Showing posts with label Gundam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gundam. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

John Scalzi in the Wild

Well not John himself but a few of his books.

I managed to snap these at a bookstore near our hotel in Tokyo – I know I have a lot more to blog about the trip but this will have to do for a start.

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Reading left to right – Old Mans War, The Ghost Brigades, and The Last Colony.

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Me with The Last Colony – I did think about buying them, but as I have them already and in a language I can actually read I left them in prominent position for a Japanese reader to find and buy! I know that John has posted these on his blog when he gets Author copies of them, but I thought it would be nice to see them all together and the covers are really good… I wish all covers where done like this it makes the books look really exciting… not that they are not exciting to read… I’ll go now…

But before I do… here is the Gundam which was built in Odaiba in Tokyo… It is so fantastic and I am so glad we got to see it. As you can see from the people standing at the base – it is BIG… REAL BIG. make my little model (which I am yet to start building) look a little small compared… but a don’t have the room to have a 4 storey Gundam in my yard so the Gundam on the shelf will have to do!

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Friday, 12 June 2009

Japan – a reason why

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To see this rising over the train tracks we head to the park land of Odaiba.

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It’s finished and will be up for our whole trip to Tokyo!

I am so excited I really can't hide it – I had to post this before heading to work just to get it out of my mind for a minute.

Thanks for Danny and Punynari please follow links for photo source and for more shots… Hope to get some myself soon.