My Desk – A glimpse at books
After adding the complete set of signed Marla Mason my fiancee just got me, I just had to document the books sitting on my desk. For posterity, from left to right:
- Gender and Discourse by Deborah Tannen
- The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything by John Gribbin
- Blood Meridian by Cormac Mcarthy
- Air: Or, Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
- Engines of Creation: The coming Era of Nanotechnology by K. Eric Drexler
- City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer
- The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence by Sgt. Rory Miller
- First Meetings by Orson Scott Card
- Th1rte3n by Richard K. Morgan
- Borges: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
- Tesuji by James Davies
- The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies edited by Fowler, Murphy, Notkin & Smith
- Blood Engines (Marla Mason, Book 1) by T. A. Pratt
- Poison Sleep (Marla Mason, Book 2) by T. A. Pratt
- Dead Reign (Marla Mason, Book 3) by T. A. Pratt
- Spell Games (Marla Mason, Book 4) by T. A. Pratt
- Bloodlines (Legacy of the Force, Book 2) by Karen Traviss
- Midnighters #3: Blue Noon by Scott Westerfeld
- Necropath: Book One of the Bengal Station Trilogy by Eric Brown
- Debatable Space by Philip Palmer
- Gridlinked by Neal Asher
- Incandescence by Greg Egan
- Hart & Boot & Other Stories by Tim Pratt
- Digital Magic by Philippa Ballantine
- The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant (A Billibub Baddings Mystery) by Tee Morris
- Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feyman
- Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty
- What Happened to the Indians by Terence Shannon
- The Princess Bride (DVD)
- Jade Tiger by Jenn Reese
- Fool Moon (Dresden Files, Book 2) by Jim Butcher
- Infected by Scott Sigler
- Contagious by Scott Sigler
- Sly Mongoose by Tobias S. Buckell
And then actually visible on my desk:
- Various Locus Magazines
- A few weeks worth of Science
- My blue notebook
- Spiral Hunt by Margaret Ronald
- Your Hate Male Will Be Graded by John Scalzi
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson
I’m surprised and delighted at how many of those books are either mine, or that I’ve read (or started to read). Heh. Glad you liked that surprise! 🙂