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Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2013: Bone and Jewel Creatures (Bear); Shattered Pillars (Bear)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2013: The Reformed Vampire Support Group (Jinks); The Prefect (Reynolds)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2013: The Hotel Under the Sand (Baker); The Rise of Ransom City (Gilman); Love Is Strange: A Paranormal Romance (Sterling)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2012: Saga (Vaughan and Staples)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2012: Iron Gray Sea (Anderson); Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Bujold); Swords of Waar (Long); The Siren Depths (Wells)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2012: Cast in Peril (Sagara); The Apocalypse Codex (Stross)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2012: "Mongoose", "Boojum" and "The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward" (Bear and Monette); A Star Shall Fall (Brennan); The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet (Mitchell); Victory of Eagles (Novik); Silently and Very Fast (Valente)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2012: The Bards of Bone Plain (McKillip); Switchblade Goddess (Snyder)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2012: Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues (Rowland)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2012: The Foundation Trilogy (Asimov, through the BBC); Fragment (Fahy); Fuzzy Nation (Scalzi); The God Engines (Scalzi); Iron Sunrise (Stross); Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas (Scalzi); The Tiger's Wife (Obreht)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2012: Gardens of the Sun (McAuley); Invincible (Campbell); Spots the Space Marine (Hogarth); Crossover (Shepherd)
In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2012: Jane Carver of Waar (Long); Leviathan Wakes (Corey); Fall from Earth (Johnson); Servant of the Underworld (De Bodard)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2012: The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea (Wells); Discount Armageddon (McGuire); The Kingdoms of Dust (Downum); Range of Ghosts (Bear); Zothique (Smith)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2012: Endurance (Lake); The Fourth Wall (Williams); Throne of the Crescent Moon (Ahmed); Tooth and Nail (Safrey)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2012: The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2011: The Bird of the River (Baker)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2011: The Desert of Souls (Jones); She Returns to the Floating World (Gailey)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2011: Behemoth and Goliath (Westerfeld); Cast in Ruin (Sagara); The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Nightmare (Keene and Mamatas); Firestorm (Anderson); Global Catastrophic Risks (Bostrom and Cirkovic [eds.])
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2011: The Ghost Brigades; The Last Colony; Zoe's Tale (Scalzi)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2011: The Dread Hammer (Shiels [i.e., Nagata]); Empire of Ivory (Novik); Falling Free (Bujold); The Fuller Memorandum (Stross); Luck of the Wheels (Lindholm)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2011: Cold Skin (Sanchez Pinol); Imaro (Saunders); My Life as a White Trash Zombie (Rowland)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2011: Beasts of Burden (Dorkin and Thompson); The Drowning City and The Bone Palace (Downum); Kitty Goes to War (Vaughn); The Missing (Langan); The Quiet Invasion (Zettel); Shards of Honor (Bujold); Shotgun Sorceress (Snyder)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2011: The Curse of Chalion (Bujold); A Devil in the Details (Stewart); The Drawing of the Three (King); Embers and Sparks (Bickle); The Gunslinger (King); The Hallowed Hunt (Bujold); Leviathan (Westerfeld); The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontiers: Dreadnaught (Campbell); The Paladin of Souls (Bujold)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2011: After the Golden Age (Vaughn); Becoming the Villainess (Gailey); The Bell at Sealey Head (McKillip); iZombie (Roberson and Allred); Two-Step (Ellis and Conner)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2011: American Vampire; Labyrinth (Richardson); Mysterius the Unfathomable (Parker and Fowler); Maybe This Time (Crusie); Song of Scarabaeus (Creasy)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2011: Deep State (Williams); The Red Wolf Conspiracy (Redick); Rising Tides (Anderson)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2011: The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (Pelevin); Secrets of the Demon (Rowland)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2010: Cast in Silence and Cast in Chaos (Sagara); Land of Mist and Snow (Doyle and McDonald); Mr. Shivers (Bennett); Silver Borne (Briggs)
"These seeming anchorages are themselves but floating seaweed"

Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2010: Cryboburn (Bujold); The Quiet War (McAuley)
The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2010: Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Priest); The Half-Made World (Gilman); In the Realm of Terror: Eight Haunting Tales (Blackwood); The Red Tree (Kiernan); The Sundial (Jackson)
Books to Read while the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2010: Chew
War Against the Bookmarks
Books to Read while the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2010: Pixu
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2010: Pathfinder (Reeves); Sauna
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2010: Shirley Jackson
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2010: The Dying Earth (Vance); The Objective; Quatermass and the Pit; Red Sands; Victorious (Campbell)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2010: Hexed; King City; Past Lies; Powers: Who Killed Retro Girl?; Powers: Roleplay (Bendis and Oeming); The Unknown (Waid and Oosterveer)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2010: Bite Me (Meconis); Blood of the Demon (Rowland); The Demon Breed (Schmitz); Kitty's House of Horrors (Vaughn); Red Claw (Palmer); Spellbent (Snyder)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2010: Dog Soldiers; The Last Winter
Books to Read While the Algae grow in your Fur, January 2010: Nation (Pratchett); New Amsterdam (Bear)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2009: Chew; Freakangels (Ellis and Duffield); The Language of Power (Kirstein); Mall of Cthulhu (Cooper); Skinwalker
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2009: Agatha Heterodynane and the: Golden Trilobite; Voice of the Castle; Chapel of Bones (Foglio and Foglio); The Untameables (Marinetti); Baltimore, or, the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire (Mignola and Golden); The Surgeon's Tale, and Other Stories (Rambo and VanderMeer)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2009: Bitter Angels (Anderson [i.e., Zettel]); Steerswoman's Road (Kirstin); The Lost Steersman (Kirstein); Vigilante (Reeve); Air: Flying Machine
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2009: Agatha Heterodyne and the: Circus of Dreams; Clockwork Princess (Foglio and Foglio); Locke and Key: Head Games; House of Mystery: Love Stories for Dead People; Vanished (Richardson)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2009: Air: Letters from Lost Countries (Wilson and Perker); The Harrowing (Sokoloff); Land of the Dead (Harlan); The Middleman; Shivers
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2009: Emissaries from the Dead (Troy-Castro); Fall of Cthulhu: Apocalypse; The Final Empire (Saunderson); Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty; The Keeper (Langan); Life Sucks; Mark of the Demon (Rowland); Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2009: Peacekeeper (Reeve); This Is Not a Game (Williams); Underground (Richardson)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2009: House of Mystery: Room and Boredom; Suburban Glamour (McKelvie); The Last Temptation and The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch (Gaiman and Zulli); Zombies Calling (Hicks); Blood Angel (Musk)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2009: Freakangels 2 (Ellis and Duffield); Relentless (Campbell); Mad Kestrel (Massey); Cast in Fury (Sagara)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2009: The Cipher and The Black Ship (Francis); Fall of Cthulhu: Godwar; Kitty Raises Hell (Vaughn); Bone Crossed (Briggs); Into the Storm, Crusade and Maelstrom (Anderson); Thunderer: A Novel of High Fantasy (Gilman)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2009: Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite; Proof: The Company of Men; The Walking Dead, book I; Exterminators: Bug Brothers Forever (Oliver and Moore); The Saga of the Swamp Thing, vol. 1 (Moore, Bissette and Totleben); Freakangels, vol. I (Ellis and Duffield); The Sharing Knife: Horizon (Bujold); Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (Vaughn)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2009: The Sharing Knife: Passage (Bujold); The Terror (Simmons); The Tomb, and Other Tales (Lovecraft)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2008: Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft (Hill and Rodriguez); The Claws Out (Lewis); The Fall of Cthulhu: The Gray Man; The First Law: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument of Kings (Abercrombie); Daughter of Hounds (Kiernan)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2008: Kitty and Silver Bullet (Vaughn); Spin State (Moriarty); The Moon Pool (Merritt); Aetheric Mechanics (Ellis and Pagliarani)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2008: Black Summer (Ellis and Ryp); Doktor Sleepless: Engines of Desire (Ellis and Rodriguez); Fall of Cthulhu: The Gathering; Exterminators: Insurgency, Lies of Our Fathers, Grossfire and Collateral (Oliver et al.); Crooked Little Vein (Ellis); The Sky People (Stirling)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2008: The House of the Stag (Baker); Ministry of Space (Ellis and Martin); The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies (Lynch)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2008: Cry Wolf (Briggs); Poltergeist (Richardson); Implied Spaces (Williams); Creatures of the Night (Gaiman and Zulli)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2008: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Brooks); Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (Snyder); Valiant (Campbell); Clubbing; Fall of Cthulhu: The Fugue; The Explosionist (Explosionist)
Short Story Sunday Reading
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2008: Newuniversal: Everything Went White (Ellis and Larroca); The Jennifer Morgue (Stross); Ex Machina : Tag, Fact vs. Fiction, March to War, Smoke Smoke, Power Down (Vaughan et al.)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2008: Exterminators: Bug Brothers (Oliver et al.); The Outback Stars (McDonald); Apparat: The Singles Collection (Ellis et al.); The Fabric of Sin (Rickman)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2008: Dauntless; Fearless; Courageous (Campbell)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2008: Cast in Secret (Sagara); Moon-Called (Briggs); Blood Bound (Briggs); Iron Kissed (Briggs); The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (Valente); Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days (Vaughan et al.); Cairo *Willow and Perker); Blackgas (Ellis and Fiumara)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2007: Alien; Making Money (Pratchett)
The Presentation of Self in Internet Life
Assorted Linkage: Halloween Edition
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, September 2007: Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Vaughn)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2007: The Authority 1: Relentless (Ellis et al.)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2007: The Sharing Knife: Legacy (Bujold); Old Man's War (Scalzi); Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Borges)
Genres Considered as a Horde of Semi-Cannibalistic Zombies
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2007: The Clan Corporate (Stross)
Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (Taxidea taxus)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2007: Ocean (Ellis, Sprouse and Story)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2007: Battlestar Galactica; Cast in Shadow and Cast in Courtlight (Sagara)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2007: The Briar King (Keyes); Gardens of the Moon (Erikson); The Invincible (Lem)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2007: The Remains of an Altar (Rickman)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2007: Solstice Wood (McKillip)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2006: The Ill-Made Mute (Dart-Thornton); To Ride a Rathorn (Hodgell)
On First Looking into Lem's Solaris
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2006: Fitzpatrick's War (Judson); The Sharing Knife: Beguilement (Bujold); Snake Agent (Williams); The Prestige (Priest); Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.: This Is What They Want (Ellis and Immonen); Shadows in the Darkness (Cunningham); Steal the Dragon and When Demons Walk (Briggs)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2006: Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury); Cycle of the Werewolf (King); The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky (Pratchett)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2006: Black Powder War (Novik)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2006: The Dark Tower (King)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2006: Declare (Powers); Throne of Jade (Novik)
Let Me Be Among the First to Welcome Our New Orbital Cybernetic Zombie Overlords!
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2006: His Majesty's Dragon; Learning the World: A Scientific Romance (MacLeod); The Smile of a Ghost (Rickman)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2006: Thud! (Pratchett); Raven's Shadow and Raven's Strike (Briggs)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2006: Od Magic (McKillip)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2005: Four Ways to Forgiveness (Le Guin); A Feast for Crows (Martin); The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Moore); A Princess of Roumania (Park)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2005: The Praxis, The Sundering and Conventions of War (Williams)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2005: In the Night Room (Straub); Marque and Reprisal (Moon)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2005: Trading in Danger (Moon)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, July 2005: The Last Days of the Edge of the World (Stableford); The Deed of Paksenarrion (Moon); Daughter of Exile and The Divided Crown (Glass); Gil's All Fright Diner (Martinez); The Family Trade (Stross)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, June 2005: Song of Susannah (King)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, May 2005: The Hallowed Hunt (Bujold); Code of Conduct (Smith); The Anvil of the World (Baker); Cosmonaut Keep, The Dark Light and Engine City (MacLeod); Mutagenesis (Collins)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, April 2005: Calculating God (Sawyer); The Buried Pyramid (Lindskold); The Black Grail (Broderick); Wolves of the Calla (King); Black House (King and Straub)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2005: Lost Boy Lost Girl (Straub); Crossfire (Kress)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2005: The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (Rickman); Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (Clarke)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, January 2005: Etched City (Bishop)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2004: Alphabet of Thorn (McKillip); The Vampire Tapestry (Charnas)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, November 2004: Threshold: A Novel of Deep Time (Kiernan)
Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, October 2004: The Atrocity Archives (Stross); Going Postal (Pratchett); Limekiller (Davidson)
Boldly Going Places Man Was Not Meant to Know
Pop Quiz
Assorted Reading
Today's snippets
Where Are They?
Fan-Boy Moment
Writing for Daylight
Chomsky and Zinn on The Fellowship of the Ring, or, "Can't you see the violence inherent in the subcreation?"

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January 01, 1991

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