ghostwheel: musings by Lon Farenwald » Books

20 Scifi novels that will change your life?

Lon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:49:37 +0000

Ran across this list of “The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life.” The list skews to the more recent spectrum of scifi, I think I’ve read about half of the list. Life changing may be pushing it too far, but of those books I’ve read that are on the list I’d agree that they are excellent choices. Certainly a good starting point for people who are looking for new scifi to read.

Shelfari

Lon — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:10:29 +0000

I stumbled a across a website called Shelfari, which may be of interest to the book lovers among you. It’s site, similar to LibraryThing et al, where you can share which books you’ve read/bought with others. Of course it’s got all sorts of social Web2.0 goodness like tagging and building a friends list. One handy feature is that it can import data from Delicious Library (and others) so that you don’t have to build a collection from scratch using this service, if you’ve already started cataloging with other software.

You can check out my Shelfari profile here. I imported a few from Delicious Library and added some I could think of just off the top of my head. Once I get a new Mac with a built-in camera I want to go to town with DL, which can scan the barcodes and lookup using the camera, and get my collection logged and online.

Astonishing X-Men #1

Lon — Thu, 27 May 2004 20:23:45 +0000

Swung by The Comic Store last night and picked up a copy of the new X-Men title, Astonishing X-Men, written by Joss Whedon. Great stuff! The art is top notch and Joss brings his usual wit to the story. A couple panels had me laughing out loud, which is rare when I read a comic book (er, how comic can it be then? Hmmmm…).

So, if you’re a fan of Firefly/Angel/Buffy/other_Joss_stuff and like comics, X-titles in particular, go out right now and get a copy. I think he’s locked in to write the title for a year. Cyclops, Wolverine, The Beast, Shadowcat and Emma Frost make up the core X-team in this book. It’s been a while since I’ve read any Marvelverse comics so I’ll need to scour the net and get up to speed on the story line.

Excelsior!