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April 27, 2005

Anticipation


Waiting on an opportunity... for the black starliner which is to come...

Iain Banks' newest book, The Algebraist, isn't Culture, but SF with more earth-centered humanity (aHuman or rHuman?) in the ancient, teeming pond we call our galaxy. The UK edition in hardback; it won't publish Stateside for another few months, but we arranged for a copy to be shipped through one of those elusive wormholes...