Man vänjer sig.

1. Lois McMaster Bujold: Miles Errant
2. Lois McMaster Bujold: Memory
3. Wolfgang Flür: Kraftwerk — I Was A Robot
4. Lois McMaster Bujold: Komarr
5. Lois McMaster Bujold: A Civil Campaign
6. Lois McMaster Bujold: Falling Free
7. Lois McMaster Bujold: Diplomatic Immunity


8. Walter Tevis: The Man who Fell to Earth (revised edition from 1976; original edition 1963)

A series of patents in the fields of chemistry and electronics, held by the mysterious World Enterprises Corporation, are slowly revolutionising everyday technology: 3D television, super high-definition self-developing film, a smoke- and odorless gunpowder replacement for toy guns, and dozens of other inventions. The owner of World Enterprises is the reclusive Thomas Jerome Newton, a man seen by very few people and with even fewer friends, and found exceedingly excentric, in a quiet and unobtrusive way, by those who see him. Only a very few people even suspect the truth behind the advanced patents and his polite but strange demeanour: Newton is not human. He is an alien on a mission to save his people, and the inventions are just the quickest way to amass the fortune needed to build a spaceship to transport the few hundred remaining of his people from his dying planet to Earth. But the rescue mission is not going as planned...

A very short and concentrated novel of Newton's rise and fall, set in the far future of 1985-1990. If anything, it is too short: there is hardly any time for anything to happen. I liked the descriptions of Newton going native, but I would have liked to see more of him as an alien. (I have no idea how it compares to the film starring David Bowie; although I've had the movie on VHS for years I have never found the time to watch it.)

Apparently, the original edition was set in 1972-76; Tevis changed the years for this edition, and revised some other parts of the text (e.g. adding a reference to Watergate). I guess this was done to coincide with the film.