mcr at sandelman.ca
Tue, 05 Jun 2007
I finished reading Rainbows End by Verner Vinge.
It's set in 2025, and he finds a neat way to introduce us to the world of 2025: through the eyes of a 75 year old who has just been cured of Alzheimer's. He has to catch up on the past 20 years, just like the rest of us.
This book should be read by everyone who is a member of the IETF technical community. Particularly those who do router security, ad-hoc networks, and pwe3...
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Wed, 06 Jun 2007
I got a copy of the Jack Whyte's The Lance Thrower from Amazon some time ago. It was very hard for my relatives to find that on my Xmas book list. It was, I thought, the continuation of the book Clothar the Frank from Whyte's Arthurian series.
I started reading it, and thought.... gee he's really recapping a lot. As I read more, I realized that someone he was saying it all again. Only maybe with fewer words.
Well, today I learnt the truth.
The Lance Thrower is the US edition. Clothar the Frank is the Canadian (maybe world) title, and is definitely a longer book. That also explains why the book was so hard to find.
So, I guess I'm still waiting for the next installment in the series that started as The Skystone.
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