Looking over the non-collected short fiction to start, beginning with N.K. Jemisin's Playing Nice With God's Bowling Ball which is about a police investigation of some super-science gone wrong involving young kids.  Steve White's the Last Secret of Mary Bowser is a sort of side story to what I think is his normal time travel war series.  I think.  ( 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 just under the wire I get to the June book list. Which starts with rereading the Honorverse anthologies. Well the stories that worked in the setting. I'm looking at you John Ringo. More than Honor, Worlds of Honor, Changer of Worlds, the Service of the Sword and In Fire Forged. I was going to get to the regular Honor-verse books again, but ( Read more... )

I should really get these done sooner, I've been seriously slacking on them. And April was a pretty light month with the books read. Started with an urban fantasy series involving tooth fairies by Jennifer Safrey called Tooth & Nail. Don't remember a lot about this, beyond that the main character was an amateur female boxer, the fae were kinda ( Read more... )

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