A quick break from my Hugo nominees reviews (they're still in the post) for this new novel, *Android's Dream* from John Scalzi. This is a very, very strange…
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The [Hugo Award](http://www.worldcon.org/hugos.html) [nominations for 2007](http://www.nippon2007.us/hugo_nominees.php) were just announced this week. I'm going to be reading all of them over the next few weeks, starting with *Temeraire* by…
I've just finished Owen Gingerich's *The Book Nobody Read*, a history of [Copernicus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus)' *[De revolutionibus orbium coelestium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_revolutionibus_orbium_coelestium)*. *De revolutionibus* is a very important book, but it was once…
Found a couple of treasures in a second hand bookshop in Mogo near Batemans Bay today: Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Vol I-III. The diaries of Richard Crossman…
Brilliant 'new' (well, new to me) feature for LibraryThing: LibraryThing Mobile. At last you can check to see if the book you're looking at is in your catalog…