New Arrivals - late March '07

Filed by: Darren Turpin on April 2, 2007 at 12:50
Filed under: Books

Another month, another batch of great new books that I really, really wish I had time to read...

'Fragile Things' by Neil GaimanFragile Things by Neil Gaiman

I realised the other day - when this paperback edition of Gaiman's second (third) short fiction collection arrived - that I'm shockingly far behind with my Gaiman reading - I still haven't set aside time for American Gods, and I haven't even bought a copy of The Wolves in the Walls yet, nor much of his recent graphic novel output.

So, given my love of Gaiman's short fiction, and my (increasingly rash-seeming) vow to read more short fiction this year, I might have to bump this one up the list...

'The Execution Channel' by Ken MacLeodThe Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod

This is one I definitely want to read sooner rather than later, not least because my good friend Joe Gordon had some very good things to say about it when we were chatting by email a couple of weeks ago. I also want to read it while it's still topically speculative, instead of historically retrospective... well, hopefully things won't get quite so bad as Ken is forecasting in Execution Channel but then you just never know. After all, George Orwell's prediction of a Big Brother-obsessed mindless drone-society was only 20 or so years out... Mind you, I've never watched the TV series, so I don't know how faithful an adaptation it is...

Have also received hardback copies of The Intruders by Michael Marshall Smith, and Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box - both of which I've read and thoroughly enjoyed already - as well as John Meaney's Bone Song, which is right up there on the to-be-read list (which I really need to update sometime).

Filed on: April 2, 2007
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2 Responses to 'New Arrivals - late March '07'

  1. Ed on April 2nd, 2007 9:17 pm

    If only somebody would invent the clones from David Brin's Kil'n People, then we could have reading clones to help us get through these extensive book backlogs.

  2. Ariel on April 3rd, 2007 2:15 pm

    Aye. Or just those extra four hours a day that everyone's been asking for.

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