Books Ron Read in 2002


Comments on the Year 2002

I read more books in 2002 than in 2000, but not many (if any) more than in 2001; although I was either home writing or technically unemployed most of the year, I had a temporary full-time job from roughly May through August. I hope to write more comments on individual books soon.


A year in (parentheses) is the book's publication date; a date in [brackets] is the date I finished the book.

The Books

  1. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling (2000) ... [14 Jan]

  2. Avram Davidson, The Kar-Chee Reign (1966) ... [21 Jan]

  3. Gao Yuan, Lure the Tiger Out of the Mountains (1991) ... [17 Feb]

  4. Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game (1978) ... [20 Feb]

  5. Dylan Horrocks, Hicksville (1998) ... Graphic novel. [25 Feb]

  6. Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951) ... Reread. [15 Mar]

  7. Donald Kingsbury, Psychohistorical Crisis (2001) ... [25 Mar]

  8. Stephen Leacock, Nonsense Novels (1911) ... Project Gutenberg etext. [26 Mar]

  9. Greg Egan, Schild's Ladder (2001) ... [31 Mar]

  10. Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) ... Reread. [1 Apr]

  11. Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (1999) ... [19 Apr]

  12. Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic (1983) ... [21 Apr]

  13. Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997) ... [7 May]

  14. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (c. 1889) ... Project Gutenberg etext, read aloud to my wife Marty. [14 May]

  15. Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software (2002) ... Free (as in freedom!) etext. [16 May]

  16. Donald Antrim, The Hundred Brothers (1997) ... [21 May]

  17. Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step (1991) ... [30 May]

  18. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel (1914) ... Project Gutenberg etext, read aloud to my wife Marty. [11 Jun]

  19. Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) ... Reread. [22 Jun]

  20. Robert Graves, I, Claudius (1934) ... Read aloud to my wife Marty. [24 Jun]

  21. Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines (1987) ... [4 Jul]

  22. Barrington Bayley, The Sinners of Erspia (2002) ... [10 Jul]

  23. Arthur C. Clarke, Imperial Earth (1976) ... Reread. [11 Jul]

  24. Charles L. Harness, The Venetian Court (1982) ... [12 Jul]

  25. Rudy Rucker, Spaceland (2002) ... [18 Jul?]

  26. Barrington Bayley, The Great Hydration (2002) ... [23 Jul]

  27. Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (1987) ... [26 Jul]

  28. Luke Rhinehart (George Cockcroft), The Dice Man (1971) ... [13 Aug]

  29. Colin Wilson, Frankenstein's Castle (1980) ... Etext. Reread. [17 Aug]

  30. Paul Levinson, The Silk Code (1999) ... [25 Aug]

  31. Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) ... [29 Aug]

  32. John M. Ford, The Dragon Waiting (1983) ... [17 Sep]

  33. John Crowley, AEgypt (1987) ... Reread. [4 Oct]

  34. Paul Levinson, The Consciousness Plague (2002) ... [11 Oct?]

  35. John Crowley, Love and Sleep (1994) ... Reread. [14 Oct]

  36. James P. Hogan, Voyage from Yesteryear (1982) ... [16 Oct]

  37. Randall Garrett, Lord Darcy (2002) ... Baen collection; mostly reread. [30 Oct]

  38. Michael Kurland, Ten Little Wizards (1988) ... The first of the two Lord Darcy novels not written by Randall Garrett. [1 Nov]

  39. Michael Kurland, A Study in Sorcery (1989) ... The second of the two Lord Darcy novels not written by Randall Garrett. [6 Nov]

  40. Barney Darryl Pell, Strategy Generation and Evaluation for Meta-Game Playing (1993) ... [6 Dec]

  41. John Crowley, Daemonomania (2000) ... [24 Dec]

  42. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Fry & Laurie Bit No. 4 (1995) ... [25 Dec]


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