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Boing Boing's Holiday Gift Guide part two: Fiction

Here's part two of my Boing Boing Holiday Gift Guide -- wherein I list the bestselling items that have been reviewed here in the past twelve months. Today, it's fiction. Don't miss yesterday's Kids' stuff and stuff about kids post, too! (Note that some of these titles appeared on yesterday's kids' list -- I wasn't sure how to handle cross-referencing for items that qualified for more than one list, so I just duplicated them for people who wanted to dive straight into the fiction list -- say -- rather than picking through the kids' list too) Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly) Post-Cyberpunk Anthology shows how sf has changed since the Mirroshades era Original Boing Boing post Halting State (Charles Stross) Halting State: Heist novel about an MMORPG Original Boing Boing post Interface (Neal Stephenson) Neal Stephenson's underappreciated masterpiece Original Boing Boing post Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (John Joseph Adams) Anthology of apocalyptic fiction Original Boing Boing post Futures from Nature (Henry Gee) 100 short-short sf stories from Nature Magazine Original Boing Boing post The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continent (James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow) A chance to read sf from outside of the Anglo Bubble Original Boing Boing post Little Brother (Cory Doctorow) My bestselling young adult novel about kids who hack for freedom Original Boing Boing post The Starry Rift (Jonathan Strahan) Science fiction anthology for teens Original Boing Boing post Steampunk (Ann and Jeff VanderMeer) Steampunk: the anthology Original Boing Boing post Distraction (Bruce Sterling) Bruce Sterling's visionary novel Distraction: still brilliant a decade later Original Boing Boing post The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (Michael Chabon) Wonderful blend of hard-boiled and Yiddish ironies Original Boing Boing post Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now (Cory Doctorow) A six-edition series of comics adapted from my short stories by an incredibly talented crew of writers, artists, inkers and letterers Original Boing Boing post Goodnight Bush: A Parody (Gan Golan, Erich Origen) A Goodnight Moon satire for the electoral season Original Boing Boing post Saturn's Children (Charles Stross) Stross's robopervy tribute to the late late Heinlein Original Boing Boing post Crooked Little Vein: A Novel (Warren Ellis) Comic net-perv novel that would make Goatse blush Original Boing Boing post Random Acts of Senseless Violence (Jack Womack) Unflinching, engrossing, difficult coming-of-age story Original Boing Boing post Boy Proof (Cecil Castellucci) A compassionate young adult novel about a weird, smart, angry girl Original Boing Boing post Cycler (Lauren McLaughlin) Smart YA novel about sex and sexuality Original Boing Boing post Anathem (Neal Stephenson) A great story, set in an alternative reality where people take long-term thinking seriously Original Boing Boing post The Armageddon Rag (George R.R. Martin) Sex, death, blood and rock-n-roll Original Boing Boing post How to Ditch Your Fairy (Justine Larbalestier) Hilarious kids book about the problems with fairies Original Boing Boing post Nation (Terry Pratchett) Moving and sweet young adult novel about science, superstition and decency Original Boing Boing post The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman) Spooky, magical retelling of The Jungle Book in a graveyard Original Boing Boing post The Forever War (Joe Haldeman) Classic anti-war sf novel to be a Ridley Scott film! Original Boing Boing post Zoe's Tale (John Scalzi) Scalzi's smart-ass young-adult sf thriller Original Boing Boing post Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America (Brian Francis Slattery) A magical road-novel about America in collapse, Bradbury meets Kerouac Original Boing Boing post...

Terry Pratchett in plea for Alzheimer's cash

THE novelist Terry Pratchett visited Downing Street yesterday to warn the government the UK faces a "tsunami of Alzheimer's" disease unless research funding is inc

Terry Pratchett speaks out against Alzheimer's 'witchcraft'

Terry Pratchett urged more open discussion of Alzheimer's to break the "superstition and witchcraft" surrounding the disease as he presented a petition calling for more research funding to the Prime Minister.

Boing Boing's Holiday Gift Guide part one: Kids

Well, it's coming up to the holidays and I've started to make my list and fill it in. As a starting point, I went through all the books and DVDs and gadgets I'd reviewed on Boing Boing since last November and looked at what had been the best-sellers among BB's readership, figuring you folks have pretty good taste! As I was taking a walk down old review lane, I realized that many of you would probably be interested in seeing these lists too, so I've turned them into a series of blog-posts that I'll be sticking up, one per day, for the next week or so. Today I'm starting with kids' media and media about kids and child-rearing. Later this week, I'll do fiction, nonfiction, comics and graphic novels, CDs and DVDs and gadgets and everything else, one a day. Hope this helps you with your holiday shopping as much as it's helped me with mine! Baby's First Mythos (C.J. Henderson) Cthluhoid picture book Original Boing Boing post Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznik) Award-winning steampunk graphic novel for kids Original Boing Boing post Good as Lily (Derek Kirk Kim) Ass-kicking girl-positive graphic novel for young readers Original Boing Boing post The Plain Janes (Cecil Castellucci, Jim Rugg) Funny, spirited little story about a gang of girls named Jane at a strait-laced high-school, rejected by the mainstream, and their art adventures. Original Boing Boing post Little Brother (Cory Doctorow) My bestselling young adult novel about kids who hack for freedom Original Boing Boing post The Starry Rift (Jonathan Strahan) Science fiction anthology for teens Original Boing Boing post St. Trinian's: The Entire Appalling Business (Ronald Searle) Ronald Searle's original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian's comics Original Boing Boing post The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need (Daniel H. Pink) Optimistic and iconoclastic career guide in manga form Original Boing Boing post Alice in Wonderland Tattoos Alice in Wonderland temporary tatts Original Boing Boing post Freakazoid - The Complete First Season The best TV cartoon since the Max Fleischer era, on DVD Original Boing Boing post Boy Proof (Cecil Castellucci) A compassionate young adult novel about a weird, smart, angry girl Original Boing Boing post Cycler (Lauren McLaughlin) Smart YA novel about sex and sexuality Original Boing Boing post My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us (Jessica Mills) Kick-ass punk-parenting book Original Boing Boing post How to Ditch Your Fairy (Justine Larbalestier) Hilarious kids book about the problems with fairies Original Boing Boing post Nation (Terry Pratchett) Moving and sweet young adult novel about science, superstition and decency Original Boing Boing post ABC3D (Marion Bataille) The best pop-up book in the world Original Boing Boing post The Baby Sleep Solution: A Proven Program to Teach Your Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours a Night (Suzy Giordano) The best parenting book I've read Original Boing Boing post How Children Learn (John Holt) Cllassic of human, kid-centered learning Original Boing Boing post The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman) Spooky, magical retelling of The Jungle Book in a graveyard Original Boing Boing post How Children Fail (John Holt) Angry lessons from failures to teach Original Boing Boing post 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: A Pop-Up Book (Sam Ita) The paper kraken wakes Original Boing Boing post Alphabutt (Kimya Dawson) Weird, jangly, hilarious awesome music for kids Original Boing Boing post Zoe's Tale (John Scalzi) Scalzi's smart-ass young-adult sf thriller Original Boing Boing post Free to Be...You and Me (The 35th Anniversary Edition, Hardcover) (Marlo Thomas and Friends) The book every kid needs Original Boing Boing post...

Author heading dementia campaign

Author Terry Pratchett will hand a petition to 10 Downing Street calling for an urgent increase in funding into dementia research.

Terry Pratchett to deliver dementia petition to No 10

Bestselling author Terry Pratchett is due to deliver a petition to Downing Street calling on the government to confront the "worldwide tsunami" of dementia.

BBC to chronicle Pratchett's battle

THE author Terry Pratchett's personal journey after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease last December is to be charted in a two-part BBC documentary.

Pratchett Talks Nation, Illness

Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Nation, deals with the island survivors of a tsunami, but the first pieces of the story came to him about six months before the 2004 tsunami devastated several Asian countries.