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Winter’s Writing
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (Books 2021, 4)
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Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (Books 2021, 3)
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Books 2020, 28)
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Books 2020, 3)
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The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa (Books 2020, 1)
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Transition by Iain Banks (Books 2019, 25)
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The Book of Dust vol 2: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Books 2019, 22)
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Kieron’s Comic, Brontë’s Book
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Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (Books 2019, 21)
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Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Books 2019, 18, 19 & 20)
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On Pausing Stories
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Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith (Books 2019, 17)
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Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (Books 2019, 16)
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Books 2019, 15)
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The Seventh Function of Language, by Laurent Binet, Translated by Sam Taylor (Books 2019, 14)
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Books 2019, 13)
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The 392 by Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Books 2019, 12)
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What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Books 2019, 11)
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Milkman by Anna Burns (Books 2019, 10)
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Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Books 2019, 9)
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Touch by Claire North (Books 2019, 8)
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In Dreams: A Unified Interpretation of Twin Peaks & Other Selected Works of David Lynch, by H Perry Horton (Books 2019, 7)
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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (Books 2019, 6)
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Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassady (Books 2019, 5)
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The Beats: a Very Short Introduction (Books 2019, 4)
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England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, by Jon Savage (Books 2019, 3)
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We Are The Clash by Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki (Books 2019, 2)
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Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Books 2019, 1)
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Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda (Books 2018, 31)
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Stormwatch by Warren Ellis, Tom Raney and Bryan Hitch (Books 2018, 30)
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The Drifters by James A Michener (Books 2018, 29)
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Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (Books 2018, 28)
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Promethea by Alan Moore, JH Williams III, Mick Gray & Todd Klein (Books 2018, 27)
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Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (Books 2018, 26)
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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Books 2018, 25)
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This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan (Books 2018, 24)
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Gilded Cage, Tarnished City, and Bright Ruin by Vic James (Books 2018, 21, 22, 23)
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Dreams Before the Start of Time, by Anne Charnock (Books 2018, 20)
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The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 19)
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Walking on Glass by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 18)
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The Great Banksie Reread
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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 17)
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Matter by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 16)
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Inversions by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 15)
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Espedair Street by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 14)
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Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 13)
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Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Books 2018, 11)
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Bizarre Romance by Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell (Books 2018, 9)
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Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (Books 2018, 8)
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2018, 7)
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The Audrey and Eddie Show
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2023: A Trilogy by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (Books 2018, 6) 📚🎵
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Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost (Books 2018, 5)
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Sourdough by Robin Sloan (Books 2018, 4)
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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon (Books 2018, 2) 📚🎵
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Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Books 2018, 1)
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Jerusalem by Alan Moore (Books 2017, 5)
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Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (Books 2017, 4)
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BSFA Awards 2016 by Various (Books 2017, 3)
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Reading Materials
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Footnotes Revisited
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Under the Television Skies
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All the Things in the World
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Complicity and The Business by Iain Banks (Books 2016 16 & 17)
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Again, Again
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Screwjack by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2016, 15)
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Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock by Amy Raphael (Books 2016, 14)
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Reamde By Neal Stephenson (Books 2016, 13)
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The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman and others (Books 2016, 12)
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Normal by Warren Ellis (Books 2016, 11)
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Sally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot (Books 2016, 10)
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All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Books 2016, 9)
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The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross (Books 2016, 8)
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Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell (Books 2016, 7
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The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi (Books 2016, 6)
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Patience by Daniel Clowes (Books 2016, 5)
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Patience
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K Dick (Books 2016, 2)
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Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories, by China Miéville (Books 2016, 1)
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Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (Books 2015, 9)
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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu (Books 2015, 8)
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Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (Books 2015, 7)
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Mind of My Mind by Octavia E Butler (Books 2015, 6)
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Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler (books, 2015, 5)
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Neither tempestuous nor particularly challenging
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Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (Books 2015, 4)
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Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson (books 2015, 3)
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (Books 2015, 2)
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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Books 2015, 1)
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. by Viv Albertine (Books 2014, 20)
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The Schrödinger’s Cat trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2014, 19)
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Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Books 2014, 18)
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The Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2014, 17)
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The Circle by Dave Eggers (Books 2014, 16)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Night translated by Bernard O’Donoghue (Books 2014, 15)
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Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale: the Final Chapter by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook (Books 2014, 14)
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Books 2014, 13)
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Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot (Books 2014, 12)
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On Writing by AL Kennedy (Books 2014, 11)
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The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (books, 2014, 10)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (Books 2014, 9)
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The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell (Books 2014, 8)
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The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2014, 7)
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Pavane by Keith Roberts (Books, 2014, 6)
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Not-Exactly-Books, 2014, 5: What Has Gone Wrong With Short Stories?
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The State of Me, by Nasim Marie Jafry (Books 2014, 4)
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Secret Diaries
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The First Three Books of the Year
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Another Lost Month, and Unpublished Posts
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The Summer of Rereading, 3: More Culture
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The Summer of Rereading, 2: A Culture of Marvel and Miracles
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The Summer of Rereading 1: The Magus, by John Fowles
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Cultural Times
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Forgot the Cry of Gulls
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The Third-Person Sanctimonious
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A Drop of the Hard Stuff
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Moxyland, by Lauren Beukes
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Summer Reading 2010
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Next-Door to a Sequel
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Transitions in Real Life?
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Masks of the Illuminati, by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2008, 21)
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Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Books 2008, 20)
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The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson (books 2008, 19)
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Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson (Books 2008, 18)
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Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street, by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (Books 2008, 17)
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Adverbs, by Daniel Handler (Books 2008, 16)
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American Flagg episodes 1-30 (and special 1), by Howard Chaykin and others (Books 2008, 15)
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Halting State, by Charles Stross (Books 2008, 13)
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Lazarus Churchyard: The Final Cut, by Warren Ellis and D’Israeli (Books 2008, 14)
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Veniss Underground, by Jeff Vandermeer (Books 2008, 12)
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ThiGMOO, by Eugene Byrne (Books 2008, 11)
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A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket (Books, 2008, 10)
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A Dream of Wessex, by Christopher Priest (Books 2008, 9)
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The Space Machine, by Christopher Priest (Books 2008, 8)
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Newton’s Wake: A Space Opera, by Ken MacLeod (books 2008, 7)
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Identity and letdown in The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall (books 2008, 6)
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The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R Delany (Books 2008, 5)
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British Summer Time, by Paul Cornell (Books 2008, 4)
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Old Man’s War, by John Scalzi (Books 2008, 3)
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The Hidden Family, by Charles Stross (Books 2008, 2)
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Matter, by Iain M Banks (Books 2008, 1)
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Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis (Books 2007, 7)
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The Scar, by China Miéville (Books 2007, 6)
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The Prestige, by Christopher Priest (Books 2007, 5)
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The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks (Books 2007, 4)
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Ink, by Hal Duncan (Books 2007, 3)
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Twenty Years of Foolin’ and They Put You in the Pub
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We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver (Books 2007, 2)
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Potter Week
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Redemption Song: the Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer, by Chris Salewicz (Books 2007, 1)
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The Last of the 2006 “Book Notes” Posts
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Book Notes 25: The Family Trade, by Charles Stross
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Straight to Elgin Avenue
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The Steep Approach to Literary Acceptance
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A Deadline Crash, and a Reading
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Book Notes 23: Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
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Dead Zen Master
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Book Notes 22: The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, by Neil Gaiman and Yoshika Amano
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Book Notes 20: The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson
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Book Notes 19: Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales, by Alan Moore, Steve Moore, and others
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Book Notes 18: Radio Free Albemuth, by Philip K Dick
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Book Notes 17: Vellum, by Hal Duncan
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Book Notes 16: The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle, by Catherine Webb
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Book Notes 15: Appleseed, by John Clute
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Book Notes 14: Viriconium, by M John Harrison
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Book Notes 13: Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling
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Book Notes 12: The Last Temptation, by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli
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Book Notes 11: The Originals, by Dave Gibbons
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Book Notes 10: Skizz, by Alan Moore and Jim Baikie
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Book notes 9: Redemolished, by Alfred Bester
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Book notes 8: The Complete DR and Quinch, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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Book Notes 7: Nova Scotia, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson
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Stanslaw Lem
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Book Notes 6: Saturday by Ian McEwan
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Reading matters