These are books I've read lately, as much for my reference as anything else.
| Fall 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Crusade |
James Carroll |
Politics |
Scathing commentary on Bush's war |
| Pandora's
Star |
Peter Hamilton |
Science Fiction |
Opening volume in new hard-sf
epic |
| Quicksilver,
The Confusion, The System of the World |
Neal Stephenson |
Historical Fiction |
Hoo, boy. Sweeping? Epic?
Impossible to categorize? Read all 3000 pages. |
| The
Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Naval Battles |
Richard Russell Lawrence |
Military History |
Mostly in the words of them what
was there, too. Goes from ancient Greece to the Falklands. |
| Sundiver,
Infinity's Shore, The Uplift War |
David Brin |
Science Fiction |
Classic, and rightly so |
| Modern
Jihad |
Loretta
Napeolini |
Politics |
Traces the money connections
behind terrorism |
| Paper
Trail |
Ellen Goodman |
Politics/commentary |
I really like her columns; the
subtitle "Common Sense in Uncommon Times" really nails the book |
| The
Sixth Battle |
Barrett Tillman |
Technothriller (naval aviation) |
Ugh. Nice try. |
| Deep
Black |
Jim DeFelice and Stephen Coonts |
Technothriller (spy) |
I've read worse. |