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The books keep on rolling in (mostly SF), faster than I can keep up with reading them. I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever get to read even half of them (I’ll be lucky) before I die of old age. But it won’t be for lack of trying on my part.

Lessee - over the past two or three weeks I’ve amassed somewhere in the region of 50-60 new books. A few of those have been computer and web design books. Some have been science books - I started hunting down every Stephen J Gould and Robert Zubrin book that I could find - and several have been history books. But at least 70% of the books have been SF, split fairly evenly between novels and collections/anthologies of short fiction. I’ve bought a whole bunch of more recent Alastair Reynolds novels, a stack of Dan Simmons - Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion, Endymion/Rise of Endymion and Ilium/Olympos, several Mike Resnick novels - Santiago, The Return of Santiago and Dark Lady, and a list of others too long for me to bother typing up.

But, as I’m a huge fan of short fiction, I get most excited by the collections and anthologies of short stories. Some of the best of my recent haul are:

The Year’s Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
The Best of the Best Volume 2, edited by Gardner Dozois
One Million A.D. edited by Gardner Dozois
The New Space Opera, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
Cities, edited by Peter Crowther
Starlight Volumes 1, 2 and 3, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Galactic North (collection) by Alastair Reynolds

There’s a whole bunch of other stuff, but these gems alone will keep me going for ages. I know I’m a book addict, but maybe I’m going a little overboard, eh? Talk about a junkie needing a fix…

Phil