Sept '13 Book List
Non-anthologious short fiction: Twittering From the Circus of the Dead by Joe Hill was one of the most genuinely creepy stories I've read in awhile. Dale Bailey's A Rumor of Angels is a somber bit of fantasy set during the Dust Bowl. Grimoire of the Lamb is an "Iron Druid" story from Kevin Hearne dealing with some of the old-school Egyptian pantheon. Warren Ellis presents a day with a hitman in Dead Pig Collector. And It Was a Day is an old little poem by Usula Vernon...
On the actual anthology front for that month we start out with the 49th Grantville Gazette (ed. Paula Goodlett). Sadly the story that sticks in my mind the most from that is the murder mystery one that never really seems to come together. Glitter & Mayhem (ed. John Klima, Lynne M Thomas & Michael Damion Thomas) are scifi and urban fantasy stories with night club and/or roller derby themes to them...
I got K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr's Loki's Wolves as a give away from Tor.com. Its a nice enough YA urban fantasy about the descendents of the Norse gods. I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure if I really want to get more of the series when it comes out...
Herbert Sakalauck's the Danish Scheme was originally part of the Grantville Gazette anthologies, several stories about a new Western Canada colony in the "Ring of FIre". But its now one of the re-polished into a regular novel eBooks Tor is putting out from the series...
To Be or Not to Be by Ryan North and Shakespeare is probably one of my favorite things I've got through Kickstarter campaigns. A choose-your-own-adventure version of Hamlet. I liked the path where Ophelia becomes the founder of modern plumbing thru her mastery of SCIENCE...
Carrie Vaughn's latest "Kitty Norville" book, Kitty in the Underworld, has her werewolf protaganist kidnapped by a small group looking to use her in an occult ritual against the ancient vampire Roman. Which if it weren't for the whole drugged and kidnapped might have been something Kitty would have been interested in helping with...
Cold Copper continues Devon Monk's is the latest "Age of Steam" horror/western/steampunk. Like Cherie Priest's books, prefect for any Deadlands players out there...
And still another from a continuing series with Brass Man by Neal Asher, part of his "Human Polity" series. Though the titular android is really more of a sideshow to the ancient buy deadly artifacts, alien intelligences and A.I.s all warring on the frontiers of "civilized" space...
Young Sentinels is the newest of Marion G. Harmon's "Wearing the Cape" supers eBook series. With the Sentinels teams recruiting new teen supers to help slow down the ever increasing super-villain threat...
Mark Del Franco's Undone Deeds is the finale to his "Connor Grey" modern fantasy series. And I'll admit, the ending made me cry a little bit...
I read an interview with Joe Hill where he said that NOS4A2 was him just running right the fuck at writing like his dead. And the book definitely reads the closest to being a Stephen King novel of his stuff I've read. And not in a bad way...
Darwin's Elevator makes for an excellent start to Jason M. Hough's post-apocalyptic scifi series. The apocalypse being an alien-delivered plague that turns humans into near-mindless savages. Unless they happen to be within a set distance of the also alien-delivered space elevator. Or are one of the tiny percentage of immune humans. Like the scavenger group led by one of the book's lead characters...
While David Weber's House of Steel does open with a short story focusing on the life of King Roger, its actually more one of those world building source books for his Honor-verse. And mostly just the Manticore part of said universe. Still it did prompt me into another rearead of the "Honor Harrington" series. Starting in September with Echoes of Honor, Ashes of Victory and War of Honor...
Total books: 17
On the actual anthology front for that month we start out with the 49th Grantville Gazette (ed. Paula Goodlett). Sadly the story that sticks in my mind the most from that is the murder mystery one that never really seems to come together. Glitter & Mayhem (ed. John Klima, Lynne M Thomas & Michael Damion Thomas) are scifi and urban fantasy stories with night club and/or roller derby themes to them...
I got K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr's Loki's Wolves as a give away from Tor.com. Its a nice enough YA urban fantasy about the descendents of the Norse gods. I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure if I really want to get more of the series when it comes out...
Herbert Sakalauck's the Danish Scheme was originally part of the Grantville Gazette anthologies, several stories about a new Western Canada colony in the "Ring of FIre". But its now one of the re-polished into a regular novel eBooks Tor is putting out from the series...
To Be or Not to Be by Ryan North and Shakespeare is probably one of my favorite things I've got through Kickstarter campaigns. A choose-your-own-adventure version of Hamlet. I liked the path where Ophelia becomes the founder of modern plumbing thru her mastery of SCIENCE...
Carrie Vaughn's latest "Kitty Norville" book, Kitty in the Underworld, has her werewolf protaganist kidnapped by a small group looking to use her in an occult ritual against the ancient vampire Roman. Which if it weren't for the whole drugged and kidnapped might have been something Kitty would have been interested in helping with...
Cold Copper continues Devon Monk's is the latest "Age of Steam" horror/western/steampunk. Like Cherie Priest's books, prefect for any Deadlands players out there...
And still another from a continuing series with Brass Man by Neal Asher, part of his "Human Polity" series. Though the titular android is really more of a sideshow to the ancient buy deadly artifacts, alien intelligences and A.I.s all warring on the frontiers of "civilized" space...
Young Sentinels is the newest of Marion G. Harmon's "Wearing the Cape" supers eBook series. With the Sentinels teams recruiting new teen supers to help slow down the ever increasing super-villain threat...
Mark Del Franco's Undone Deeds is the finale to his "Connor Grey" modern fantasy series. And I'll admit, the ending made me cry a little bit...
I read an interview with Joe Hill where he said that NOS4A2 was him just running right the fuck at writing like his dead. And the book definitely reads the closest to being a Stephen King novel of his stuff I've read. And not in a bad way...
Darwin's Elevator makes for an excellent start to Jason M. Hough's post-apocalyptic scifi series. The apocalypse being an alien-delivered plague that turns humans into near-mindless savages. Unless they happen to be within a set distance of the also alien-delivered space elevator. Or are one of the tiny percentage of immune humans. Like the scavenger group led by one of the book's lead characters...
While David Weber's House of Steel does open with a short story focusing on the life of King Roger, its actually more one of those world building source books for his Honor-verse. And mostly just the Manticore part of said universe. Still it did prompt me into another rearead of the "Honor Harrington" series. Starting in September with Echoes of Honor, Ashes of Victory and War of Honor...
Total books: 17