So I was at Eastercon last weekend where John Scalzi was guest of honour, and he was talking about people's blog sites being basically a post that says "And I shall write more regular blog posts in the future" and then nothing for the next seven years, and I felt called out, I say, called out! So here is the […]
"GONNA REC IT!" as seen in Ralph II where the destructuve anti-hero takes up a quiet post in a library and guides people towards appropriate reading material. Anyway, I am up to my eyeballs but want to get some book recs out there before I, hopefully, get the Clarkes shortlist written up (which, owing to a mountainous reading pile, […]
Which is to say that I have some book recs but they're some of them ARCs so some of these won't be out for a while. Usual apologies for the long paws, as Rex would say. My fairly decent excuse is that I have finally delivered (delivered three separate times in fact (1)) the MS for my sequel […]
We are marching towards the end of a year of tumult and turbulence, and I am going to retreat from it and instead talk books at you. Specifically, I have read a metric crapton of books this year, and mostly I have blogged about them previous to this, so I will let those posts speak to me, vis: So here I extol the virtues of […]
November's various duties have been put behind me — thanks to everyone who turned up at the WS events. Also a huge thank you to the organisers of Novacon, where I was treated royally. It's a great convention (longest running local con I think) and there was some excellent programming, including a fascinating lecture on exoplanets that came at a useful […]
A long-overdue bit of bloggery for one reason or another, but time to run down on some more good stuff I've read, starting with Sequels Corner. Recommending sequels is always a bit of an oddity. Did you like [Book 1]? In which case you'll probably like this one approximately more or less as much. However, there […]
First of all, out of a very strong field (see posts passim), Colson Whitehead took this year's Arthur C Clarke award for his Underground Railway, which is a thought-provoking and powerful read. Definitely check it out, as well as the other fine books on the shortlist. It's been too long, Clarkes aside, since I wrote a post about good stuff I've read, […]
The problem with putting off a post recommending good books is that you keep reading more good books and it all gets on top of you. I have, therefore, absolutely let some cracking books slip me mind, but I'm going to do my damndest to recommend some damn things here. First, though, it is that time of […]
I figure I've talked enough about how I'm shortlisted for the Gemmell Legend Award and desperately need every vote I can get so I want to highlight some excellent stuff I've read recently. I've been on something of a reading spree , mostly because I've been travelling around and that tends to give me more time for it. […]
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