First of all, a big thank you to David Moench at Tor Books, who helped to make my day yesterday by sending me galleys of Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin and Cory Doctorow’s Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. I’ve been stalled, not reading anything at book length for a little while, but last night I dove into the Doctorow novel and, so far, am enjoying it enormously.

Speaking of Cory, who you can see at his sartorial best here, I see from boing boing that he shares my love of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Pacific Edge (thanks to Niall for pointing this out). I first read the book when it came out back in 1990. It’s one of my ‘Desert Island Books’, so I’m constantly startled to discover people who didn’t like the novel or who find it dull. I thought it was completely engrossing, and had almost exactly the same reaction to it that Cory describes. Hmmmm. I wonder if Cory is going to write a story called “Pacific Edge” some day.