OCTOBER 2009
19. Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
Incredibly comprehensive overview of games and game design: what they are, how they work, what they do. Synthesizes almost all important pre-existing writing on the topic (Huizinga, Caillois, Piaget, etc.). Monumental and essential.
SEPTEMBER 2009
None completed
AUGUST 2009
18. River of Gods by Ian McDonald
17. A Theory of Fun For Game Design by Raph Koster
JULY 2009
16. The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Thanks for the loan, Laura.
15. Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism by Pat Califia
Thanks for the loan, Angela.
14. Talk Dirty To Me: An Intimate Philosophy of Sex
Thanks for the loan, Angela.
JUNE 2009
13. The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler
12. Serenity Rose, Vol. 1: Working Through The Negativity by Aaron Alexovich
MAY 2009
None completed
APRIL 2009
11. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
10. The Order of Odd-Fish by James Kennedy
9. Blindness by Jose Saramago
One of the greatest novels of the last 20 years.
MARCH 2009
8. Virtual Light by William Gibson
FEBRUARY 2009
7. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwodd
6. Threads by Jill Magi
5. Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan
An intriguing work of SF. It's definitely grounded in the conventions of the blockbuster thriller-- there's some act of violence or sex in nearly every chapter, and it's a long book --but it's smarter than it looks, and Morgan emerges finally as an author who is deeply interested in the complex interplay of ideas about genetics, identity, and race.
4. Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson
My second read of this book (first being October 2007). Still prefer Gibson's earlier stuff for reasons that I may explain here at some point
JANUARY 2009
3. The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich
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2. Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E by Warren Ellis & co.
1. The Freddie Stories by Lynda Barry
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