Elektra Yvonne Navarro C-
7. The Damned Utd David Peace A
8. Halting State Charles Stross A
9. The Stone Canal Ken MacLeod A-
10. The Cassini Division Ken MacLeod A
11. The Star Fraction Ken MacLeod A-
12. The Android’s Dream John Scalzi A
13. The Sky Road Ken MacLeod A-
14. The Execution Channel Ken MacLeod B+
15. Search The Sky Pohl & Kornbluth B
16. Bellwether Connie Willis A
17. Friday Robert A. Heinlein C+
18. Someone Comes To Town Cory Doctorow B+
19. Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein B+
20. Yiddish Policemen’s Union Michael Chabon A
21. Little Brother Cory Doctorow A
22. The Arbitrary Placement of Walls Martha Soukup A+
23. White Bicycles Joe Boyd A-
24. Ysabel Guy Gavriel Kay A
25. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell A+
26. Saturn’s Children Charles Stross B+
27. Heartfelt Aidan Smith B+
28. The Last Colony John Scalzi A
29. A Snowball In Hell Christopher Brookmyre A
30. War Of The Flowers Tad Williams A-
31. War For The Oaks Emma Bull A-
32. Charmed Life Diana Wynne Jones A
33. Stardust Neil Gaiman A
34. Archer’s Goon Diana Wynne Jones A+
35. Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk B+
36. Contact Carl Sagan B-
37. Screen Burn Charlie Brooker A-
38. Dawn of the Dumb Charlie Brooker B+
39. The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman A+
40. Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded John Scalzi B+