2012 Reading

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* denotes a book from my TBR Challenge 2012

January
1. Shel Silverstein — Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book: A Primer for Adults Only (It counts! It totally counts! Also, it’s awesome. You should give it to your young nieces and nephews!)
2. Charles Stross — Glasshouse (Spiritual sequel to Accelerando, Glasshouse takes place in the dispersed human polities described at the end of Accelerando. Robin has recently undergone memory excision surgery [when you are effectively immortal, it's important to clean house up there sometimes] and now he is being hunted by people he doesn’t know for reasons he can’t remember. He joins an experiment meant to recreate a civilization of the Dark Ages [1950-2040] to escape, and that’s where things get strange.)
3. H. Beam Piper — Little Fuzzy (The story of a mineral prospector/surveyor on a purportedly uninhabited planet who discovers the inhabitants. Loved the dated worldview and language — this was written in 1962, and it shows in mostly-charming ways.)
4. H. Beam Piper — Fuzzy Sapiens (Covers the few months following Little Fuzzy. I can’t really say much without spoiling Little Fuzzy.)
5. John Scalzi — Fuzzy Nation (Scalzi’s “reboot” of the original. Shares the core concept, with lots of changes that, I think, work quite well. I like the original and this version essentially equally. I read them all in a row in the space of a week, so I wasn’t completely attached to the original like someone who read them years ago might be. I love the addition of Scalzi’s trademark sarcastic dialog.)