Books I've Read

Antsy's friend is dying of some weird disease. Antsy has a crush on the guy's sister, too. Lexie is dating some guy who clicks. And Antsy's ad is working too hard at the restaurant. Things snowball.

Two kids die in a car accident and end up in a sort of in-between world of dead kids and ghost buildings. Nicely done. Especially liked the Hindenburg/Roswell throw-away line.

Antsy goes on a birthday cruise, with his family, paid for by, and for, Mr. Crawley. Very good, I enjoyed it very much, and there were even a few tears here and there.

Good story about a New York boy who is effectively invisible to many people.

Everybody dies of radiation poisoning. Great book!! No Nukes!!

Good story about a man involved in flying back in the 20's .

Interesting little novel about two Chinese boys sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" and a girl they meet there. Didn't quite "get" the ending.

Read the 2nd edition. Should be very helpful when I get around to grounding something, and reinforces what I know about bonding, except for using flat braid, which I thought was pretty good stuff, but he says not so much.

An alternate history of Rome, one where it survived into the space age. With a picture of a spaceship on the jacket, I thought there would be more space-stuff. There was not. Still good, though!

Seven stories of science fiction by various authors, pub. in 1972. Didn't really grab me.

Stories by Brin, Card, Haldeman, Le Guin, McCaffrey, Bear, Benford, Pohl and others. Good stories!

Seven stories of androids by authors E.C. Tubb, Clifford D. Simak, Isaac Asimov, J.T. McIntosh, Philip K. Dick, Avram Davidson, and Alfred Bester. Read in the bathtub, over a period of a week...

Seven stories of alternate worlds. Sideways In Time, by Murry Leinster, reminded me of 1632, the novel by Eric Flint. It's too long to quote here, but Sail On Sail On, by Philip Jose Farmer, had a cute little explanation of C.W. radio using an analagy of a column a little angels.

A CIA (domestic spying?) agent runs across a Civil War veteran that is more than a hundred years old, but appears to be in his thirties. A classic science fiction novel.
EDIT: Read again, totally did not realize, during the read, that I had already read it twelve years ago!!

A young girl has heart surgery. Realistic story so children will know what to expect in hospital. Pretty good.

Twenty-five stories, some pretty good, some not so great, in my opinion. One of my favorites was Hillary Orbits Venus, by Pamela Sargent. There are also stories by Arthur C Clarke, Phillip K. Dick, C.M. Kornbluth, Forrest J. Ackerman/Ray Bradbury, Samuel Delaney, and other authors I am not familiar with.

"Enjoyed" may not be the right word, but I'm GLAD I read it. It gave a picture of society that I am not so familiar with. I'll be processing this story for a long time.

A teenage boy acquires a time machine. Has underage alcohol consumption, drug use. Didn't like it

A teenage boy find a machine that will make a duplicate of him! Didn't like it.

Clay gets a job in a curious bookstore in San Francisco. Rather Neal Stephensonistic, I enjoyed it very much.