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I've really not managed to read very much at all so far this year, but while I was on holiday I re-read two of the Tales of the City books that I didn't re-read before: Babycakes and Significant Others. I enjoyed them both a lot - there's something about the atmosphere that the books conjure that I just want to be there in San Francisco.
Then two things I discovered on the web - Charles Stross's Accelerando is available for free download. I read the first part - Lobsters - when it was in Asimov's but the rest is new to me and I'm really enjoying it.
The other is kind of the apex of literary anticipation for me - John Crowley's new book is out. It's called Lord Byron's Novel - The Evening Land. I've ordered from Amazon already. There's a good review by John Clute available. I've read pretty much everything by Crowley and I'm really looking forward to this.
Clute suggests that the fourth AEgypt novel may also be done soon (although that's a bit of a relative term for Crowley) and will be called Endless Things. True Crowley fiends may also be interested in the Little, Big 25th Anniversary Edition - check it out, it will be a tremendous edition if the subscription succeeds.
Posted by MFreestone at June 23, 2005 09:26 PM