Toby's journal

So I read a book a couple of years ago that I liked, called "Soon I will be invincible!"

I just discovered that the author, prior to writing this novel, had been working on computer games, including some of my favourites:
* Ultima Underworld
* System Shock
* Thief
* Deus Ex

Who knew?

I've been reading the Hyperion Cantos books by Dan Simmons recently. Well, the first two so far. I thoroughly recommend reading Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. It's sci-fi, set far in the future, but it doesn't concentrate on the "science" aspect of sci-fi too much. If anything, the author has an obsession with John Keats' poetry, although other poets' work gets a look-in too.
Stylistically, it's a sort of gothic-horror-sci-fi combination.. it reminds me a little of Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy, only with a tighter story, wider scope, and more spirituality and poetry, and a hint of cyberpunk. Check it out!

I went into Borders to buy the second pair of books, but changed my mind when I discovered that the Endymon Omnibus was HUGE and was definitely not going to fit in my cargo pants' pocket. It's a large pocket, and if a book won't fit, it's something of a deal-breaker. I'll see if I can pick up the individual books in secondhand in paperback..

Anyway, so instead I bought Soon I will be INVINCIBLE, which looks to be quite fun. It's a light-hearted book about comic-book-style superheroes and supervillains. Rah. (And it's painful to note how much more expensive it was at Borders than Amazon.com, especially since the Aussie Peso is now about 1:1 with the USD.. Wow. It doesn't seem all that long ago that we were 2:1 to the USD, and 3:1 to the pound! How times change.)

Tonight is the last night in this posh hotel, then it's crashing at friend's place for a couple of nights, then moving into my own place, finally. I can't wait!