RedEyedGhost Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 I meant to buy these with my last order... All by John Scalzi Old Man's War The Ghost Brigades The Last Colony and I preordered Zoe's Tale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyrehead Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Received in today's mail: Company by K. J. Parker (arc) and The House of the Stag by Kage Baker (arc) Probably hit the Parker book first when I get the chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lessthanluke Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 Windhaven by GRRM and Lisa Tuttle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 The Edge of Reason by Melinda Snodgrass turned up in the post. I think this one was sent my way be Deornoth (it just turned up in an unmarked envelope with no explanation) so cheers for that! Will get onto this one as soon as The Yiddish Policemen's Union is out of the way. Looks like I have another book at the post office as well. I haven't ordered anything so I'm presuming it's a random ARC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deornoth Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 The Edge of Reason by Melinda Snodgrass turned up in the post. I think this one was sent my way be Deornoth (it just turned up in an unmarked envelope with no explanation) so cheers for that! Will get onto this one as soon as The Yiddish Policemen's Union is out of the way. That was me, I was having a crappy day at work yesterday and completely forgot to stick a note in with the book... Hope you like it! I've got a book waiting for me at home but Mrs D is refusing to open it and tell me what it is (Please let it be 'Toll the Hounds') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 The Wheelman Duane Swierczynski Sweet! Let me know what you thought of it after you've read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 The random ARC waiting at the post office turned out to be The City at the End of Time by Greg 'used to be good' Bear. Hopefully this will be a return-to-form SF spectacular after a run of dodgy technothrillers from one of the Killer Bs. Also picked up Bernard Cornwell's Harlequin from a second hand bookstore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Seaworth Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 I have been keeping my eye for certain books cheaply and haven't been able to so I had to put in a order for: Anubis Gates: Tim Powers The Drawing of the Dark: Tim Powers Princes of the Golden Cage: Nathalie Mallet The Spice Islands Voyage: Tim Severin The Power of Now: Eckhart Tolle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuchulain Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Succes !!! I have obtained a copy of White Knight Black Swan, the ultra rare and expensive book by David Gemmell, written under the pseudonym Ross Harding. And it cost me less than 30 $, which is very cheap when you know that copies have been said to sell for close to a thousand dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peadar Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Succes !!! I have obtained a copy of White Knight Black Swan, the ultra rare and expensive book by David Gemmell, written under the pseudonym Ross Harding. And it cost me less than 30 $, which is very cheap when you know that copies have been said to sell for close to a thousand dollars. Hey, congrats! I'm looking forward to hearing if it's any good. I never even knew that one existed 'til you mentioned it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuchulain Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Hey, congrats! I'm looking forward to hearing if it's any good. I never even knew that one existed 'til you mentioned it It's not well known. Supposedly Gemmell used to read Moorcock's Elric stuff when he was young. One day he bought one of Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novels and was disappointed when it wasn't fantasy. Because of this he decided to write White Knight, Black Swan under a pseudonym so he wouldn't disappoint his own fans, since the novel is a thriller set in modern-day London and contains a few biographical elements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nymeria87 Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 The spoils of my recent book-shopping spree this weekend: Jamie O’Neill - AT SWIM, TWO BOYS Lynn Flewelling - THE BONE DOLL’S TWIN Lynn Flewelling - HIDDEN WARRIOR Lynn Flewelling - THE ORACLE’S QUEEN Ursula K. Le Guin - LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS D. J. Mac Hale - PENDRAGON - THE MERCHANT OF DEATH (my mother in law keeps pestering me to read those, so I picked it up used ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkdaub Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Maberry - Bad Moon Rising Blatty - Legion Sagara - Cast in Shadow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peadar Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 I finally found a copy of Bakker's Neuropath. About time too! Also, I will be righting an ancient wrong when I read Jonathan Carroll's Land of Laughs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyrehead Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Received my first 2009 book in the mail today. Lamentations by John Scholes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Roses Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Romping my way through my third Flashman book, 'Flashman's Lady', so I'm off the coast of Borneo now with the headhunters circling and the pirates pirating. Gazooks! Also just bought, Boris Akunin's third Erast Fandorin book, 'Turkish Gambit' set against the background of the Russo-Turkish war but that will have to wait until I've read 'The Snake Stone' by Jason Goodwin. Set in Istanbul in 1838, its a return to the world of Yashim after the brilliant debut of 'The Janissary Tree'. Goodwin is a travel and historical writer of the Ottoman Empire and the vivid background rendering of Istanbul in the dying days of the empire was wonderful in his first novel. Can't wait to see whether it continues in this new book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastard of Godsgrace Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Received my first 2009 book in the mail today. Lamentations by John Scholes. Can you post some impressions when you finish reading it? Jonathan Strahan apparently liked it a lot: http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2008/...lzis-zoes-tale/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Romping my way through my third Flashman book, 'Flashman's Lady', so I'm off the coast of Borneo now with the headhunters circling and the pirates pirating. Gazooks Ah, you're reading chronologically, as I did? I'm normally dubious of that practice unless the books were published in that order, but GMF worked out Flashy's complete timeline after the first book and wrote whatever interested him next, so it's all extremely consistent. Gollancz very nicely sent me free copies of Ilium and Olympos and I picked up a copy of Terry Pratchett's award-winning Making Money as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Roses Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Ah, you're reading chronologically, as I did? I'm normally dubious of that practice unless the books were published in that order, but GMF worked out Flashy's complete timeline after the first book and wrote whatever interested him next, so it's all extremely consistent. yep, I was umming and ahhing in the bookshop about whether to go by publication order or chronologically and plumped for chronological as I thought GMF was a meticulous bugger and he wouldn't mess around too much. However, what annoys me is the picture on the front of Flashman's Lady shows Flashy wearing leg guards (or whatever they are called) with his cricket whites when F distinctly says they didn't wear them in his day. And Mrs F is shown with mousy brown curls when she is definately a blonde. I know illustrators don't often read the books they illustrate but the editors do. Grr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint777 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I caved and ordered Toll the Hounds from the UK and ordered Neuropath from Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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