Booklist 2012 - July
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2012 (124):
A morbid initiation (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
A Nomad of the Time Streams (Michael Moorcock)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
Against a dark background (Iain M. Banks)
The Algebraist (Iain M. Banks)
Der Amboss der Welt (The Anvil of the World) (Kage Baker)
Die anderen Erden (The wreaks of time) (Michael Moorcock)
Ashes and Angel Wings (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
The Beast Within (Stewart Wick, Edit.)
Behold the man (Michael Moorcock)
Blood Rites - The Dresden Files 6 (Jim Butcher)
Bloody Scotland (Terry Deary)
The Book of Lost Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Book of Lost Tales, vol. 2 (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Blut der Abtrünnigen - Der Große Bruderkrieg 11 (Tales of Heresy) (Nick Kyme & Lindsey Priestly, Editors)
The Broken Sword (Poul Anderson)
The Children of Húrin (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Das Buch Corum (Michael Moorcock)
Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks)
Das Cornelius Rezept (A cure for cancer) (Michael Moorcock)
Chronik eines angekündigten Todes (Gabriel García Márquez)
Cthulhu Geistergeschichten (H.P. Lovecraft)
The cut-throat Celts (Terry Deary)
Daemon World (Ben Counter)
Die Damen von Grace Adieu (The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories) (Susanna Clarke)
The Dancers at the End of Time (Michael Moorcock)
Dark Imperium (Marc Gascoigne, Andy Jones, Editors)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
Death masks - The Dresden Files 5 (Jim Butcher)
Do Androids dream of electric sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Drood (Dan Simmons)
Der Eiserne Rat (Iron Council)
Eiszeit 4000 (The ice Schooner) (Michael Moorcock)
Eldritch Tales - A miscellancy of the macabre (H.P. Lovecraft)
Elric at the End of Time (Michael Moorcock)
Elric von Melniboné - Die Sage vom Ende der Zeit (Michael Moorcock)
Excession (Iain M. Banks)
Feersum Endjiin (Iain M. Banks)
Der Fluch des Verächters (Lord Foul's Bane) (Stephen R. Donaldson)
Fool Moon - The Dresden Files 2 (Jim Butcher)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
The Founding - A Gaunt's Ghosts Ominbus (Dan Abnett)
Der Glanz des Mondes (Brilliance of the Moon) (Lian Hearne)
Gloriana or the unfulfilled Queen (Michael Moorcock)
Der Gottkaiser des Wüstenplaneten (God-Emperor of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Grave Peril - The Dresden Files 3 (Jim Butcher)
Das Haus Atreides (Dune: House Atreides) (Brain Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Das Haus Harkonnen (Dune: House Harkonnen) (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Das Haus Corrino (Dune: House Corrino) (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Helena oder das Meer des Sommers (Julián Ayesta)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
Der Herr des Wüstenplaneten (Dune Messiah) (Frank Herbert)
Himmelssturz (Pushing Ice) (Alastair Reynolds)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
How to write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Orson Scott Card)
Hüter der Pforten (Various Authors)
Hunters of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Die Hyperion-Gesänge (Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion) (Dan Simmons)
Ilium (Dan Simmons)
Imperium (Robert Harris)
Imperium (Hans-Christian Huf)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jennifer Goverment (Max Barry)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanne Clarke)
Die Ketzer des Wüstenplaneten (Heretics of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Die Kinder des Wüstenplaneten (Children of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Die Kriegsmeute (The Warhound & the World's Pain) (Michael Moorcock)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Lustrum (Robert Harris)
The Lost - A Gaunt's Ghosts Ominbus (Dan Abnett)
The Madness of Priests (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
Magira - Jahrbuch zur Fantasy 2005 (Hermann Ritter, Michael Scheuch, editors)
The Man in the high castle (Philip K. Dick)
Maschinengeist (Chris Schlicht)
Matter (Iain M. Banks)
Miss Brunners letztes Programm (The final Programme) (Michael Moorcock)
Necronomicon (H.P. Lovecraft)
Nemesis - Der Große Bruderkrieg 13 (Nemesis) (James Swallow)
The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
Nollops Vermächtnis (Ella Minnow Pea)
Olympos (Dan Simmons)
On Writing (Stephen King)
Die Ordensburg des Wüstenplaneten (Chapterhouse Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Das Papierhaus (Carlos Maria Domínguez)
Paul of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Pawns of Chaos (Brian Craig)
Perdido Street Station (China Miéville)
Der Pfad im Schnee (Grass for his pillow) (Lian Hearn)
The Player of Games (Iain M. Banks)
Principia Discordia
Die Rache der Rose (The Revenge of the Rose) (Michael Moorcock)
Revelation Space (Alastair Reynolds)
The Road to Dune (Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Der Runenstab (Michael Moorcock)
The Saint - A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Dan Abnett)
Sandworms of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
The Scar (China Miéville)
Das Schwert in der Stille (Across the Nightingale Floor) (Lian Hearn)
Das Science Fiction Jahr 2011 (Sascha Mamczak, Sebastian Pirling, Wolfgang Jeshke, Editors)
The Seven Deadlies (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
Shakespeare (Bill Bryson)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Die Stadt des Ungeheuers (The City of the Beast) (Michael Moorcock)
The State of the Art (Iain M. Banks)
Storm Front - The Dresden Files 1 (Jim Butcher)
Summer Knight - The Dresden Files 4 (Jim Butcher)
Surface Detail (Iain M. Banks)
Tochter der Traumdiebe (The Dreamthief's Daughter) (Michael Moorcock)
Die Tochter des Kriegers (The Warlord's Legacy) (Ari Marmell)
Totenstadt (City of the Dead) (Rosemary Jones)
Unfinished Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Use of Weapons (Iain M. Banks)
Verlorene Söhne - Der Große Bruderkrieg 12 (A Thousand Sons) (Graham McNeill)
The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks)
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew (Daniel Pool)
Welsh walkes and legends (Showell Styles)
Welten und Zeit genug (Worlds enough and time) (Dan Simmons)
The Winds of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Winter Witch (Elaine Cunningham)
The Wounded King (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
The Wreakage of Paradise (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
Writing Fiction for dummies (Randy Ingermanson & Peter Economy)
Der Wüstenplanet (Dune) (Frank Herbert)
July (20):
Auferstehung (Leo Tolstoi): A rather deep novel about cause and effect, guilt and forgiveness, personal resposibility and societal responsibility in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Aurora (Alastair Reynolds): This story begins with the murder of an orbital. It ends with what might be the end of the world. Once again Reynolds paints a wonderful and believable world.
The Celtic Reconstructionist FAQ (Various Authors): An introduction to the pagan belief that tries to reconstruct the faith and culture of the celts. I can hand you a link if you're interested. Reading this now.
Der Club Dumas (Artur Pérez-Reverte): Most of you probably know this under the title the film version was given: The Nine Gates. Book and film differ in many points, but not so much that you'd say the film was awful. Actually, I like both versions very much.
Erlkönig (Dead beat) - The Dresden Files 7 (Jim Butcher): So Harry is finally loosing his marbles thanks to a deamon in his head, and there are these Necromancers looking for this book, his fairy godmother wants the book, and there's this zombie T-Rex in the middle of Chicago...
Firmin - Ein Rattenleben (Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife) (Sam Savage): The autobiography of a rat living in a book shop. It's supposed to be a tale of dark humour, but for me it was slightly... depressing. Not a bad book, but...
Das geheime Leben der Bücher (Régis de sá Moreira): Another book from that small package sternenwanderer sent me, a fairy tale about a book shop and it's owner... occupant... symbiont?
Gesammelte Werke (Friedrich Nietzsche): Who would have known he had so much to say on the topic of theatre? Not me.
Eine Hand voll Sterne (Rafik Schami): A tale of youth in Damascus, and how the seeds of rebellion are planted into the hearts of the young to flower into hope.
Herr der Nacht (Night's master) (Tanith Lee): Short Stories set in her "Flat Earth", her older fiction seems to have fallen out of favor over the last years. If you can find it, I recommend it.
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski): A man's decsent into a madness while reading a man's manuscript about a film that doesn't exist about a man decsending into a house that can't exist... or is it? (orakel, have you finished it?)
Die letzte Walstatt (The Power that preserves) (Stephan Donaldson): The final part in the first Trilogy of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, I've got two or three chapters to go.Covenant is once again whisked off to the Land to fight Foul who is now in contral of the Staff of Law, even as he fights his own inner demons and mistakes and choices.
Meine Freunde die Roboter (Isaac Asimov): A compilation of all of Asimov's Robot stories. I decided it was time to get back to this classic author of the Golden Age of SF. You can tell this is the early Asimov - his characters are even more wooden than normal, but as always, you don't read Asimov for the dialouge, you read him for the BIG IDEAS. Reading this now.
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen): Did I ever tell you guys that this is one of my favorite books of all time?
Reise im Mondlicht (Antal Szerb): JUST started this book from the package sternenwanderer sent me. I'm four or five chapters in, and all I can tell is that it has something to do with someone's honeymoon.
Schuldig (Proven Guilty) - The Dresden Files 8 (Jim Butcher): So Molly, the daughter of Harry's friend Michael comes looking for help, as there's something loose at a film festival. Does it help that Harry has been warned of black magic loose in the city or that it's a horror film festival? Well what do you think?
Der siebte Kreis des Wissens (The Illearth War) (Stephan Donaldson): The second book in the chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, in which Covenant returns to the Land to face Lord Foul's plan to break the Land - a plan he is part of...
Spells & Chrome (John Helfers, editor): The latest collection of short stories set in the World of Shadowrun, a game where magic has returned to a world in the grips of a cyberpunk (Now almost transhuman) future. Now reading this.
Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein): Forget the film for a moment. The REAL controversy is the book. Read it, then get back to me and we'll talk about what you think about Heinlein's political views and philosophies.
Tote ohne Begräbnis (Jean-Paul Sartre): And another book from that package, a small play that probably everyone apart from me read at school or something...
2012 (124):
A morbid initiation (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
A Nomad of the Time Streams (Michael Moorcock)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
Against a dark background (Iain M. Banks)
The Algebraist (Iain M. Banks)
Der Amboss der Welt (The Anvil of the World) (Kage Baker)
Die anderen Erden (The wreaks of time) (Michael Moorcock)
Ashes and Angel Wings (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
The Beast Within (Stewart Wick, Edit.)
Behold the man (Michael Moorcock)
Blood Rites - The Dresden Files 6 (Jim Butcher)
Bloody Scotland (Terry Deary)
The Book of Lost Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Book of Lost Tales, vol. 2 (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Blut der Abtrünnigen - Der Große Bruderkrieg 11 (Tales of Heresy) (Nick Kyme & Lindsey Priestly, Editors)
The Broken Sword (Poul Anderson)
The Children of Húrin (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Das Buch Corum (Michael Moorcock)
Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks)
Das Cornelius Rezept (A cure for cancer) (Michael Moorcock)
Chronik eines angekündigten Todes (Gabriel García Márquez)
Cthulhu Geistergeschichten (H.P. Lovecraft)
The cut-throat Celts (Terry Deary)
Daemon World (Ben Counter)
Die Damen von Grace Adieu (The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories) (Susanna Clarke)
The Dancers at the End of Time (Michael Moorcock)
Dark Imperium (Marc Gascoigne, Andy Jones, Editors)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
Death masks - The Dresden Files 5 (Jim Butcher)
Do Androids dream of electric sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Drood (Dan Simmons)
Der Eiserne Rat (Iron Council)
Eiszeit 4000 (The ice Schooner) (Michael Moorcock)
Eldritch Tales - A miscellancy of the macabre (H.P. Lovecraft)
Elric at the End of Time (Michael Moorcock)
Elric von Melniboné - Die Sage vom Ende der Zeit (Michael Moorcock)
Excession (Iain M. Banks)
Feersum Endjiin (Iain M. Banks)
Der Fluch des Verächters (Lord Foul's Bane) (Stephen R. Donaldson)
Fool Moon - The Dresden Files 2 (Jim Butcher)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
The Founding - A Gaunt's Ghosts Ominbus (Dan Abnett)
Der Glanz des Mondes (Brilliance of the Moon) (Lian Hearne)
Gloriana or the unfulfilled Queen (Michael Moorcock)
Der Gottkaiser des Wüstenplaneten (God-Emperor of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Grave Peril - The Dresden Files 3 (Jim Butcher)
Das Haus Atreides (Dune: House Atreides) (Brain Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Das Haus Harkonnen (Dune: House Harkonnen) (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Das Haus Corrino (Dune: House Corrino) (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Helena oder das Meer des Sommers (Julián Ayesta)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
Der Herr des Wüstenplaneten (Dune Messiah) (Frank Herbert)
Himmelssturz (Pushing Ice) (Alastair Reynolds)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
How to write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Orson Scott Card)
Hüter der Pforten (Various Authors)
Hunters of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Die Hyperion-Gesänge (Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion) (Dan Simmons)
Ilium (Dan Simmons)
Imperium (Robert Harris)
Imperium (Hans-Christian Huf)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jennifer Goverment (Max Barry)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Susanne Clarke)
Die Ketzer des Wüstenplaneten (Heretics of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Die Kinder des Wüstenplaneten (Children of Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Die Kriegsmeute (The Warhound & the World's Pain) (Michael Moorcock)
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Lustrum (Robert Harris)
The Lost - A Gaunt's Ghosts Ominbus (Dan Abnett)
The Madness of Priests (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
Magira - Jahrbuch zur Fantasy 2005 (Hermann Ritter, Michael Scheuch, editors)
The Man in the high castle (Philip K. Dick)
Maschinengeist (Chris Schlicht)
Matter (Iain M. Banks)
Miss Brunners letztes Programm (The final Programme) (Michael Moorcock)
Necronomicon (H.P. Lovecraft)
Nemesis - Der Große Bruderkrieg 13 (Nemesis) (James Swallow)
The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)
Nollops Vermächtnis (Ella Minnow Pea)
Olympos (Dan Simmons)
On Writing (Stephen King)
Die Ordensburg des Wüstenplaneten (Chapterhouse Dune) (Frank Herbert)
Das Papierhaus (Carlos Maria Domínguez)
Paul of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Pawns of Chaos (Brian Craig)
Perdido Street Station (China Miéville)
Der Pfad im Schnee (Grass for his pillow) (Lian Hearn)
The Player of Games (Iain M. Banks)
Principia Discordia
Die Rache der Rose (The Revenge of the Rose) (Michael Moorcock)
Revelation Space (Alastair Reynolds)
The Road to Dune (Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Der Runenstab (Michael Moorcock)
The Saint - A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Dan Abnett)
Sandworms of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
The Scar (China Miéville)
Das Schwert in der Stille (Across the Nightingale Floor) (Lian Hearn)
Das Science Fiction Jahr 2011 (Sascha Mamczak, Sebastian Pirling, Wolfgang Jeshke, Editors)
The Seven Deadlies (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
Shakespeare (Bill Bryson)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Die Stadt des Ungeheuers (The City of the Beast) (Michael Moorcock)
The State of the Art (Iain M. Banks)
Storm Front - The Dresden Files 1 (Jim Butcher)
Summer Knight - The Dresden Files 4 (Jim Butcher)
Surface Detail (Iain M. Banks)
Tochter der Traumdiebe (The Dreamthief's Daughter) (Michael Moorcock)
Die Tochter des Kriegers (The Warlord's Legacy) (Ari Marmell)
Totenstadt (City of the Dead) (Rosemary Jones)
Unfinished Tales (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Use of Weapons (Iain M. Banks)
Verlorene Söhne - Der Große Bruderkrieg 12 (A Thousand Sons) (Graham McNeill)
The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks)
What Jane Austen ate and Charles Dickens knew (Daniel Pool)
Welsh walkes and legends (Showell Styles)
Welten und Zeit genug (Worlds enough and time) (Dan Simmons)
The Winds of Dune (Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson)
Winter Witch (Elaine Cunningham)
The Wounded King (Victorian Age Vampire) (Philippe Boulle)
The Wreakage of Paradise (Trilogy of the Fallen) (Greg Stolze)
Writing Fiction for dummies (Randy Ingermanson & Peter Economy)
Der Wüstenplanet (Dune) (Frank Herbert)
July (20):
Auferstehung (Leo Tolstoi): A rather deep novel about cause and effect, guilt and forgiveness, personal resposibility and societal responsibility in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Aurora (Alastair Reynolds): This story begins with the murder of an orbital. It ends with what might be the end of the world. Once again Reynolds paints a wonderful and believable world.
The Celtic Reconstructionist FAQ (Various Authors): An introduction to the pagan belief that tries to reconstruct the faith and culture of the celts. I can hand you a link if you're interested. Reading this now.
Der Club Dumas (Artur Pérez-Reverte): Most of you probably know this under the title the film version was given: The Nine Gates. Book and film differ in many points, but not so much that you'd say the film was awful. Actually, I like both versions very much.
Erlkönig (Dead beat) - The Dresden Files 7 (Jim Butcher): So Harry is finally loosing his marbles thanks to a deamon in his head, and there are these Necromancers looking for this book, his fairy godmother wants the book, and there's this zombie T-Rex in the middle of Chicago...
Firmin - Ein Rattenleben (Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife) (Sam Savage): The autobiography of a rat living in a book shop. It's supposed to be a tale of dark humour, but for me it was slightly... depressing. Not a bad book, but...
Das geheime Leben der Bücher (Régis de sá Moreira): Another book from that small package sternenwanderer sent me, a fairy tale about a book shop and it's owner... occupant... symbiont?
Gesammelte Werke (Friedrich Nietzsche): Who would have known he had so much to say on the topic of theatre? Not me.
Eine Hand voll Sterne (Rafik Schami): A tale of youth in Damascus, and how the seeds of rebellion are planted into the hearts of the young to flower into hope.
Herr der Nacht (Night's master) (Tanith Lee): Short Stories set in her "Flat Earth", her older fiction seems to have fallen out of favor over the last years. If you can find it, I recommend it.
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski): A man's decsent into a madness while reading a man's manuscript about a film that doesn't exist about a man decsending into a house that can't exist... or is it? (orakel, have you finished it?)
Die letzte Walstatt (The Power that preserves) (Stephan Donaldson): The final part in the first Trilogy of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, I've got two or three chapters to go.Covenant is once again whisked off to the Land to fight Foul who is now in contral of the Staff of Law, even as he fights his own inner demons and mistakes and choices.
Meine Freunde die Roboter (Isaac Asimov): A compilation of all of Asimov's Robot stories. I decided it was time to get back to this classic author of the Golden Age of SF. You can tell this is the early Asimov - his characters are even more wooden than normal, but as always, you don't read Asimov for the dialouge, you read him for the BIG IDEAS. Reading this now.
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen): Did I ever tell you guys that this is one of my favorite books of all time?
Reise im Mondlicht (Antal Szerb): JUST started this book from the package sternenwanderer sent me. I'm four or five chapters in, and all I can tell is that it has something to do with someone's honeymoon.
Schuldig (Proven Guilty) - The Dresden Files 8 (Jim Butcher): So Molly, the daughter of Harry's friend Michael comes looking for help, as there's something loose at a film festival. Does it help that Harry has been warned of black magic loose in the city or that it's a horror film festival? Well what do you think?
Der siebte Kreis des Wissens (The Illearth War) (Stephan Donaldson): The second book in the chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, in which Covenant returns to the Land to face Lord Foul's plan to break the Land - a plan he is part of...
Spells & Chrome (John Helfers, editor): The latest collection of short stories set in the World of Shadowrun, a game where magic has returned to a world in the grips of a cyberpunk (Now almost transhuman) future. Now reading this.
Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein): Forget the film for a moment. The REAL controversy is the book. Read it, then get back to me and we'll talk about what you think about Heinlein's political views and philosophies.
Tote ohne Begräbnis (Jean-Paul Sartre): And another book from that package, a small play that probably everyone apart from me read at school or something...