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A little light reading…

What do you do when you’ve successfully gotten a demo to Mobile World Congress and you want to reward yourself?

Go order a little light reading of course! :)

Light reading

Amazon are really getting to like it when I log in at this stage I think :D

Although, the more recent book purchase was with The Book Depository and between lower prices and free shipping, they actually worked out cheaper than Amazon did (and thanks to Neal Asher for that tip). They weren’t cheaper for every book though – ironically the science fiction books I was looking at were more expensive – but for the programming books I was looking for, they came in about seven or eight euros under amazon.com and their shipping is about six weeks faster than amazon’s, for free. So we’ll see in a day or three when the books arrive if they’re as good as they look…

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Outed…

as a Neal Asher fan.

Well, not the worst thing in the world (though it wasn’t Don Corleone’s pizza shop, that goombah wouldn’t know good pizza if you threw it at his sister), he writes good stuff. By the way, if you’ve not read his stuff yet, don’t start with Hilldiggers like I did since it’s the tail end of the chronology of most of his work, start with Prador Moon and work onwards:

  • Prador Moon
  • The Shadow of the Scorpion
  • Gridlinked
  • The Line of Polity
  • Brass Man
  • Polity Agent
  • Line War
  • The Skinner
  • The Voyage of the Sable Keech
  • Orbus
  • Hilldiggers
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Ever wanted to ask Neal Asher something?

For those who enjoy Neal Asher’s science fiction books and have any questions they’d like to ask him, he’s taking questions right now over on his blog

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Moon

Non-spoiler comment: Go see it, it’s good. Not brilliant if you’ve read any science fiction where the math works, but good nonetheless.

Spoilers after the break…

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