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Sailing Bright Eternity Greg Benford
Vacuum Diagrams Stephen Baxter
Gateway Fred Pohl
The Clan Corporate Charles Stross
Immortality Inc. Robert Sheckly
Darkland Liz Williams
Starfish Peter Watts
Maelstrom Peter Watts
The Oregon Experiment Alexander et al.
Missle Gap Charles Stross
Blindsight Peter Watts
Air Geoff Ryman
Freakonomics Levitt & Dubner
The Execution Channel Ken MacLeod
The Snake Agent Liz Williams
The Steep Approach to Garbadale Iain Banks
Sun of Suns Karl Schroeder
9Tail Fox Jon Courtenay Grimwood


The Moon of Gomrath Alan Garner

A re-read from my childhood. I think I read this when I was 12. It's great fun, and a throwback to the days when you could have elvish cavalry romping around the Cheshire countryside without someone calling the police. This is the sequal to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen which I re-read a couple of years ago. At the age of 12 I think I preferred TMoG, I think because of the monster, the Brollachan. The adult me sees TWoB as the better book, though. I think it's better constructed and there are no specific scenes in TMoG as powerful as the claustrophobia of the mines in TWoB, writing that is so powerful it's almost overwhealming to an adult. Still, TMoG is an excellent book and I can recommend it to any of you who might not have already read it.

As an interesting sidenote, the Wikipedia entry on the books quotes Garner as saying that a third book was never intended. As a child I know I dearly wanted to read more in this setting, but I now have to agree that leaving things here was better.