Kevin's Watch

Just found a copy of Julian May's Intervention at a random 2nd hand shop stop. Guess a re-read of all the Galactic Milieu books is in order.

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Excellent find! And great idea!

I rather think so myself. Only read the others once each so far, so it's almost like a brand new series.

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Took delivery of the new Ben Aaronovitch book Broken Homes today, as well as Earthseed by Pamela Sargent, and it's two sequels which I never knew existed until somebody here told me. YA sci-fi, but the first was one of the best I ever read.

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Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer
Steles of the Sky - Elizabeth Bear
Republic of Thieves - Scott Lynch
The Godless - Ben Peek
City of Stairs - Robert Jackson Bennet

Ordered:
Lock In - John Scalzi
Mirror Empire - Kameron Hurley

They're both released next week, though I think the UK edition of Mirror Empire is the week after. I actually have Hurley's God's War on my pile unread, with the rest of that trilogy still to buy, but there's enough positive buzz on this new series that I'm eager to get in right away.

Actually, now I think of it there are also a couple of Scalzi books I've bought and not read yet, too...

Scale-Bright by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Picked up 2 Thieves World books, a couple Iain M Banks (Excession and Look To Windward I think), and The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents by Pratchett this weekend.

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Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

These aren't all SF/F, but I'm listing them all here anyway.

We Are All Completely Fine - Daryl Gregory
The Waking Dark - Robin Wasserman
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Horns - Joe Hill
The Sundial - Shirley Jackson
That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote - K J Bishop
The Girl With All the Gifts - M R Carey
Moxyland - Lauren Beukes
Tender Morsels - Margo Lanagan
Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix

I really enjoyed Moxyland. Thanks again for bringing the author to my attention.

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Got a delivery yesterday, my one missing Culture novel, The Hydrogen Sonata, as well as Feersum Endjin, completing my collection of Iain M Banks books.

Also Foxglove Summer, the 5th Peter Grant book by Ben Aaronovitch. (A sort of contemporary magical realism I guess, I recommend them as a fun read. If I have one criticism, it's a minor over-use of pop-culture references. But just a minor one.)

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So, ordered the latest 2 Outlander books by Diana Gabaldon, as well as The Leftovers and the three The 100 books. Now to wait for delivery...

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The Runes of the Earth. In the mood to give it another read afresh and have the paperback this time.

Well, purely by chance I wondered into a bookshop yesterday and found Fall Of Light, the next Kharkanas book by Ericson.

I only found out it existed a few days ago here on the Watch, so I couldn't resist.

Of course, this might imperil my planned Bakker re-read, since I will have to read Forge Of Darkness again as well.

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Picked up a newish William Gibson The Peripheral, and something I swore I would never do, 3 Feist books (I think it's the Conclave of Shadows series), but they were such a bargain I couldn't pass them up.

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Got Hamilton's "Void" trilogy:


The Dreaming Void
The Temporal Void
The Evolutionary Void

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Bugger.

Just realised last night that I already had a copy of book 1 of this series.

Ah well, another duplicate.

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Avatar wrote:Well, purely by chance I wondered into a bookshop yesterday and found Fall Of Light, the next Kharkanas book by Ericson.

I only found out it existed a few days ago here on the Watch, so I couldn't resist.

Of course, this might imperil my planned Bakker re-read, since I will have to read Forge Of Darkness again as well.

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I've read that one, now waiting for the 3rd. I presume there will be a 3rd one? There's been nothing about the Edur yet, although grey skin hinted at in FOL.

There will be a 3rd, Walk in Shadow, but no release date yet.

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