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Van Strapp is currently reading:

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

by Charles Yu

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Nov 11, 2011 06:55pm

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Altered Carbon

by Richard K. Morgan

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Aug 08, 2011 05:31pm

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2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

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May 29, 2011 01:04am

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Van Strapp marked as to-read: Earth Unaware (The First Formic War) by Orson Scott Card	My rating:
Jan 11, 2012 12:03pm
Van Strapp marked as to-read: Energized by Edward M. Lerner	My rating:
Jan 11, 2012 12:02pm
Van Strapp marked as to-read: Seed by Rob Ziegler (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Dec 25, 2011 05:15pm
Van Strapp gave to: Old City Blues by Giannis Milonogiannis read in December, 2011	My rating:
Dec 21, 2011 02:58pm
Van Strapp added: Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) by Alastair Reynolds read in December, 2011	My rating:
I'm only a few chapters into it, but this is one of those books where there's too many occasions that the author mentions a particular technology, or location, that I've never heard about, and I find myself distractedly wanting to know more about tha...more
Dec 21, 2011 02:55pm · see review
Van Strapp gave to: A King of Infinite Space by Allen Steele read in December, 2011	My rating:
Dec 21, 2011 02:55pm
Van Strapp marked as to-read: Plague Year (Plague, #1) by Jeff Carlson (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Dec 16, 2011 04:59pm
Van Strapp liked Jamil Thomas's review of Old City Blues: " not only is the physicality (texture & heft) of this book quite pleasing, but it reads like it was drawn over late nights by a 15 year old kid, a fan of AKIRA & William Gibson novels, armed only with a ball point pen, so in other words, very nearly t... " Read more of this review »
Nov 23, 2011 12:17pm · see review
Van Strapp marked as to-read: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach	My rating:
Notes before reading: http://www.amazon.com/Packing-Mars-Curio...
Nov 15, 2011 11:55am · see review
Van Strapp made a comment on their review of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe "Will do! Currently absorbed in reading Allan Steele's A King of Infinite Space (brilliant!), but I've started on this one. I'll let ya know how it goe...more"
Nov 13, 2011 01:37pm · see review

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“The intense desire to talk with someone, sharp as any pain; this was what people meant when they talked about love. Or rather; this was what Sax would acknowledge to be love. Just the super-heightened desire to share thoughts. That alone. ”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars

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