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H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus Vol 1: "At the Mountains of Madness" and Other Novels of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft
Antarctic Year: Brabant Island Expedition by Chris Furse
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 2: No Future For You by Brian K. Vaughan
Little, Big by John Crowley
In Search of Melancholy Baby by Vassily Aksyonov
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie by Ursula K. Le Guin
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CollectionsYour library (539), Currently reading (9), To read (33), Read but unowned (10), All collections (549)
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Favorite authorsAnna Akhmatova, Dante Alighieri, J. G. Ballard, Alison Bechdel, Jorge Luis Borges, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Angela Carter, Paul Celan, Suzy McKee Charnas, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, John Crowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Sergeˆi Aleksandrovich Esenin, Ramachandra Guha, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Hope Hodgson, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Bill Manhire, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Mark Pirie, Tim Powers, Helen Rickerby, Harry Ricketts, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree, Jr., J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Gene Wolfe (Shared favorites)
About meI'm an author and editor. My latest book, co-edited with Mark Pirie, is Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, an anthology of new and reprinted New Zealand science fiction poetry. You can buy Voyagers from Amazon.com as a paperback or Kindle e-book (search for "Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry"), or from Fishpond. You can also find out more about Voyagers, and buy it directly from the publisher, at the Voyagers mini-site.
My latest book as an author is short fiction collection Transported, published by Vintage (Random House New Zealand). The publishers' blurb from their Transported page sums this collection up pretty well:
A well-known poet pursues his elusive muse; a Kiwi makes himself indispensable in Oz; a revolutionary fast-food franchise revs up Russia's economy; a racing-car driver is airborne; temperate Otago exports its kiwifruit worldwide; a Frenchman called Foucault puts in the hard yards at an antipodean dairy farm - all while water laps at our feet, our homes, our lives . . . With Tim Jones' stories you should expect the unexpected. This remarkably refreshing collection uses a lively mix of genres, taking readers on flights of fancy, transports of delight, and even occasional trips of nostalgia. Some of the stories are unique ways of looking at the everyday and ordinary, others take us out of this world. They are funny, moving, insightful and, above all, delightfully different.
In case you need any more convincing, "New Zealand Books" (the NZ equivalent of the LRB or NYRB) called Transported "dazzling and highly entertaining" in its review - and who am I to argue with that?
"The New Neighbours", a story from Transported, has recently been selected for inclusion in the Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories, edited by Paula Morris.
My other recent books are poetry collection All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens and fantasy novel Anarya's Secret, set in the universe of the Earthdawn roleplaying game.
About my libraryI started by uploading a selection of books from my library, reflecting my three main areas of reading: science fiction and fantasy, literary fiction (especially Russian and Spanish-language fiction in translation), and poetry - especially New Zealand poetry and European and South American poetry in translation. I've also got a bunch of cricket books, books about Antarctica, and science fiction fanzines. Most of the books listed, I own; books I don't own are tagged with the name of the library from which I borrowed them. Books I've written are tagged but not rated.
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Currently readingAnti-nation : transition to sustainability by Fred H. Knelman
Swings and roundabouts : poems on parenthood by Emma Neale
Fotheringhay and other poems by John Greening
The State Counsellor: Further Adventures of Fandorin by Boris Akunin
AUP new poets three by Janis Freegard
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posted by Teazle at 12:03 pm (EST) on Oct 6, 2009
posted by avaland at 6:54 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2009
Tracy Fox
posted by tracyfox at 11:54 am (EST) on Jun 2, 2009
Tracy Fox
posted by tracyfox at 11:54 am (EST) on Jun 2, 2009
Some of my climate change group members have requested that I include fiction dealing with climate change. All I have come up with is the horrid book by M Crichton (which I'm not including) and Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy that starts with Forty Days of Rain.
Another request was for a book on geoengineering solutions ... I know Tim Flannery has spoken about it in the press and maybe some of it will be included in his book to be published this fall. Do you know of any other non-technical books that talk about this topic?
Thanks for any help you can provide. Tracy Fox
posted by tracyfox at 2:48 pm (EST) on May 28, 2009
I have been called eclectic in my tastes, but that trifecta from your favorite authors list pretty well defines the term. The US market appears oddly bereft of your work, can't think why since it sounds pretty darned interesting.
Time to work the web! Good fortune!
Cheers
RMD
posted by richardderus at 10:03 pm (EST) on Feb 25, 2009
Tui
posted by tiffin at 7:38 pm (EST) on Feb 9, 2009
posted by avaland at 8:34 am (EST) on Feb 8, 2009
posted by lriley at 1:52 pm (EST) on Feb 7, 2009
Thank you for your warm welcome on Introductions.
I'm trying to read through people's threads and I noticed early in Urania's thread a discussion of Tatanya Tolstaya. I read The Slynx in January. It's a 1984-like dystopian novel set 200 years in the future after an event known as "the Blast," in which most of the characters suffer from a "Consequence" of the Blast. Since your profile says you like science fiction, you might like it, if you haven't already read it.
I also picked up a couple of your recommendations for books about Antarctica at another thread (don't remember where). Thanks.
Also, I'm very impressed that you are a writer. I spend my life writing dull legal briefs, and I envy people who make language come alive. I will be searching for your books to read.
Deborah
posted by arubabookwoman at 6:27 pm (EST) on Feb 5, 2009
I saw your comment about an Elizabeth Jane Howard binge on a message board (I forget which) and sensed a kndred spirit. I picked up one of hers at a sale and liked it, ordered the next 3 on Amazon, and about a week later was ill enough to have to stay in bed and read them. I got through all of the Cazalet books in 2 days - she's obviously prime binging material!
posted by Goldengrove at 6:26 am (EST) on Jan 23, 2009
Cheers - hope the New Year period went well for you.
K
posted by Severn at 6:26 am (EST) on Jan 21, 2009
posted by mmignano11 at 9:21 pm (EST) on Jan 5, 2009
posted by mmignano11 at 3:06 pm (EST) on Jan 5, 2009
Best, Lois
posted by avaland at 11:17 am (EST) on Dec 21, 2008
Thanks for the interest in my library too! It seems we share an eclectic mix of books read and unread (in my case more of the latter). I'm certainly intrigued. Anyone who's an admirer of Riddley Walker, Borges' poetry, Gene Wolfe and Alice Munro is likely writing for readers such as myself. By the way, do you speak (or rather, read) Russian? I studied it ages ago in university, but I'm quite rusty now, I'm afraid.
Jamie
posted by Jambyfool at 1:04 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2008
Sarah
posted by SpicyCat at 3:00 am (EST) on Aug 3, 2008
...Do you know what? My wife said exactly the same thing!
Realistically, I knew I'd never have made it on to the shortlist - there were just too many books there that I know are much better. But I'd have enjoyed the process anyway, and wanted (as ever!) to get a few pointers on which of the collections the judges were recommending me to read! (I'd very much like to buy all 39 of the nominees - well, 38, I'll take a pass on my own - but it'd take me a while to get through them!)
One of those, though, will be yours, because I hate the idea of being denied a book just because distribution isn't easy. So there! And I hope that, like my own, the nomination will have a positive impact upon your sales. I get the impression in its own humble way mine is doing okay.
posted by shearrob at 7:03 am (EST) on Jul 7, 2008