Skin Kathe Koja

Jed started it. http://www.kith.org/logos/journal/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=856

Since this is my LJ, we'll start off with me:
When the bough breaks Celia Marsh
Wounds Celia Marsh
Firing the Dead Celia
Celia Marsh Feeling Driftwood. (the caption under my author picture. ;-)
Hardwired Celia Marsh. (Ooh,don't I sound Cyberpunk.)
and for the sickos out there, Celia Laying Ghosts. Ghost porn.

For those who are following at home, Hammered Elizabeth Bear is something we expect to see at Torcon. And I like "Pervert Charlie" It makes a good command.

Selected highlights from tonights game:
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury.
Someplace to be Flying Charles de Lint.
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream Harlan Ellison
The Puppet Masters Robert Heinlein
Sharpe's Battle Bernard Cornwell
Demon John Varley
Earth Abides George R. Stewart
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Elsewhere Will Shetterly.
Paradise Lost John Milton.
Probe Carole Nelson Douglas
A Man Rides Through Stephen R Donaldson
Since you've been gone Maggie O'Farrell
Ace Dick King-Smith
Get Off the Unicorn McCaffrey
The Wizards First Rule Terry Goodkind
The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman.
Kushiel's Chosen Jacqueline Carey.
Odds Against Dick Francis
Archangel Sharon Shinn
The Perilous Guard Elizabeth Pope
Alien Influences Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link.
Naked David Sedaris.
The Great Hunt Robert Jordan
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Joan Aiken

SOme titles clearly work better than others. "The universe against her Schmitz", for example, just sounds dirty.

you can get some fun ones the other way too.
Nalo Hopkinson skin folk
Or, "Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber. "
Rita Mae Brown Riding Shotgun

Tomorrow: Music. "The Golden Hum Remy Zero"

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If I'd read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom any faster, it would have taken me longer to earn the money to buy the book than it did to read it. :-) Or at least as long. I'm lucky that I was multitasking or it would have probably taken me no more than an hour to read it. It took about an hour and a half as it was, and while I wanted it to be longer, I was happy with it as it was. I'll explain later. :)

It's funny. In retrospect, I think it should have taken me longer to read than it did, because it's a complicated world that he set up. But, it didn't. It was very smooth reading, so even when things seemed weird--deadheading, whuffie, stuff like that--you didn't have time to slow down and wonder about it, and besides, it was explained soon after. I liked this book. Not that it was a surprise. I'm a sucker for cyberpunk. I really am. I want to be online.

I liked the length because it ended just perfectly. I would like to know more, but I don't *need* to know more. I wanted the book to be longer, but reasonably, I know that had it been much longer it's possible that the world would have started to really annoy me. I'm sensitive that way.