ASYLUM

 
Monday 14 April 2008

* books


  • Perdido Street Station — China Miéville   5 out of 5

  • Quicksilver — Neal Stephenson   3 out of 5

  • Use of Weapons (rr) — Iain M. Banks   5 out of 5

  • The Diamond Age (rr) — Neal Stephenson   5 out of 5

  • Hey Nostradamus! — Douglas Coupland   4 out of 5

  • Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides   5 out of 5

  • Dead Air — Iain Banks   3½ out of 5

  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen — Alan Moore   4 out of 5

  • The Atrocity Archives — Charlie Stross   4 out of 5

  • My Tokyo Death Cult — Marc Horne   3 out of 5

  • Misspent Youth — Peter F. Hamilton   3½ out of 5

  • V for Vendetta — Alan Moore & David Lloyd   4 out of 5

  • Pattern Recognition — William Gibson   4½ out of 5

  • The Confusion — Neal Stephenson   3 out of 5

  • Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 — Hunter S Thompson   3½ out of 5

  • Gloomcookie — Serena Valentino & Ted Naifeh   3½ out of 5

  • Gravity's Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon   3 out of 5

  • In The Shadow Of No Towers — Art Spiegelmann   3½ out of 5

  • Oryx & Crake — Margaret Atwood   3 out of 5

  • The Algebraist — Iain M. Banks   4 out of 5

  • Apes of Wrath — Steve Bell   2 out of 5

  • Maus — Art Spiegelmann   4 out of 5

  • Everything Can Be Beaten — Scolex & Scrambly   3½ out of 5

  • Northern Lights — Philip Pullman   4 out of 5

  • The Subtle Knife — Philip Pullman   3½ out of 5

  • The Amber Spyglass — Philip Pullman   4½ out of 5

  • Best New SF 17 — Gardner Dozois (ed.)   3½ out of 5

  • Singularity Sky — Charlie Stross   4½ out of 5

  • Best New Horror 15 — Stephen Jones (ed.)   3 out of 5

  • Iron Sunrise — Charlie Stross   4½ out of 5

  • The Witches of Chiswick — Robert Rankin   2½ out of 5

  • Eleanor Rigby — Douglas Coupland   4 out of 5

  • Pandora's Star — Peter F. Hamilton   4 out of 5

  • Accelerando — Charlie Stross   5 out of 5

  • Tobermory & other stories — Saki   2 out of 5

  • Stranger Things — Kelly Link   3 out of 5

  • The Men Who Stare At Goats — Jon Ronson   3½ out of 5

  • Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town — Cory Doctorow   3½ out of 5

  • 20th Century Science Fiction — David Hartwell (ed.)   3½ out of 5

  • Freakonomics — Levitt & Dubner   3½ out of 5

  • Zeitgeist (rr) — Bruce Sterling   4 out of 5

  • A Theory of Fun — Ralph Koster   3½ out of 5

  • System of the World — Neal Stephenson   4 out of 5

  • The Family Trade — Charlie Stross   4 out of 5

  • House of Leaves — Mark Z Danielewski   3½ out of 5

  • Neverwhere — Neil Gaiman   4 out of 5

  • Cat's Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut   3½ out of 5

  • Anansi Boys — Neil Gaiman   4 out of 5

  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke   4 out of 5

  • Transmetropolitan — Warren Ellis   4 out of 5

  • The Forever War — Joe Haldeman   3½ out of 5

  • Pixel Juice (rr) — Jeff Noon   4½ out of 5

  • Guns, Germs & Steel — Jared Diamond   2½ out of 5

  • The Hidden Family — Charlie Stross   4 out of 5

  • Memoirs of a Spymaster — Markus 'Mischa' Wolf   2½ out of 5

  • Geek Mafia — Rick Dakan   3½ out of 5

  • Glasshouse — Charlie Stross   4 out of 5

  • The Crow Road (rr) — Iain Banks   4½ out of 5

  • Distraction (rr) — Bruce Sterling   4 out of 5

  • Best New SF 19 — Gardner Dozois (ed.)   4 out of 5

  • The Portable Door — Tom Holt   3½ out of 5

  • Missile Gap — Charlie Stross   3½ out of 5

  • The Shockwave Rider — John Brunner   3½ out of 5

  • The Man in the High Castle — Philip K Dick   4 out of 5

  • My Uncle Oswald — Roald Dahl   2½ out of 5

  • Revelation Space — Alastair Reynolds   4 out of 5

  • Redemption Ark — Alastair Reynolds   4 out of 5

  • Absolution Gap — Alastair Reynolds   3 out of 5

  • Foucault's Pendulum — Umberto Eco   2 out of 5

  • The Clan Corporate — Charlie Stross   3 out of 5

  • Spook Country — William Gibson   4 out of 5

  • Life During Wartime — Lucius Shepard   4 out of 5

  • Fragile Things — Neil Gaiman   3 out of 5

  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2) — Alan Moore   4 out of 5

  • Tricks of the Mind — Derren Brown   3½ out of 5

  • The Time-Traveller's Wife — Audrey Niffenegger   4½ out of 5

  • Best New SF 20 — Gardner Dozois (ed.)   4 out of 5

  • Rainbows End — Vernor Vinge   4 out of 5

  • The Jennifer Morgue — Charlie Stross   4 out of 5

  • Preacher #1 — Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon   4 out of 5