Meeting Karen Memery
Feb. 16th, 2015 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylA new friend arrived in the post today and my initial impressions are that they're every bit as smart on the inside as on the outside:
For the curious — and because I'm one of those people who's obsessively interested in bookshelves in the backgrounds of photos — the barely visible books on the shelves are, from l-to-r on the upper shelf: Bear's Range of Ghosts, Shattered Pillars, and Steles of Sky; Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End; Ken Macleod's Night Sessions, Cosmonaut Keep, Dark Light, and Engine City; William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties; and, squeezing off to the right, China Miéville's The Scar.
The lower shelf contains: Peter F Hamilton's The Dreaming Void, The Temporal Void and the Evolutionary Void, with PFH's first two Commonwealth novels hidden by the desk on the left; these are followed by Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns, Terminal World, and, on the very edge of the frame, Blue Remembered Earth.
And in case anyone doubts my commitment to load-testing the building's joists, I ought to point out that the shelves are actually stacked two layers deep and the books in the photo are only the facade...
For the curious — and because I'm one of those people who's obsessively interested in bookshelves in the backgrounds of photos — the barely visible books on the shelves are, from l-to-r on the upper shelf: Bear's Range of Ghosts, Shattered Pillars, and Steles of Sky; Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End; Ken Macleod's Night Sessions, Cosmonaut Keep, Dark Light, and Engine City; William Gibson's All Tomorrow's Parties; and, squeezing off to the right, China Miéville's The Scar.
The lower shelf contains: Peter F Hamilton's The Dreaming Void, The Temporal Void and the Evolutionary Void, with PFH's first two Commonwealth novels hidden by the desk on the left; these are followed by Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns, Terminal World, and, on the very edge of the frame, Blue Remembered Earth.
And in case anyone doubts my commitment to load-testing the building's joists, I ought to point out that the shelves are actually stacked two layers deep and the books in the photo are only the facade...
