Five Book Challenge discussion

1. Eifelheim
2. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
3. Stories of Your Life and Others
4. Guns, Germs and Steel
5. Blindsight

I numbered them, for completeness, but you can read them in whatever order you like. Two are nonfiction, one is a collection of short fiction. The list is otherwise skewed toward spec fic, because of our previous discussions and my insight into your reading tastes. One year, starting 1/1/11

Oooooh snap! I need to get your list ready.

Still working on my end, whittled down to eight :)

Whittle on, I've already got a big to-read stack!

Okay, it is New Year's Eve and I am READY! I actually picked up the Chiang a couple of years ago in a lot of almost 200 SF titles I found on Craigslist. Most of them I've since sold to Book Nook or traded away but I still have a core of forty titles or so including the Chiang.

Also, I've wanted to read GG&S for a long time! Excited about that. The other titles I wasn't familiar with but they are all paths I would never have gone down without you.

So... thanks!

I don't think you'll be disappointed. I can let you borrow 2 and 4 if you want. I got 1 and 5 from the library, but they're pretty easy to find. I know that when I was looking for the Jeffrey Ford book for our book club, I kept coming across Eifelheim.

Are you starting with Chiang?

Yeah, I'm going to try to get to Chiang in the next few weeks, maybe right after AofS. I think Bill had some interesting discussions with him at the World Fantasy Awards.