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[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Chocolate Wars" by Deborah Cadbury or how Kraft bought Cadbury and shut factories left right & centre. Fecking septics.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Inconstant Moon" by L. Niven, this being the paperback version which omits half the stories in the hardback.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Inconstant Moon" by L. Niven, this being the paperback version which omits half the stories in the hardback.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Tales of Known Space" by L. Niven.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Tales of Known Space" by L. Niven.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "Convergent Series" by L. Niven. There's more Draco Tavern tales in this one. No billion year old s though (the billion year old had spent much of the time near light speed so wasn't as old as all that, merely 10 million or so). Though there is one who's trying to live forever, but he's a mere 10k old.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Limits" by L. Niven. More short stories, some fantasy, some SF. The Draco Tavern ones are good: in particular "The Green Marauder"* where a billion year old alien remembers the Terran civilisation before the green scum poisoned the atmosphere with oxygen killing the natives.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "A Hole in Space" by L. Niven.

[WTFH]

Holiday reading was "Into the Hide", the autobiography of Gordon Buchanan.
A very enjoyable read.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Convergent Series" by L. Niven. .

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "N-Space" by L. Niven. More Known Space stories.

Well "more" depends on how you define it: many of them are in the earlier books so can be skipped. "Passerby", the story of the Golden Man walking between the stars is a bit different. Took me ages to remember whence it came a few years ago, confused because there's a PKD "The Golden Man" short story too. .

Chunks of "The world of Ptavvs", "Mote in God's Eye", "Ring World", "A gift from earth", and "Protector" are added in to no great advantage other than making the book fatter, plus an unreadable set of essays, and some tedious stuff from other writers praising Niven. Could have saved a good 150 pages by leaving that dross out.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "A Hole in Space" by L. Niven.

Done: off to Oxfam with.

Next: "Flatlander" by L. Niven, being a concatenation of "The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton" and "The Patchwork Girl" with the short story "The woman in Del Ray crater" thrown in to sweeten it a bit: 3 tomes to meet Oxfam all in one go.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Flatlander" by L. Niven, being a concatenation of "The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton" and "The Patchwork Girl" with the short story "The woman in Del Ray crater" thrown in to sweeten it a bit: 3 tomes to meet Oxfam all in one go.

Done: off to Oxfam with all three of them.

Next: "Flight of the Horse" by L. Niven. The untethered time machine stories.