January Books

Oddly enough, I haven't been reading quite as much as usual lately -- at least in book form.

Joel Shepherd, Crossover
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Dudley Pope, Ramage's Mutiny
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Debra Doyle and James Macdonald, Land of Mist and Snow
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Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
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Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue
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Diamond!

So Britain has a shiny new synchrotron! I'd never heard of this until I saw the BBC story.

This brings back memories; in my postgrad (US: grad student) days, I did some work at both the old Daresbury synchrotron and the ISIS Spallation Neutron Source at the Rutherford Appleton lab -- which is on the same site as the new facility. The SNS was the shiny new thing in those days -- so new that it barely managed to squeeze out enough neutrons for my project. Google maps shows what is obviously the new thing under construction, as well as my old familiar stamping ground, the HRPD building, off in the other corner of the site.