Die Buying: a mall cop mystery by Laura DiSilverioFormer military cop Emma-Joy "EJ" Harris earned an honourable discharge when an IED injures her leg. Rejected by the civilian police forces she applied to, and unable to live with her Hollywood rich family, she winds up moving to Veronville (state unknown; it's probably mentioned in the text ( Read more... )

So what follows is a quick summary of a number of books that I read just before, during, and just after the big move. Unfortunately, I no longer remember which books I read exactly when, so in the interests of moving thing along, here is a mass of everything that hasn't already been dealt with in depth elsewhere.

Home for Christmas by Andrew M. ( Read more... )

Polity Agent: the fourth Cormac novel by Neal Asher

Following directly on from Brass Man, this one begins with a Polity AI on a distant space station receiving a transmission from the future. It opens a runcible gate to receive, not strange visitors from another time, but the crew of a just-departed ship sent to return a "Maker" alien to its ( Read more... )

Fragile Things: Short fictions and wonders by Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman's latest short-stories and poems, at last in mass-market paperback! Notable pieces include "A Study In Emerald", originally published in Shadows over Baker Street. Let's face it: Holmes and the Mythos were the original fan-fictions, and it was inevitable that they would get ( Read more... )

Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre

Sequel to Grimspace and Wanderlust. Sirantha Jax and her motley crew of motley misfits have finally arrived at the planet of Ithiss-Tor, where Jax is to play ambassador to the Ithtorians, a notoriously powerful insectoid species. The Ithtorians don't like humans, but Jax has one of their own as a friend and the ( Read more... )

Prophets: Apotheosis: book one by S. Andrew swannI've had some good experiences with Swann in the past, so I decided to give this, the first volume of a new, SF, series, a try ( Read more... )

Echoes of the Great Song by David GemmellThe Avatar Empire was maintained by energy crystals that allowed the Avatars to build flying ships and energy weapons, as well as live for centuries. But now a new ice age has come, and most of the Avatars have died. The survivors are cut off from their power source, and threatened on all sides by the ( Read more... )

( Trouble Magnet by Alan Dean Foster )