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People who didn't attend are allowed to read these too :)

From the "rant for five minutes on your favorite book" panel. I've definitely forgotten some, tell me in the comments and I'll add them. It's worth keeping in mind that someone loves each of these books, and just becuase I didn't doesn't mean you won't.

• A fire upon the deep Bubbles with ideas.
  
• The Vorkosigan saga Possibly my favourite series in the whole world
  
• Kil'n People I normally find David Brin annoying but this was heaps of fun.
  
• Lord of Light Really interesting
  
• Guns Germs and Steel (also Collapse) Changed the way I think about the world, worth slogging through the sometimes dense text.
  
• Bridge of Birds These are good but a little twee.
  
• First two Damiano books Personally I prefer "Tea with the black dragon". Just saying :)
  
• Use of Weapons Opinions vary on whether this is one of the better or worse "Culture" books, personally I prefer "Excession", "Consider Phlebas" and "Player of Games".
  
• Vurt I didn't like this book all that much but I'm not big on low-science psychedelic cyberpunk
  
• The Borribles
  
• Ex Machina
  
• The Princess Diaries
  
• Fables
  
• Nylon Angel
  
• Short fiction of Ted Chiang
  
• Honor Harrington
  
• The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse
  
• Bimbos of the death sun
  
• Freedom and Necessity
  
• Echoes of the Fourth Magic
  
• Agent of Change
  
• Altered Carbon
  

Also, Atomic rocket.com (seems to be down, possibly wrong url) from the science panel, and on the off chance Kylie Ding reads this, Sierpinski crochet, googling finds better examples, unfortunately I can't remember where I got the pattern.

Comments

[justadecoy.livejournal.com]

Others on the list I was writing:

"A Fire Upon the Deep" Vernor Vinge
"Guns, Germs and Steel" & "Collapse" Jarrod Diamond
"Crash Deluxe" Marianne De Pierres
"Fables" A Graphic Novel
"Ex Machina" Another GN (Transit worker becomes superhero)
"Lords of Light and Magic" Roger Zelazny
(which I can't find in a searchable list of his work so I'm not sure about)
"Kil'n People" David Brin
"Zombies of the Gene Pool" "Bimbos of the Death Sun" Sharyn Mccrumb

Something I wrote down as Barry Hewitt "Lee Chao"

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure about "Lords of Light an Magic", might it be Lord of Light (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light/)?

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Yep, that was it.

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Not sure what that last one is, but have added the others.

[pedanther]

Barry Hughart's Li Kao series, which begins with 'Bridge of Birds'.

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Ah, good to know I didn't miss one :)