Books.

Finished: _Dragon and Slave_, Timothy Zahn. Book three in an open-ended series about a boy and his magic dragon tattoo. Still reasonably good, as Zahn is telling a complete story in each volume, while leaving a cookie-crumb-trail that will presumably pay off in the last volume.

One of the Big Questions at Boskone was "what books are good for introducing people to SF?" The YA market is full of decent answers to this question, although it does tend to turn off some adults. (Still, my sister-in-law went smoothly from mainstream to _Cryptonomicon_ to _Snow Crash_, so there's hope for everyone.)

Books.

Finished: _Dragon and Slave_, Timothy Zahn. Book three in an open-ended series about a boy and his magic dragon tattoo. Still reasonably good, as Zahn is telling a complete story in each volume, while leaving a cookie-crumb-trail that will presumably pay off in the last volume.

One of the Big Questions at Boskone was "what books are good for introducing people to SF?" The YA market is full of decent answers to this question, although it does tend to turn off some adults. (Still, my sister-in-law went smoothly from mainstream to _Cryptonomicon_ to _Snow Crash_, so there's hope for everyone.)

Books.

Finished: _Invincible: Eight is Enough_ and _Tech Jacket_ by Robert Kirkman. More good tales of Invincible (Elizabear liked the first volume, too) and what appears to be the complete run of _Tech Jacket_, the story of an alien cyborg symbiont and its pet teen human. (Not really, but close enough.) Sample monologue: "Stupid Geldarians. I wouldn't even BE looking for my parents if they hadn't needed me to save their entire stupid civilization." I will continue to look for Kirkman.

Books.

Finished: _Invincible: Eight is Enough_ and _Tech Jacket_ by Robert Kirkman. More good tales of Invincible (Elizabear liked the first volume, too) and what appears to be the complete run of _Tech Jacket_, the story of an alien cyborg symbiont and its pet teen human. (Not really, but close enough.) Sample monologue: "Stupid Geldarians. I wouldn't even BE looking for my parents if they hadn't needed me to save their entire stupid civilization." I will continue to look for Kirkman.