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[grindmonkeh]

Books, Graphic Novels, and Short Stories Read Thus Far this Year...
Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Wolves of Odin - Grant Gould (graphic novel)
Dark Tower: The Long Road Home - Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth, and Richard Isanove (graphic novel)
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
Twilight - John Campbell (short story)
The Little Black Bag - C.M. Cornbluth (short story)
A Martian Odyssey - Stanley Weinbaum (short story)
Arena - Frederic Brown (short story)
First Contact - Murray Leinster (short story)
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
Microcosmic God - Theodore Sturgeon (short story)
Act of God - Jack McDevitt (short story)
The Sandkings - George R.R. Martin (short story)
The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C. Clarke (short story)
First Commandment - Gregory Benford (short story)
The Quest for St. Aquin - Anthony Boucher (short story)
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov (short story)
Surface Tension - James Blish (short story)
Mimsy Were the Borogoves - Lewis Padgett (short story)
The Roads Must Roll - Robert Heinlein (short story)
Helen O'Loy - Lester Del Rey (short story)
The Algorithms for Love - Ken Liu (short story)
Second Variety - Philip K. Dick (short story)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) - Phillip K. Dick
Burning Day - Glenn Grant (short story)
The Dark Side of Town - James Patrick Kelley (short story)
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin (Currently reading)

Sci-Fi-nom-nom-nom.

So far, so good...A's in both of the classes I'm taking and I aced the last GEO exam.

Picked up Mastodon - Crack the Skye and it's quite a progression from their last album of what I can barely hear while I have it churning at a very low simmer. I miss when I worked alone for a lot of reasons, but I'd like to drown everything out with a wall of brutality several times a day every day. I've got work to do. A book to read. A paper to write. An MP3 player full of stale songs. And nothing will get done until I put an end to my ocd-compelled tabbed browsing. Must...close...Firefox.

Comments

[rissa333.livejournal.com]

You're insane! Where do you find the time with school and family and such?

[charasan.livejournal.com]

I liked a lot of those short stories. Particularly Microcosmic God, Mimsy Were the Borogoves, and the Nine Billion Names of God. Microcosmic God got the Simpsons treatment on one Treehouse of Horrors (Lisa's Tooth), and Nine Billion Names of God got spoofed on Futurama once. I like to put my old sci-fi in line with my new sci-fi...kinda like the peanut butter in my chocolate :D

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

All of those short stories are compiled into two volumes, so I've probably read ten actual book-length works.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

I especially like Mimsy Were the Borogoves...Microcosmic God was a bit old fashioned, but not bad.

All in all Second Variety and Do Androids Dream...? are my favorite two works. You should read this Le Guin book though. It's compelling thus far.