Bantam Books

Book Reviews

• *Always Coming Home (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  - fictional ethnography: stories and poetry from a far-future California
• The Difference Engine (William Gibson, Bruce Sterling)
  - a steam-driven information age in 19th century Britain
• Eaters of the Dead (Michael Crichton)
  - the Beowulf story from the perspective of an Arab traveler
• Flicker (Theodore Roszak)
• Grass (Sheri S. Tepper)
  - ecological science fiction
• The Making of Memory (Steven Rose)
  From Molecules to Mind
• *Mind and Nature (Gregory Bateson)
  A Necessary Unity
• Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
  - a fast-paced near-future cyberpunk thriller
• Trick or Treatment? (Simon Singh, Edzard Ernst)
  Alternative Medicine on Trial
• Use of Weapons (Iain M. Banks)