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December 1997

• 29th • SF film • Alien Resurrection
• 29th • SF film • Alien3
• 29th • SF film • Aliens
• 29th • SF film • Alien
• 26th • SF film • The Mask
• 26th • SF film • The Flintstones
• 24th • SF • Connie Willis • Remake
• 24th • SF TV • Babylon 5 • seasons 1•4
• 24th • SF TV • VR5
• 14th • SF • Charles Sheffield and Jerry Pournelle • Higher Education
• 7th • cartoon • Jacky Fleming • Hello Boys
• 6th • SF • Jody Lynn Nye • The Ship Errant

November 1997

• 30th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Casual Day Has Gone Too Far
• 30th • SF • S. M. Stirling and Holly Lisle • The Rose Sea
• 30th • maths • Shaughan Lavine • Understanding the Infinite
• 22nd • SF • Diane Duane • The Book of Night with Moon
• 9th • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Firebird
• 8th • SF • Spider Robinson • Callahan's Legacy
• 2nd • SF • Marion Zimmer Bradley and Holly Lisle • Glenraven

October 1997

• 31st • SF • Peter O'Donnell, Dick Giordano. Modesty Blaise
• 26th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • It's Obvious You Won't Survive By Your Wits Alone
• 26th • SF • Kathleen Ann Goonan • Queen City Jazz
• 25th • SF TV • The Uninvited
• 6th • ALife • Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell. Growing Artificial Societies
• 4th • music • Capercaillie 1997 tour
• 4th • SF • Mary Brown • Strange Deliverance

September 1997

• 24th • SF TV • The Water Margin
• 19th • Calvin & Hobbes • Bill Watterson • It's a Magical World
• 12th • ALife • Margaret A. Boden • The Philosophy of Artificial Life
• 10th • SF • Tom Cool • Infectress

August 1997

• 25th • SF film • The Puppet Masters
• 25th • SF • Claudia J. Edwards • Taming the Forest King
• 25th • maths • Ray Hemmings and Dick Tahta • Images of Infinity
• 22nd • SF • Alan Morton • The Complete Directory to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Television Series
• 22nd • SF film • Men in Black
• 17th • SF • David Weber • In Enemy Hands
• 16th • SF • Anne McCaffrey • The Girl Who Heard Dragons
• 9th • SF • Marion Zimmer Bradley • Sword and Sorceress XIII
• 8th • computers • David Gelernter • The Muse in the Machine
• 3rd • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Storm Breaking
• 1st • computing • Patrick Niemeyer and Joshua Peck • Exploring Java

July 1997

• 31st • computers • André Bacard • The Computer Privacy Handbook
• 30th • crime fiction • Janet Neel • A Timely Death
• 28th • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • Dreamweaver's Dilemma
• 25th • computing/OO • Goldstein and Alger • Designing Object-oriented Software for the Macintosh
• 24th • maths • Sloane and Plouffe • The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• 20th • SF • Connie Willis • Bellwether
• 20th • science • Carl Sagan • The Demon-Haunted World
• 15th • SF • Philip E. High • Fugitive from Time
• 14th • SF • Dan Abnett, Rod Whigham, Jack Snider • Cybernetic Dawn
• 13th • SF • Lois McMaster Bujold • Shards of Honour
• 11th • SF • Gael Baudino • Dragon Death
• 12th • SF • Gael Baudino • Duel of Dragons
• 11th • SF • Gael Baudino • Dragonsword
• 6th • SF • Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon • The Silver Gryphon
• 6th • design • Edward Tufte • Visual Explanations
• 6th • SF • Edward L. Ferman • Oi, Robot

June 1997

• 29th • SF• Paul J. McAuley • Four Hundred Billion Stars
• 22nd • philosophy/language • George Lakoff • Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
• 22nd • maths • John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy • The Book of Numbers
• 21st • computers • Douglas R. Hofstadter and FARG • Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
• 8th • SF • Elizabeth Moon • Remnant Population
• 3rd • computing • Gary McGraw and Edward W. Felten • Java Security
• 1st • Dilbert • Scott Adams • The Dilbert Principle

May 1997

• 31st • fractals • Peitgen, Jürgens and Saupe • Fractals for the Classroom
• 26th • SF • James White • The Galactic Gourmet
• 24th • SF • Elton Elliott • Nanodreams
• 4th • SF film • Return of the Jedi
• 4th • SF • Diane Duane • Intellivore
• 2nd • SF • Mercedes Lackey • Sword of Ice

April 1997

• 27th • SF • Charles Sheffield • Convergence
• 26th • SF film • The Empire Strikes Back
• 19th • maths • Keith Devlin • All the Math that's Fit to Print
• 19th • cognition • Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini •Inevitable Illusions
• 13th • SF • Holly Lisle • Hunting the Corrigan's Blood
• 6th • SF • John Clute and John Grant • The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
• 6th • SF film • Star Wars
• 6th • SF • Spider Robinson • Lifehouse
• 6th • SF • Spider Robinson • User Friendly
• 5th • SF • David Langford • The Silence of the Langford
• 5th • SF • Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman • Ghastly Beyond Belief
• SF con • Intervention: Eastercon '97

March 1997

• 25th • SFX • Thomas G. Smith • Industrial Light and Magic
• 25th • SF • Paul Barnett • Strider's Galaxy
• 23rd • SF • F. M. Busby • Islands of Tomorrow
• 16th • SF • Robert L. Forward • Camelot 30K
• 11th • SF • John Barnes • One for the Morning Glory

February 1997

• 24th • SF • James P. Hogan • The Mirror Maze
• 22nd • maths • Edward Kasner and James Newman • Mathematics and the Imagination
• 15th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Still Pumped from Using the Mouse
• 15th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Shave the Whales
• 8th • SF• Ken MacLeod • The Star Fraction
• 2nd • writing • Lyn Dupré • BUGS in Writing

January 1997

• 19th • philosophy • Mary Midgley • Utopias, Dolphins and Computers
• 19th • computing/OO • Richard Gabriel • Patterns of Software
• 18th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy!
• 18th • Dilbert • Scott Adams • Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons
• 5th • philosophy/language • George Lakoff and Mark Johnson • Metaphors We Live By
• 5th • computing/OO • Kent Beck • Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

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