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QotD: Books From My Childhood

Dec 10, 2006
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Neuromancer

What books did you love as a child?
Submitted by hearts.

Winnie the Pooh and Neuromancer springs to mind. My mother read Winnie the Pooh to me when I was a child, and when I was maybe 15, I read Neuromancer for the first time (the first science fiction I read in English). Obiously, Neuromancer was more my type of literature, as I've re-read it a number of times. The photo on the right is the paperback version I bought back in the early 90s. It's possibly the first book I ever bought, and definitely the one that got me hooked on science fiction.

Pratchett et al

Dec 1, 2006
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Soul Music

Bought a couple of books today, as I finished Soul Music last night. The new ones are:

Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge
Bruce Sterling's The Zenith Angle
Pratchett's Interesting Times, Maskerade and Feet of Clay

Soul Music was an average Pratchett. Death is always an interesting character, and the seeing Dibbler in the main cast was a nice change. Some good plot turns and unexpected events and, of course, quite a few Pratchettian puns: "I'm not sure I'm that interested in music any more. It's a world of hertz."

Picked Icehenge as my next read. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of six authors where I've decided to read every novel published. The others are (in no specific order) William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Philip K. Dick, Terry Pratchett and Bruce Sterling. The status of this project is as follows (percentages based on gut feeling):

Kim Stanley Robinson: 80%
William Gibson: 100%
Neal Stephenson: 95%
Philip K. Dick: 65%
Terry Pratchett: 50% of the Discworld novels
Bruce Sterling: 50%

So... A lot left to read. Naturally, I read other authors too – Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, for example, and the must-reads like Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four and Heller's Catch 22. However, the ones listed above are the ones that I focus my reading energy on. Obsessive? A little, perhaps.