Time to get the final list for '13 done.  Starting with the free range short fiction.  John Scalzi gives a tale of obsession and science with Muse of Fire.  Mari Ness' In the Greenwood gives a new slant on the Sherwood myth.  Hope's End and the Girl of Hrusch Avenue are a pair of "Gunpowder Magic" stories by Brian McClellan (read to wait for the ( Read more... )

Looking over my November list I'm only seeing four free-range short stories.  Andy Merino's grotesque transformation story of a pioneer journey in the Oregon Trail Diary of Willa Porter.  Then Benjamin Rosenbaum's bureaucracy and social media during the zombie apocalypse in Feature Development for Social Networking.  Su Yee Lin has a dreamscape ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

And once again just beating out the end of the current month to write up the previous month. Started December with the newest "Iron Druid" from Kevin Hearne, Trapped and the final-for-now "Edger" book from Ilona Andrews, Steel's Edge. The former has Atticus attempting to finish up the investment of his Druid apprentice, while dealing with the ( Read more... )

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OK, lets finally get to the December list. Which is nearly entirely David Weber through the majority of the month. But before that we've got a few other books, including some more cheap random deals for the ol' Kindle. Starting with Jennifer Gardiner's Slim to None about a New York film critic and her relationship with food, family and ( Read more... )

Ok, so lets do this again...

Started off July with the most recent (#36) "Ring of Fire" Grantville Gazette e-book anthology. Which like the Ring of Fire 3 "pro" anthology features more than a bit on airships in the altered past. I'm still hoping for some more Russia updates. I know people are working on them from the occasional foray into the ( Read more... )

Ain't nuthin goin on. So instead of my normal late night, bored at work searching of LJs with common intrests, another book quote. This one from the first page of "To the Nines" a Stephanie Plum book by Janet Evanovich ( Read more... )