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[boxofdelights]

Small Beer Press is having a sale until Monday: http://smallbeerpress.com/shopping/remainders/#

Authors get full royalties. I bought

The River Bank Kij Johnson
The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz John Crowley
The Winged Histories Sofia Samatar
Emma Tupper’s Diary Peter Dickinson
Horse of a Different Color Howard Waldrop
Spider in a Tree Susan Stinson

I also sent books to the nieces. Nixie went to their house for Thanksgiving, and told me Younger Niece is very interested in physics, so I sent her Randall Munroe's What If?, with a note that I hoped she would enjoy this book of applied science. I picked Max Gladstone's Three Parts Dead for Elder Niece. I hate having to wait until after Christmas to find out what they thought of them.

For Mungo's birthday I gave him

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, by Christian and Griffiths
Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz
The Complete Roderick, by John Sladek

Comments

[ljgeoff]

How old is the niece who likes physics? I liked Warped Passages by Dr. Lisa Randall. But it's old, so maybe it's not as relevant? Review is here. Which, ooh, let me to Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space -- didn't know about! Yuummm.