September Readings
The Innovator’s Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation by Peter J. Denning and Robert Dunham. Nonfiction/Business
Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. SF/Mystery. Classic re-read for book club
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Epic Fantasy
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Nonfiction/science
Angel with a Sword: Merovingen Nights, Book 1. By C. J. Cherryh. SF. This is a SF novel that feels like fantasy in many ways, intended to launch a shared world series (that lasted for a few volumes, amazon says 12 but that doesn’t seem right). I found it rather slow.
Charon: A Dragon at the Gate by Jack Chalker. SF/Adventure. Third in the Four Lords of the Diamond series.
Thieves’ World edited by Robert Asprin - Fantasy anthology. The first book in the original shared world anthology series. Later volumes became drenched in misery but this first one is actually quite good and even fun in spots.
The Other Time by Mack Reynolds with Dean Ing. SF/Time travel. Paperback Baen books 308 pages. An archeologist’s fantasy as Dan Fielding, a specialist in Mexican cultures somehow finds himself time travelled (it is never explained) back to the Spanish invasion of Cortez where he uses what he can remember or reconstruct of science, plus his knowledge of history (which he admits because cloudier the more he makes changes) to help the Mexicans organize and defeat Cortez. This is a plot driven novel with only Fielding coming across as a believable character. He makes realistic mistakes and is portrayed as a scholar stuck in a warrior culture.
Ring of Fire edited by Eric Flint. This is a collection of stories by other authors in his 1632 universe. This led to many collaborative novels and even a magazine of stories in this universe.
Asimov’s sf magazine
So that’s two non-fiction, five sf (one reread), two fantasy, one magazine for 9.5 books for the month and 110.5 for the year.
Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. SF/Mystery. Classic re-read for book club
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Epic Fantasy
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Nonfiction/science
Angel with a Sword: Merovingen Nights, Book 1. By C. J. Cherryh. SF. This is a SF novel that feels like fantasy in many ways, intended to launch a shared world series (that lasted for a few volumes, amazon says 12 but that doesn’t seem right). I found it rather slow.
Charon: A Dragon at the Gate by Jack Chalker. SF/Adventure. Third in the Four Lords of the Diamond series.
Thieves’ World edited by Robert Asprin - Fantasy anthology. The first book in the original shared world anthology series. Later volumes became drenched in misery but this first one is actually quite good and even fun in spots.
The Other Time by Mack Reynolds with Dean Ing. SF/Time travel. Paperback Baen books 308 pages. An archeologist’s fantasy as Dan Fielding, a specialist in Mexican cultures somehow finds himself time travelled (it is never explained) back to the Spanish invasion of Cortez where he uses what he can remember or reconstruct of science, plus his knowledge of history (which he admits because cloudier the more he makes changes) to help the Mexicans organize and defeat Cortez. This is a plot driven novel with only Fielding coming across as a believable character. He makes realistic mistakes and is portrayed as a scholar stuck in a warrior culture.
Ring of Fire edited by Eric Flint. This is a collection of stories by other authors in his 1632 universe. This led to many collaborative novels and even a magazine of stories in this universe.
Asimov’s sf magazine
So that’s two non-fiction, five sf (one reread), two fantasy, one magazine for 9.5 books for the month and 110.5 for the year.