Wenn du schon auf den Mund fallen musst, warum dann nicht auf meinen?
x-posted to LJ. It can't be that there isn't an x-posting client for Mac, can it?
Anyway, there's a lot of stuff happening, most of it too depressing to post about right now (one of the more depressing parts concerning my thesis). What I wanted to write about is the joy that is books and reprints this month.
Case in point:
(1)KAGE BAKER. I've picked up her first novel, In the Garden of Iden in a second-hand bookstore and pretty much mainlined it on my flight back to Austria. Then I read it again and thought it to be clever, sophisticated, full of allusions and research without being arrogant. Then I rushed over to amazon.de only to be told, nope, sry, we don't have the second novel, Sky Coyote, and those folks over at marketplace say, nope, sry, we don't ship to Austria, because it's like so far away from Germany. Bye now. So I've been waiting for a reprint ever since*. (Which I had hoped would happen, since Baker is one of the Next Hot Things in Sci-Fi) And there it is! Yay! Squee! Generally speaking, Sci-Fi and Fantasy go out of print ridiculously fast these days.
*) The last time I read a series out of order it didn't make any sense at all and left my largely frustrated with one of my favourite authors. Since it was William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy it didn't matter too much, since that monster doesn't make sense in any form or shape, but still.
(2) Rossana Rossandas new book! is! here! In German! Thank you, mulinational conglomerates for not deeming moderate Marxism as dangerous enough not to translate/publish it. No really, thank you.
Other than that, I acquired The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters in an ugly, but handy paperback format, Slaughter House-Five and Cavalli-Sforza's Genes, People and Languages (also, Die Troerinnen by Euripides and Sartre's Die Troerinnen des Euripides are on my reading list for November). Oh, and a kind soul of Chaos Computer Club-origins has sent me Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve, with a (typed) note saying: "If there's only one steampunk novel you're going to read, read this." And s/he was right. I love it and it's possibly the only steampunk novel I'm going to recommend. Ever.
I fully admit that I (a) occasionally read fandomsecrets and (b) don't understand what's wrong with this one. I love book covers. I even bought the pretty version of Termeraire, just because I like pretty covers and even my most trusted book sources swear that it's just that good. (Note: I don't really like dragons. At all.)
Er, yes. Books. I love them. *nerds away*
ETA: I has a wishlist. With tons and tons of fantasy and Sci-Fi I've always wanted to read.
Anyway, there's a lot of stuff happening, most of it too depressing to post about right now (one of the more depressing parts concerning my thesis). What I wanted to write about is the joy that is books and reprints this month.
Case in point:
(1)KAGE BAKER. I've picked up her first novel, In the Garden of Iden in a second-hand bookstore and pretty much mainlined it on my flight back to Austria. Then I read it again and thought it to be clever, sophisticated, full of allusions and research without being arrogant. Then I rushed over to amazon.de only to be told, nope, sry, we don't have the second novel, Sky Coyote, and those folks over at marketplace say, nope, sry, we don't ship to Austria, because it's like so far away from Germany. Bye now. So I've been waiting for a reprint ever since*. (Which I had hoped would happen, since Baker is one of the Next Hot Things in Sci-Fi) And there it is! Yay! Squee! Generally speaking, Sci-Fi and Fantasy go out of print ridiculously fast these days.
*) The last time I read a series out of order it didn't make any sense at all and left my largely frustrated with one of my favourite authors. Since it was William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy it didn't matter too much, since that monster doesn't make sense in any form or shape, but still.
(2) Rossana Rossandas new book! is! here! In German! Thank you, mulinational conglomerates for not deeming moderate Marxism as dangerous enough not to translate/publish it. No really, thank you.
Other than that, I acquired The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters in an ugly, but handy paperback format, Slaughter House-Five and Cavalli-Sforza's Genes, People and Languages (also, Die Troerinnen by Euripides and Sartre's Die Troerinnen des Euripides are on my reading list for November). Oh, and a kind soul of Chaos Computer Club-origins has sent me Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve, with a (typed) note saying: "If there's only one steampunk novel you're going to read, read this." And s/he was right. I love it and it's possibly the only steampunk novel I'm going to recommend. Ever.
I fully admit that I (a) occasionally read fandomsecrets and (b) don't understand what's wrong with this one. I love book covers. I even bought the pretty version of Termeraire, just because I like pretty covers and even my most trusted book sources swear that it's just that good. (Note: I don't really like dragons. At all.)
Er, yes. Books. I love them. *nerds away*
ETA: I has a wishlist. With tons and tons of fantasy and Sci-Fi I've always wanted to read.