The new, non-Malazan, sf book by Steven Erikson has publishing date. The Willful Child is coming out on 25th of September in UK and about two weeks later in US and it tells the whole truth about

These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to ( Read more... )

So I should do some kind of summing up post before everyone forgets 2011.

Books:
My favourite is, quite predictably, Steven Erikson's The Crippled God (don't act surprised). It was heartbreaking and heroic and I had to stop myself from crying in public places. It delivered what I didn't even dare to hope for but secretly wanted. And he finished ( Read more... )

I’ve finished Glasshouse by Charles Stross.
It’s set in the same universe as Accelerando but several centuries later with different set of characters. The world they live in has been wrecked by Curious Yellow - censorship virus. It rewrote people and used them as carriers. A lot of people been through horrible experiences during the war to ( Read more... )