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November '12 Book List
Dec. 23rd, 2012 07:55 pmStarted the month with Adrian Tchaikovsky's the Air War the latest in his "Shadows of Apt" series. Which has the Wasp Empire going back on the offensive again. And with their new petrochemical engines, surprise allies and other new innovations things look very bleak for..well pretty much everyone...
After that I tried out Devon Monk's Steampunk/Horror/Western series, with Dead Iron. Intriguing series, but I'm not sure how much I actually enjoy it. Probably wait until I get around to the 2nd book before I make a final decision...
Then I wen on a bit of a Pratchett tear. Rereading Truth, Monstrous Regiment, Night Watch, Going Postal, Thud, Making Money, Unseen Academicals and Snuff all in a row over like five days...
Then the roommate got his physical copy of Bujold's Captain Vorpatril's Alliance so I reread that as well. 'Cause I really love Ivan in that book...
Also from the roommate was Larry Corriea's Monster Hunter Legion. Corriea may be a crazy pants super Liberterian but he can write fun, high stakes action...
I'm not sure why I took until the middle of the month to get vol.44 of the Grantville Gazette eBook (still edited by Paula Goddlett). Maybe it was that I'd read most of the stories beta and earlier draft versions on the Baen forums...
Charles Stross' Halting State has been sitting in my To Read pile for a good while now. Really since I'd learned there was book from the same setting as his Rule34. Good book that seems to be a bit of a bridge between Old School Cyberpunk and the New Class stuff...
Another Western/Horror mash-up with Lee Collins' the Dead of Winter. A pretty good vampire hunter book but one that didn't click with me...
After that was the Inexplicables the latest Clockwork Century book from Cherie Priest. Which is more of a direct sequel to Boneshaker than the rest of the series. Plus it has Bigfoot AND zombies...
Timothy Zahn's Choices of One is a prequel to his previous Star Wars books, set just a little while before the Empire Strikes Back. It features many of Zahn's regulars in addition to the regular core cast, though most don't actually directly interact. Also it has one of my new Top Crowning Moments of Awesome involving Thrawn and Vader...
Red Country is the latest mud & blood fantasy from Joe Abercrombie. Set about a decade after the Heroes it reads like a Peckinpah sword & sorcery movie. And yet it STILL has the most optimistic ending of any of his books in the series so far...
And I finished up the month with the three most recent of David Drake's Lt. Leary books. In the Stormy Red Sky, the Distant Deeps and the Road to Danger. More well-done historical military fiction adapted for his scifi setting...
Total books: 21
After that I tried out Devon Monk's Steampunk/Horror/Western series, with Dead Iron. Intriguing series, but I'm not sure how much I actually enjoy it. Probably wait until I get around to the 2nd book before I make a final decision...
Then I wen on a bit of a Pratchett tear. Rereading Truth, Monstrous Regiment, Night Watch, Going Postal, Thud, Making Money, Unseen Academicals and Snuff all in a row over like five days...
Then the roommate got his physical copy of Bujold's Captain Vorpatril's Alliance so I reread that as well. 'Cause I really love Ivan in that book...
Also from the roommate was Larry Corriea's Monster Hunter Legion. Corriea may be a crazy pants super Liberterian but he can write fun, high stakes action...
I'm not sure why I took until the middle of the month to get vol.44 of the Grantville Gazette eBook (still edited by Paula Goddlett). Maybe it was that I'd read most of the stories beta and earlier draft versions on the Baen forums...
Charles Stross' Halting State has been sitting in my To Read pile for a good while now. Really since I'd learned there was book from the same setting as his Rule34. Good book that seems to be a bit of a bridge between Old School Cyberpunk and the New Class stuff...
Another Western/Horror mash-up with Lee Collins' the Dead of Winter. A pretty good vampire hunter book but one that didn't click with me...
After that was the Inexplicables the latest Clockwork Century book from Cherie Priest. Which is more of a direct sequel to Boneshaker than the rest of the series. Plus it has Bigfoot AND zombies...
Timothy Zahn's Choices of One is a prequel to his previous Star Wars books, set just a little while before the Empire Strikes Back. It features many of Zahn's regulars in addition to the regular core cast, though most don't actually directly interact. Also it has one of my new Top Crowning Moments of Awesome involving Thrawn and Vader...
Red Country is the latest mud & blood fantasy from Joe Abercrombie. Set about a decade after the Heroes it reads like a Peckinpah sword & sorcery movie. And yet it STILL has the most optimistic ending of any of his books in the series so far...
And I finished up the month with the three most recent of David Drake's Lt. Leary books. In the Stormy Red Sky, the Distant Deeps and the Road to Danger. More well-done historical military fiction adapted for his scifi setting...
Total books: 21
