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dustydigger
Posted 2016-10-26 11:26 PM (#14502 - in reply to #14249)
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Location: UK		Aha! No wonder I hadnt seen this challenge,it started in September when my real life was particularly hectic and I wasnt on WWEnd often. This thread was over the page out of sight.
For me the 90s were a time when I focused my attention on urban fantasy and crime fiction. After being away in Africa all through the 70s I came back disconnected from the huge proliferation of fantasy,and the cyberpunk genre,and so never read any of the modern stuff.(apart from Bujold and Cherryh). Even with reading a few since joining WWEnd in 2012,I have only read 5 of the books Jim thinks will survive to the 22nd century,and a pathetic 23/132 in tota from the yearly lists! Only 17%.Tut tut. I def need this challenge to try to fill up some of the gaps in my shameful ignorance
So,I have completed my first read for the challenge,Iain M Banks Use of Weapons,which was very enjoyable,being by turns blackly humorous and grim and brutal,with its shocking denouement,and a final pulling of the rug from beneath our feet by Banks!
I am just going to start with 10 books officially,because I have lots of other challenges in 2017,and some of the books are monster tomes.However I expect to read maybe 15 in all
Hmm,I see I can count C J Cherryh's Heavy Time for 1991 since I read it in September,after the challenge started!Then I read Connie Willis's Domomsday Book last month too and I have only 100 pages left of Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep for 1992 so I am flying. OK,I will post 15 books after all
I will read Michael Swanick's Stations of the Tide next,probably in December after recovery from .my knee op on Nov 21st.
For now I am having a great time reading Vinge. Fun space opera,great aliens,interesting Zones of Thought galaxy,and likable characters. Good stuff.

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