October:
Short Fiction:
New Reads:  Vivian Cathe's (ed) Humans Wanted

• Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus
• C.B. Lee's Not Your Sidekick
• Charles E. Gannon's Fire With Fire
• Ken Liu's Wall of Storms
• A.J. Hartley's Firebrand

April:
Short Fiction:  Jo Walton's a Burden Shared & Sharon Lee/Steve Miller's Cutting Corners.

New Read:  Joe Hill's the Fireman.  Apocalyptic-Dystopia involving self-combustion plague.

• Joanne Harris' Jigs & Reels.  Anthology, decent not great.
• Richard Castle's Driving Heat.  I actually bought like 4 or 5 more of these at once, all fairly cheap e- ( Read more... )

October:
Short Fiction: No free range fiction at all that month.

New Reads: Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker.
Eric Flint's 1636: the Ottoman Onslaught

Rereads:  So I started rereading all of the Ring of Fire books (not including the semipro Gazettes)
Eric Flint's 1632
Eric Flint (ed) Ring of Fire vol. 1-3, Grantville Gazette vol. 1-6Eric Flint/ ( Read more... )

April
Short Fiction: Marie Brennan's "From the Editorial Page of the Falchester Weekly Review", Glenn Hirshberg's "Freedom is Space for the Spirit", Tara Isabella Burton's "the Destroyer" & Genevieve Valentine's "La Beaute Sans Vertu".

New Reads:
Brandon Sanderson's Calamity and the Bands of Mourning.  The first finishes up his supers' trilogy and ( Read more... )

*Gets Shepard's Crown in mail*

*Manages to only cry a little bit while glancing over the complete Discworld book list*

*Gets to bit with Granny Weatherwax*

I'm gonna need a moment.  Or a few moments...

Pterry dies at 66. Dammit.

The majority of the short fiction this time around comes from me finally getting around to putting all of Sean McGuire's free stories on the old Kindle.  All pretty good, though a few could have used some extra work going from opening chapter to complete but related story.  But still, lot of free stories; One Hell of a Ride, No Place Like Home, ( Read more... )

And another year of just getting these under the wire of my own self-imposed time limit.  First finished book of the year was Kate Elliott's Cold Steel, which finished up her alt history/fantasy "Cold Magic" trilogy.  With gods and ghouls and dragons and rebellions...

Did a reread of Snuff after picking up a cheap e-copy.  Still fun but definitely ( Read more... )

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And the first book finished in '13 is Robin Wyrick's Eviction Notice. A mostly comedy scifi story where aliens are going to jettison every living thing on Earth into space because of a senior prank involving crop circles...

Then a quick reread of Pratchett's Small Gods brought on by some online discussion of women in his work. Mostly to double ( Read more... )