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Saturday, December 25, 2010

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Patrick O'Brian, by Nikolai Tolstoy
Rule 34, by Charles Stross
The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park Codebreakers Helped Win the War, by Michael Smith
Damage Time, Colin Harvey
Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age, Mike Hally
Good Evening, Mrs Craven, Mollie Panter-Downes

Life is too short to read

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Cowboys & Aliens
Stop Making Sense
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Hugo
The Artist
The Guard
In the Loop
The Sentinel
Dean Spanley

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