Book List July/August/September '17
July:
Short Fiction: Melinda Snodgrass' When the Devil Drives
New Read: Ben Aaronovitch's the Farthest Station. Latest "Rivers of London" book with ghosts on trains.
Reread: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend
Graphic Novels/TPBs/RPGs: Adam Warren's Empowered vol.10
August:
Short Fiction: T. Kingfisher's Packing, Stephen Baxter's the Martian in the Woods & Matthew Bright's the Library of Lost Things.
New Read: Eric Flint/Gorg Huff/Paula Goodlett's the Alexander Inheritance. New spin-off from Flint's "Time Spike/Assitti Shards" shared time travel setting. With a modern cruise liner sent to the Mediterranean just after Alexander the Great's death as the set-up. Sadly I didn't care for this one, feeling there just wasn't enough really new or interesting to justify the further spin-off.
September:
Short Fiction: Alex Wells' Angel of the Blockade
New Read: Chuck Wendig's Life Debt. Star Wars tie-in about freeing the Wookie home world.
Short Fiction: Melinda Snodgrass' When the Devil Drives
New Read: Ben Aaronovitch's the Farthest Station. Latest "Rivers of London" book with ghosts on trains.
- Maggie Stiefvater's Blue Lily, Lily Blue. 3rd "Raven King" book.
- T. Kingfisher's the Halycon Fairy Book. Collection of humorously annotated obscure fairy tales.
- Robert Charles Wilson's Spin
- Renee George's Pit Perfect. Urban fantasy/romance/mystery with the pit in the title being a pit bull mastiff.
- Michael Witwer's Empire of Imagination: gary Gygax & the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Gygax biography
- Mira Grant's Symbiont & Chimera. 2nd & 3rd of Grant/McGuire's "Parasitology" trilogy.
- Brandon Sanderson's Arcanum Unbounded. Anthology of Sanderson's "Cosmere" themed short fiction.
- April Daniels' Sovereign. Sequel to Dreadnaught, with the same trans supers lead.
- Catheryne M. Valente's Radiance. Sort of ether-space exploration, Hollywood silent film era, horror/mystery mash-up. All with Valente's lyrical writing style.
- Drew Hayes' Forging Hephasteus. Super-villain focus' supers book, separate from Hayes' other supers setting.
Reread: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend
Graphic Novels/TPBs/RPGs: Adam Warren's Empowered vol.10
- Dan Brereton's Nocturnals: the Sinister Path
- Kelly Thompson/Leonardo Romero/Jordie Bellaire's Hawkeye: Kate Bishop: vol.1: Anchor Points
August:
Short Fiction: T. Kingfisher's Packing, Stephen Baxter's the Martian in the Woods & Matthew Bright's the Library of Lost Things.
New Read: Eric Flint/Gorg Huff/Paula Goodlett's the Alexander Inheritance. New spin-off from Flint's "Time Spike/Assitti Shards" shared time travel setting. With a modern cruise liner sent to the Mediterranean just after Alexander the Great's death as the set-up. Sadly I didn't care for this one, feeling there just wasn't enough really new or interesting to justify the further spin-off.
- Rosemary Kirstein's the Steerswoman & the Outskirter's Secret.
- Mira Grant's Final Girls
- Catherynne M. Valente's the Refrigerator Monolgues. Series of pieces set around expies of various comic book women.
- N.K. Jemisin's the Broken Kingdoms, the Kingdom of the Gods & the Awakened Kingdom.
- A. Lee Martinex (ed) Strange Afterlives. Collection of stories about non-typical undead.
- Joseph Nassise (ed) Urban Enemies
- A.J. Hartley's Steeplejack. YA pseudo-history in a variant on Colonial Africa.
- R.J. Ross' Cape High Villainy
- Kevin Hearne's Beseiged. "Iron Druid" short fiction collection
- James L. Sutter (creative director) Starfinder Core Rulebook
- Amanda Lafrenas' Titty Time vol.2
- G. Willow Wilson/Takeshi Miyazawa's Ms. Marvel: Damge Per Second
- Kate Leth/Brittney L. Williams' Patsy Walker aka Hellcat: Careless Whisker(s)
September:
Short Fiction: Alex Wells' Angel of the Blockade
New Read: Chuck Wendig's Life Debt. Star Wars tie-in about freeing the Wookie home world.
- Jim Bernheimer's Rise of a D-List Villain
- Theodora Goss' the Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter. Team-up of the daughters of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, as well as Moreau, Frankenstein & Rappaccinni.
- Cherie Priest's Brimstone Pryomantic spirit haunts a 1920's Spiritualist commune.
- Rachel Aaron's a Dragon of a Different Color. Latest "Heartstrikers" urban fantasy.
- Sarah Gailey's River of Teeth. Alternate history where hippos were imported to use a replacement for regular cows.
- Lee Goldberg's Watch Me Die
- Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone. Ree Dolly is a lot gayer in the book version.
- Eric Flint/Charles Gannon's 1636: the Vatican Sanction. Closing out the Pope sub-series of the "Ring of Fire" series.
- Sean Punch (lead writer) Dungeon Fantasy RPG. A condensed and slightly simplified version of the various GURPS: Fantasy related source books.