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
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~ by mentatjack on April 18, 2009.
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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! 🙂