I’ve star­ted read­ing the Gaean Tri­logy by John Var­ley. This must be at least the fourth time. I’m cur­rently on the first of the tri­logy — Titan. This series of books is a must for any Sci­ence Fiction/Fantasy fan. Truly awe­some story. I’ll try to write more when I’ve fin­ished the first one.

I’ve just fin­ished ORA:CLE by Kevin O’Donnell Jr. It’s about the fourth time I’ve read it! It is an amaz­ing book. Set in the far future, it involves a glob­ally linked data net­work, the pop­u­la­tion of earth con­fined to indoors while the streets are re-forested to com­bat CO2 excesses, an invad­ing race of ali­ens, brain implants, polit­ics, and hack­ing! Some of the con­cepts in the book are way ahead of their time (the story was star­ted in 1980).

Money-back guar­an­tees don’t count for very much if you’re dead before you can cite them. Computer-linked expert Ale wants to sur­vive 2188, but he still catches him­self mak­ing the mis­take of trust­ing elec­tronic gad­getry…
Someone is out to get Ale, and he is sure he knows who…

Highly recom­men­ded, although it seems to be out of print.

I’ve fin­ished A Mid­sum­mer Night’s Gene by Andrew Har­man. It wasn’t too bad. The blurb on the cover hints at him being on a par with Terry Pratch­ett. I don’t think so.
The book whilst hav­ing an inter­est­ing world (set ‘next year’), and a appar­ently con­vo­luted plot, really didn’t get going until fully half way through. And then only picked up pace in the last quarter.
It had it’s funny moments, but there was far too much repe­ti­tion of clever phrases. They worked the first time, but not the second, and in some cases third time.
All in all, I will only recom­mend that you bor­row this from the library.