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(From 2010) Fascinating hard sci-fi. Looking forward to meeting Vinge at Norwescon in a month.

(From 2023) This definitely holds up, and I really enjoyed re-reading it. From the concept of various zones where FTL travel (and higher technologies) are possible as they get further away from the center of the galaxy, to the exploration of group intelligence with the Tines (packs of dog-like creatures that are singular sentient entities when in packs of 4-6), it's a really excellent read.

Not bad if you're a Red Dwarf fan, but it mostly served to remind me how much I enjoyed the actual series. It seems that for me, at least, RD works far better as a silly show full of pleasantly goofy low-budget special effects than as a written work. Many of the jokes that I remember laughing at in the show, while still amusing, fall a little flat in the book -- it ended up feeling like the authors were trying to out-Douglas Adams Douglas Adams -- and the desire to "upgrade the special effects" through prose descriptions of vast, impossible-to-film vistas just didn't quite work. Still, it got a few laughs here and there, and thanks to Netflix, there will be more (and better) Red Dwarf in my future.

Some interesting ideas, but it was hard for me to get terribly invested in it. Perhaps a little _too_ cyberpunky for my tastes, which I hadn't run into before.

Fun collection of alternate looks at the Martian invasion, ostensibly from other notable personalities of the time. Overall, quite enjoyable, with a higher ratio of worthwhile stories than some other anthologies have.

One of the earliest Star Trek novels, and it shows. Incredibly dated, and wow, bizarre -- practically officially sanctioned slashfic. Rather painful to read, really.

The Marvel comics adaptation of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, re-formatted into standard paperback form. Just another amusing little addition to my Star Trek collection.

A very well-done take on the Robin Hood mythology. I was a little thrown off at first by the backdating to place the adventures somewhat earlier than most modern Robin Hood tellings, during the time of the Normans' invasion of Britain under William, but it ended up working quite well.