Some random book reviews

Once in awhile I'm inspired to write up a book I've just read for .alt.books.reviews or rec.arts.books.reviews or rec.arts.sf.reviews or whatever. Here are a few.

• Tom Standage, "The Victorian Internet"
• Lynne S. Schwartz, "Ruined by Reading"
• Richard Dawkins, "River Out of Eden"
• Mark Helprin, "Ellis Island and other stories"
• Shapard & Thomas (ed), "Sudden Fiction (Continued)"
• Shapard & Thomas (ed), "Sudden Fiction"
• Susie Bright, "Sexwise"
• Wright, "Islandia"
• Gilbar (ed), "Reading in Bed"
• Tan, "The Kitchen God's Wife"
• Egan, "Permutation City"
• Dargahi and Bremer, "SimCity 2000: Power, Politics, and Planning"
• Proulx, "Heart Songs" and "The Shipping News"
• Hapgood, "Up the Infinite Corridor" (about MIT)
• Nabokov, "Despair"
• O'Rourke, "Give War a Chance"
• Calvino, "Invisible Cities"
• Le Guin, "Orsinian Tales"
• Shapard & Thomas (ed), "Sudden Fiction International"
• Markham, "West with the Night"
• Sterling, "Globalhead"
• Kawabata, "House of the Sleeping Beauties"
• Bradbury, "The Toynbee Convector" (Turner Edition)
• Effinger, "When Gravity Fails"
• Stephenson, "Snow Crash"
• Harrison & Minsky, "The Turing Option"
• Williams, "Aristoi"
• Sterling, "Crystal Express"
• Lovejoy, "Black Sky"

 "Now for heaven's sake, behave like a civilized person,
           or I'll fling you over the balcony!"
             -- Sterling, the Artificial Kid