Reading in the New Year

I have been reading Astounding/Analog magazines for the last few months, not strictly in chronological order, and now I have gotten to the first half of 1953. Quite a few excellent stories were published in the first three issues of that year, and the first publication of Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity, certainly one of his finest hard science fiction novels, was serialized beginning in the April issue.

I have also been rereading every Far Side book. This was unquestionably the best single-panel cartoon of it's time, and it still holds up remarkably well. These books also used a higher quality glue in the binding than some contemporary cartoonists' work, so it should not be difficult to find used copies.

Next up, the greatest comic strip of the 20th century, Pogo. I have every book.