| I has books! |
[Feb. 8th, 2008|05:28 pm] |
I'm allowing myself one Amazon order per semester. A big one arrived today:
Six books by Kage Baker, since I loved the first four books of her Company series so much: Black Projects, White Knights; The Life of the World to Come; The Machine's Child; Children of the Company; Gods and Pawns; The Sons of Heaven. The Company series concerns a group of immortal cyborgs who work, mostly to recover lost art treasures and preserve endangered species, for a company called Dr. Zeus, Inc. But as time gets nearer and nearer the year 2355, which is shrouded in a great silence, the cyborgs are realizing their mortal masters fear and hate them. The main characters are Mendoza, a botanist recruited out of the dungeons of the Inquisition; Joseph, who recruits Mendoza and was himself born in the Pyrenees in about 18,000 BC; and Lewis, a Literate specialist who's smitten with Mendoza. The books are very funny and great fun.
Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees. An older fantasy, pre-Tolkien, which I've been waiting on to come back into print for quite a while. I've heard that this is a wonderful story, and I like most of the pre-Tolkien fantasists I've read (Dunsany, Morris, James Branch Cabell), so I'm looking forward to trying it.
Fool's Run, by Patricia McKillip, an SF novel I bought from a used bookseller. This is older McKillip, i.e., pre-2004 and Alphabet of Thorn, the book in which she forgot how to plot. I've refused to read any of her newer books, but I'm intrigued by the descriptions I've read of this one.
The New World, by Frederick Turner, which is epic science fiction poetry. Yes. I know it sounds crazy, but yes. This was a buy from another used bookseller solely on the basis of this review. The book is a hardback in beautiful condition.
Yay books! |
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