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And finally, the last of the year-end blogs. Add up everything in all of them and you'll be able to work out exactly how much time I spend procrastinating. This entry in my "What Entertained Me" bloglist is all dead trees; last year I promised to buy less and read more. Well, I guess I managed half of that. My book score is down from last year, so I say again - I'll try to read more this year, because my book pile certainly isn't getting any smaller.
And speaking of halves, a full 50% of my reading in 2010 was science-fiction; I say that like it's news, but it really isn't. But by contrast, my reading of fantasy fiction leapt by a massive 200% from last year - yes, that's right, I read three, count 'em, three fantasy novels. And the fact that they were all written by friends of mine is, I am certain, totally coincidental.
Best of the year? Jed Mercurio's Russian Right Stuff epic Ascent was one of the first things I read in 2010 and it really stayed with me, a real feature-film feel with a tight, authentic-feeling narrative; and m'colleague Graham McNeill's epic A Thousand Sons just blew me away.
Here's the full list:
Full Circle (Kirsten Beyer); White Maze (Junichi Fujisaku); Ascent (Jed Mercurio); Fallen Angels (Mike Lee); A Thousand Sons (Graham McNeill); The Force Unleashed (Sean Williams); Sniper One (Sgt. Dan Mills); Devil May Care (Sebastian Faulks); Cadian Blood (Aaron Dembski-Bowden); Forged in Fire (Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels); Little Brother (Cory Doctorow); Game Night ("Jonny Nexus"); Necropath (Eric Brown); Seven Deadly Sins (Various); Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke (Rob Long); Death Angel (David Jacobs); Splinter Cell Conviction ("David Michaels"); Splinter Cell Endgame (Michaels); Moon Over Soho (Ben Aaronovitch); The First Heretic (Dembski-Bowden); Cobra 405 (Damien Lewis); The End Game (Tod Goldberg); 501st (Karen Traviss); Turbulence (Samit Basu); Triumff (Dan Abnett); Prospero Burns (Abnett); Redemption Corps (Rob Sanders); Legends of the Space Marines (Various)