Kevin's Watch

A Breath of Snow and Ashes, book 6 of the Outlander series.

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Now that I finished SRD's short stories I've moved onto Golden Son by Pierce Brown. Red Rising was good so I'm looking forward to it. I mainly started this series since I read such a glowing review of Golden Son, so expectations are high.

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Damn...finished that, now have to wait 3 weeks for the next two books to arrive.

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The Affinity Bridge by George Mann. Gave it it's one night chance last night and it blew it. If a book can't get you in two hours and you wake up the following morning still not interested in where it was going, toss it into the pile of 'also rans' . IQ84 by Haruki Murakami gets it's slot tonight.

Warrior: The Moondark Saga, Books 1-3

I wasn't expecting much from this but it is actually pretty good.

Long after the nuclear winter, humanity survives on the American continent much as the original Native Americans did, and tribes such as the Dog People struggle to maintain their identity in the face of an emerging Empire bent on conquest.

Just finished a reread of The Alien Years by Robert Silverberg. I like this book, it's an old-fashioned alien-invasion novel with a twist. It has resonances with The Three-Body Problem and Childhood's End as there are themes relating to a what a successful invasion (violent or peaceful) would be like, and this one teases out this idea in an interesting way.

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Hmmm, I remember quite liking Silverberg's post-nuclear-winter series...uh...the series was called "New Springtime."

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Just started The First Named by John Wylie. Book one of the Servant of Ark series. Looks a bit Earthsea-ish.

(Finished what I was busy on, and going to be a couple weeks before my delivery arrives.)

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I've started reading Radiance by Catherynne M Valente. It's an alternate history based on old pulp planetary sci fi and early 20th century cinema.

Sounds fun.

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It's interesting so far - it's composed in the style of found documents, like newspaper clippings, film transcripts, and "case reports" (which actually read as a regular narrative chapter, but that's how it was presented), all about the life and eventual disappearance of a famous filmmaker.

Just read Written in Fire, the third book in Marcus Sakey's Brilliance trilogy.

I'll start (R)EVOLUTION today.

I'm Murrin wrote:It's interesting so far - it's composed in the style of found documents, like newspaper clippings, film transcripts, and "case reports" (which actually read as a regular narrative chapter, but that's how it was presented), all about the life and eventual disappearance of a famous filmmaker.

Eh, dunno how much I like that...I usually skip over stuff like clippings when I come across them in other books...kinda breaks the narrative flow for me. But I do usually enjoy alternate histories.

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Well, it seems the "newspaper clippings" I mentioned are actually editorials from a particular pair of writers about the life of this main character, sort of celebrity gossip and commentary. You'll get a chapter that's a film transcript, followed by a chapter where two editorials are cut together to form a juxtaposition across related or contrasting subjects.

Haha, sounds like work.

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How so?

Having to assimilate all the disparate formats / methods of conveying the details into a story.

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the long way to a small angry planet by Becky Chambers. It's a fairly generic space adventure with some good aliens and characters.

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Kas Morgan The 100. Post-apocalyptic YA type book. I ordered all 3 of them, but so far only the 1st has arrived.

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I just finished Radiance. Enjoyed it a lot, though I think Valente maybe gave too many answers in the final two sections - I was enjoying the mystery and ambiguity, and had gotten the idea that the book would never quite fill in the gaps in the central mystery. Then it did, so.