Books 2011: upon the holidays
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hawkwing_lbBooks 2011: 119-123
119. Walter Jon Williams, This Is Not A Game.
A suspenseful thriller about ARGs. I'm not sure it's actually, technically SF, but it's brilliant.
120. Helen S. Wright, A Matter of Oaths.
A brilliant, inventive and well-written space opera, now out of print but available as an ebook from the author's website.
nonfiction
121. Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays. Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000. Translated by James Morwood, with an introduction by Edith Hall.
Comprising Hecuba, The Trojan Women, and Andromache. Of these Andromache was the most fun to read, but the translation is lucid and readable, the introduction and the notes reasonably comprehensive, and the tragic air full of appropriate gloom.
122. The Mabinogion. Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. Translated with an introduction and notes by Sioned Davies.
Shapeshifters! Witches! Giants! Hunting boar and knights who have a lot of resemblance to heroic warbands. An interesting piece of literature, and a readable translation.
123. Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History of Ethics. Routledge Classics, Routledge, Oxford, 2002. First published 1967.
A short history of European ethics, providing an interesting - though by no means comprehensive - overview of the development of "ethics" in philosophical thought from Plato and Aristotle through to the early 20th century. A valuable book, albeit one which made me want to write Ethics for Atheists.
119. Walter Jon Williams, This Is Not A Game.
A suspenseful thriller about ARGs. I'm not sure it's actually, technically SF, but it's brilliant.
120. Helen S. Wright, A Matter of Oaths.
A brilliant, inventive and well-written space opera, now out of print but available as an ebook from the author's website.
nonfiction
121. Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays. Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000. Translated by James Morwood, with an introduction by Edith Hall.
Comprising Hecuba, The Trojan Women, and Andromache. Of these Andromache was the most fun to read, but the translation is lucid and readable, the introduction and the notes reasonably comprehensive, and the tragic air full of appropriate gloom.
122. The Mabinogion. Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007. Translated with an introduction and notes by Sioned Davies.
Shapeshifters! Witches! Giants! Hunting boar and knights who have a lot of resemblance to heroic warbands. An interesting piece of literature, and a readable translation.
123. Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History of Ethics. Routledge Classics, Routledge, Oxford, 2002. First published 1967.
A short history of European ethics, providing an interesting - though by no means comprehensive - overview of the development of "ethics" in philosophical thought from Plato and Aristotle through to the early 20th century. A valuable book, albeit one which made me want to write Ethics for Atheists.
