Finncon

I spent the day at Finncon/Animecon 2008. There were loads of people there! I met chirel, sammaltassu, elfbiter, Kemppu, vierran45 (she was wearing a name tag, so recognizing her wasn't too difficult ;-)) and also bumped into an ex-workmate I haven't seen in a while. Amazingly enough, I bought only one book. The book in question: Valo (Light) by M. John Harrison (he's one of the Guests of Honor this year). He was signing books just when I was at the book booth, so of course I took the opportunity and joined the queue to get my book signed. :-)

38. Joe Haldeman: Star Trek Adventures - World Without End

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On a routine mission, the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a large magnetic field. On closer examination, it is discovered to be an artificial planetoid, one of three generation ships lost for over 250 years. Having been in flight for 3000 years, it now contains over one million individuals.

I don't know what to say about this one. The book was better than I expected. Reading it was like watching an episode of the tv series.

39. Jim Butcher: White Night
Permanent collection. The Dresden Files, Book 9.
Someone is targeting Chicago's magic practitioners, the members of the supernatural underclass who don't possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes - a message for Harry Dresden.

I haven't grown tired of this series. Far from it. As long as Butcher keeps writing them, I'll keep reading them. :-)

40. Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan: Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
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Nanny Ogg, one of Discworld's most famous witches, is passing on some of her huge collection of tasty and above all interesting recipes, since everyone else is doing it. But in addition to the delights of the Strawberry Wobbler and Nobby's Mum's Distressed Pudding, Mrs Ogg imparts her thoughts on life, death, etiquette ('If you go to other people's funerals they'll be sure to come to yours'), courtship, children and weddings, all in a refined style that should not offend the most delicate of sensibilities. Well, not much.

Well, the book had a couple of jokes that made me laugh, but real Discworld novels are much better than these "spin-off books".