Words Into Bytes

The Ghost Brigades.
John Scalzi. 2006.
ISBN 0-765-31502-5 $23.95 (hardback)

The Last Colony.
John Scalzi. 2007
ISBN 0-7653-1697-8 Hardback: 316 pages. ($23.95)

With Respect to the Japanese: A Guide for Americans
John C. Condon. 1984.
ISBN 0-933662-49-1.

Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood.
Angelica Garnett.

At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England.
Walter Dean Myers.
1999.
ISBN 0-590-58669-1

Three Came Home.
Agnes Newton Keith.
1946.

Fuzzy Nation.
John Scalzi. 2011.
ISBN 978-0-7653-2854-0.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel.
Dai Sijie. Translated from French by Ina Rilke.
2000.
ISBN 0-385-41309-X

This was recommended to me as a fun bit of fluff, “Firefly in airships.” So I didn’t approach it with the bar set high. Even so, I apparently expect more from my fluff because I was disappointed. Reading it I spent most of my time wondering why it kept missing the mark. What sets a [...]