Brian Aldiss, Cultural Breaks
R Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before
Daniel Clowes, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
L Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, The Compleat Enchanter
Samuel R Delany, Babel-17
Samuel R Delany, Dhalgren
Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium
Paul Kearney, The Way to Babylon
Paul Leonard, Doctor Who: Genocide
Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners
Frank Ludlow and
Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
Robert Silverberg, The World Inside
Clifford D Simak, City
E.E. “Doc” Smith, First Lensman
E.E. “Doc” Smith, Galactic Patrol
E.E. “Doc” Smith, Triplanetary
Norman Spinrad, The Druid King
James Tiptree Jr, Star Songs of an Old Primate
Books (Non-Fiction):
Andrew M Butler and
Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks, The Making of Doctor Who (first edition)
David Langford, Up Through An Empty House of Stars
David Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction
M.J. Simpson, Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams
Splitting Infinity (Worldcon souvenir book)
Magazines:
Albedo [One] #30
Foundation #94, Summer 2005
Locus #534, July 2005
Matrix #174, July/August 2005
Meta #2, August 2005
Mimosa #27, 2001
Vector #242, July/August 2005
Videos:
Doctor Who: The Chase
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Proper dust jacket for With Stars in My Eyes by Peter Weston
I have a very tolerant wife.
That the ‘-ing’ present progressive and ‘do’ constructions in English come from Celtic languages.
Some dialects of German also use the “do” constructions. I can still hear my best friend’s mother chivvying her to get ready for school: “Tust du dich anziehen?” “Ja, tu ich schon!”