Have finished "A for Andromeda" and started with its sequel "Andromeda Breakthrough", both written by script writer John Elliot and astronomer/SF-author Fred Hoyle. As I've said before (here or some other place) the books have similarities with Carl Sagan's "Contact", but part from the concept "first contact with alien species through radio telescope" it's a different story. The books are actually novelizations of two BBC-series written by the same authors, but it's not a bad thing; compare with Arthur C Clarke's "2001" and "2010".
Have also finished "The Legion of Space" by Jack Williamson. It's a classic space opera with characters inspired by "The Three Musketeers" and "Falstaff" (by William Shakespeare). Despite that not THAT great, but a good pageturner.
Reading "Galaxy of the Lost", first novel in Gregory Kern's (nom-de-plume for E.C. Tubbs) Kap Kennedy series about a secret space agent. Decent pageturner if you don't mind "simple" entertainment.
Started yesterday with Alexei Tolstoy's "Aelita: Princess of Mars". Classic SF about two Soviet Russians who are the first men on Mars, discovering an ancient civilisation which suffers from a civil war (compare with the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution) and ruthless capitalism.
"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
