The Light Fantastic
★★★★☆
The second book of the discworld series picks up where the last one left off, and concludes the story of the intrepid tourist Twoflower and his companion, the inept magician Rincewind
The Running Man
★★★★☆
In a bleak dystopian world, a desperate man enters a reality-TV contest to stay alive while being pursued by killers
Anxious People
★★★★☆
An unreliable narrator talks of an inept bank robber who first fails to rob a bank, then takes hostages at a real-estate viewing, and finally disappears, without a trace
In Ascension
★★☆☆☆
A Dutch marine biologist is part of a team which investigates a new undersea formation, and the findings tie in with a space mission
The City & the City
★★★★★
Police have to solve a crime in the city-state of Beszel, a bizarre place which shares streets and neighbourhoods with the equally bizarre city state of Ul Qoma
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
★★★★☆
Describes the first steps taken by humanity to explore space, and assesses the future before us as we step out into our system and beyond
The Time Traveller's Wife
★★★★☆
Henry has a rare condition which causes him to randomly jump in time, to various places in either the past or future