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				Hard Duty by Mark E Cooper. 
 
Book 1 of The Merkiaari Wars Series.
  
Seems a decent bit of hard SF.    
			
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 Kindle version is free on Amazon at the moment - just downloaded it.
  
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			24-06-2014, 16:12
			
			
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				Kindle version is free on Amazon at the moment - just downloaded it. 
 
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			27-06-2014, 21:11
			
			
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			I've just started John Green's The fault in our stars. (I thinkt he film has just been released) It's a bit of emotional story though!
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			28-06-2014, 19:08
			
			
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			Liber Baptizatorum in Ecclesia Sancti Francisci apud Plowden, Ab anno 1826 ad anno 1837... 
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			02-07-2014, 22:56
			
			
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			Haunted from Without, Ian Irvine.  Absolutely outstanding.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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			05-07-2014, 06:07
			
			
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			The World is my Lobster, George Cole autobiography, don't normally bother with such books but I like him and his book is a gentle read.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
		
		
		
		
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			21-07-2014, 21:09
			
			
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			Been on holiday for a couple of weeks, so re-read a couple of books series. 
 
Old Man's War - John Scalzi, then The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, Zoe's Tale, and The Human Division. 
 
The Atrocity Archives - Charlie Stross, then The Jennifer Morgue, The Fuller Memorandum, The Apocalypse Codex, and The Rhesus Chart. 
 
Various others including  
Labyrinth of Night - Allen Steele 
Trial By Fire & Fire With Fire - Charles E. Gannon 
Nebula Award Showcase 2014 - ed. Kij Johnson 
Islands of Rage and Hope - John Ringo 
Robot Uprisings - ed. Daniel H. Wilson & John Joseph Adams 
Abaddon's Gate - John S.A. Corey 
Black Man - Richard Morgan 
 
Currently reading/about to read 
Rogues - ed. George RR Martin & Gardner Dozois 
Shipstar - Larry Niven & Gregory Benford 
Long Mars - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter 
Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig 
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			29-07-2014, 22:20
			
			
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			Mr Mercedes by King. Enthralling, the first book that I have ever been able to stomach thats written in present tense (mostly). 
 
Hoping to have a bit of a Stephen King summer, got these lined up for a re-read: 
 
Hearts in Atlantis 
Rose Madder 
The Talisman 
Black House 
Salem's Lot 
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			Just read 
American Gun - Chris Kyle 
American Sniper - Chris Kyle 
Personal - Lee Child 
Marsbound/Starbound/Earthbound (trilogy) - Joe Haldeman 
Unlocked - John Scalzi 
 
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			11-09-2014, 17:28
			
			
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			Pines by Blake Crouch. Awesome book and about to be made in to a TV series.  Kind of a mix of Lost and Prison Break but set in a small town.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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			Bob Mayer -  Area 51 Trilogy. 
  
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