This book is an interesting read, but for unusual reasons. Its as if Harrison sets out to write a terrible book, and learns new techniques to achieve this terrible along the way. An example of his mastery of the art: A hundred bucks a month was good money, though, and Bill saved every bit of…
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The Complete Hammer’s Slammers Volume 2
This book is as good as The first volume. This book comes highly recommended. Stories included: At Any Price Counting the Cost Rolling Hot The Warrior The Day of Glory [isbn: 1892389738]
The Complete Hammer’s Slammers Volume 1
It occurred to me over the weekend that it was odd that I was updating books I had recently read on a book site like goodreads, given that all I’m doing by entering data on their site is blogging someplace that not even I remember to read. I’m therefore going to move all of that…
A Stainless Steel Rat is Born
This was another book I read as a kid and had fond memories of. When I found it at Powell’s books for under $4 I just had to pick it up. Harrison seems to focus on “pulp science fiction” — all of the stuff I have seen from him has been short and easy reading,…
Exciting news
Today email arrived with the contract for my second book (following on from The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick). This one is a still-secret project hatched with Stewart Smith, and I don’t want to mention the topic in public just yet. There are two reasons for that — there’s always a risk that the whole project…