books from Daedalus

Actually picked up a few books to go along with music CDs here from Daedalus recently, and I actually have them cataloged too:

• Barrett, Andrea SERVANTS OF THE MAP, Norton, 2nd, (beautiful stories about the wonder and work of science), as new in dj 3.00
• Clarke, Susanna JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL, Bloomsbury '04, 1st US edn, (combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece of the genre that rivals Tolkien; 782 pages), as new in dj 6.00
• Forster, E.M. THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS and Other Stories, snowbooks, nd, ("A Collector's Edition -- Includes the First Short Story E.M. Forster Ever Wrote"), as new in dj 5.00
• Ghosh, Amitav THE HUNGRY TIDE, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd, (a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth--the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans--off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal; a prophetic novel of remarkable insight, beauty, and humanity), as new in dj 5.00
• Lethem, Jonathan AS SHE CLIMBED ACROSS THE TABLE, Faber and Faber '01, 1st UK, (anthropologist loses particle physicist to black hole; a fluent, fascinating, and enjoyable read), as new 4.00
• Lethem, Jonathan MEN AND CARTOONS: Stories, Doubleday, 2nd, (sparkling with off-beat humor and subtle insights), as new in dj 5.00
• Lethem, Jonathan THE WALL OF THE SKY, THE WALL OF THE EYE, Faber and Faber '02, 1st UK, (stories that blur the boundaries of sci-fi, mystery, and thriller; each tale features author's characteristic deadpan wit and unflinchingly macabre vision of life; can and should be enjoyed by mainstream fiction readers as well as SF fans), as new 4.00
• Lethem, Jonathan & Carter Scholz KAFKA AMERICANA, Norton '01, 1st pb, (first published by Subterranean; takes Modernism's presiding genius for a literary joyride; portrays an absurd, ominous world that K might have invented but could never have survived), as new 3.00