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lurkerwithout) wrote2013-11-25 07:51 pm
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October '13 Book List
Only four free range short stories for October. Starting with Eric Burns-White's Properina, a retelling of the Persephone/Hades myth. I've been a fan of Burnsey's writing for awhile now, and I'm glad to see he's started putting stuff up for sale on Amazon and Smashwords. Then a "Liaden" bit from Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Out of Tune, a quick bit about some trader ship kids and norbears. Norbears being Lee & Miller's cute, psychic alien beasties. Susan Krinard's Freeze Warning, about a banished Valkryie in the modern world bored the hell out of me so I didn't finish it. And so I'll never learn if Valkryie lady finds love or if there is some dramatic twist that ties into the urban fantasy series the short story is part of. And finally the adorable Brimstone & Marmalade by Aaron Corwin, about a young girl's first pet, a tiny demon...
Started off the month with Seanan McGuire's latest "Tobey Daye" book, Chimes at Midnight. Where the local fairy Queen decides to banish Tobey. And so Tobey and her supporters have to find the legitimate heir to the San Francisco territory...
I didn't get very far into MIchael Z. Williamson's Freehold. I had to give up before the amount of eye rolling I was doing as he described his Liberterian planet and how perfect it was gave me a permanent injury...
After that was more "Honorverse" rereading. First the Eric Flint/David Weber collaboration Torch of Freedom. And then the remaining current Weber novels, At All Costs, Shadow of Saganami, Storm From the Shadows, Mission of Honor, a Rising Thunder and Shadow of Freedom...
And then finally, finally Scott Lynch's Republic of Thieves. Which was actually a bit of a let down from the rest of the series. I mean I enjoyed seeing more of Locke and friends, the early years. And some motivation for the Bonds-Magi, beyond Power Mad Assholes, was good. But still, this one just didn't excite me as much as the first two. Probably too much heightened expectations from the long delays on it...
Craig Johnson's Spirit of the Steamboat is his latest "Longmire" book. Which is mostly flashback to a desperate medivac mission in a blizzard while flying in a WW2 cargo plane...
Walking Dead finishes up Greg Rucka's "Atticus Kodiak" series. I mean for those of us who didn't feel the series ended back at Critical Space. This was a tough one to get through, dealing with the world of human trafficking for the sex trade...
Elizabeth Bear's Range of Ghosts is the first in a fantasy trilogy, set in a sort of Medieval Asia. With pseudo Mongols in a post Not Ghengis civil war and assorted other vaguely Asian cultures and characters. Good start and I'll have to pick up the next two books at some point...
Illegal Aliens by Phil Foglio & Nick Pollato reminds me a lot of Poul Anderson's the High Crusade. With a more tongue-in-cheek attitude and a modern setting. Though subtle the humor is not...
Iver Cooper's 1636: Seas of Fortune is another in the new crop of "Ring of Fire" e-books. Its more two novellas, the first one a reprint of stuff from the Gazettes about a CSE colony in South America. The second is a newly published chronicle of a Japanese colonization effort using semi-exiled Christians in the future California. Specially the Bay area of California...
Joey Comeau's the Girl Who Wouldn't Come is a collection of oddball sort-of erotica. Some more oddball than others...
And finally ended the month by finishing up Best American Noir of the Century, edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler. A big, beast of a collection that I'd been chipping away at for a good while...
Total Books: 18
Started off the month with Seanan McGuire's latest "Tobey Daye" book, Chimes at Midnight. Where the local fairy Queen decides to banish Tobey. And so Tobey and her supporters have to find the legitimate heir to the San Francisco territory...
I didn't get very far into MIchael Z. Williamson's Freehold. I had to give up before the amount of eye rolling I was doing as he described his Liberterian planet and how perfect it was gave me a permanent injury...
After that was more "Honorverse" rereading. First the Eric Flint/David Weber collaboration Torch of Freedom. And then the remaining current Weber novels, At All Costs, Shadow of Saganami, Storm From the Shadows, Mission of Honor, a Rising Thunder and Shadow of Freedom...
And then finally, finally Scott Lynch's Republic of Thieves. Which was actually a bit of a let down from the rest of the series. I mean I enjoyed seeing more of Locke and friends, the early years. And some motivation for the Bonds-Magi, beyond Power Mad Assholes, was good. But still, this one just didn't excite me as much as the first two. Probably too much heightened expectations from the long delays on it...
Craig Johnson's Spirit of the Steamboat is his latest "Longmire" book. Which is mostly flashback to a desperate medivac mission in a blizzard while flying in a WW2 cargo plane...
Walking Dead finishes up Greg Rucka's "Atticus Kodiak" series. I mean for those of us who didn't feel the series ended back at Critical Space. This was a tough one to get through, dealing with the world of human trafficking for the sex trade...
Elizabeth Bear's Range of Ghosts is the first in a fantasy trilogy, set in a sort of Medieval Asia. With pseudo Mongols in a post Not Ghengis civil war and assorted other vaguely Asian cultures and characters. Good start and I'll have to pick up the next two books at some point...
Illegal Aliens by Phil Foglio & Nick Pollato reminds me a lot of Poul Anderson's the High Crusade. With a more tongue-in-cheek attitude and a modern setting. Though subtle the humor is not...
Iver Cooper's 1636: Seas of Fortune is another in the new crop of "Ring of Fire" e-books. Its more two novellas, the first one a reprint of stuff from the Gazettes about a CSE colony in South America. The second is a newly published chronicle of a Japanese colonization effort using semi-exiled Christians in the future California. Specially the Bay area of California...
Joey Comeau's the Girl Who Wouldn't Come is a collection of oddball sort-of erotica. Some more oddball than others...
And finally ended the month by finishing up Best American Noir of the Century, edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler. A big, beast of a collection that I'd been chipping away at for a good while...
Total Books: 18
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And thanks! :D
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