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The Algebraist
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bookshelves: pub-2000s, science-fiction, science-fiction-stand-alone, gifts, read-in-2014
Jun 23, 2014
bookshelves: pub-2000s, science-fiction, science-fiction-stand-alone, gifts, read-in-2014
We have a friend, Meg.
Our toddler, Fin, is a big fan of the Meg & Mog picture books.
Whenever Meg came to visit, Fin would ask where Mog was.
Meg is now lodging with us for a year.
She has a new boyfriend.
I told Fin that her new boyfriend was called Mog, and because Meg was a witch she had turned her cat into a man.
Fin accepted this and calls him Mog.
Mog is a good-natured soul and accepted that in this house, he will be known as Mog.
Mog is also a sci-fi fan, and was distressed to learn than I hadn't read much Iain M. Banks - so he's given me The Algebraist, which sounds like my favourite kind of book (big, space-opera adventure!).
I am very much looking forward to it.
[actual review to follow]
After this I read: The Tombs of Atuan
Our toddler, Fin, is a big fan of the Meg & Mog picture books.
Whenever Meg came to visit, Fin would ask where Mog was.
Meg is now lodging with us for a year.
She has a new boyfriend.
I told Fin that her new boyfriend was called Mog, and because Meg was a witch she had turned her cat into a man.
Fin accepted this and calls him Mog.
Mog is a good-natured soul and accepted that in this house, he will be known as Mog.
Mog is also a sci-fi fan, and was distressed to learn than I hadn't read much Iain M. Banks - so he's given me The Algebraist, which sounds like my favourite kind of book (big, space-opera adventure!).
I am very much looking forward to it.
[actual review to follow]
After this I read: The Tombs of Atuan
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Reading Progress
June 23, 2014
– Shelved as:
to-read
June 23, 2014
– Shelved
June 23, 2014
– Shelved as:
pub-2000s
June 23, 2014
– Shelved as:
science-fiction
June 23, 2014
– Shelved as:
science-fiction-stand-alone
June 23, 2014
– Shelved as:
gifts
July 6, 2014
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18.73%
"So we had a mental space-warlord enjoying some hi-tech torture... then a sheltered academic chatting with his uncle (the walrus)...
It's settled down a bit since then..."
page
100
It's settled down a bit since then..."
Started Reading
July 19, 2014
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Finished Reading
October 13, 2014
– Shelved as:
read-in-2014
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Jun 24, 2014 03:55AM
Before he died I started reading the Culture series � re-reading the ones I'd already read and completing the series with the ones I hadn't (I'm about half-way through already). Once I've done that, I'll have to work my way back through his standalone SF as well, including a re-read of this. I really don't remember that much about it at all...
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