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The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll, annotated by Martin Gardner (added: 21 January, 2003)
A Beautiful Mind by Slyvia Nasar (added: 23 December, 2002)
Futures edited by Peter Crowther (added: 19 December, 2002)
The Borderlands of Science by Michael Shermer (added: 2 September, 2002)
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking (added: 13 August, 2002)
Piloting Palm by Andrea Butter and David Pogue (added: 30 July, 2002)
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams (added: 26 June, 2002)
Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart (added: 13 June, 2002)
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr (added: 1 June, 2002)

Fiction Book Reviews

Alice in Quantumland by Robert Gilmore
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll, annotated by Martin Gardner
Babe and Other Pig Tales by Dick King-Smith
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Diaspora by Greg Egan
Distress by Greg Egan
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber
Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart
Foundation and Chaos by Greg Bear
Futures edited by Peter Crowther
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Heart of India by Mark Tully
Heaven's Reach by David Brin
Kiln People by David Brin
Kling Klang Klatch by Ian MacDonald and David Lyttleton

Passage by Connie Willis
Phase Space by Stephen Baxter
Return to Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
The Road to Science Fiction (Vol. 3) edited by James Gunn
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card
/ (Slant) by Greg Bear
Slippage by Harlan Ellison
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Starlight 1 edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
The Unicorn Sonata by Peter S. Beagle
Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester by Alfred Bester
Vitals by Greg Bear
Voyage by Stephen Baxter
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem
The Year's Best Science Fiction, 14th Annual Edition edited by Gardner Dozois

Non-Fiction Book Reviews

Achilles in the Quantum Universe by Richard Morris
The Aesthetics of Computing by David Gelernter
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner
A Beautiful Mind by Slyvia Nasar
Beyond Calculation edited by Peter J. Denning and Robert M. Metcalf
The Borderlands of Science by Michael Shermer
Chaos for Beginners by Ziauddin Sardar and Iwona Abrams
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
Clone by Gina Kolata
Crystal Fire by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson
Darwin: A Life in Science by Michael White and John Gribbin
Darwin Among the Machines by George B. Dyson
Darwin for Beginners by Jonathan Miller and Borin Van Loon
Ethics for Beginners by Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt
Evolution and Healing by Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Invention by Design by Henry Petroski

The Island of the Colour-blind by Oliver Sacks
The Meaning of it All by Richard P. Feynman
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
Nature's Numbers by Ian Stewart
The Night is Large by Martin Gardner
Out of Their Minds edited by Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere
Piloting Palm by Andrea Butter and David Pogue
Planet Quest by Ken Croswell
Quantum Theory for Beginners by J.P. McEvoy and Oscar Zarate
Raggett on HTML 4 by Dave Raggett, Jenny Lam, Ian Alexander and Michael Kmiec
Remaking the World by Henry Petroski
Richard Feynman: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Mary Bribbin
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
Venus Revealed by David Harry Grinspoon
The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr
Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon

There are a huge number of books currently out on the market, both fiction and non-fiction. One difficulty I face is that sometimes when I see an interesting book in the market, I am torn between getting it and passing it over because I do not have enough information to decide whether to get it or not. The author, for example, may be unknown to me or the plot of the book on the back cover may not sound appealing (familiar story, right?) despite various adverts or brief reviews on the back page claiming it to be "the best of the genre".

So, in an attempt to help other people avoid this situation, I've decided, whenever possible, to review books that I've read and try to give my opinions on them. Hopefully, they will help you to decide which books to read also.

However, note that these are only my opinions and I do not claim to be a professional reviewer. I do not hold any degrees in literature nor have I ever attended any writing course nor have I written any books. If you want to see professionally reviewed stuff, then I suggest you turn to Locus magazine or other professional magazines that review books in the market.

Instead, I only claim to have read a lot of books and I know what I like. You may find you have similar taste and what I say may help you to decide whether to get a certain book or not. At worse, you'll find yourself totally disagreeing with me, in which case you can go and buy books I hate and forget those I recommend...};-)

So, enjoy the reviews and find out my tastes in fiction and non-fiction.

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