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Currently about half way through A Dog Called Demolition. As with the other books, it is highly enjoyable with the side effect of stopping me sleeping as I love reading it 
Man Plus was ok, I never quite got a handle on quite why they had to alter the person to live on Mars though?
Now onto The Forge of God by Greg Bear
I picked up a stack of stuff at the Steampunk book event (Bradford Waterstones) back in April - so I'll be going through them at my rather reduced pace.
(I need to sleep a lot more than I used to - gone are the days of reading until 3am!)
Have finished "The Steampunk Emporium" by Miss Emilly Ladybird, which doesn't count as it's mainly pictures, and I'm now starting on "Time Hunter: Child Of Time" by George Mann and David J Howe.
Forge of God was good, I'm not usually so keen on SF that ignores the Aliens so much & centres on the people of Earth, but this was very well done.
Now onto a long overdue Nineteen Eighty Four.
Also listening to the Hitch-Hickers guide radio series (all 5) in readiness for the live stage radio play.
& am about half way through The Dreaming Void audio book
Amost finished Apocalpse Cow by Michael Logan it's rather good with a few laugh out loud moments the blurb is below:
When scientists with warped imaginations accidentally unleash an experimental bioweapon that transforms Britain's animals into sneezing, bloodthirsty zombies with a penchant for pre-dinner sex with their victims, three misfits become the unlikely hope for salvation. Abattoir worker Terry Borders' love life is crippled by the stench of death that clings to his skin from his days spent slaughtering cows; teenage vegan Geldof 'Scabby' Peters alternates between scratching furiously at his rash and baiting his overbearing New Age mother; and inept journalist Lesley McBrien struggles forlornly in the shadow of her famous war correspondent father and the star journalist at the Glasgow Tribune. When Britain begins a rapid descent into chaos and ministers cynically attempt to blame al-Qaeda, Lesley stumbles upon proof that the government is behind the outbreak. During her bumbling quest to unveil the truth, she crosses paths with Terry and Geldof, and together they set out to escape a quarantined Britain with the evidence and vital data that could unlock a cure for the virus. Standing in the way are rampaging hordes of animals, a ruthless security agent and an army ready to shoot anybody with a case of the sniffles on the off-chance the virus has mutated. Three losers. Overwhelming odds. A single outcome: the world is screwed.:)
I've now finished the George Mann books (The Affinity Bridge, The Osiris Ritual and The Immorality Engine), so it's onto the Sam Stone ones.
I got a copy of Hateful Heart last year at The Asylum, and despite being concerned that I'd turn into an emo and want to watch Twighlight (!) I was relieved to find it's not that sort of vampire book! So I got hold of the others in the series, and Killing Kiss is first up.
1984 was pretty good apart from the tedious bits from "the book".
Now starting Diaspora by Greg Egan.
Finished Apocalpse Cow, it was good I will certainly have a look at his next book if it's in the same vein.
Started Ken MacLeod's The Highway Men, Life in a future Scotland (maybe only a few decades from now) thought provoking so far.
Over all Diaspora was decent if you don't get to involved in the maths / science talk. Think Stephen Baxter & Olaf Stephenson mixed together with more theoretical waffle. I wonder how the psudoscience of Diaspora would stand up to modern thinking now days, I also didn't get the use of ve & ver over he & her.
Now onto Sundiver by David Brin...
Uplift was pretty good, but a bit slow. There was a real sence of more to the Universe than just these few aliens tampering with mankind. Anyone read the folloing 2 volumes?
Now starting Non Stop by Brian Aldiss & a re-read of Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks for his Guardian Book Club session down at Kingscross next month
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