Gallup has McCain and Obama tied at 44% each". Seriously America, are you THAT fucking scared of black people that you'd vote in FOUR MORE FUCKING years of the SAME SHIT?
Aug. 2nd, 2008
Monthly Book List - July
Aug. 2nd, 2008 04:55 pmJuly 1st: Terry Pratchett - Sourcery: The 3rd Rincewind based Discworld book. The 8th son of an 8th son is destined to become a powerful wizard. THEY'RE 8th son will be a Sourceror, capable of magics that twist reality to fit their every whim. Which is of course why Rincewind will get shanghaied into stopping one...
July 2nd: Lawrence Watt-Evans - With a Single Spell: When teen-ageer Tobas' wizard master dies unexpectedly he's soon forced on the road. Of course seeking his fortune would probably be easier if he'd managed to learn more than one spell before his master died. And if he hadn't accidentally burned up the spell book and paraphernalia he'd inherited...
George Alec Effenger - The Exile Kiss: The third, and sadly last complete, Budayeen cyberpunk book. Marid Audran and his grandfather/benefactor/controller are exiled from their city into the desert...
July 4th: Andre Norton - Quag Keep: Probably the first D&D tie-in novel. Based on Norton's vague understanding of the game from conversations with Gygax. And by that it doesn't resemble the game very much...
July 6th: Nick Mamatas - Move Under Ground:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nihilistic_kid's novel combining the Chthulu mythos was Jack Kerouac and other beat writers. Kerouac sets out on a road trip across the undergounds of America to save the world. Or maybe destroy it...
July 7th: Justin Gustainis - Black Magic Woman: Quincy Morris, the descendant of the vampire hunter of the same name from Dracula, carries on the family legacy of monster hunting and humanity protecting...
July 8th: Rob Thurman - Madhouse: The third book about the monster hunting Leandros brothers. This time the brothers and their friends have to deal with the reincarnated Sawney Bean, a redcap of unusual powers and madness...
July 9th: Sherwood Smith - King's Shield: Inda returns home from exile. Just in time to be pressed into service as the highest ranking noble next to the king.
July 10th: Bernard Cornwell - Excalibur: The finale to Cornwell's excellent Arthurian historical fiction trilogy. War leader Arthur and his loyal warriors begin their penultimate fight against the Saxon invaders as well as King Mordred...
July 13th: Richard Morgan - Th1rte3n: Near future dystopian cyberpunk. Thirteen's are gene altered super soldiers. Now either imprisoned, sent to the Mars colony or employed by various governments as freelance agents. And one seems to be going on a killing spree after making an impossible escape from Mars...
Robert Parker - Family Honor: The first of Parker's Sunny Randall books. Sunny is hired to locate a missing girl for a wealthy family with political ambitions and criminal associations...
Janet Evanovich - Fearless Fourteen: The latest Stephanie Plum book. Stephanie and her odd-ball friends and family are drawn into a murderous hunt for the money from a missing bank heist. One that involves Steph's almost fiance Detective Morelli's family...
July 14th: Parker - Back Story: Spenser is hired to investigate a twenty plus year old bank robbery and murder. Which will lead him across the country and up to the town of Paradise all to find out the truth of the old crime...
July 15th: Pratchett - Thief of Time: Susan, the grand-daughter of Death, learns that there is an individual with a background similar to hers. A son of the the Aspect of Time. Also that the Auditors are looking to end the world. Again. And she's has to try and stop them. Again...
July 16th: Parker - High Profile: A nationally syndicated radio host is found shot and hung from a tree in Paradise. And a national celebrity means national attention on Chief Stone's investigation...
July 18th: Raymond E. Feist - Wrath of a Mad God: The Conclave of Shadows and an unlikely hidden ally must struggle to stave off an invasion of the Tsurni home world from the Lower Worlds of the Dasati...
July 20th: James Alan Gardner - Expendable: Start of a far future scifi series. The Explorer Corps are the ones sent by the Technocracy Navy to investigate new worlds. Or any other dangerous situation. Explorers are all top of the line in smarts and bravery and every other admirable quality. And of course some kind of physical defect that makes them different. Which means when they die it won't affect ship morale as much. Explorer Festina Ramos latest mission: to escort a senile Admiral to a planet that no one has ever returned from...
Parker - Sea Change: After a woman's body is pulled from the ocean, Chief Stone must investigate a sub-culture of sex parties and morally repellent yachters...
July 22nd: Christopher Golden (ed) - Oddest Jobs: 3rd collection of Hellboy short stories edited by Golden. With stories by Joe Lansdale, Barbara Hambly and China Mieville among others...
July 26th: Kim Harrison - The Outlaw Demon Wails: The most recent Rachel Morgan book. Witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan has to deal with a rogue demon with a grudge. As well as secrets about her past. And of course the continuing frustration of working out her relationship with her vampiric best friend and partner...
July 27th: Gardner - Hunted: Explorer Edward York is the son of a high-ranking Admiral. And considered a mental defective thanks to faulty genetic engineering. But he's still the only one who can solve the mysterious deaths of a ship's crew as well as the civil war of an alien race...
July 28th: Michael Chabon - Gentlemen of the Road: Jews with Swords is what Chabon wanted to name this book. And it fits of course. In a story about an overthrown kingdom, a lost prince and lots of Conan-esque sword play...
July 29th: Gardner - Trapped: Original Earth is a quarantied world. Cut off from the rest of space-faring humanity by the Spark Lords and the League of Peoples, Earth is a backwater of slowly collapsing technologies and nanotech powered sorceries and psychics. And amidst this a group of teachers from a minor private school have to solve a murder with the possible fate of the world at stake...
July 30th: Cornwell - Sharpe's Sword:
Captain Sharpe and Lord Wellington continue the Spanish campaign against Napoleon. And Sharpe becomes involved with protecting a British spymaster after capturing a French officer using a false name...
July 31st: Watt-Evans - The Turtle Moves: A source book recapping and analyzing Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. A scholarly work dedicated to increase the understanding of one of modern literature's top writers. Or just a shameless cash grab by Watt-Evans to get some of that sweet, sweet Discworld cash...
Total Books: 25
July 2nd: Lawrence Watt-Evans - With a Single Spell: When teen-ageer Tobas' wizard master dies unexpectedly he's soon forced on the road. Of course seeking his fortune would probably be easier if he'd managed to learn more than one spell before his master died. And if he hadn't accidentally burned up the spell book and paraphernalia he'd inherited...
George Alec Effenger - The Exile Kiss: The third, and sadly last complete, Budayeen cyberpunk book. Marid Audran and his grandfather/benefactor/controller are exiled from their city into the desert...
July 4th: Andre Norton - Quag Keep: Probably the first D&D tie-in novel. Based on Norton's vague understanding of the game from conversations with Gygax. And by that it doesn't resemble the game very much...
July 6th: Nick Mamatas - Move Under Ground:
nihilistic_kid's novel combining the Chthulu mythos was Jack Kerouac and other beat writers. Kerouac sets out on a road trip across the undergounds of America to save the world. Or maybe destroy it...July 7th: Justin Gustainis - Black Magic Woman: Quincy Morris, the descendant of the vampire hunter of the same name from Dracula, carries on the family legacy of monster hunting and humanity protecting...
July 8th: Rob Thurman - Madhouse: The third book about the monster hunting Leandros brothers. This time the brothers and their friends have to deal with the reincarnated Sawney Bean, a redcap of unusual powers and madness...
July 9th: Sherwood Smith - King's Shield: Inda returns home from exile. Just in time to be pressed into service as the highest ranking noble next to the king.
July 10th: Bernard Cornwell - Excalibur: The finale to Cornwell's excellent Arthurian historical fiction trilogy. War leader Arthur and his loyal warriors begin their penultimate fight against the Saxon invaders as well as King Mordred...
July 13th: Richard Morgan - Th1rte3n: Near future dystopian cyberpunk. Thirteen's are gene altered super soldiers. Now either imprisoned, sent to the Mars colony or employed by various governments as freelance agents. And one seems to be going on a killing spree after making an impossible escape from Mars...
Robert Parker - Family Honor: The first of Parker's Sunny Randall books. Sunny is hired to locate a missing girl for a wealthy family with political ambitions and criminal associations...
Janet Evanovich - Fearless Fourteen: The latest Stephanie Plum book. Stephanie and her odd-ball friends and family are drawn into a murderous hunt for the money from a missing bank heist. One that involves Steph's almost fiance Detective Morelli's family...
July 14th: Parker - Back Story: Spenser is hired to investigate a twenty plus year old bank robbery and murder. Which will lead him across the country and up to the town of Paradise all to find out the truth of the old crime...
July 15th: Pratchett - Thief of Time: Susan, the grand-daughter of Death, learns that there is an individual with a background similar to hers. A son of the the Aspect of Time. Also that the Auditors are looking to end the world. Again. And she's has to try and stop them. Again...
July 16th: Parker - High Profile: A nationally syndicated radio host is found shot and hung from a tree in Paradise. And a national celebrity means national attention on Chief Stone's investigation...
July 18th: Raymond E. Feist - Wrath of a Mad God: The Conclave of Shadows and an unlikely hidden ally must struggle to stave off an invasion of the Tsurni home world from the Lower Worlds of the Dasati...
July 20th: James Alan Gardner - Expendable: Start of a far future scifi series. The Explorer Corps are the ones sent by the Technocracy Navy to investigate new worlds. Or any other dangerous situation. Explorers are all top of the line in smarts and bravery and every other admirable quality. And of course some kind of physical defect that makes them different. Which means when they die it won't affect ship morale as much. Explorer Festina Ramos latest mission: to escort a senile Admiral to a planet that no one has ever returned from...
Parker - Sea Change: After a woman's body is pulled from the ocean, Chief Stone must investigate a sub-culture of sex parties and morally repellent yachters...
July 22nd: Christopher Golden (ed) - Oddest Jobs: 3rd collection of Hellboy short stories edited by Golden. With stories by Joe Lansdale, Barbara Hambly and China Mieville among others...
July 26th: Kim Harrison - The Outlaw Demon Wails: The most recent Rachel Morgan book. Witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan has to deal with a rogue demon with a grudge. As well as secrets about her past. And of course the continuing frustration of working out her relationship with her vampiric best friend and partner...
July 27th: Gardner - Hunted: Explorer Edward York is the son of a high-ranking Admiral. And considered a mental defective thanks to faulty genetic engineering. But he's still the only one who can solve the mysterious deaths of a ship's crew as well as the civil war of an alien race...
July 28th: Michael Chabon - Gentlemen of the Road: Jews with Swords is what Chabon wanted to name this book. And it fits of course. In a story about an overthrown kingdom, a lost prince and lots of Conan-esque sword play...
July 29th: Gardner - Trapped: Original Earth is a quarantied world. Cut off from the rest of space-faring humanity by the Spark Lords and the League of Peoples, Earth is a backwater of slowly collapsing technologies and nanotech powered sorceries and psychics. And amidst this a group of teachers from a minor private school have to solve a murder with the possible fate of the world at stake...
July 30th: Cornwell - Sharpe's Sword:
Captain Sharpe and Lord Wellington continue the Spanish campaign against Napoleon. And Sharpe becomes involved with protecting a British spymaster after capturing a French officer using a false name...
July 31st: Watt-Evans - The Turtle Moves: A source book recapping and analyzing Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. A scholarly work dedicated to increase the understanding of one of modern literature's top writers. Or just a shameless cash grab by Watt-Evans to get some of that sweet, sweet Discworld cash...
Total Books: 25
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