In an effort to keep track of what I purchase and am gifted, and which of these acquisitions get read, I have created the following page, which commences with gifts for Christmas 2014. Bold titles means they have been read, italicized titles means they have been partially read.
“New” or “Used” applies to print books acquired
“Audio” applies to audio book acquisitions
“Kindle” applies Ebook acquisitions
Line drawn through means I have moved it on for various reasons
DECEMBER 2014
Galactic North ~Alastair Reynolds (gift, Jeff)
Assignment in Eternity ~Robert A. Heinlein (gift, Mary)
Between Planets ~Robert A. Heinlein (gift, Mary)
Time for the Stars ~Robert A. Heinlein (gift, Mary)
Art of John Carter (gift, Jeff)
There and Back Again ~Sean Astin (gift, Jeff)
The Demolished Man ~Alfred Bester (gift, Jeff)
Modern Fantasy ~David Pringle (gift, Jerry)
Best American Comics 2010 ~Neil Gaiman, ed (gift, Jerry)
The Graveyard Book graphic novel Volume 1 ~Neil Gaiman (gift, Mike)
The Slow Regard of Silent Things ~Patrick Rothfuss (gift, Mike)
Beyond This Horizon (new)
Foreigner ~C.J. Cherryh (used)
The Uplift War ~David Brin (used)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August ~Claire North (Kindle)
Fluency ~Jennifer Foehner Wells (Kindle)
JANUARY 2015
The Galaxy Game ~Karen Lord (Kindle)
Spy Night on Union Station ~E.M. Foner (Kindle)
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust ~Alan Bradley (Audio)
The Memory of Earth ~Orson Scott Card (used)
Half Share ~Nathan Lowell (used)
New Frontiers ~Ben Bova (new)
The Art of Robert McGinnis (new)
Fahrenheit 451 (new, Folio Society)
Strange Library ~Haruki Murakami (new)
Unbreakable ~W.C. Bauers (new, hardcover)
Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2015 (new, print)
Once Upon an Alphabet ~Oliver Jeffers (new)
FEBRUARY 2015
Trigger Warning ~Neil Gaiman (new)
Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Judd Trichter (new)
Destiny’s Road ~Robert A. Heinlein (used)
Trigger Warning Audio ~Neil Gaiman (new, audio CD)
Top of the Volcano ~Harlan Ellison (new, Kindle)
Something Coming Through ~Paul McAuley (new, Kindle)
City Living ~Will McIntosh (new, Kindle)
The Man-Kzin Wars ~Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Dean Ing (used)
The Voyage of the Star Wolf ~David Gerrold (used)
Fire with Fire ~Charles Gannon (used)
The Legacy of Heorot ~Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes (used)
Have Spacesuit Will Travel ~Robert A. Heinlein (used)
Citizen of the Galaxy ~Robert A. Heinlein (used)
MARCH 2015
Brightness Reef ~David Brin (used)
Heaven’s Reach ~David Brin (used)
Dragonsdawn ~Anne McCaffrey (used)
The Last Castle ~Jack Vance (used)
Beowulf’s Children ~Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steve Barnes (used)
To Save A World ~Marion Zimmer Bradley (used)
The Songs of Distant Earth ~Arthur C. Clarke (used)
Neuromancer ~William Gibson (used)
APRIL 2015
Lines of Departure ~Mark Kloos (new, Kindle)
Angles of Attack ~Mark Kloos (new, Kindle)
JUNE 2015
Flight of the Horse ~Larry Niven (used)
By Blood Alone ~William C. Dietz (used)
Asimov’s Mysteries ~Isaac Asimov (used)
Android at Arms ~Andre Norton (used)
Plague Ship ~Andre Norton (used)
Soldier Boy ~Michael Shaara
To the Galactic Rim ~A. Betram Chandler (new)
A Thousand Words for Stranger ~Julie Czerneda (new)
The Man-Kzin Wars Volumes II-VII (used)
Mission to Moulokin ~Alan Dean Foster (used)
Icerigger ~Alan Dean Foster (used)
Make Room!Make Room! ~Harry Harrison (used)
Lunar Activity ~Elizabeth Moon (used)
The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein ~Robert A. Heinlein (used)
6 x H ~Robert A. Heinlein (used)
The Escape Orbit ~James White (used)
Final Diagnosis ~James White (used)
The Dream Millenium ~James White (used)
The Call of Earth ~Orson Scott Card (used)
Ghost Ship ~Sharon Lee/Steve Miller (new)
Dragon Ship ~Sharon Lee/Steve Miller
Sorcery Rising ~Jude Fisher
Planet Killers ~Robert Silverberg (new)
Nightwings ~Robert Silverberg (new)
Footfall ~Niven/Pournelle (used)
A Hole in Space ~Larry Niven (used)
Vermillion ~Molly Tanzer (new, Kindle)
Slow Bullets ~Alastair Reynolds (new)
All right. The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle is one of my favorites, I’ve read it three times, I think. <i.Fluency was a disappointment, I didn’t finish it and have given it away already.
Yea, I’ve read the opening of Fluency twice and it just isn’t gelling with me. I’m surprised it is so popular because the writing seems really “off”, right from the beginning.
I’ve read a bit of Legacy, and I can see why you like it. It starts out great.