About Me

Married with one teenage daughter and a dippy dog. Love cycling (with the dog, of course), music and, of course, reading.

My BookLists

• To-Read (2)
  • Frankenstein
    by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
    by Doctorow, Cory

Browse BookLists

• White Horse finished
• A Place So Foreign and Eight More finished
• Highway 152 by Sam Shepard finished
• Overclocked finished

  good in parts 6 short stories:
  • Printcrime - very short, but good with a nice moral twist
  • When Sysadmin Ruled the World – a satire (at least I think it was) on the inward looking arrogance of sysadmin (the computer is the only thing that matters even if the outside world grinds to a halt!) – weak story and an uninspired ending
  • Anda’s Game – best by far, with engaging characters in a fascinating gaming world; Anda has to grow up and face some real-life realities, giving the story more depth and complexity than any of the others
  • I, Robot – tribute to Asimov’s story, but unfortunately lacked compelling characters
  • I, Rowboat – another tribute to Asimov, and much better done; Robbie Rowboat has to confront some pretty existential questions
  • After the Seige – longest story in the book, but rather weak; after a huge amount of padding it rushes to a barely explained conclusion.
  Many thanks to Cory Doctorow for making his book available to us to read online. I posted this on 13 January 2010
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• Book Sampler: Science Fiction finished
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea suspended
• The Scarlet Letter suspended
• Fabulous Women Series suspended
• 1632 suspended
• DailyLit's Book Channel suspended
• The Enchanted Castle suspended
• Don Quixote suspended

Overclocked - good in parts

6 short stories:
• Printcrime - very short, but good with a nice moral twist
• When Sysadmin Ruled the World – a satire (at least I think it was) on the inward looking arrogance of sysadmin (the computer is the only thing that matters even if the outside world grinds to a halt!) – weak story and an uninspired ending
• Anda’s Game – best by far, with engaging characters in a fascinating gaming world; Anda has to grow up and face some real-life realities, giving the story more depth and complexity than any of the others
• I, Robot – tribute to Asimov’s story, but unfortunately lacked compelling characters
• I, Rowboat – another tribute to Asimov, and much better done; Robbie Rowboat has to confront some pretty existential questions
• After the Seige – longest story in the book, but rather weak; after a huge amount of padding it rushes to a barely explained conclusion.
Many thanks to Cory Doctorow for making his book available to us to read online.

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