Meathook Reality

I am back from a vacation-induced hiatus, and should resume some posting shortly. While the plan to complete Guns, Germs, and Steel and to re-read A Civil Action was waylayed by a crazy-active vacation, I should mention that I made it quite a ways through re-reading the excellent, if somewhat tedius Illium. Unless you are already a Simmons fan, you should go back and read the Hyperion Saga. It may also be worth waiting until the release of the next half of the sequence, Olympos