2004 Books
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ellarienAccording to my records, this year I read 119 new books and 5 rereads:
which was just about on target for the year.
Andro Linklater -- Measuring America. How the West was triangulated; the story of how that Cartesian grid of vast square fields came to be, incidentally throwing light on why America has quarter-dollars and Britain has 20p pieces.
Simon Winchester -- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded. Particularly poignant in light of recent events.
John Garth -- Tolkien and the Great War
Dan Simmons -- Ilium. This was amazing. Literary hard SF, with Greek gods, or at least something emulating them. I can't wait for the other half of the story, due out in 2005. I also want to read the original Iliad again. It didn't quite persuade me to embark on Proust, however.
Kim Stanley Robinson -- The Years of Rice and Salt. Sweeping, intricate alternate history of several centuries after Europe is completely depopulated by the Black Death, traced by a group of reincarnated characters, told in a variety of different voices and styles, even with different typography for each segment. I commented on this in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yhlee's journal.
Jo Walton -- Tooth and Claw. Anthony Trollope done in dragons, and an engaging story in its own right.
Kij Johnson -- Fudoki. Rich with period detail of mediaeval Japan, with two stories delicately interwoven.
Neal Stephenson -- Quicksilver and The Confusion
January Marven Amazing Journeys Keyes A Calculus of Angels Hambly Sold Down the River Tolkien A Tolkien Reader Lindskold Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls Asimov Forward the Foundation De Lint Into the Green McCaffrey The Skies of Pern Modessit Scion of Cyador Stross Toast Cornwell Waterloo McGrath In the Beginning Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring (R) Tolkien The Two Towers (R) Tolkien The Return of the King (R) Stephenson Quicksilver February Lee/Miller Partners in Necessity Hambly Sisters of the Raven Sayers Hangman's Holiday Wolfe Strange Travelers Lindskold Through Wolf's Eyes Vinge Fireship Walton Children of Llyr Linklater Measuring America Edwards Dragonflame Cornwell Sharpe's Havoc March Erikson Deadhouse Gates Wrede/Stevermer Sorcery and Cecelia Vinge Across Realtime De Lint Spirits in the Wires Keyes Empire of Unreason Hobb Golden Fool Hambly Die upon a Kiss Cornwell Sharpe's Devil Johnson A History of the American People Datlow/Windling Snow White, Blood Red April Cherryh Hestia MacLeod Dark Light West The Riven Shield Jones The Great Nation Turtledove Colonization: Aftershocks Simmons Ilium Douglas Good Night, Mr. Holmes Banks Against a Dark Background LeGuin Changing Planes May Walton The Song of Rhiannon Stross Singularity Sky Parker Pattern Sayers In the Teeth of the Evidence Lindskold Marks of our Brothers Brin Kiln People Keyes The Shadows of God Cornwell Sharpe's Escape MacLeod The Light Ages Cavelos Summoning Light Perry A Breach of Promise Adkins The Keys to Egypt June Lindskold Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart Schaill Seaglow Cherryh Forge of Heaven James The Murder Room Powers Declare Winchester Krakatoa Kirstein The Lost Steersman Walton The Island of the Mighty Pope Ramage and the Drumbeat July Brust The Book of Athyra Sayers Lord Peter Views the Body Hambly Wet Grave Smith Contact Imminent Wellman The Beyonders Modessit Ghost of the White Nights Bobrick Wide as the Waters MacLeod Engine City Marillier Wolfskin Williams Nine Layers of Sky West The Sun Sword August Lindskold The Dragon of Despair Fforde Something Rotten Stross Iron Sunrise Marillier Foxmask Rendell The Babes in the Wood Hambly Days of the Dead Paige Death at Glamis Castle Eliot Daniel Deronda Wentworth Black on Black Heyer Black Sheep (r) Heyer The Toll Gate (r) September Garth Tolkien and the Great War Gentle Cartomancy Collins The Dead Secret Hobb Fool's Fate Pope Ramage and the Freebooters Wentworth Stars over Stars Parker Memory Walton Tooth and Claw Wurts To Ride Hell's Chasm Cavelos Invoking Darkness Bujold Winterfair Gifts [Irresistible Fores] October Nagata Memory Robinson The Years of Rice and Salt Douglas Good Morning, Irene McKillip Alphabet of Thorn Lee/Miller Plan B Brands The First American Cherryh Port Eternity Brust Dragon Stevermer The Serpent's Egg November Keyes The Briar King Buchan The Leithen Stories Johnson Fudoki James The Children of Men Stephenson The Confusion Wellman The Old Gods Waken Wolfe Latro in the Mists Tolkien The Lays of Beleriand December Traviss City of Pearl Pargetter The Heaven Tree Krauss The Science of Star Trek Gribbin Blinded by the Light Loewen Lies my Teacher Told Me Vinge True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier Ackroyd Albion; The Origins of the English Imagination McKinley Sunshine
which was just about on target for the year.
Andro Linklater -- Measuring America. How the West was triangulated; the story of how that Cartesian grid of vast square fields came to be, incidentally throwing light on why America has quarter-dollars and Britain has 20p pieces.
Simon Winchester -- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded. Particularly poignant in light of recent events.
John Garth -- Tolkien and the Great War
Dan Simmons -- Ilium. This was amazing. Literary hard SF, with Greek gods, or at least something emulating them. I can't wait for the other half of the story, due out in 2005. I also want to read the original Iliad again. It didn't quite persuade me to embark on Proust, however.
Kim Stanley Robinson -- The Years of Rice and Salt. Sweeping, intricate alternate history of several centuries after Europe is completely depopulated by the Black Death, traced by a group of reincarnated characters, told in a variety of different voices and styles, even with different typography for each segment. I commented on this in
yhlee's journal.Jo Walton -- Tooth and Claw. Anthony Trollope done in dragons, and an engaging story in its own right.
Kij Johnson -- Fudoki. Rich with period detail of mediaeval Japan, with two stories delicately interwoven.
Neal Stephenson -- Quicksilver and The Confusion
