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Imajica, by Clive Barker
While Clive Barker is primarily known for his horror work (Hellraiser, Hellbound, Books of Blood), he has also written a few fantasy novels. Imajica is the best of them that I've read, an epic novel detailing a search through an alternate world. Barker has a great talent for creating characters that seem real, and that the reader cares about. I highly recommend this book in particular, with the caveat that Barker writes for adult readers - the easily offended should probably stay away. Other Clive Barker fantasy novels include The Great and Secret Show, Everville and Sacrament.
Patton's Spaceship and Washington's Dirigible, by John Barnes
Amusing alternate history novels by John Barnes who's written some other good books. Again, these are mostly brain fluff but entertaining. Barnes has written some other pretty good novels; I liked Mother of Storms and Orbital Resonance in particular.
4-23-00 - I just re-read Orbital Resonance, Kaleidoscope Century and A Million Open Doors, and was reminded by how much I like John Barnes - I care about his characters, and his worlds are always thought-provoking.
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Earth Made of Glass, by John Barnes
The most recent book by John Barnes was a sequel to A Million Open Doors, which I had re-read recently. The new book wasn't too thrilling - competent, interesting SF, but nothing earth-shattering in my opinion. Mostly notable for including a Tamil culture in its conception of the future - this is interesting to me because a good friend and co-worker, Luckshman, is Tamil.
Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges
Many of the authors I like refer to the work of Borges, so when I saw a collection of his short stories in a used bookstore I picked it up. I was especially interested because this collection had The Library of Babel and The Garden of Forking Paths, among his most-referred-to works. Having read this collection, I think he's outstanding. He's got more interesting ideas packed in a ten page short story than many modern novels. The narrow line between reality and dream is explored in several stories, as well as the idea that reality is not nearly as stable as some would believe. I have also read Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, and the influence of Borges on his work is unmistakable. The Library of Babel is referred to almost directly in The Name of the Rose, as well. Highly, highly recommended.
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Bombardiers, and The First $20 Million is always the hardest, by Po Bronson
Bombardiers is a dark satire about the high-stakes financial world of Wall Street junk bonds. The best description I've come up with for it is Catch-22-esque. The First $20 Million is a more light-hearted novel about the perils of running a Silicon Valley startup - this was especially fun for me since I recognized most of the places mentioned in this novel. I also read The Nudist on the Late Shift, Bronson's non-fiction paean to Silicon Valley.
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