May '13 Book List
Starting with the Free Range short stories for May. We've got Christopher Rowe's "Jack of Coins" about rebellion and magic and guys in funny looking suits. Cecil Castellucci's "We Have Always Lived on Mars" is an abandoned Martian colony story with zee twist. Garth Nix's "Fire Above, Fire Below" gives us OMG Dragons are real and misunderstood. "Shall We Gather" by Alex Bledsoe is a niftly little bit of hillbilly urban fantasy. Cherie Priest's "the Button Man & the Murder Tree" is a crime noir piece and a prequel to the most recent Wild Cards book. Also from that series is "the Elephant in the Room" by Paul Cornell with Elephant Girl and Croyd Crenson and the duplicating powers girl, now naming herself Understudy. And lastly we've got Wen Spencer's Pittsburgh stuck in Elfland series and "Pittsburgh Backyard & Garden"...
I ended up rereading a bunch of Ring of Fire books in May, I think because I noticed the roommate doing it first. All seven of the print Grantville Gazettes edited by Flint and Goodlett and all three Ring of Fire anthologies edited again by Eric Flint. Plus rereading 1635: the Eastern Front, 1636: the Saxony Uprising by Flint alone. And 1635: the Papal Stakes by Flint and Andrew Dennis, as well as 1636: the Kremlin Games by Flint, Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff...
Clifford Simak's the Fellowship of the Talisman is an early example of One Quest add miscellaneous band of heroes. Set in an England where mankind is stuck in the Middle Ages because of rampaging demon hordes. Or maybe its just one horde...
Wicked Business has Janet Evanovich dipping into the Paranormal Romance setting with a baker\/magic seeker with Sexy Bad Boy partner. As well as the normal cast of colorful supporting characters...
I have to say I really enjoyed Weston Ochse's Seal Team 666. Its right behind Larry Correia's Monster Hunter books in the field of gun porn and monster fighting. And Ochse's band of badasses have a dog. Correia's just have a werewolf...
Way back whenever it was I read Joe Hill's first novel I didn't care for it. Thought it was well written and everything but it didn't click. Horns, with its broken protagonist and murder mystery and interesting supernatural twist definitely grabbed hold of me...
I'm pretty sure I read Jack McDevitt's Eternity Road back in high school or college, but I'm not positive. I did have a post-apocalyptic civilization slowing rebuilding phase. And this book, with its archeological expedition to search for a pre-destruction haven, is right in that wheelhouse...
My only real beef with Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations (edited by Paula Guran) is that I had several of the short stories in other collections. Including the Butcher, P.N. Elrod and Charlaine Harris stories. Still, plenty of other good, and new, pieces in this collection...
And finishing up with John Scalzi's the Human Division, another entry in his Old Man's War series. It reads a bit differently, since it was originally published serially, but a fun read nonetheless...
Total Books: 21
I ended up rereading a bunch of Ring of Fire books in May, I think because I noticed the roommate doing it first. All seven of the print Grantville Gazettes edited by Flint and Goodlett and all three Ring of Fire anthologies edited again by Eric Flint. Plus rereading 1635: the Eastern Front, 1636: the Saxony Uprising by Flint alone. And 1635: the Papal Stakes by Flint and Andrew Dennis, as well as 1636: the Kremlin Games by Flint, Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff...
Clifford Simak's the Fellowship of the Talisman is an early example of One Quest add miscellaneous band of heroes. Set in an England where mankind is stuck in the Middle Ages because of rampaging demon hordes. Or maybe its just one horde...
Wicked Business has Janet Evanovich dipping into the Paranormal Romance setting with a baker\/magic seeker with Sexy Bad Boy partner. As well as the normal cast of colorful supporting characters...
I have to say I really enjoyed Weston Ochse's Seal Team 666. Its right behind Larry Correia's Monster Hunter books in the field of gun porn and monster fighting. And Ochse's band of badasses have a dog. Correia's just have a werewolf...
Way back whenever it was I read Joe Hill's first novel I didn't care for it. Thought it was well written and everything but it didn't click. Horns, with its broken protagonist and murder mystery and interesting supernatural twist definitely grabbed hold of me...
I'm pretty sure I read Jack McDevitt's Eternity Road back in high school or college, but I'm not positive. I did have a post-apocalyptic civilization slowing rebuilding phase. And this book, with its archeological expedition to search for a pre-destruction haven, is right in that wheelhouse...
My only real beef with Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations (edited by Paula Guran) is that I had several of the short stories in other collections. Including the Butcher, P.N. Elrod and Charlaine Harris stories. Still, plenty of other good, and new, pieces in this collection...
And finishing up with John Scalzi's the Human Division, another entry in his Old Man's War series. It reads a bit differently, since it was originally published serially, but a fun read nonetheless...
Total Books: 21