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dwig · 08-02-2005, 10:58 AM

I just finished "Anti-Grav Unlimited" by Duncan Long; some interesting ideas but, on-balance, only a so-so piece of SF (available from Baen Books). I recently read a few more issues of Planet Magazine (good stuff).

I'm currently in the middle of O Henry's short story collection "The Voice of the City". O Henry is one of my favorite writers and this collection hasn't let me down; highly recommended. His stories are based so much on human nature and not specific surroundings, that they seem current a century after they were written and not "distant", despite being set in the NYC of ~1900 and I'm reading them from my porch in Key West.

08-02-2005, 10:58 AM	#30
dwig Wizard Posts: 1,613 Karma: 6718541 Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Paradise (Key West, FL) Device: Current:Surface Go & Kindle 3 - Retired: DellV8p, Clie UX50, ...	I just finished "Anti-Grav Unlimited" by Duncan Long; some interesting ideas but, on-balance, only a so-so piece of SF (available from Baen Books). I recently read a few more issues of Planet Magazine (good stuff). I'm currently in the middle of O Henry's short story collection "The Voice of the City". O Henry is one of my favorite writers and this collection hasn't let me down; highly recommended. His stories are based so much on human nature and not specific surroundings, that they seem current a century after they were written and not "distant", despite being set in the NYC of ~1900 and I'm reading them from my porch in Key West.