Breakfast of Champions Old Man’s War The Ghost Brigades The Last Colony Ender’s Game Snow Crash The Sagan Diary Zoe’s Tale Broken Angels
Multiple file support with scp
Paramiko doesn’t provide a scp implementation, so I’ve been using my own for a while. http://blogs.sun.com/janp/entry/how_the_scp_protocol_works (link now unfortunately dead) provides good documentation about the scp protocol, but it missed out on one detail I needed — how to send more than one file in a given session. In the end I implemented a simple…
Broken Angels
This book is very different from Altered Carbon, as noted by many other online reviews. I found it very slow going, for a few reasons: it is quite long; it is very different from Altered Carbon in a way that almost feel like a bait and switch (Altered Carbon is a film noir detective novel,…
The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat
This is an omnibus edition, containing: The Stainless Steel Rat, The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge, and The Stainless Steel Rats Revenge. [isbn: 0425095312]
Zoe’s Tale
This is a retelling of the events of The Last Colony from the perspective of Zoe, the teenaged adopted daughter of the colony leaders. The story makes the teenaged female narrator quite believable, although that is a little annoying at times. There is a lot of introductory material, and then a relatively rapid wrap up…
The Sagan Diary
I think I’d be a little bit peeved if I’d paid the recommended retail for this book, because its a 100 page book (in an unusually large font), and they want $45 for it. Sure its a limited edition, but that’s a lot of money for what is basically a short story. I paid $18,…
Snow Crash
I’d read this book before, but a long time ago and I decided it was time for a re-read. Its a good book, although the exposition about Sumerian history feels like a first attempt at the style of exposition used in later books like Quicksilver and I think its not as well done here. The…
Ender’s Game
I’ve read this book before, many years ago. I figured I should re-read it, given how much I love the short story. Unfortunately, I think the short story is better than the novelization. The novel tends to try to explain too much, although the last chapter is a worthy addition. I’m sure I’ll still read…
The Last Colony
All of the Old Men’s War books (Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades) have started slowly and built up to a climax. That’s been good because its given some time for background which makes the second phase of the book all the more fully formed. This book is the same, although I think the…
Registered
I’m registered for LCA 2011! I wasn’t expecting to be able to come due to a clash with a work event, but then they moved that event. So, I’m pretty happy about that. Have you registered yet? Early bird closes soon…