Good Stuff
John Scalzi had some excellent advice on his blog, the Whatever, awhile back. It was to find and read the fiction of Cherie Priest.
I managed to find a copy of her Wings to the Kingdom, and it was excellent. Even within the first chapter, I could tell that I had latched onto a solid job of storytelling. I really want to get hold of all the rest of her work, it was that good. It was probably the first book I ran through in under a day that I've had for quite awhile.
Today, for going back through old books, I'm reading a compendium volume that I bought but never read end to end because I'd read the volumes that went into it. Ingathering is a NESFA Press collection of Zenna Henderson's People stories. It will take me a couple of days to finish all of it. Meanwhile I have not yet decided what else to read in between. Possibly a Ringo/Travis Taylor collaboration. Maybe one of the YA books that I have stacked up.
I managed to find a copy of her Wings to the Kingdom, and it was excellent. Even within the first chapter, I could tell that I had latched onto a solid job of storytelling. I really want to get hold of all the rest of her work, it was that good. It was probably the first book I ran through in under a day that I've had for quite awhile.
Today, for going back through old books, I'm reading a compendium volume that I bought but never read end to end because I'd read the volumes that went into it. Ingathering is a NESFA Press collection of Zenna Henderson's People stories. It will take me a couple of days to finish all of it. Meanwhile I have not yet decided what else to read in between. Possibly a Ringo/Travis Taylor collaboration. Maybe one of the YA books that I have stacked up.