Locus 2003 Recommended Reading List

Embedded Geek writes "Locus magazine has published its 2003 Recommended Reading List of science fiction, fantasy, and related titles. With nearly 300 entries, it's a safe bet that even the most voracious reader will find something new. Personally, I was delighted to see Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams under non-fiction and the great listing of short fiction (so I can mine my old magazines for the gems). If you're more of a completist, check out Locus'es exhaustive listings (continued here and here). Definitely worth downloading to your PDA for your next trip to the bookstore."

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Top Fantasy Title

[Megaslow]

"SCO's Claim to ownership of Linux"

one up that

[segment]

"Windows -- Securing the world for the next Millooneyum"

Groundhog Day II

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Groundhog Day II

Teaser:

One February morning, Dick Cheney emerges from his bunker, to see his own shadow - which means six more months of war...

The scenario repeats itself, with the morning started anew each day, until Dick learns to keep his eyes off the ground, and fixed on "the light at the end of the tunnel."

Capsule review:

The best traditions of Michael Moorcock and Norman Spinrad meet those of Michael Moore and Norman Schwartzkopf.

Re:Groundhog Day II

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Minor resonant fluctuations in the multiverse...
Normal stuff.

Re:Douglas Adams is quite wonderful

[segment]

That's quite a deal you ended up getting at 50 rupees. Would you like to sell your guide to me for 2,678,600.00 Turkish liras? That should definitely be enough for you to be able to purchase yourself some nice Star Trek phaser replicas there guy.

completist?

[bomb_number_20]

I wasn't aware 'completist' was a word...

That is to say- I couldn't find a meaningition in my language-iser.

Re:Lots of Catching Up to do

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

They forgot to include the never-published Orwell novel : 1984 -- 20 years later

Is the....

[brad-d]

Is the Locus 2003 Recommended Reading List on the list? Because it's pretty long and I don't want to read it all if it's not on the recommended list.

Re:Douglas Adams is quite wonderful

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

The "Hitchiker's Guide" series is very very funny though I have yet to finish all of the cd.

I can understand you're a slow reader, those ascii characters must be awfully hard to read, printed circularly in binary format on a 12cm CD...

Formulaic Writing?

[buckhead_buddy]

There used to be a number of good books out there but in light of Excel's dominance of the market, it's hard to find any good book on Locus 1-2-3.

(Personally, I tended to favored Lotus Improv anyway.)

Lokus?

[Anonymous Coward]

Locus magazine sounds like Lokus magazine, and Lokus is WC in german... :)

Re:Douglas Adams is quite wonderful

[Anonymous Coward]

If he is so wonderful, why is he dead?

Probably for the same reason you're still alive. The galaxy is a cruel cruel place.

Playboy NOT Listed ???

[MajorDick]

I mean, Playboy, Fantasy, what else.

I dont mean fantasy like shes my fantasy, I mean FANTASY like ANY geek would EVER get a Playboy babe in the sack, now THATS Fantasy

Re:Pattern Recognition just isn't very good

[shut_up_man]

You're probably right - although I tend to tar the public relations wankers, marketing scum and other shiny-suit-wearing servants of satan with the same brush.