On the way home from our awesome soup dumpling dinner in Sydney we dropped into Elizabeth’s Bookshop entirely by accident. We’d deliberately walked a block offset from where we do normally to avoid boredom, and just got lucky. The second hand science fiction selection was good (not huge, but big enough to have some stuff…
On the potentially sorry state of second hand science fiction book stores in Sydney
Following a recommendation from Danny, I went and checked out Galaxy Books on York Street during one of my lunch times. The review says they have a good second hand section, and I am still hunting for some old Asimovs. Unfortunately, it was a waste of time. The second hand section must of only had…
The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted
This book is another Stainless Steel Rat prequel, although it was written well after the original book. This book takes up from where A Stainless Steel Rat is Born ends — with Jim arrested (of course), on a surprisingly low tech planet. Jim must then escape, and make his way in the universe once more….
Books read in June 2008
Robots and Empire Caliban Inferno
Raymond E Feist’s Serpentwar Saga
(I went book shopping in Canberra yesterday). C Year Title Notes 1994 Shadow of a Dark Queen Stored in Australia (Box 1). [bookstore: garagesale] 1995 Rise of a Merchant Prince 1997 Rage of a Demon King Stored in Australia (Box 1). [bookstore: garagesale] 1998 Shards of a Broken Crown
Raymond E Feist’s Empire Trilogy
(I went book shopping in Canberra yesterday). C Year Title Notes 1987 Daughter of the Empire Stored in Australia (Box 1). [bookstore: garagesale] 1990 Servant of the Empire Stored in Australia (Box 1). [bookstore: garagesale] 1997 Mistress of the Empire
Katharine Kerr’s Deverry Series
Year Title Notes Act one: Deverry 1986 Daggerspell 1987 Darkspell 1989 The Bristling Wood – US title; issued in the UK as Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood 1990 The Southern Sea – US title; issued in the UK as Dragonspell: The Southern Sea Act two: The Westlands 1991 A Time of Exile 1992 A Time of…
Isaac Asimov’s Inferno
Inferno is the second Asimov universe book written by Roger MacBride Allen. Much like Asimov’s Robots and Empire and Caliban, its what I will call an “issue book”. In Robots and Empire the issue at hand was that having a long life results in risk adversity and therefore the stagnation of society as a whole….
Isaac Asimov’s Caliban
This is a “robot mystery” in the style of Asimov, but actually written by Roger MacBride Allen. Wikipedia assures me that Asimov approved the outline for this book, as well as the other two by Roger: “Shortly before his death in 1992, Asimov approved an outline for three novels (Caliban, Inferno, Utopia) by Roger MacBride…
Robots and Empire
I find the newer Asimovs harder to read for some reason — I think it might be because they are more inclined to introspection that the earlier ones, but that might not be all of it. Overall I enjoyed this book, although I did find that I lost enthusiasm briefly in the middle. Overall, worth…