Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Squeeee!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life
Tonight, John Scalzi made a stop at the Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City, IA for his book tour to promote The Last Colony. Michelle & I got there wicked early1 and chatted with a couple of store employees briefly. Fortunately, they were cool with me bringing in my own copy of The Android’s Dream […]
Review: The Android’s Dream
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews
The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi My Rating: 5 out of 5. This book is a delightfully wacky tale of one man’s fight to keep a very special sheep alive. In the process, our hero will have to fight off various aliens and a few treacherous villainous humans. Scattered throughout The Android’s Dream are numerous one […]
Tags: Books, humour, Reviews, Scalzi, Sci-fi
50 most significant sci-fi/fantasy novels
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Life
This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953–2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved. 1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien* 2. The […]
Review: Valley of the Soul
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews
Valley of the Soul My rating: 5 out of 5. My first introduction to the world of Faldorrah came about 2 years ago. AWelkin knew the author and had an early copy of the first book, Ghosts in the Snow. My wife and I were over at AWelkin’s house for a visit, planning to watch some […]
Are you a hoopy frood, like me?
Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Links
If so, you better have your towel with you today! As today, is Towel Day. For those not familiar, Douglas Adams was one of the funniest writers of our time. He wrote a wonderful series of radio plays which were converted in a a series of books and a TV show and later into a […]
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