Mar. 1st, 2008
Meandering around my f-list I see that ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
scarybaldguy's user info shows that he has a motto:
I want a motto!
So after lengthy and deep thought I have chosen mine:
Anyone else have a motto?
scarybaldguy's user info shows that he has a motto:"Prove it, but I still won't believe you."
I want a motto!
So after lengthy and deep thought I have chosen mine:
"Give me the money or I push the button!"
Anyone else have a motto?
Feb. Book List
Mar. 1st, 2008 01:50 pmFeb 2nd: Robert Parker - Cold Service: After Hawk is shot and nearly killed during a body-guarding job, he and Spenser plan their payback. Even if involves taking down a Russian gang that literally controls one of the local towns...
Feb 6th: Steven Brust - The Paths of the Dead: Another pseudo-Dumasian book, set in between Phoenix Guards/500 Years After. First of several bridging novels between the two eras...
Feb 8th: Charlie Huston - Already Dead: First in a series that feel like a WoD Vampire mash-up with hard-boiled detective. Vamp PI Joe Pitt struggles to maintain his independence from the various "clans" who run Manhattan. And a case involving a runaway teen may bring everyone crashing down on him...
Feb 9th: Jim Butcher - Captain's Fury: Tavi, now a war hero, must navigate the politics of the Aleran Empire and bring an end to pointless war with the invading Canim forces. At the same time the First Lord Gaius undertakes a secret plan to put an end to the southern rebellion draining away resources from the Canim front once and for all...
Feb 10th: Huston - No Dominion: Low on blood and cash Pitt has to take a job for his former boss in the Enclave investigating a new drug that affects Vamps. One that will take him uptown to the Hood's territory. Where his skin color might be more an issue than his being a fellow blood-drinker...
Huston - Half the Blood of Brooklyn: To pay for the medical bills and tranfusions his HIV girlfriend needs, Pitt has given up his freelance status to go back to working for the Enclave. And with some new danger stalking the minor outlying "clans", sending them seeking alliance with the Enclave, Pitt has to venture into the wilds of Coney Island and Queens to face it down...
Feb 13th: David Hartwell/Kathryn Cramer (eds) - Year's Best SF 12: Anthology of 2006 SF short stories...
Feb 15th: Huston - Caught Stealing: A non-supernatural crime noir from Huston. Hank Thompson is an ex-athlete from California, now tending bar in New York. And somehow his agreeing to cat sit for one of his neighbors has led to him being beaten by Russian mobsters, stalked by a crooked cop and other violent, crazy criminals. Hank struggles to get clear of the vortex of blood and violence that slowly drag in everyone in his life...
Feb 18th: Jane Lindskold - Through Wolf's Eyes: First book in Lindskold's series of feral child Firekeeper and the Royal Beasts. Believed to be the missing grand-daughter of the king, Firekeeper and her companion, the Royal Wolf Blind Seer, are drawn into the succession games of the kingdom of Hawk Haven...
Feb 20th: Lindskold - Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart: The succession settled and the kingdoms of Hawk Haven and Bright Bay set for unification as Bright Haven. But the former Queen is suspected of entering her new country of the Isles into a dangerous alliance with the magic-crazed land of New Kelvin. One that involves the dangerous noble and possible sorceress Lady Melina Shield. Both the leaders of Hawk Haven, Bright Bay and the Royal Beasts want Firekeeper and her friends to venture into the strange land of New Kelvin to investigate...
Feb 23rd: Elizabeth Moon - Victory Conditions: The finale to Moon's Vatta's War series. New Admiral Kylara Vatta finally has her multi-planetary fleet. And is ready to take it against the pirate forces that have been running rampant. But with spies everywhere, and the pirate's forces even stronger than expected, it will take all her tactical cunning and skill to achieve final victory...
Feb 26th: Lindskold - The Dragon of Despair: Despite Firekeeper's destruction of the stolen magical artifacts, Melina Shield still remains a threat. Using her dangerous mental gifts, she's made herself the new wife of the head of New Kelvin's government. And she's seeking something dangerous beneath the capitol city. And with colonist's looking to gain new lands in the areas controlled by the Royal Beasts Firekeeper agrees to scout into New Kelvin again to stop a potential war between her two people...
Feb 27th: Cory Doctorow - Eastern Standard Tribe: A cyberpunk book without the nihilism. Doctorow's futurist tale is interesting, but I don't buy his concept that people will eventually develop into "tribes" based on time zones. I mean I buy the possibility of online social grouping leading to tribalization, just not that it will be based on adherence to chat groupings based on online chat...
Total books: 13
Feb 6th: Steven Brust - The Paths of the Dead: Another pseudo-Dumasian book, set in between Phoenix Guards/500 Years After. First of several bridging novels between the two eras...
Feb 8th: Charlie Huston - Already Dead: First in a series that feel like a WoD Vampire mash-up with hard-boiled detective. Vamp PI Joe Pitt struggles to maintain his independence from the various "clans" who run Manhattan. And a case involving a runaway teen may bring everyone crashing down on him...
Feb 9th: Jim Butcher - Captain's Fury: Tavi, now a war hero, must navigate the politics of the Aleran Empire and bring an end to pointless war with the invading Canim forces. At the same time the First Lord Gaius undertakes a secret plan to put an end to the southern rebellion draining away resources from the Canim front once and for all...
Feb 10th: Huston - No Dominion: Low on blood and cash Pitt has to take a job for his former boss in the Enclave investigating a new drug that affects Vamps. One that will take him uptown to the Hood's territory. Where his skin color might be more an issue than his being a fellow blood-drinker...
Huston - Half the Blood of Brooklyn: To pay for the medical bills and tranfusions his HIV girlfriend needs, Pitt has given up his freelance status to go back to working for the Enclave. And with some new danger stalking the minor outlying "clans", sending them seeking alliance with the Enclave, Pitt has to venture into the wilds of Coney Island and Queens to face it down...
Feb 13th: David Hartwell/Kathryn Cramer (eds) - Year's Best SF 12: Anthology of 2006 SF short stories...
Feb 15th: Huston - Caught Stealing: A non-supernatural crime noir from Huston. Hank Thompson is an ex-athlete from California, now tending bar in New York. And somehow his agreeing to cat sit for one of his neighbors has led to him being beaten by Russian mobsters, stalked by a crooked cop and other violent, crazy criminals. Hank struggles to get clear of the vortex of blood and violence that slowly drag in everyone in his life...
Feb 18th: Jane Lindskold - Through Wolf's Eyes: First book in Lindskold's series of feral child Firekeeper and the Royal Beasts. Believed to be the missing grand-daughter of the king, Firekeeper and her companion, the Royal Wolf Blind Seer, are drawn into the succession games of the kingdom of Hawk Haven...
Feb 20th: Lindskold - Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart: The succession settled and the kingdoms of Hawk Haven and Bright Bay set for unification as Bright Haven. But the former Queen is suspected of entering her new country of the Isles into a dangerous alliance with the magic-crazed land of New Kelvin. One that involves the dangerous noble and possible sorceress Lady Melina Shield. Both the leaders of Hawk Haven, Bright Bay and the Royal Beasts want Firekeeper and her friends to venture into the strange land of New Kelvin to investigate...
Feb 23rd: Elizabeth Moon - Victory Conditions: The finale to Moon's Vatta's War series. New Admiral Kylara Vatta finally has her multi-planetary fleet. And is ready to take it against the pirate forces that have been running rampant. But with spies everywhere, and the pirate's forces even stronger than expected, it will take all her tactical cunning and skill to achieve final victory...
Feb 26th: Lindskold - The Dragon of Despair: Despite Firekeeper's destruction of the stolen magical artifacts, Melina Shield still remains a threat. Using her dangerous mental gifts, she's made herself the new wife of the head of New Kelvin's government. And she's seeking something dangerous beneath the capitol city. And with colonist's looking to gain new lands in the areas controlled by the Royal Beasts Firekeeper agrees to scout into New Kelvin again to stop a potential war between her two people...
Feb 27th: Cory Doctorow - Eastern Standard Tribe: A cyberpunk book without the nihilism. Doctorow's futurist tale is interesting, but I don't buy his concept that people will eventually develop into "tribes" based on time zones. I mean I buy the possibility of online social grouping leading to tribalization, just not that it will be based on adherence to chat groupings based on online chat...
Total books: 13
