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* Taylor/Nightside series by Simon Green
First book: Something from the Nightside. A compact book, in which the protagonist, John Taylor, plays a private detective who has the unnatural ability of finding things, including people. The catch is that he is from a place that exists parallel to ours where magic, monsters and other fantastical things exist.
* The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
I read Snow Crash (same author) and I loved every bit of it! I am in general a great fan of cyperpunk and dystopian novels. The Diamond Age (a Hugo Award-winner) is set in a far-future Shanghai at a time when nations have been superseded by enclaves of common cultures.
The Diamond Age is set is a very plausable near future where nanotech has eliminated basic problems (such as starvation), but created its share of problems as well (nanotech devices which can track or kill people).
* Core PHP Programming, 3rd Ed (Prentice Hall)
Ough, could you imagine reading a computer book on the beach? I will try... and will definitely carry this one with me to my holiday location.
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