Tai Viinikka's Profile

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Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein

Have Not Been the Same by Michael Barclay

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

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Tai Viinikka is now friends with Misha Gorodnitzky
Jan 19, 2011 08:53am
Tai Viinikka gave to: Mall World by Somtow Sucharitkul read in January, 1983	My rating:
Feb 28, 2010 08:39pm
Tai Viinikka gave to: Light on the Sound (Inquestor, #1) by S.P. Somtow	My rating:
Feb 28, 2010 08:33pm
Tai Viinikka marked as to-read: The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem	My rating:
Jul 02, 2009 11:23am
Tai Viinikka gave to: Farewell Horizontal by K.W. Jeter read in January, 1994	My rating:
Poetic and imaginative, this early Jeter is more magic realism than SF, but the author keeps swerving back and forth across that line. The marriage of technology and whimsy has rarely been more satisfying.
Jul 02, 2009 11:01am · see review
Tai Viinikka added: Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound by Robert Whitcomb read in June, 2009	My rating:
Jul 02, 2009 10:46am
Tai Viinikka marked as to-read: When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist by Chet Raymo	My rating:
Jul 02, 2009 10:05am
Tai Viinikka gave to: Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1) by David Brin (Goodreads Author) read in January, 1989	My rating:
David Brin tells a good story. This first novel suffered from some weaker characterization, but the plot and the ideas are strong. At some point I might have to start viewing books as fantasy if they feature a busy, bustling universe full of differen...more
May 01, 2009 06:46am · see review
Tai Viinikka gave to: Wetware (Ware, #2) by Rudy Rucker recommended to Tai Viinikka by: WTD read in November, 2007	My rating:
A quick one, and he throws out some ideas that were novel at the time. Their freshness still echoes. But the plotting went quite wide of the mark. This is not Neuromancer. I do like the idea of just giving Florida to the old people. :)
Jan 09, 2008 02:43pm · see review
Tai Viinikka made a comment on Katy's review of Nature Girl "You know, I think I dated a Honey Santana in second year. "
Jan 09, 2008 01:13pm · see review