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April '13 Book List
May. 30th, 2013 08:31 pmI really, really need to get these done earlier in the month. Luckily, I suppose, April is a pretty short list. Starting the Uncollected Short Stories. "Backscatter" by Gregory Benford is a cleverer than most scifi bit about asteroid mining and finding life in unexpected places. Karen Tidbeck's "Sing" is an odd piece about alien life and life choices. "Last Son of Tomorrow" by Greg Van Eekhout is a well written if not all that original look at the Superman archetype. And Prudence Shen's "Do Not Touch" is a nifty little modern fantasy about paintings with bonus Faith Erin Hick's illustration. The short story editor at Tor.com really does an excellent job...
For full length books we start with A Kiss Before Dying, Ira Levin's noir classic about a con artist and murderer. Who I know I'm not actually supposed to like, but man did I not like him...
Finished the second of the free Jay Lake books I won from Tor with Kalimpura. A good book, though I'm a bit annoyed to find that the contest gave me books one and three from a trilogy. But only a little, 'cause free books that were also good...
Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler is the first of several books set in the gap of several years between the first and second parts of her webcomic, A Girl and Her Fed. Really loved this and totally looking forward to the rest of the series...
Emma Bull's Finder is a tie-in to the "Bordertown" series. Sad ending, but in a moving way. I'm not sure if she did any more with the characters, but I might check out her husband's "Bordertown" tie-in books. Even if he is all crazy-pants...
Charles Stross' latest "Laundry Files" novel, the Apocalypse Codex is more of that perfect blend of cosmic horror, dry British wit and espionage...
I've had a copy of Nancy Kress' Beggars in Spain sitting on my Kindle for a good while now. Its not alone in that as my eBook version of To Be Read pile has gotten huge. But hers is definitely one I wish I'd read earlier because of how damn good it is...
Damage Time by Colin Harvey actually is kind of terrifying in its use of the cyberpunk trope of memory chips as a type of crime...
Finished the last Mathew Hughes' "Hell and Back" trilogy with Hell to Pay. Still not sure if I actually like the ending. Kind of feels like the author may of dropped the ball right at the goal line...
Right near the end of the month got the May edition of the eBook version for the Grantville Gazette, still edited by Paula Goodlett. This is the 47th in the series and while I enjoyed the new short fiction I wish I had a better way to sort them on my e-reader for when I want to re-read specific writers or stories...
And finally, ended the month with Paul Cornell's Falling London. Which is both a creepy urban fantasy and a British police procedural. Both done really well...
Total books: 11
For full length books we start with A Kiss Before Dying, Ira Levin's noir classic about a con artist and murderer. Who I know I'm not actually supposed to like, but man did I not like him...
Finished the second of the free Jay Lake books I won from Tor with Kalimpura. A good book, though I'm a bit annoyed to find that the contest gave me books one and three from a trilogy. But only a little, 'cause free books that were also good...
Digital Divide by K.B. Spangler is the first of several books set in the gap of several years between the first and second parts of her webcomic, A Girl and Her Fed. Really loved this and totally looking forward to the rest of the series...
Emma Bull's Finder is a tie-in to the "Bordertown" series. Sad ending, but in a moving way. I'm not sure if she did any more with the characters, but I might check out her husband's "Bordertown" tie-in books. Even if he is all crazy-pants...
Charles Stross' latest "Laundry Files" novel, the Apocalypse Codex is more of that perfect blend of cosmic horror, dry British wit and espionage...
I've had a copy of Nancy Kress' Beggars in Spain sitting on my Kindle for a good while now. Its not alone in that as my eBook version of To Be Read pile has gotten huge. But hers is definitely one I wish I'd read earlier because of how damn good it is...
Damage Time by Colin Harvey actually is kind of terrifying in its use of the cyberpunk trope of memory chips as a type of crime...
Finished the last Mathew Hughes' "Hell and Back" trilogy with Hell to Pay. Still not sure if I actually like the ending. Kind of feels like the author may of dropped the ball right at the goal line...
Right near the end of the month got the May edition of the eBook version for the Grantville Gazette, still edited by Paula Goodlett. This is the 47th in the series and while I enjoyed the new short fiction I wish I had a better way to sort them on my e-reader for when I want to re-read specific writers or stories...
And finally, ended the month with Paul Cornell's Falling London. Which is both a creepy urban fantasy and a British police procedural. Both done really well...
Total books: 11
