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Evolution by Stephen Baxter
Stories of your life and others by Ted Chiang
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Favorite authorsBrian W. Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, J. G. Ballard, Iain M. Banks, Stephen Baxter, Barrington J. Bayley, Elizabeth Bear, Greg Bear, Chris Beckett, Gregory Benford, Alfred Bester, Michael Bishop, Terry Bisson, James P. Blaylock, James Blish, John Boyd, Leigh Brackett, Damien Broderick, Eric Brown, John Brunner, Octavia E. Butler, C. J. Cherryh, Ted Chiang, John Christopher, Arthur C. Clarke, Michael G. Coney, John Crowley, Tony Daniel, Jack Dann, Samuel R. Delany, Bradley Denton, Philip K. Dick, Thomas M. Disch, Greg Egan, Harlan Ellison, Christopher Evans, Philip José Farmer, Michael Flynn, Jeffrey Ford, Daniel F. Galouye, Mary Gentle, William Gibson, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Richard Grant, Colin Greenland, Russell M. Griffin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, M. John Harrison, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Robert Paul Holdstock, Barry Hughart, Gwyneth Jones, Walter M. Miller, Daniel Keyes, Garry Kilworth, C. M. Kornbluth, Jay Lake, Stanisław Lem, Jonathan Lethem, Ian R. MacLeod, Ken MacLeod, Phillip Mann, Paul J. McAuley, Wil McCarthy, Jack McDevitt, Ian McDonald, Sean McMullen, Pat Murphy, Kim Newman, George Orwell, Alexis Panshin, Paul Park, Marge Piercy, Frederik Pohl, Tim Powers, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Adam Roberts, Keith Roberts, Kim Stanley Robinson, Justina Robson, Rudy Rucker, Mary Doria Russell, Joanna Russ, Richard Paul Russo, Geoff Ryman, Hilbert Schenck, Karl Schroeder, Bob Shaw, Robert Sheckley, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, Robert Silverberg, Dan Simmons, John Sladek, Norman Spinrad, Brian Stableford, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Charles Stross, Arkadi and Boris Strugatski, Theodore Sturgeon, Tricia Sullivan, Michael Swanwick, Wilson Tucker, George Turner, A. E. van Vogt, John Varley, Vernor Vinge, Howard Waldrop, Jo Walton, Ian Watson, Peter Watts, Stanley G. Weinbaum, H. G. Wells, Scott Westerfeld, Liz Williams, Walter Jon Williams, Connie Willis, Robert Charles Wilson, Gene Wolfe, Jack Womack, John C. Wright, Roger Zelazny, David Zindell (Shared favorites)
About meStarted out as a librarian - I worked at the British Library as a Cataloguer and the Science Museum as Deputy Systems Manager. Got into academia as a lecturer in library and information studies at Leeds Polytechnic, then went to Loughborough University, then back to Leeds Metropolitan. I am now at Strathclyde University in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, where I still teach some library courses but also teach on computer science and digital forensics courses. I am a member of CILIP (the professional association for librarians in the UK) and the ALA (American Library Association).
Outside of work I read mainly science fiction (but will stray outside the genre) and play boardgames/wargames.
I am a member of the International Gamers Awards Historical Simulations Committee. I have been a member of the British Science Fiction Association for a long, long time....
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I've got Keith Roberts' Drek Yarman serial in Spectrum SF, just one (or several) of the many books I haven't got around to cataloguing yet. . . . about a thousand down and only seven or eight thousand to go.
posted by solarisbooks at 5:30 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2009
Cheers for the Stephen Baxter recommendation. It was a good one - I'm quite a big fan of his (reading the Xeelee sequence at the moment). [Sorry for the delayed reply, i haven't logged in to LT for quite a while).
Simon
posted by SimonChamberlain at 4:12 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2009
If you think some of the railway stuff I've been cataloguing is difficult, I'm just about three-quarters of the way through creating a bibliography of Austrian railways for the Austrian Railway Group, a body which I was briefly Chairman of. Apparantly, the only previous effort was done in the 1920s, and then only in German. I need to get access to a couple of private collections I know of, to tie up details of works I've only seen reference to in other books, and then I can start formatting the thing for publication.
I took my inspiration (and the classification scheme) from George Ottley's Bibliography of British Railway History, though I had to add types of railway that we don't have but the Austrians do (or did) and remove a couple that were unique to Britain.
Despite having asked for contributions, I suspect that critics will only emerge after publication...
posted by RobertDay at 5:49 pm (EST) on Sep 3, 2009
Unfortunately, I fell foul of:
1) the library profession's over-promotion of itself, leading to the LA (as it was then) admitting to us that "there's been a 40% over-production of librarians for the past few years"
2) Derbyshire County Council's wierd unwritten policy of not appointing local people to professional posts (I saw this with teachers, too), whereas every other council DID favour locals when it came to handing out trainee librarian jobs
3) the same employer's cessation of giving traineee jobs to under-graduates the year I was going to apply
4) the election of the Thatcher Government in 1979 and
5) the invention of the personal computer and the internet.
(Chip on my shoulder? Where?)
So after six months working as a wages clerk in a furniture factory (I left because I was paid less than the maintenance man's lad), I saw an advert for local recruitment to the Civil Service, and was persuaded that here was an organisation that gave promotion to bright people and also sometimes employed librarians. Wrong on both counts. 30 years later, I wish I'd remembered my childhood dream of being an architect, or taken up photography as a career as I've turned out to be rather good at it.
posted by RobertDay at 5:42 pm (EST) on Sep 3, 2009
Thanks for adding me to your "interesting libraries" list. I still lay claim to the title of 'librarian', even though I only ever did ten months' professional work! (Long story.) The Sacred Workplace has just decided to embrace the new mantra of "Knowledge Management", and I shall be involved in that - more by luck than judgement on their part, I have to say - and I shall be intrigued when I do the training set for October to see just how much the KM gurus have re-invented the wheel! Already I see that what you and I would call 'classification' is now called 'taxonomy' - it was the training topic 'faceted taxonomy' that gave it away....
posted by RobertDay at 12:17 pm (EST) on Aug 31, 2009
I thought the third book was best of the trilogy. It ties up the trilogy quite well, doesn't simply go for the "happily ever after" ending, and the sub-plot within the third novel (religious cults and their perception in the far-future) was far more interesting than that in the first two novels.
For all of that, this is one of the best military-SF series' I have read.
posted by rojse at 12:28 am (EST) on Jul 10, 2009
Curt
posted by clong at 3:28 pm (EST) on May 30, 2009
posted by andyl at 6:26 am (EST) on May 16, 2009
posted by bluetyson at 11:20 pm (EST) on May 15, 2009
Yes, you have to combine them into the one work via the author page, although yours should have combined automatically I would have thought.
I combined them just then, so all good now.
posted by bluetyson at 11:46 pm (EST) on May 6, 2009
posted by andyl at 6:48 pm (EST) on May 6, 2009