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Titan by John Varley
11 hours ago ago from Science Fiction & Fantasy
This 1979 book was the first of the Gaean trilogy , the others being Wizard and Demon . I have named the trilogy as among my top 20 favourite SFF stories (they feature the same central character in the same location throughout, so really make one more or less continuous tale) but it's been decades since I last read them, so I was pleased when Titan was chosen as December's read for the Modern SF discussion forum. The story begins in a ...
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32 minutes ago ago from Dusty Hum
A quick roundup of some best-of lists, mainly American fiction. Amazon editors top 100 picks (#1 = Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann) The Atlantic top 5 books of 2009 plus a long list of runners up Boston Globe “Simply the best fiction” (and non-fiction ) Christian Science Monitor best fiction of 2009; non-fiction here (includes Woodsburner ) The Daily Beast top 15 selling celebrity books (#1 = Bill O’Reilly) Entertainment Weekly ...
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9 hours ago ago from Newtonville Books Community Blog
John Freeman of NPR compiled a list of The Best Debut Fiction of 2009 and guess what? Two out of his five authors have read here at Newtonville Books! The eight stories of Yoon's debut form a kind of floating city in which water is the essential element of everyone's lives. The sea brings travelers and part-time waiters to the South Korean island where the tales unfold. Water supplies fishermen and gift-shop owners their ...
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15 hours ago ago from Borinquen Realty
Some people look at email list management as one of the most daunting tasks on the planet. It s true that bulk email lists can become overwhelming but it is not the most difficult thing to manage if you ve got the correct software or the correct service provider to work on it. In this brief article, we shall explore the top 05 email list management systems that have been introduced to the market to make your life easier. Before ...
Related contentBest lists abroad
14 hours ago ago from the Literary Saloon
There are surprisingly few best-of-the-year lists to be found in the foreign press (at least at this before-the-actual-end-of-the-year time) -- certainly nowhere near as many as in the US and UK, where this exercise is so widely practiced. Among the few are at least some semi-useful ones -- because they list English-language titles. These include Nilanjana S. Roy's list of the top 50 books of 2009 , Under the tome , at the (Indian) Business ...
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