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[bardiphouka]

5.Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson Harper Perrenial 2000(PB) 918 pages


How does one describe this book. I haven't the faintest. I am not even sure what genre it would fall in. It is about WWII, databanks, national security, cryptology,Phillipine and Japanese History,friendship, mathematics, computers,the dot bubble and sex. Not always in that order. Neal sometimes makes Tom Robbins look like a regular prose writer in this meandering,funny,thought inspiring erotic..err..thriller? nah. I give up..just read the thing.

6. Flights:Extreme Visions of Fantasy
Al Sarrantonio,ed. Penguin/Roc Fantasy. 2005 (trade ed) 578 pages.

Every once in awhile someone decides to come up with anthologies for one reason or another. This one is sort of a fantasy-based descendent of the Dangerous Visions series. Not your average fantasy tale. Nor your typical fantasy author. While I admit I bought it because it has stories by both Charles de Lint and Neil Gaiman, the authors run the line from Larry Niven to Gene Wolfe to Joyce Carol Oates. On occasion funny,sometimes erotic, often thought provoking it is a grand read into what is going on in the field of fantasy apart from the Tolkien clones and the megaemo mulivolumes series.

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[bookgirlwa.livejournal.com]

I bought it because it has stories by both Charles de Lint

A new story, or a reprinted one?

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, a new story. It is called Riding Shotgun and is a bittersweet sort of tale for Charles,albeit without becoming a case of bathos. And,without prejudice, one of my favourite tales in the anthology.