Friends, let's talk about Ancillary Mercy. I loved it so much I can't even formulate a coherent review of it. I just, the previous two books I enjoyed a great deal, yes, but I was always vaguely dubious about where the huge space opera plots were going to go and whether it would be in a way that was satisfying for the immediate story, the ( Read more... )

I wrote four yuletide stories this year! One Imperial Radch, one Pushing Daisies, and two Mathey & Lynes. Undoubtedly, the hard part was writing two stories, more or less at the same time, with two different magic-using detectives named Ned. (I did two yuletides with a time-travelling detective named Ned! Apparently it's a thing.) Here's my ( Read more... )

I had a very quiet Christmas with friends, and with Shim, and now Boxing Day is as grey and windswept as it ought to be, narratively, and I am quite contented. This is just an initial batch of Yuletide recs, probably there will be more coming, and in no particular order:

The Banishing of Winter (1156 words) by Anonymous
Jonathan Strange & Mr. ( Read more... )

Happy Diwali to you and yours, my friends. It's been an exceptionally long day, so I'm just going to give you the usual image, and three short stories.


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