Victor Billot » Science Fiction http://www.victorbillot.com Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:32:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Book club http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/08/book-club/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/08/book-club/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:25:03 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/?p=308 What I have been reading in 2009

Alasdair Gray – Lanark (just setting off on my second circumnavigation after ordering a smart new paperback edition that took months to arrive)

China Mieville – The City and the City (Bamboozling and brilliant)

Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun (followed quickly by Underground. It took me far … Read more

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Time for a reading list:

China Mieville (Perdido Street Station and the even better sequel/companion volume The Scar)

Iain M. Banks (Look to Windward was my scifi book of year 2003 – now I’m rereading Feersum Endjinn)

Jeff Noon (Pollen – not … Read more

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