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I haven’t got a lot to say, or rather a lot of time in which to say anything since the work on the kitchen never seems to end, so here are some pictures. The first is of a visitor to our garden, who stuck around for a while sunbathing on our stepping stones then either buggered off because of the cats that come here, or was eaten by them. Unfortunately the leopard snake that appeared by our pot...
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Gridlinked
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Brass Man
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The Skinner
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The Line Of Polity
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Polity Agent
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Prador Moon: A Novel of the Polity
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Line War
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The Voyage of the Sable Keech. Neal Asher
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Cowl
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Shadow of the Scorpion: A Novel of the Polity
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| Well, for various reasons I’ve not been reading as much as usual, and my ‘to read’ pile has been stacking up. First on my list upon returning to it was Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell. It’s always a little worrying reading a book by an author you’ve h...more | |
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“Cormac was completely aware that he was being manipulated, but how he could not see. He reckoned that when he did find out, the surprise would be a nasty one. That was how it usually went.”
― Neal Asher, Gridlinked
― Neal Asher, Gridlinked
“Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.”
― Neal Asher, The Skinner
― Neal Asher, The Skinner
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Here you can ask me questions about writing, the stuff I like to read, science and science fiction ... just about anything really. It'll be a valid qu...more
