Posthuman Blues

I've really fallen off on my reading lately. I've got books languishing by the stack. Undaunted, I've picked up some real gems at used-book stores:

1.) The Dying Earth (Jack Vance)
2.) The Goblin Reservation (Clifford Simak)
3.) Tower of Glass (Robert Silverberg)
4.) The World of Null-A (A.E. van Vogt)
5.) Super-Cannes (J.G. Ballard)

Meanwhile, I'm a hundred pages from finishing Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon," by far the best cyberpunk novel I've read in a long time. It's very "Blade Runner"-ish, but Morgan evokes an interstellar back-story that, remarkably, makes it all seem fresh.