This Week's Acquisitions
- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra, 2000). Neo-Victorian meets steampunk meets Shanghai meets nanotech. (Lift Bridge)
- Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, eds., Steampunk (Tachyon, 2008). New anthology, although some of the stories are older. (Amazon [secondhand])
- John W. O'Malley, Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (Harvard, 2002). How did early modern Catholicism get its name(s)? (Amazon [secondhand])