I’m in the habit of posting reviews for all the books I read, having done it all throughout 2005, so I’m posting this one too, which I posted over at Allconsuming.net, even though it goes against the principle of saying nothing at all if you have nothing to say. But if it saves time for someone for whom this book is not really worthwhile, it’ll be worth. Not a diss on Pickover, by the way: as you can see from his site, the guy’s published a lot, and I’m sure he’s made a tidy profit doing so. But his prose …

Stephanie Denise Brown has a worthwhile story up at Reflection’s Edge called “Separated”.

So finally, after weeks of being busy with other things, I’ve finished reading Bruce Sterling’s most recent collection of short fiction, titled Visionary in Residence (after the position he served at a Design College during the year when he wrote some of the more recent of these stories, not, as one of his critics at Amazon implies, after his sense of his own genius). If you read the reviews at Amazon, you see that they’re kind of mixed. As for my opinion, I’ll say this: I have been busy, but I also put the book down a couple of times …