2010 Media Input

Here’s the media I’ve digested in 2010.¹ I’ll save my commentary for the end of the post.

Books
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• The Data Book by Noguchi-san and Fumiyo Noguchi
• The God Engines by John Scalzi
• Judge Sn Goes Golfing by John Scalzi
• Eldest by Christopher Paolini
• Infoquake by David Louis Edelman
• Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
• Queen of Candesce by Karl Schroeder
• The Atrocity Archives by Charlie Stross
• Starfish by Peter Watts *
• By Heresies Distressed by S.M. Stirling
• Old Man’s War by John Scalzi *
• The Paterek Manual by Tim Paterek
• Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
• The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi *
• The Last Colony by John Scalzi *
• The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
• The Jennifer Morgue by Charlie Stross
• The Lost Fleet: Victorious by Jack Campbell
• Armor by John Steakley
• The Year’s Best SF 15 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson *
• Candle by John Barnes *
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• For the Win by Cory Doctorow (e)
• Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by Bike Snob NYC
• The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
• Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow (e) *
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (e)
• The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
• Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded by John Scalzi (e)
• The Sword of the Lady by S.M. Stirling (e)
• Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks (e)
• Metatropolis edited by John Scalzi (e)
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (e)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction: 26th Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois (e)

Count: 40
% Re-Reads: 17.5%
% e-Books: 22.5%(!)

Video Games
• Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
• Peggle (PS3)
• geoDefense (iPhone)
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PS3)
• geoDefense Swarm (iPhone)
• Peggle (iPhone)
• Plants vs. Zombies (iPhone)
• Angry Birds (iPhone)
• FlightControl (iPhone)
• No, Human (iPad)
• Final Fantasy (iPad)
• Madden 11 (iPad)
• Words with Friends (iPhone/iPad)
• Carcassone (iPad)
• Angry Birds HD (iPad)
• FlightControl HD (iPad)
• Astronut (iPad)
• Zuma Blitz (Facebook)
• Medal of Honor (PS3)
• Boggle (iPad)
• Scrabble (iPad)

Magazines
• Entire year of Bicycling
• Entire year of Mountain Bike
• MAKE, Volume 20
• Men’s Health, Feb. 2010

Movies
• Grosse Point Blank
• 9
• Iron Man *
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno
• It Might Get Loud
• Iron Man 2
• Field of Dreams
• The Flying Scotsman
• The Karate Kid (2010)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra ²
• Heartbreak Ridge *
• The Bourne Identity *
• The Bourne Supremacy *
• Slap Shot
• Star Trek (2009) *
• Futurama: Bender’s Big Score
• Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
• Monsters, Inc. *
• Futurama: Bender’s Game
• Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
• Outsourced
• Surrogates
• Up! *
• The Last Boy Scout *
• The Goods
• About a Boy
• Toy Story 3
• The Hangover
• Despicable Me
• Die Hard *
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation *

Count: 33
% Re-Viewing: 30.3%

TV
• Flashforward³
• V
• Top Gear (BBC)
• Community
• Big Bang Theory
• Mythbusters
• Futurama
• The Guild
• 30-Second Bunny Theater
• Battlestar Galactica (RDM) *