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[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The rough guide to H2G2" by Marcus o'Dair. Paid 99p for this 28/9/2013. Bargain. It's already reminded me how much I've forgotten about books 3, 4, and 5. Never bothered with 6.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Looks very much as if I don't have book 5 either.

Next: "Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the H2G2" by Neil Gaiman. The updated 2003 edition: remaindered at £3.99.

[DoctorStrangelove]

"The illustrated history of Gadget Warfare: The Vietnam War" by F. Clifton Berry Jnr.* 82nd Airborne.

All that materiel, all those crazy weapons, Puff the Magic Dragon, Agent Orange, Daisy Cutters, CBU-55 FAE.

And they still lost to little men with AK47s and bicycles.

If there's something to be grateful to Harold Wilson for, it's keeping us out of that mess.

*That's the late F. Cliffton Berry Jnr.

https://www.airforcemag.com/f-clifto...-jr-1931-2020/

Done: read for the 2nd time: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: TBD.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Secret Warfare" by Bruce Norman. Published 1973. No mention of ULTRA, ENIGMA, Bletchley Park or COLOSSUS, these remaining secret at the time. No idea when I bought this but it was at least 20 years ago, if not 30.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. I didn't attempt to understand any of the codes/cyphers mentioned. The most recent mention was of the Krogers.

Next: TBD.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Magic May Return" edited by L. Niven. An anthology containing "Not Long Before The End" being the first of Niven's Warlock stories plus stories by other writers in the same vein.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. "Strength" by Poul Anderson and Mildred Downey Broxon was very good: the end of magic leading to the return of the glaciers and the fall of a civilisation held up by magic, presumably 14000 years ago in north America.

Next: TBD.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: the wizard one "The Magic Goes Away" by L Niven.

This one is an illustrated trade paperback. Bought far back in the mysts of tyme. Probly 1979. 2nd printing.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Magic May Return" edited by L. Niven. An anthology containing "Not Long Before The End" being the first of Niven's Warlock stories plus stories by other writers in the same vein.

[sadkingbilly]

dun. end a bit disappointing.

now Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

weird, quite amusing though.
next - echogenesis by Gary Gibson

[DoctorStrangelove]

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

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Took a long time to read those last 40 pages.

Next: TBD.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Rainbow Mars" is in the pile & it's more of the time travel oevre.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: the wizard one "The Magic Goes Away" by L Niven.

This one is an illustrated trade paperback. Bought far back in the mysts of tyme. Probly 1979. 2nd printing.

[sadkingbilly]

the final architecture trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky
very entertaining imo

now: Europa deep by Gary gibson

dun. end a bit disappointing.

now Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Methuselah's Children (1958)" by R. A. Heinlein.

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: TBD.

[sadkingbilly]

the final architecture trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky
very entertaining imo

now: Europa deep by Gary gibson

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Flight of the Horse" by L. Niven. The untethered time machine stories. Not sure it's untethered. IIRC the untethered machines tend not to end up where they started, whilst the tethered ones may drift sideways but do end up back where they started.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. The time machine stories are joined by a flashcrowd story (almost a novella) and a wizard story (the magic goes away).

Next: "Rainbow Mars" is in the pile & it's more of the time travel oevre.

[sadkingbilly]

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.

fond memories of PissPot the Pak

[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. Not sure it's untethered. IIRC the untethered machines tend not to end up where they started, whilst the tethered ones may drift sideways but do end up back where they started.

[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.