Finished: Players of Null-A by Alfred Elton Van Vogt.
Hector Servadac or Off on A Comet by Jules Verne. Some anti-semitism but otherwise a classic SF story by the master.
One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane. Mike Hammer hunts down commies. Classic.
Begun: Day of the guns by Mickey Spillane. About Tiger Mann, secret agent working for a private sector agency that do what the official organisations can't pull off. Very Cold War-ish.
A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot. Plot similar to Carl Sagan's Contact, but written decades earlier. Aliens sends blueprints to a supercomputer to Earth.
Stjärnpesten (="Star Plague") by Denis Lindbohm. A tiny fraction of mankind hides under the Earth waiting for the mysterious and lethal plague on the surface to disappear. A plague that kills everything, including bacteria and virus. The people is forced to live under dictatorship.
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
