ASYLUM

* books

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• Perdido Street Station — China Miéville   5 out of 5

• Quicksilver — Neal Stephenson   3 out of 5

• Use of Weapons (rr) — Iain M. Banks   5 out of 5

• The Diamond Age (rr) — Neal Stephenson   5 out of 5

• Hey Nostradamus! — Douglas Coupland   4 out of 5

• Middlesex — Jeffrey Eugenides   5 out of 5

• Dead Air — Iain Banks   3½ out of 5

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen — Alan Moore   4 out of 5

• The Atrocity Archives — Charlie Stross   4 out of 5

• My Tokyo Death Cult — Marc Horne   3 out of 5

• Misspent Youth — Peter F. Hamilton   3½ out of 5

• V for Vendetta — Alan Moore & David Lloyd   4 out of 5

• Pattern Recognition — William Gibson   4½ out of 5

• The Confusion — Neal Stephenson   3 out of 5

• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 — Hunter S Thompson   3½ out of 5

• Gloomcookie — Serena Valentino & Ted Naifeh   3½ out of 5

• Gravity's Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon   3 out of 5

• In The Shadow Of No Towers — Art Spiegelmann   3½ out of 5

• Oryx & Crake — Margaret Atwood   3 out of 5

• The Algebraist — Iain M. Banks   4 out of 5

• Apes of Wrath — Steve Bell   2 out of 5

• Maus — Art Spiegelmann   4 out of 5

• Everything Can Be Beaten — Scolex & Scrambly   3½ out of 5

• Northern Lights — Philip Pullman   4 out of 5

• The Subtle Knife — Philip Pullman   3½ out of 5

• The Amber Spyglass — Philip Pullman   4½ out of 5

• Best New SF 17 — Gardner Dozois (ed.)   3½ out of 5

• Singularity Sky — Charlie Stross   4½ out of 5

• Best New Horror 15 — Stephen Jones (ed.)   3 out of 5

• Iron Sunrise — Charlie Stross   4½ out of 5

• The Witches of Chiswick — Robert Rankin   2½ out of 5

• Eleanor Rigby — Douglas Coupland   4 out of 5

• Pandora's Star — Peter F. Hamilton   4 out of 5

• Accelerando — Charlie Stross   5 out of 5

• Tobermory & other stories — Saki   2 out of 5

• Stranger Things — Kelly Link   3 out of 5

• The Men Who Stare At Goats — Jon Ronson   3½ out of 5

• Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town — Cory Doctorow   3½ out of 5

• 20th Century Science Fiction — David Hartwell (ed.)   3½ out of 5

• Freakonomics — Levitt & Dubner   3½ out of 5

• Zeitgeist (rr) — Bruce Sterling   4 out of 5

• A Theory of Fun — Ralph Koster   3½ out of 5

• System of the World — Neal Stephenson   4 out of 5

• The Family Trade — Charlie Stross   4 out of 5

• House of Leaves — Mark Z Danielewski   3½ out of 5

• Neverwhere — Neil Gaiman   4 out of 5

• Cat's Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut   3½ out of 5

• Anansi Boys — Neil Gaiman   4 out of 5

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke   4 out of 5

• Transmetropolitan — Warren Ellis   4 out of 5

• The Forever War — Joe Haldeman   3½ out of 5

• Pixel Juice (rr) — Jeff Noon   4½ out of 5

• Guns, Germs & Steel — Jared Diamond   2½ out of 5

• The Hidden Family — Charlie Stross   4 out of 5

• Memoirs of a Spymaster — Markus 'Mischa' Wolf   2½ out of 5

• Geek Mafia — Rick Dakan   3½ out of 5

• Glasshouse — Charlie Stross   4 out of 5

• The Crow Road (rr) — Iain Banks   4½ out of 5

• Distraction (rr) — Bruce Sterling   4 out of 5

• Best New SF 19 — Gardner Dozois (ed.)   4 out of 5

• The Portable Door — Tom Holt   3½ out of 5

• Missile Gap — Charlie Stross   3½ out of 5

• The Shockwave Rider — John Brunner   3½ out of 5

• The Man in the High Castle — Philip K Dick   4 out of 5

• My Uncle Oswald — Roald Dahl   2½ out of 5

• Revelation Space — Alastair Reynolds   4 out of 5

• Redemption Ark — Alastair Reynolds   4 out of 5

• Absolution Gap — Alastair Reynolds   3 out of 5

• Foucault's Pendulum — Umberto Eco   2 out of 5

• The Clan Corporate — Charlie Stross   3 out of 5

• Spook Country — William Gibson   4 out of 5

• Life During Wartime — Lucius Shepard   4 out of 5

• Fragile Things — Neil Gaiman   3 out of 5

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2) — Alan Moore   4 out of 5

• Tricks of the Mind — Derren Brown   3½ out of 5

• The Time-Traveller's Wife — Audrey Niffenegger   4½ out of 5

• Best New SF 20 — Gardner Dozois (ed.)   4 out of 5

• Rainbows End — Vernor Vinge   4 out of 5

• The Jennifer Morgue — Charlie Stross   4 out of 5

• Preacher #1 — Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon   4 out of 5

• Between Silk & Cyanide — Leo Marks   4 out of 5

• Little Brother — Cory Doctorow   3½ out of 5

• Sputnik Sweetheart — Haruki Murakami   4 out of 5

• The Somnambulist — Jonathan Barnes   4 out of 5