Comment: A Couple of Things
So. Yeah.
1) I really really have a dislike for the convention in newspaper headlines of separating a list of two items by a comma. E.g. 'Cats, dogs to have new space adventure' or, from a real headline 'Afghan troops, foreigner killed in Taliban ambush'. It is perhaps an unreasonably excessive dislike, but I find it really really annoying. How hard is it to use 'and'? Why must the headline be used to confuse the reader - shouldn't it be all about clarity? After all, anyone reading it and sticking to grammar being a tool to guide you in reading and understanding the sentence... will most likely be confuddled for a second or two until they realise the journalists are simply being unhelpful.
Or is it just me?
2) I am rather happy to see that out of the books that matter in the Amazon bestseller list for the 'Fantasy' category, Steven Erikson's upcoming (in just a week) 9th book in the Malazan series is at the top. I say this, because the first three slots are filled by books in the Twilight series and can therefore be safely discounted as lies, and the next three slots by True Blood novels (discounted for the same reason). This leaves the 7th (1st) as the as-yet unreleased Dust of Dreams.
So everything's alright then.
On the same list it is interesting to see that Mr. Tchaikovsky is doing very well with his 3rd novel in the Shadows of the Apt series Blood of the Mantis at 13th (7th) and Mr. Abercrombie's Best Served Cold in 20th (14th). Their other books are, incidentally, make more appearances in the top 25. I suppose you could count this as offset by the mounds of less impressive rubbish mingled in there.
Aaanyway. Yeah.
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