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The Tar-aiym Krang by Alan Dean Foster

wfzimmerman’s review: “The beginning of one of the longest-running series in modern science fiction. Still a fun read.”
Del Rey (1983), Mass Market Paperback
tags: science fiction, collecting author highlights, collecting Commonwealth books, collecting humanx

Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis

wfzimmerman’s review: “A classic that is still gripping on re-reading. My copy has no cover.”
Random House (1943), Hardcover
tags: first edition, military history, Guadalcanal, War in the Pacific, World War 2

Open Borders, Nonalignment, and the Political Evolution of Yugoslavia by William Zimmerman

wfzimmerman’s review: “My dad spent the better part of his adult life studying two countries, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, that no longer exist. He adapted quite nimbly as things changed.

I did the index for this book.”
Princeton Univ Pr (1987), Hardcover, 167 pages
tags: yugoslavia

Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

wfzimmerman’s review: “I need to replace this copy, it was damaged.”
Gollancz (2001), Hardcover

The Prefect (Gollancz SF) by Alastair Reynolds

wfzimmerman’s review: “Solid Reynolds. A prequel to the REVELATION SPACE series and a good place to start reading. Doesn’t deliver the same (high) sense of wonder as the later volumes in the series. It’s hard to like the Panoply — a government whose symbol is the clenched fist. Also, although the cultural background is "Canasian", and it’s contrasted from the preceding "Americano", it doesn’t seem much different.”
Gollancz (2007), Hardcover, 512 pages
tags: science fiction, collecting complete works, sf, space opera

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds

wfzimmerman’s review: “The prolonged struggle for control of the spaceship between the two main characters dragged on way too long, until the very last chapter or so, when there was a surprising and beautiful resolution that justified what had until then seemed a rather tedious playground squabble between two sets of mutineers.”
Ace Hardcover (2006), Hardcover, 464 pages
tags: science fiction, collecting author’s complete works, first edition, space opera

Plus Box: needs more result types

New search technology from Google is headline news here at Tech Fun Books… but they need more than just these two types of plus boxes! why not video, books, and scholarly articles?

Official Google Blog: More than meets the eye
Right now, we’re showing two types of Plus Box results: stock information and maps.

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HP7 book length

From The Leaky Cauldron:

In a major announcement today about their intent to print Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book on recycled paper, Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels said that the last Harry Potter book will have “784″ pages.

This will make the book the second longest of the series, behind Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which has 870 pages. It also edges out “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” which has 734 pages.

Hermione Agonistes

Popwatch | Blog | Movies | Music | TV: Entertainment Weekly

Holy Hogwarts! Is it true that Emma Watson, 16-year-old child star of the Harry Potter films, will not be coming back for the final two installments of the multi-billion-dollar-grossing movie franchise? That’s what more than one British tabloid reported over this past weekend. But, as with stories filed by the hideous journalist character Rita Skeeter in the Potter books, the so-called “news” about Watson turns out to be untrue.

Tip of the hat to Entertainment Weekly for the great title!

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huge Airbus A380 engine photo

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The Airbus 380 photo is one of the most popular pages on my blog. Go figure!

I still think this is a horrible idea – an eight-hundred-passenger disaster waiting to happen.

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