Just finished Iron Council, which I thought pretty fantastic; the best thing Mieville has written, Wolfeian vocabularies but with enough incluing not to lose the reader entirely.
Before then ... The Algebraist, welcome return to form for Banks; Sabriel, hitting just the right point between necromancy and the respect of ancestors; Pompeii by Richard Harris as a quick Roman entertainment; Ghostwritten, about which I can do little save enthuse. The Family Trade, fun, but the loudest clang I've had in months as I ran full-tilt and streamlined for progress into the back cover.
Currently half-way through Jane Jacobs Death and Life of Great American Cities, picked up in Toronto, which I'm convinced is pretty much a type specimen of Great American City. The Duke of Uranium trilogy cued up when I want relaxation. Gaskell's Mothers and Daughters, reading in 30,000-word chunks during the more tedious musical numbers in Sweeney Todd. World Fantasy Award Winner Tooth and Claw on the way from Amazon, now they believe in my credit card again.
There have been fairly firm plans for an invasion of Iraq knocking about for at least six months in the public domain. That there might be military action against an Arabic-speaking nation has been pretty clear since the axis-of-evil speech, fifteen months back - and, of course, there were some troops on the ground in Afghanistan before that.
So how come none of the squad commanders at the checkpoints in Baghdad appears to know how to yell "stop the car and come out slowly" in Arabic through a megaphone? There's not much information content in a warning shot.
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