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by Jerry Wright

I'm in Baltimore using the hotel computer, so I have to get off the computer and let another nice lady use it, but before I go, I need to mention John and Mary Gribbon's The Science of Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials". This book is aimed at 7 through 12 year olds (I would guess) but the Gribbon's skill at making the complex understandable and enjoyable created a book that I enjoyed also.

On the plane trip over I re-read I Dare by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. I started reading Liaden Universe novels near the end with Plan B which review is in our stack of review stuff. And after that, I had to find, and read, everything I could find by Lee and Miller. No, not even close to "hard SF", but wonderfully written and what Anne McCaffrey calls "Comfort SF". These are books that even the jaded will most likely want to read and re-read. Their latest is A Liaden Companion available from SRM Publishing and is a compilation of the first ten or so of the Liaden Universe short stories that have appeared here and there. The trade paperback is about $15.00 plus shipping, and is available now. Go to www.korval.com and get yourself a copy.

I also just picked up a remaindered copy of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The Retrieval Artist and Other Stories. "The Retrieval Artist" first appeared in Analog several years ago, and brought Ms. Rusch more to the forefront of my attention. I'd known who she was, but... What I'd read didn't appeal to much to me. I loved "The Retrieval Artist" and also her new series of novels set in that self-same universe. Great fun.

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