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CW: #Reading in Week Seventeen of 2026 | April 20–26 | ~2600 words | ~15k characters | Tag to mute: #BokBooks
●●●◐○ The Fish Tank Crab - Genna Gardini (ss) 2021
Two arguing women pass a writer in a park, and he hears one tell the other with some emotion, “Listen, you just pick up the phone and tell him, ‘Lewis. Your fish tank crab has escaped!’” The writer imagines a whole darkly comic scenario from this:Jess, the Kinsey-4 who's feeling suffocated in her new relationship. Keisha, the judgmental lesbian who feels Jess isn't trying hard enough. Lewis, who has a crush on Jess and doesn't realize she's in a relationship, who asks her to watch his fish tanks for him while he's away for a week, secretly hoping she'll be impressed.
Ramon, the small, red crab who grabs the net Jess is cleaning his tank with, before leaping at her face, then falling to the floor scuttling for the apartment door. Maureen, the octopus whose tank gets knocked over when Keisha is startled by Jess's scream, and who realized that tasty Ramon was no longer locked away in another tank…
So, this last story from the Disruptions collection of short African fiction — Hurrah! — isn't depressing. It's maybe not even a real story, since a character just idly imagined it all. And it might not be African. I mean, the characters discuss an event in East Croyden, and I don't think London has moved. We do learn Keisha is originally from Johannesburg, but is that enough?
I also wonder about a couple lines like this, where Keisha is remembering her and Jess's second date: “Jess was shy, Keisha had thought, and it was aDɔrəble.” There's another line with a word in IPA. Don't know why.
●●●●○ More Unsworth Manor Nudes {Unsworth Manor 2} - P.Z. Walker (nov) 2018
We begin this second Unsworth novel with a former fighter pilot looking to buy the manor, which is deserted and run down. While Avery is looking around, the realtor tells him that the former residents all died when the Lusitania was sunk. The family we followed in the first novel — Cedric and Gretchen, their kids Max and Rose, Nancy the young governess — all wiped out offscreen. Well, that sucks.Anyway, Avery the American, Great War pilot, scion of an industrialist — not just anyone can afford a ten-bedroom Manor — finds Gretchen's diary, and becomes interested in the nudist lifestyle her family and staff lived. He tries being nude a few evenings after the workmen who are repairing and modernizing the manor have left for the day. He even goes nude in the back garden, and swims nude in the pool when it's completed. He enjoys it.
Then it's back to the US to deal with some business. He invites the woman he's previously dated to visit. She does so a month after he returns, when the house is ready, but their relationship founders. Avery likes nudism; Lisa thinks no civilized person would go unclothed. Despite his nudist ways, Avery is a proper gentleman. He finds that Lisa has changed while he was away, and she now drinks too much and parties too hard, the bad sort of Prohibition-era flapper.
Avery continues in his nudist ways, and like the Unsworths before him, he finds his staff is willing to go along with the lifestyle. Avery also befriends some titled refugees from the Continent, and finds out they're involved in something illegal. And he acquires a girlfriend who eventually becomes his wife. I thought this trilogy was about a naturist resort, but apparently that's only the case for the third volume. If that.
●●○○○ The Last Ride of German Freddie - Walter Jon Williams (nvt) 2002
In this #AltHist tale, Friedrich Nietzsche has gone to the Old West. He caught diphtheria and cholera in the Franco-Prussian war, and his health is fragile. Add in that his father died mad at age 35, and Freddie thinks the same will happen to him, and he's prepared to take wild risks. Freddie has become a Cowboy, capital C¹ — a rustler. His group is currently in Tombstone, Arizona, trying to get their man elected sheriff (rather than Wyatt Earp), since it's convenient for a criminal gang to have a sheriff in its pocket.Freddie gets involved with the current sheriff's girlfriend, and also is more than a bystander to the famous street fight in Tombstone. Despite betrayals and scheming, this talky story seems overlong.
●●○○○ Hunt the Hunter - Kris Neville (ss) 1951
Ri and Mia are a pair of rich big-game hunters, who discovered a world with farn beasts, which makes for a good hunting challenge. They tried to keep this a secret when they went back to civilization, but their pilot talked, and a richer and nastier big-game hunter — Extrone, the dictator of human space — has kidnapped the pair and made them his guides. There's little doubt he'll kill them if he doesn't have a successful hunt; he may do so even if he does.The situation is made worse by the fact that farn beasts are known to be spread across alien worlds, and the fact that they're found on this planet means the never-named aliens put them there. The aliens are known to react violently to intrusions upon their space.
●●◐○○ Civilizations - Laurent Binet (nov) 2019
A series of murders and flights from vengeance sent various groups of Vikings from Norway to Iceland to Greenland to Vinland. Eventually a woman named Freydis came to lead a large group with several ships, along with their horses and cattle. They worked their way down the eastern coast of North America, stopping from time to time to spend a year, making friends with some Skraelings and enemies of others.The Vikings learned local crops and customs, and taught the natives how to make bog iron. But after some time, the Skraelings inevitably became sick with smallpox and other European diseases, and the Vikings moved on, usually leaving some horses and cattle behind. Some of Freydis's group settled in Cuba, while she and the other half continued on to Mayan territory, and eventually down to Peru.
Desired result one: the natives of North and South America are exposed to European diseases early, and have a chance to recover before Columbus shows up some 500 years later. They also know how to work iron, and have horses and cattle. Columbus shows up on schedule. The natives get more horses and cattle, more tools and knowledge, plus guns (though they don't learn how to make gunpowder). Things end badly for the Genoan. Desired result two: one young woman learns Castillian. This sets up the Chronicles of Atahualpa.
When the Sapa Inca died, his sons Huacar and Atalhuapa fought for the throne of the Incan Empire. The latter ends up being forced ever northward with his retreating army. Eventually the young prince ends up on Cuba, where he meets the middle-aged Higuénamota, the princess who knows Castillian. He's also shown the hulks of two of Columbus's boats. Atahualpa has his people fix those ships, and build a larger third ship, and sets forth across the sea.
Higuénamota comes along, and the three ships of non-sailors who grew up in the Andean mountains successfully arrive in Lisbon, sailing in on a tsunami, after a great earthquake has leveled the town. (In our timeline, this happened in 1755, but Binet moves it to the early 1500s, because if it helps your plot, why not?) Events happen, and Atahualpa and his people end up walking to Spain.
More buckets of authorial fiat then water the plot, as Atahualpa ends up taking over Spain, setting up an alternative to taxation, providing for the poor, abolishing the Inquisition, instituting freedom of religion, and becoming a power in Europe, culminating in being crowned the Holy Roman Emperor. A restrained #AlternateHistory tale of "one small change" this is not.
He also starts trans-Atlantic trade with his brother (who sends a fleet that magically arrives, in the nick of time, at the city where Atahualpa and his forces were being besieged, which wasn't the city he was in when Higuénamota was sent to Huacar), and more. And Pedro Pizarro, Lorenzo de Medici, Michelangelo, Martin Luther, and loads of other famous people make appearances.
As usual, non-SF writers don't write SF according to the conventions, which can annoy people who like those conventions, but if one makes allowance after allowance, and doesn't choke on the "you're kidding me" moments, the book isn't terrible.⁰ At least the first three-quarters or so. I admit my patience plummeted when the Aztecs showed up in Europe.
●●●○○ Consumership - Margaret St. Clair (ss) 1956
Group Mother was distressed by Marian, the latest child to progress to her Group. Unlike Tommy, who knew all the latest slogans, and always preferred new things, Marian wanted to eat her usual food, not something different every day, depending on what companies were pushing that week. Marian even wanted to keep her doll, not exchange it for something new each week. It was a trial.●●●●○ The Hemingway Hoax - Joe Haldeman (nov)² 1996
Our story begins with a conman, Sylvester Castlemaine (Call me Castle) and a literature professor, John Baird, who specialized in Ernest Hemingway. A casual conversation reveals that early in Hemingway's career he'd lost a suitcase of manuscripts, encompassing half of a novel he'd written, and ten or twenty short stories.Castle more-than-halfway interested Baird in attempting to forge that half-novel, which he could do, since he had an eidetic memory and likely knew more than anyone in the world about Hemingway and his works. Baird had also published some short stories earlier in his career, so he could write, as well. And since payments from John's trust fund would soon stop, leaving him in a financial hole, why not try?
For reasons beyond the comprehension of mere humans, this drew the notice of forces who monitored the timelines of the multiverse. Rather than an Element who looked like a blond Russian spy being assigned to the case, à la Sapphire and Steel, the agent assigned to Baird looked like Hemingway. It switched between avatars of the writer at various ages. After a conversation on a train, that agent killed Baird for threatening to upset events in the near future.
For reasons beyond the comprehension of extra-dimensional beings, Baird's death did not take. He woke up in his own body — with different wounds from Vietnam, and with a second set of memories that matched his new timeline³ — and life carried on. And when Baird continued on his forgery quest, not-Ernest showed up and killed him again, in a different way, to see if it stuck. It did not, and things began to get rather more odd.
●●○○○ Cormorant Cove - Mel Cowan (ss) 2025
The second day of Elara's vacation was a masterpiece of organized leisure. A map, a GPS watch, and a hiking app would assure that she, with her carefully stocked backpack and professional hiking outfit assured she'd reach Beacon's Point by her planned lunch break.Except three hours in, she got a curt call from her boss demanding to know where a file was. That meant Elara⁴ had to email her assistant to handle it, which led to her missing a turn off on the path, so she ended up at Cormorant Cove, a secluded nudist beach.
The usual follows. She's initially shocked, she watches a while from behind the boulder the wrong path dumped her out at, she comes to see the naked humans as just people doing people things, and she ends up trying nudity for herself and enjoying it.
●●●◐○ The Goggles of Dr. Dragonet - Fritz Leiber (ss) 1961
In a story that seems more Radium Age than Golden Age, a professor makes some goggles that block electro-magnetic radiation, but allow one to see gravito-electric and magneto-gravitic spectra. The former makes anything living (or derived from living sources, like leather or wood) invisible, but still shows nonliving things. The latter allows one to see minds. Not thoughts, just personality traits and emotions.For instance, the minds of newspaperman Marty and sculptor Alice were both green with flashes of blue — they're extroverts with dashes of introversion — while writer Arthur was the reverse. Dr. Dragonet then passed out white canes, and his chauffeur Karl drove the foursome from the house in the Hollywood Hills into the city, where they observed people for hours.
At the end of the afternoon, the quartet arrived back at the doctor's estate. After hours wearing the goggles, they'd become sensitive, and Dragonet instructed them to look up, where they saw the Milky Way span the sky, shining in mindlight: the galaxy was populated. He also pointed them at a bright violet light in the sky, which Marty identified by its position as Mars. That proved to have some repercussions.
●●●○○ The Gardener - Margaret St. Clair (ss) 1949
There are fifty Butandra trees in the sacred grove a few dozen kilometers from the planetary capital of Cassid. There had always been fifty trees in the small, no more, no less, for all of recorded Cassidan history. You'd think that Hobbs, acting chief of the Bureau of Extra-Systemic Plant Conservation would respect that, but no. On the last day of his posting to Cassid, he'd gone to the grove and cut down a sapling, planning to make a walking stick of the fine-grained white wood.The Gardener — a figure of myth on Cassid — traced the missing sapling to a hotel, where the meter-tall, stocky figure with skin like rough, brown bark was seen by a green-skinned maid. But Hobbs had already boarded a spaceship and left the planet. The Gardener looked upward, and began to rise ever faster into the sky. The next day, Hobbs was just starting to whittle the Butandra sapling into a walking stick, when he looked out the porthole in his cabin, and saw a face looking back at him. The story proceeds from there.
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Week Seventeen's numbers added to year-to-date totals:
132+06 ss | 08+1 nvt | 07+0 nva | 34+3 nov |
#books #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction
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[1] “[Brocius] and his crowd defiantly called themselves Cowboys. It was a name synonymous with ‘rustler,’ and hardly respectable — legitimate ranchers called themselves stockmen.”
[2] This is barely a novel, by the screen counts I'm using — short→150, novelette→300, novella→450 — but 465 screens is over 450.
[3] Not-Ernest is killing John twice — a body left behind in one timeline, a mind overwritten in another — and he's still not happy. Some entities just can't be satisfied.
[4] Kate's spellcheck objects to ‘Elara’ but has no problem with ‘Elara's’? ‹sigh› Oh, and another word I wish I could remove. I occasionally mention ‘chauffeur’, a driver. I never mean to mention ‘chauffer’, a small stove (think ‘chafing dish’). Kate is the most adequate text editor I've tried in Linux, but it lacks so many abilities I was used to under Windows.
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#Reading The Crucible, the latest Fighting Tomcats #AltHist book, and my #grammar funny bone was smacked. A naval agent is getting info about the situation in WW2 Italy from a Mob member in New York. He ends the meeting with “I'm thankful for all the La Cosa Nostra has done for the war effort.”
Ack, "the La"? I'd think most anyone would know "la" means "the" and shouldn't be duplicated. It's worse than some rich boor saying “Who cares what the hoi polloi think?” since fewer people know "hoi" is "the" in the Greek phrase "the (common) people" or "the masses". #peeve
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### #Books and #stories for #JanuaryReads.
~500 words | Tag to mute: #BokBooksNine novels:¹
●●●◐○ Hidden Things - P.Z. Walker {Emma Nelson 3} #mystery
●●●◐○ 1638: The Sovereign States - Flint, Huff, Goodlett {USSR 4} #AltHist
●●●◐○ Ashes, Ashes - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 11} #HFY
●●●◐○ A Diogenes Club for the Czar - Huff, Goodlett {Miroslava Holmes 4}
●●●○○ The Council on Jerusalem - Pierre E Pettinger Jr {Sodality Universe 5} #SpaceOpera
●●●●○ Usurpation {Semiosis 3} - Sue Burke #SFF
●●◐○○ Murder in the Tool Library - A.E. Marling #solarpunk
●●●●○ Zero Sum Game - S.L. Huang {Cas Russell 1} #thriller
●●●○○ Paradigms Lost - Ryk E. Spoor {Digital Knight}Zero novellas. Again.²
Five novelettes:
●●●◐○ Doctor Satan - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 1} #WeirdTales
●●●◐○ The Man Who Chained the Lightning - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 2}
●●●◐○ Mask of Death - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 8} #pulp
●●●◐○ The Raid on the Termites - Paul Ernst #VintageSciFi
●●●○○ Marooned Under the Sea - Paul ErnstTwenty-six short stories:
●●●◐○ Deus Ex Machina - Francis G. Rayer
●●●◐○ The Land of Lost Content - Chad Oliver
●●●●◐ The Mercenaries - H. Beam Piper
●●●◐○ Immersion - Aliette de Bodard
●●●◐○ Metal Like Blood in the Dark - T. Kingfisher
●●●○○ The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir - Karin Tidbeck
●●◐○○ Lorelei Street - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ Morrigan in the Sunglare - Seth Dickinson
●●●◐○ The Ormolu Clock - August Derleth
●●●○○ World Behind the Moon - Paul Ernst
●●●○○ Man from Beyond - John Wyndham
●●◐○○ Home to Mother - Manly Wade Wellman
●●●○○ Space is for Suckers - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ Scanners Live in Vain - Cordwainer Smith #ClassicSciFi
●●●●○ Voyage to Queensthroat - Anya Johanna DeNiro #trans
●●●○○ Belladonna Nights - Alastair Reynolds
●●○○○ The Old Dispensation - Lavie Tidhar
●●○○○ A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke
●●●◐○ A Stitch in Time - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ The Lady Killer - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ Gallery - Rog Phillips
●●◐○○ Tower of Babble - Robert Abernathy
●●●○○ But a Kind of Ghost - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ The Black Ewe - Fritz Leiber Jr.
●●●○○ Live in an Orbit and Love It! - Rog Phillips
●●●◐○ Lost Bomb - Rog Phillips (ss) 19502025-01: 26 ss | 05 nvt | 00 nva | 09 nov
2024-12: 31 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov
2024-11: 39 ss | 05 nvt | 01 nva | 05 nov
2024-10: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 06 novI shifted to Monday-start weeks this month, which was fine. I also switched to midnight-start days, which wasn't. I'm going back to 8am starts, since half of my reading is done after midnight, and I sometimes forget that I must get a story done before midnight to fit the calendar.
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[1] A reply to this post repeats brief descriptions of the novels. For descriptions of the shorter tales, see the weekly posts. Most short stories this month come from single-author collections (Paul Ernst, Rog Phillips, John Wyndham) or multi-author anthologies:
New Adventures in Space Opera - Jonathan Strahan, ed.
Legends of Science Fiction: 1950 - Christopher Broschell, ed.[2] This category is not likely to ever get high, but zero annoys me, so for next month I dug up something that proclaims it's a novella on the cover. Though the middle story in the trilogy is half again as long, and the finale is more than twice that.
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#Books and #stories for #NovemberReads
Five novels:
●●●●● The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton #mystery
●●●●○ The Vampire Affair - David McDaniel {Man from UNCLE 6} #adventure
●●●◐○ Victory or Death - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 10} #HFY
●●◐○○ The Good That Men Do - Andy Mangels & Michael A Martin {Enterprise 11} #StarTrek
●●◐○○ Within the Range of Reanimation - William H Nelson {Awakening Wars 1} #horrorOne novella:
●●●◐○ Kalvan Kingmaker ⧨ John F Carr #AlternateHistoryFive novelettes:
●●●◐○ Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? ⬗ Jack Sharkey
●●●◐○ Hos-Hostigos ⧨ H Beam Piper
●●●○○ Sea of Grass ⧨ John F Carr #AltHist
●●●○○ Wanderers of Time - John Wyndham
●●◐○○ The Troons of Space - John WyndhamThirty-nine short stories:
●●●●○ The Yellow Pill - Rog Phillips #ScienceFiction
●●●●○ The Third Vibrator - John Wyndham
●●●●○ Destiny Uncertain - Rog Phillips
●●●●○ The Taint ⬗ John Jakes #SFF
●●●●○ Pranksters - Rog Phillips
●●●●○ Time in the Round ⬗ Fritz Leiber
●●●◐○ Lonely Phoenix - Stephen L Thompson #SciFi
●●●◐○ Bottle Baby ⬗ Henry Slesar
●●●◐○ Exiles on Asperus - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ Let Freedom Ring! - Rog Phillips
●●●◐○ Outpost on Io ⬗ Leigh Brackett
●●●◐○ The Alexander Affair ⧨ John F Carr
●●●◐○ The Lost Machine - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ The Moon, A.D. 2044 - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ Vampire of the Deep - Rog Phillips
●●●◐○ Watershed ⬗ James Blish
●●●◐○ Spheres of Hell - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ Truckstop - Rog Phillips #alien
●●●○○ Fireproof - Hal Clement
●●●○○ Step Out of Your Body, Please - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ The King of the Elves ⬗ Philip K Dick
●●●○○ The Monster Maker ⬗ Ray Bradbury
●●●○○ The Only One that Lived - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ The Thin Gnat-Voices - John Wyndham
●●●○○ You'll Die Yesterday - Rog Phillips #TimeTravel
●●◐○○ The Gone Dogs ⬗ Frank Herbert
●●○○○ Glug ⬗ Harlan Ellison
●●○○○ The Time Tombs ⬗ J G Ballard
◐○○○○ 2 B R 0 2 B ⬗ Kurt Vonnegut2024-11: 39 ss | 05 nvt | 01 nva | 05 nov
2024-10: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 06 nov
2024-09: 23 ss | 03 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2024-08: 19 ss | 03 nvt | 01 nva | 08 novShort descriptions of the various stories were in the weekly posts. Novel count down a bit, but I use short stories to fill in the calendar. One must have a nice-looking calendar.
⬗ = Legends of Science Fiction, 1950: Volume 1 - Christopher Broschell, ed. Finished this month.
⧨ = The Paratime Police Chronicles, Volume II - John F Carr & H Beam Piper & Roland Green. Two stories left.Stories also came from:
The Essential Rog Phillips - Christopher Broschell, ed.
More of the Essential John Wyndham - Christopher Broschell, ed.○ is 25CB, ● is 25CF, and ◐ is 25D0. That means the lists don't sort as nicely as one might want, even ignoring that #KateEditor somehow lacks a simple inverse sort function.
#BokBooks (a tag to filter if you find these weekly posts and monthly summaries annoying)
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#Books and #stories completed in July:⁰
22 ss | 03 nvt | 02 nva | 09 nov
Potential Enemy - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●◐○
Pawley's Peepholes - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Assault on Fortress Sol - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) {Behold: Humanity! 07} ●●●●○ #HFY
Fifty Years of Wonder - Leigh Brackett (intro to Best of Edmond Hamilton collection) ●●●○○
Return of the Dragon - M L Maki (nov) {Fighting Tomcats 10} ●●●●○ #AlternateHistory
Pillar to Post - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○ #MindTransfer
Medal of Honor - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
The Pro - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
Technical Slip - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●●○ #reincarnation
The Wagered World - Laurence M Janifer & S J Treibich (nva) {Angelo diStefano 3} ●●○○○ [attempted humor, more pointlessly weird than funny]
The Value of Honor - Gina Marie Wylie (nov)¹ {alt-Kalvan 1}² ●●●●◐
Monster-God of Mamurth - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●●○
Island of Unreason - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
Adaptation - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Chronocide Mission - Lloyd Biggle Jr (nov) ●●●●○ [very slow first half, but then progress and a double twist ending]
A Conquest of Two Worlds - Edmond Hamilton (nvt) ●●●◐○
The Man Who Evolved - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●◐○
Atlantida ⬙ Pierre Benoit (nov) ●●●○○
Emergency Skin - N K Jemison (nvt) ●●●●○
Red Portal - John J Rust (nov) ●●◐○○ #TimeTravel
Happy Ending - Mack Reynolds & Fredric Brown (ss) ●●●○○
Thundering Worlds - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
The Cost of Time - Gina Marie Wylie (nov) {alt-Kalvan 2} ●●●●◐
Accursed Galaxy - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●◐○
A Stray from Cathay - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
The Man Who Returned - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
Bartley's Man (nov) {Grantville} ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
In the World's Dusk - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
Dogfight—1973 - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●○○○
The Spider and the Stars ⬖ D K Mok (ss) ●●◐○○
The Blind Spot - Austin Hall & Homer Eon Flint (nov) {Spot 1} ●●●◐○ #SFF
Conquest of the Space Sea - Robert Moore Williams (nva) ●●◐○○ #AceDouble
Child of the Winds - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
The Artificial Man - Clare Winger Harris (ss) ●●●◐○
Confidence Trick - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Grow, Give, Repeat ⬖ Gregory Scheckler (ss) ●●●●○ #SolarPunk
The Ark - Veronica Roth (nvt) ●●●◐○
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20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov == May
19 ss | 04 nvt | 03 nva | 09 nov == June⬙ = Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales
⬖ = Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers[1] The stats say that The Value of Honor, at 3316 pages, is the longest work I've read on #koReader since I installed it mid-March.³
Granted, I read at 38 points on a 1440×1920 8-inch screen, giving me 16 lines per screen. It would be ~750 pages in paperback. If I hadn't split Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales into individual novels, that anthology would have come in at over 14,000 screens.
[2] Gina Marie Wylie wrote Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen fan fiction. (Yes: an #AltHist version of an alt-hist story.) The trilogy is set after John F Carr's Gunpowder God, but the books were written before he released his final two Kalvan novels. #fanfic
GMW ends the Fireseed Wars more quickly, picking up events after seven years of peace. She begins her tale with five teenage girls and two adults who were going on a camping trip when their van was caught up in a conveyor crossover and dumped in Kalvan's Timeline.
They're in the Southwest, which the Mexicotál – allied with West Coast Zarthani, in whose realm the remnants of Styphon's House have set up shop – are about to invade. Kalvan is mentioned often in the first novel, but only shows up for a few short conversations near the end of the book. The trilogy's middle volume adds another local girl as a mostly-separate plot thread. #ScienceFiction
Neither ArchiveOfOurOwn·org nor FanFiction·net lists other Kalvan #fanfic besides Gina Marie's trilogy, but some is likely out there. Wylie's Kalvan timeline novels focus on other characters, with Kalvan and Verkan and the rest only making cameos. GWM's books are slightly better than Carr's. #SciFi
[3] I doubt anyone reads these posts, but I suspect that's true of most posts. I like having #reading statistics and filling a nice calendar. My reading time is up noticeably since installing KOReader. Even if this post means nothing to anyone else, it has value to me.
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#Books and #stories completed in July:⁰
22 ss | 03 nvt | 02 nva | 09 nov
Potential Enemy - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●◐○
Pawley's Peepholes - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Assault on Fortress Sol - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) {Behold: Humanity! 07} ●●●●○ #HFY
Fifty Years of Wonder - Leigh Brackett (intro to Best of Edmond Hamilton collection) ●●●○○
Return of the Dragon - M L Maki (nov) {Fighting Tomcats 10} ●●●●○ #AlternateHistory
Pillar to Post - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○ #MindTransfer
Medal of Honor - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
The Pro - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
Technical Slip - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●●○ #reincarnation
The Wagered World - Laurence M Janifer & S J Treibich (nva) {Angelo diStefano 3} ●●○○○ [attempted humor, more pointlessly weird than funny]
The Value of Honor - Gina Marie Wylie (nov)¹ {alt-Kalvan 1}² ●●●●◐
Monster-God of Mamurth - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●●○
Island of Unreason - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
Adaptation - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Chronocide Mission - Lloyd Biggle Jr (nov) ●●●●○ [very slow first half, but then progress and a double twist ending]
A Conquest of Two Worlds - Edmond Hamilton (nvt) ●●●◐○
The Man Who Evolved - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●◐○
Atlantida ⬙ Pierre Benoit (nov) ●●●○○
Emergency Skin - N K Jemison (nvt) ●●●●○
Red Portal - John J Rust (nov) ●●◐○○ #TimeTravel
Happy Ending - Mack Reynolds & Fredric Brown (ss) ●●●○○
Thundering Worlds - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
The Cost of Time - Gina Marie Wylie (nov) {alt-Kalvan 2} ●●●●◐
Accursed Galaxy - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●◐○
A Stray from Cathay - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
The Man Who Returned - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
Bartley's Man (nov) {Grantville} ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
In the World's Dusk - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
Dogfight—1973 - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●○○○
The Spider and the Stars ⬖ D K Mok (ss) ●●◐○○
The Blind Spot - Austin Hall & Homer Eon Flint (nov) {Spot 1} ●●●◐○ #SFF
Conquest of the Space Sea - Robert Moore Williams (nva) ●●◐○○ #AceDouble
Child of the Winds - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
The Artificial Man - Clare Winger Harris (ss) ●●●◐○
Confidence Trick - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Grow, Give, Repeat ⬖ Gregory Scheckler (ss) ●●●●○ #SolarPunk
The Ark - Veronica Roth (nvt) ●●●◐○
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[0]
20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov == May
19 ss | 04 nvt | 03 nva | 09 nov == June⬙ = Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales
⬖ = Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers[1] The stats say that The Value of Honor, at 3316 pages, is the longest work I've read on #koReader since I installed it mid-March.³
Granted, I read at 38 points on a 1440×1920 8-inch screen, giving me 16 lines per screen. It would be ~750 pages in paperback. If I hadn't split Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales into individual novels, that anthology would have come in at over 14,000 screens.
[2] Gina Marie Wylie wrote Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen fan fiction. (Yes: an #AltHist version of an alt-hist story.) The trilogy is set after John F Carr's Gunpowder God, but the books were written before he released his final two Kalvan novels. #fanfic
GMW ends the Fireseed Wars more quickly, picking up events after seven years of peace. She begins her tale with five teenage girls and two adults who were going on a camping trip when their van was caught up in a conveyor crossover and dumped in Kalvan's Timeline.
They're in the Southwest, which the Mexicotál – allied with West Coast Zarthani, in whose realm the remnants of Styphon's House have set up shop – are about to invade. Kalvan is mentioned often in the first novel, but only shows up for a few short conversations near the end of the book. The trilogy's middle volume adds another local girl as a mostly-separate plot thread. #ScienceFiction
Neither ArchiveOfOurOwn·org nor FanFiction·net lists other Kalvan #fanfic besides Gina Marie's trilogy, but some is likely out there. Wylie's Kalvan timeline novels focus on other characters, with Kalvan and Verkan and the rest only making cameos. GWM's books are slightly better than Carr's. #SciFi
[3] I doubt anyone reads these posts, but I suspect that's true of most posts. I like having #reading statistics and filling a nice calendar. My reading time is up noticeably since installing KOReader. Even if this post means nothing to anyone else, it has value to me.
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#Books and #stories completed in July:⁰
22 ss | 03 nvt | 02 nva | 09 nov
Potential Enemy - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●◐○
Pawley's Peepholes - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Assault on Fortress Sol - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) {Behold: Humanity! 07} ●●●●○ #HFY
Fifty Years of Wonder - Leigh Brackett (intro to Best of Edmond Hamilton collection) ●●●○○
Return of the Dragon - M L Maki (nov) {Fighting Tomcats 10} ●●●●○ #AlternateHistory
Pillar to Post - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○ #MindTransfer
Medal of Honor - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
The Pro - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
Technical Slip - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●●○ #reincarnation
The Wagered World - Laurence M Janifer & S J Treibich (nva) {Angelo diStefano 3} ●●○○○ [attempted humor, more pointlessly weird than funny]
The Value of Honor - Gina Marie Wylie (nov)¹ {alt-Kalvan 1}² ●●●●◐
Monster-God of Mamurth - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●●○
Island of Unreason - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
Adaptation - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Chronocide Mission - Lloyd Biggle Jr (nov) ●●●●○ [very slow first half, but then progress and a double twist ending]
A Conquest of Two Worlds - Edmond Hamilton (nvt) ●●●◐○
The Man Who Evolved - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●◐○
Atlantida ⬙ Pierre Benoit (nov) ●●●○○
Emergency Skin - N K Jemison (nvt) ●●●●○
Red Portal - John J Rust (nov) ●●◐○○ #TimeTravel
Happy Ending - Mack Reynolds & Fredric Brown (ss) ●●●○○
Thundering Worlds - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
The Cost of Time - Gina Marie Wylie (nov) {alt-Kalvan 2} ●●●●◐
Accursed Galaxy - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●◐○
A Stray from Cathay - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
The Man Who Returned - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
Bartley's Man (nov) {Grantville} ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
In the World's Dusk - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
Dogfight—1973 - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●○○○
The Spider and the Stars ⬖ D K Mok (ss) ●●◐○○
The Blind Spot - Austin Hall & Homer Eon Flint (nov) {Spot 1} ●●●◐○ #SFF
Conquest of the Space Sea - Robert Moore Williams (nva) ●●◐○○ #AceDouble
Child of the Winds - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
The Artificial Man - Clare Winger Harris (ss) ●●●◐○
Confidence Trick - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Grow, Give, Repeat ⬖ Gregory Scheckler (ss) ●●●●○ #SolarPunk
The Ark - Veronica Roth (nvt) ●●●◐○
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[0]
20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov == May
19 ss | 04 nvt | 03 nva | 09 nov == June⬙ = Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales
⬖ = Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers[1] The stats say that The Value of Honor, at 3316 pages, is the longest work I've read on #koReader since I installed it mid-March.³
Granted, I read at 38 points on a 1440×1920 8-inch screen, giving me 16 lines per screen. It would be ~750 pages in paperback. If I hadn't split Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales into individual novels, that anthology would have come in at over 14,000 screens.
[2] Gina Marie Wylie wrote Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen fan fiction. (Yes: an #AltHist version of an alt-hist story.) The trilogy is set after John F Carr's Gunpowder God, but the books were written before he released his final two Kalvan novels. #fanfic
GMW ends the Fireseed Wars more quickly, picking up events after seven years of peace. She begins her tale with five teenage girls and two adults who were going on a camping trip when their van was caught up in a conveyor crossover and dumped in Kalvan's Timeline.
They're in the Southwest, which the Mexicotál – allied with West Coast Zarthani, in whose realm the remnants of Styphon's House have set up shop – are about to invade. Kalvan is mentioned often in the first novel, but only shows up for a few short conversations near the end of the book. The trilogy's middle volume adds another local girl as a mostly-separate plot thread. #ScienceFiction
Neither ArchiveOfOurOwn·org nor FanFiction·net lists other Kalvan #fanfic besides Gina Marie's trilogy, but some is likely out there. Wylie's Kalvan timeline novels focus on other characters, with Kalvan and Verkan and the rest only making cameos. GWM's books are slightly better than Carr's. #SciFi
[3] I doubt anyone reads these posts, but I suspect that's true of most posts. I like having #reading statistics and filling a nice calendar. My reading time is up noticeably since installing KOReader. Even if this post means nothing to anyone else, it has value to me.
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#Books and #stories completed in July:⁰
22 ss | 03 nvt | 02 nva | 09 nov
Potential Enemy - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●◐○
Pawley's Peepholes - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Assault on Fortress Sol - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) {Behold: Humanity! 07} ●●●●○ #HFY
Fifty Years of Wonder - Leigh Brackett (intro to Best of Edmond Hamilton collection) ●●●○○
Return of the Dragon - M L Maki (nov) {Fighting Tomcats 10} ●●●●○ #AlternateHistory
Pillar to Post - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○ #MindTransfer
Medal of Honor - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
The Pro - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
Technical Slip - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●●○ #reincarnation
The Wagered World - Laurence M Janifer & S J Treibich (nva) {Angelo diStefano 3} ●●○○○ [attempted humor, more pointlessly weird than funny]
The Value of Honor - Gina Marie Wylie (nov)¹ {alt-Kalvan 1}² ●●●●◐
Monster-God of Mamurth - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●●○
Island of Unreason - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
Adaptation - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Chronocide Mission - Lloyd Biggle Jr (nov) ●●●●○ [very slow first half, but then progress and a double twist ending]
A Conquest of Two Worlds - Edmond Hamilton (nvt) ●●●◐○
The Man Who Evolved - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●◐○
Atlantida ⬙ Pierre Benoit (nov) ●●●○○
Emergency Skin - N K Jemison (nvt) ●●●●○
Red Portal - John J Rust (nov) ●●◐○○ #TimeTravel
Happy Ending - Mack Reynolds & Fredric Brown (ss) ●●●○○
Thundering Worlds - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
The Cost of Time - Gina Marie Wylie (nov) {alt-Kalvan 2} ●●●●◐
Accursed Galaxy - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●◐○
A Stray from Cathay - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
The Man Who Returned - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
Bartley's Man (nov) {Grantville} ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
In the World's Dusk - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
Dogfight—1973 - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●○○○
The Spider and the Stars ⬖ D K Mok (ss) ●●◐○○
The Blind Spot - Austin Hall & Homer Eon Flint (nov) {Spot 1} ●●●◐○ #SFF
Conquest of the Space Sea - Robert Moore Williams (nva) ●●◐○○ #AceDouble
Child of the Winds - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○
The Artificial Man - Clare Winger Harris (ss) ●●●◐○
Confidence Trick - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○
Grow, Give, Repeat ⬖ Gregory Scheckler (ss) ●●●●○ #SolarPunk
The Ark - Veronica Roth (nvt) ●●●◐○
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[0]
20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov == May
19 ss | 04 nvt | 03 nva | 09 nov == June⬙ = Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales
⬖ = Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers[1] The stats say that The Value of Honor, at 3316 pages, is the longest work I've read on #koReader since I installed it mid-March.³
Granted, I read at 38 points on a 1440×1920 8-inch screen, giving me 16 lines per screen. It would be ~750 pages in paperback. If I hadn't split Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales into individual novels, that anthology would have come in at over 14,000 screens.
[2] Gina Marie Wylie wrote Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen fan fiction. (Yes: an #AltHist version of an alt-hist story.) The trilogy is set after John F Carr's Gunpowder God, but the books were written before he released his final two Kalvan novels. #fanfic
GMW ends the Fireseed Wars more quickly, picking up events after seven years of peace. She begins her tale with five teenage girls and two adults who were going on a camping trip when their van was caught up in a conveyor crossover and dumped in Kalvan's Timeline.
They're in the Southwest, which the Mexicotál – allied with West Coast Zarthani, in whose realm the remnants of Styphon's House have set up shop – are about to invade. Kalvan is mentioned often in the first novel, but only shows up for a few short conversations near the end of the book. The trilogy's middle volume adds another local girl as a mostly-separate plot thread. #ScienceFiction
Neither ArchiveOfOurOwn·org nor FanFiction·net lists other Kalvan #fanfic besides Gina Marie's trilogy, but some is likely out there. Wylie's Kalvan timeline novels focus on other characters, with Kalvan and Verkan and the rest only making cameos. GWM's books are slightly better than Carr's. #SciFi
[3] I doubt anyone reads these posts, but I suspect that's true of most posts. I like having #reading statistics and filling a nice calendar. My reading time is up noticeably since installing KOReader. Even if this post means nothing to anyone else, it has value to me.
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#Books and #stories completed in
June 2024: 19 ss | 04 nvt | 03 nva | 09 nov
(May was: 20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov)Expediter - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Freedom - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●○○○
A Letter from the Pope ⬘ Harry Harrison & Tom Shippey (ss) ●●●◐○ #AH
Gunpowder God - John F Carr (nov) {Kalvan 6} ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
Lucky Strike ⬘ Kim Stanley Robinson (nvt) ●●●◐○
Doomsday Eve - Robert Moore Williams (nva) ●●◐○○ #AceDouble
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●◐○
The Sleeping Serpent ⬘ Pamela Sargent (nvt) ●●●◐○
The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz (nov) ●●●●◐ #reading
Imitation Game ⬘ Rudy Rucker (ss) ●●●○○
Weinachtsabend ⬘ Keith Roberts (nvt) ●●○○○
Chicago 1871 - James E. Merl (nov) ●●●○○ #TimeTravel
Subversive - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
The Hos-Blethan Affair - John F Carr & Wolfgang Diehr (nov) {Kalvan 7} ●●●●○
Ten from Infinity - Paul W Fairman (nva) {aka ‘The Deadly Sky’ or ‘Ten Deadly Men’ | by ‘Ivar Jorgensen’} ●●●◐○ #ClassicSciFi
Waiting for the Olympians ⬘ Frederik Pohl (nvt) ●●●◐○ #SFF
Darwin Anathema ⬘ Stephen Baxter (ss) ●●●○○
Summit - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Down Styphon - John F Carr (nov) {Kalvan 8} ●●●○○ #AltHist
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
And Then the Town Took Off - Richard Wilson (nva) ●●●◐○ #AceDouble
Combat - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●◐○○
How Do I Do? - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
Unborn Tomorrow - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Atlantis: The Lost Continent ⬙ C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (nov) ●○○○○
Bargain from Brunswick - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
Turn Your Radio On - Wood Hughes (nov) {Grantville} ●●●◐○
The Star Seekers - Milton Lesser (nov) ●●●○○ #SciFi
Day of Judgment - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
The Portal in the Picture - C L Moore and Henry Kuttner (nov) ●●●◐○ #CrossTime
Reservation Deferred - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
The Common Man - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Clockwise - J S Johnston (ss) ●●●○○
Revolution - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Living Lies - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●●○
Completed the anthology The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories, edited by Ian Watson and Ian Whates. (Stories from it marked with ⬘.) I'd read the Robinson and Pohl tales before, but the other two dozen stories were new to me. I've begun the anthology Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales (marked ⬙). After how bad the first tale was, I don't expect to try more than a novel or two per month.
Finished Carr's extension of Piper's Lord Kalvan stories. #6 was solid, #7 was better, but the concluding #8 was a letdown. I find battles boring, and much prefer making stoves and perfecting paper, but to have two cities fall to Hostigos forces without being conquered feels like Carr just wanted the series to be over.
And the plot thread of the atomic blast and the impending prole revolt on Home Timeline was simply dropped, unless we're to infer from the months-long communications cut-off the outtimers on Kalvan's timeline experienced that Home Timeline is suffering a major war right now, with many conveyor hubs destroyed.
This is the worst month possible for neatly filling out the calendar, with two single-day rows requiring one-day-wide titles. There won't be another thirty-day month starting on a Saturday until April 2028. #koReader
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#Books and #stories completed in
June 2024: 19 ss | 04 nvt | 03 nva | 09 nov
(May was: 20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov)Expediter - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Freedom - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●○○○
A Letter from the Pope ⬘ Harry Harrison & Tom Shippey (ss) ●●●◐○ #AH
Gunpowder God - John F Carr (nov) {Kalvan 6} ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
Lucky Strike ⬘ Kim Stanley Robinson (nvt) ●●●◐○
Doomsday Eve - Robert Moore Williams (nva) ●●◐○○ #AceDouble
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●◐○
The Sleeping Serpent ⬘ Pamela Sargent (nvt) ●●●◐○
The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz (nov) ●●●●◐ #reading
Imitation Game ⬘ Rudy Rucker (ss) ●●●○○
Weinachtsabend ⬘ Keith Roberts (nvt) ●●○○○
Chicago 1871 - James E. Merl (nov) ●●●○○ #TimeTravel
Subversive - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
The Hos-Blethan Affair - John F Carr & Wolfgang Diehr (nov) {Kalvan 7} ●●●●○
Ten from Infinity - Paul W Fairman (nva) {aka ‘The Deadly Sky’ or ‘Ten Deadly Men’ | by ‘Ivar Jorgensen’} ●●●◐○ #ClassicSciFi
Waiting for the Olympians ⬘ Frederik Pohl (nvt) ●●●◐○ #SFF
Darwin Anathema ⬘ Stephen Baxter (ss) ●●●○○
Summit - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Down Styphon - John F Carr (nov) {Kalvan 8} ●●●○○ #AltHist
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
And Then the Town Took Off - Richard Wilson (nva) ●●●◐○ #AceDouble
Combat - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●◐○○
How Do I Do? - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
Unborn Tomorrow - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Atlantis: The Lost Continent ⬙ C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (nov) ●○○○○
Bargain from Brunswick - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
Turn Your Radio On - Wood Hughes (nov) {Grantville} ●●●◐○
The Star Seekers - Milton Lesser (nov) ●●●○○ #SciFi
Day of Judgment - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
The Portal in the Picture - C L Moore and Henry Kuttner (nov) ●●●◐○ #CrossTime
Reservation Deferred - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
The Common Man - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Clockwise - J S Johnston (ss) ●●●○○
Revolution - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Living Lies - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●●○
Completed the anthology The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories, edited by Ian Watson and Ian Whates. (Stories from it marked with ⬘.) I'd read the Robinson and Pohl tales before, but the other two dozen stories were new to me. I've begun the anthology Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales (marked ⬙). After how bad the first tale was, I don't expect to try more than a novel or two per month.
Finished Carr's extension of Piper's Lord Kalvan stories. #6 was solid, #7 was better, but the concluding #8 was a letdown. I find battles boring, and much prefer making stoves and perfecting paper, but to have two cities fall to Hostigos forces without being conquered feels like Carr just wanted the series to be over.
And the plot thread of the atomic blast and the impending prole revolt on Home Timeline was simply dropped, unless we're to infer from the months-long communications cut-off the outtimers on Kalvan's timeline experienced that Home Timeline is suffering a major war right now, with many conveyor hubs destroyed.
This is the worst month possible for neatly filling out the calendar, with two single-day rows requiring one-day-wide titles. There won't be another thirty-day month starting on a Saturday until April 2028. #koReader
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#Books and #stories completed in
June 2024: 19 ss | 04 nvt | 03 nva | 09 nov
(May was: 20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov)Expediter - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Freedom - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●○○○
A Letter from the Pope ⬘ Harry Harrison & Tom Shippey (ss) ●●●◐○ #AH
Gunpowder God - John F Carr (nov) {Kalvan 6} ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
Lucky Strike ⬘ Kim Stanley Robinson (nvt) ●●●◐○
Doomsday Eve - Robert Moore Williams (nva) ●●◐○○ #AceDouble
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●◐○
The Sleeping Serpent ⬘ Pamela Sargent (nvt) ●●●◐○
The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz (nov) ●●●●◐ #reading
Imitation Game ⬘ Rudy Rucker (ss) ●●●○○
Weinachtsabend ⬘ Keith Roberts (nvt) ●●○○○
Chicago 1871 - James E. Merl (nov) ●●●○○ #TimeTravel
Subversive - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
The Hos-Blethan Affair - John F Carr & Wolfgang Diehr (nov) {Kalvan 7} ●●●●○
Ten from Infinity - Paul W Fairman (nva) {aka ‘The Deadly Sky’ or ‘Ten Deadly Men’ | by ‘Ivar Jorgensen’} ●●●◐○ #ClassicSciFi
Waiting for the Olympians ⬘ Frederik Pohl (nvt) ●●●◐○ #SFF
Darwin Anathema ⬘ Stephen Baxter (ss) ●●●○○
Summit - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Down Styphon - John F Carr (nov) {Kalvan 8} ●●●○○ #AltHist
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
And Then the Town Took Off - Richard Wilson (nva) ●●●◐○ #AceDouble
Combat - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●◐○○
How Do I Do? - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
Unborn Tomorrow - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Atlantis: The Lost Continent ⬙ C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (nov) ●○○○○
Bargain from Brunswick - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
Turn Your Radio On - Wood Hughes (nov) {Grantville} ●●●◐○
The Star Seekers - Milton Lesser (nov) ●●●○○ #SciFi
Day of Judgment - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
The Portal in the Picture - C L Moore and Henry Kuttner (nov) ●●●◐○ #CrossTime
Reservation Deferred - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
The Common Man - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Clockwise - J S Johnston (ss) ●●●○○
Revolution - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Living Lies - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●●○
Completed the anthology The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories, edited by Ian Watson and Ian Whates. (Stories from it marked with ⬘.) I'd read the Robinson and Pohl tales before, but the other two dozen stories were new to me. I've begun the anthology Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales (marked ⬙). After how bad the first tale was, I don't expect to try more than a novel or two per month.
Finished Carr's extension of Piper's Lord Kalvan stories. #6 was solid, #7 was better, but the concluding #8 was a letdown. I find battles boring, and much prefer making stoves and perfecting paper, but to have two cities fall to Hostigos forces without being conquered feels like Carr just wanted the series to be over.
And the plot thread of the atomic blast and the impending prole revolt on Home Timeline was simply dropped, unless we're to infer from the months-long communications cut-off the outtimers on Kalvan's timeline experienced that Home Timeline is suffering a major war right now, with many conveyor hubs destroyed.
This is the worst month possible for neatly filling out the calendar, with two single-day rows requiring one-day-wide titles. There won't be another thirty-day month starting on a Saturday until April 2028. #koReader
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#Books and #stories completed in
June 2024: 19 ss | 04 nvt | 03 nva | 09 nov
(May was: 20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov)Expediter - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Freedom - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●○○○
A Letter from the Pope ⬘ Harry Harrison & Tom Shippey (ss) ●●●◐○ #AH
Gunpowder God - John F Carr (nov) {Kalvan 6} ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
Lucky Strike ⬘ Kim Stanley Robinson (nvt) ●●●◐○
Doomsday Eve - Robert Moore Williams (nva) ●●◐○○ #AceDouble
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●◐○
The Sleeping Serpent ⬘ Pamela Sargent (nvt) ●●●◐○
The Terraformers - Annalee Newitz (nov) ●●●●◐ #reading
Imitation Game ⬘ Rudy Rucker (ss) ●●●○○
Weinachtsabend ⬘ Keith Roberts (nvt) ●●○○○
Chicago 1871 - James E. Merl (nov) ●●●○○ #TimeTravel
Subversive - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
The Hos-Blethan Affair - John F Carr & Wolfgang Diehr (nov) {Kalvan 7} ●●●●○
Ten from Infinity - Paul W Fairman (nva) {aka ‘The Deadly Sky’ or ‘Ten Deadly Men’ | by ‘Ivar Jorgensen’} ●●●◐○ #ClassicSciFi
Waiting for the Olympians ⬘ Frederik Pohl (nvt) ●●●◐○ #SFF
Darwin Anathema ⬘ Stephen Baxter (ss) ●●●○○
Summit - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Down Styphon - John F Carr (nov) {Kalvan 8} ●●●○○ #AltHist
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
And Then the Town Took Off - Richard Wilson (nva) ●●●◐○ #AceDouble
Combat - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●◐○○
How Do I Do? - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
Unborn Tomorrow - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Atlantis: The Lost Continent ⬙ C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne (nov) ●○○○○
Bargain from Brunswick - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
Turn Your Radio On - Wood Hughes (nov) {Grantville} ●●●◐○
The Star Seekers - Milton Lesser (nov) ●●●○○ #SciFi
Day of Judgment - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○
The Portal in the Picture - C L Moore and Henry Kuttner (nov) ●●●◐○ #CrossTime
Reservation Deferred - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
The Common Man - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Clockwise - J S Johnston (ss) ●●●○○
Revolution - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○
Living Lies - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●●○
Completed the anthology The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories, edited by Ian Watson and Ian Whates. (Stories from it marked with ⬘.) I'd read the Robinson and Pohl tales before, but the other two dozen stories were new to me. I've begun the anthology Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales (marked ⬙). After how bad the first tale was, I don't expect to try more than a novel or two per month.
Finished Carr's extension of Piper's Lord Kalvan stories. #6 was solid, #7 was better, but the concluding #8 was a letdown. I find battles boring, and much prefer making stoves and perfecting paper, but to have two cities fall to Hostigos forces without being conquered feels like Carr just wanted the series to be over.
And the plot thread of the atomic blast and the impending prole revolt on Home Timeline was simply dropped, unless we're to infer from the months-long communications cut-off the outtimers on Kalvan's timeline experienced that Home Timeline is suffering a major war right now, with many conveyor hubs destroyed.
This is the worst month possible for neatly filling out the calendar, with two single-day rows requiring one-day-wide titles. There won't be another thirty-day month starting on a Saturday until April 2028. #koReader
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#Books and #stories completed in May:
20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov
⬘ = short story from the anthology
The Mammoth Book of Alternate HistoriesDo Unto Others - Mark Clifton (ss) #SciFi ●●●○○
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 4} ●●●◐○ #zombies
The Tribulations of Ned Summers - Shawn Inmon (nov) {Middle Falls 9} #reincarnation ●●○○○ [the moral of the story was "sometimes it's best to just give up"]
Lily White Rose Red - Catt Ford (nov) #mystery #lgbtq ●●●◐○
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 5} ●●●◐○
What Now, Little Man? - Mark Clifton (ss) ●●◐○○ #ScienceFiction
Hang Head, Vandal! - Mark Clifton (ss) ●●●○○
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 6} ●●●◐○
The Theater at Ephesus - Pierre E Pettinger Jr (nov) {Sodality Universe 4} ●●●●○
All the Pretty Little Horses - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 7} ●●●●○
When They Come from Space - Mark Clifton (nva) {Ralph Kennedy 5} ●●●◐○ #AceDouble
Beyond His Time - Adrian Cousins (nva) {Jason Apsley 3.5} ●●○○○
Calling Time - Adrian Cousins (nov) {Jason Apsley 4} ●●●○○
The Raft of the Titanic ⬘ James Morrow (ss) ●●○○○
Coming to You Live - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 8} ●●●◐○
Sidewinder ⬘ Ken MacLeod (ss) ●●●◐○
Hush My Mouth ⬘ Suzette Haden Elgin (ss) ●●●●○
Total War - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) {Behold: Humanity! 6} ●●●●○ #HFY
Ink from the New Moon ⬘ A. A. Attanasio (ss) ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
Dispatches from the Revolution ⬘ Pat Cadigan (ss) ●●○○○
His Powder’d Wig, His Crown of Thornes ⬘ Marc Laidlaw (ss) ●●●◐○ #AltHist
Manassas, Again ⬘ Gregory Benford (ss) ●●○○○
The Einstein Gun ⬘ Pierre Gévart (ss) ●●●◐○
Lenin in Odessa ⬘ George Zebrowski (ss) ●●●○○
Such a Deal ⬘ Esther M. Friesner (ss) ●●●●○
A Very British History ⬘ Paul McAuley (ss) ●●●○○
The Francesians - Jim Bowering (nov) {Green Comet 3} ●●◐○○
Catch That Zeppelin! ⬘ Fritz Leiber (nvt) ●●●●◐
Islands in the Sea ⬘ Harry Turtledove (ss) ●●●●○
The Wandering Christian ⬘ Eugene Byrne & Kim Newman (nvt) ●●●●○
Roncesvalles ⬘ Judith Tarr (ss) ●●●◐○
The Man Who Stopped at Nothing - Paul W Fairman (nvt) ●●●●○
Pride of the Genii (nov) {Stargate Atlantis 24} ●●●◐○
Tales from the Venia Woods ⬘ Robert Silverberg (ss) ●●●◐○
O One ⬘ Chris Roberson (ss) ●●●◐○
The English Mutiny ⬘ Ian R. MacLeod (ss) ●●●○○
Jizzle - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
I've gotten better at not cutting off titles, and shuffling stories by title-length and word-count to better fill the grid. Finding one-day-wide titles can be difficult.
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#Books and #stories completed in May:
20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov
⬘ = short story from the anthology
The Mammoth Book of Alternate HistoriesDo Unto Others - Mark Clifton (ss) #SciFi ●●●○○
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 4} ●●●◐○ #zombies
The Tribulations of Ned Summers - Shawn Inmon (nov) {Middle Falls 9} #reincarnation ●●○○○ [the moral of the story was "sometimes it's best to just give up"]
Lily White Rose Red - Catt Ford (nov) #mystery #lgbtq ●●●◐○
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 5} ●●●◐○
What Now, Little Man? - Mark Clifton (ss) ●●◐○○ #ScienceFiction
Hang Head, Vandal! - Mark Clifton (ss) ●●●○○
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 6} ●●●◐○
The Theater at Ephesus - Pierre E Pettinger Jr (nov) {Sodality Universe 4} ●●●●○
All the Pretty Little Horses - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 7} ●●●●○
When They Come from Space - Mark Clifton (nva) {Ralph Kennedy 5} ●●●◐○ #AceDouble
Beyond His Time - Adrian Cousins (nva) {Jason Apsley 3.5} ●●○○○
Calling Time - Adrian Cousins (nov) {Jason Apsley 4} ●●●○○
The Raft of the Titanic ⬘ James Morrow (ss) ●●○○○
Coming to You Live - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 8} ●●●◐○
Sidewinder ⬘ Ken MacLeod (ss) ●●●◐○
Hush My Mouth ⬘ Suzette Haden Elgin (ss) ●●●●○
Total War - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) {Behold: Humanity! 6} ●●●●○ #HFY
Ink from the New Moon ⬘ A. A. Attanasio (ss) ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
Dispatches from the Revolution ⬘ Pat Cadigan (ss) ●●○○○
His Powder’d Wig, His Crown of Thornes ⬘ Marc Laidlaw (ss) ●●●◐○ #AltHist
Manassas, Again ⬘ Gregory Benford (ss) ●●○○○
The Einstein Gun ⬘ Pierre Gévart (ss) ●●●◐○
Lenin in Odessa ⬘ George Zebrowski (ss) ●●●○○
Such a Deal ⬘ Esther M. Friesner (ss) ●●●●○
A Very British History ⬘ Paul McAuley (ss) ●●●○○
The Francesians - Jim Bowering (nov) {Green Comet 3} ●●◐○○
Catch That Zeppelin! ⬘ Fritz Leiber (nvt) ●●●●◐
Islands in the Sea ⬘ Harry Turtledove (ss) ●●●●○
The Wandering Christian ⬘ Eugene Byrne & Kim Newman (nvt) ●●●●○
Roncesvalles ⬘ Judith Tarr (ss) ●●●◐○
The Man Who Stopped at Nothing - Paul W Fairman (nvt) ●●●●○
Pride of the Genii (nov) {Stargate Atlantis 24} ●●●◐○
Tales from the Venia Woods ⬘ Robert Silverberg (ss) ●●●◐○
O One ⬘ Chris Roberson (ss) ●●●◐○
The English Mutiny ⬘ Ian R. MacLeod (ss) ●●●○○
Jizzle - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
I've gotten better at not cutting off titles, and shuffling stories by title-length and word-count to better fill the grid. Finding one-day-wide titles can be difficult.
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#Books and #stories completed in May:
20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov
⬘ = short story from the anthology
The Mammoth Book of Alternate HistoriesDo Unto Others - Mark Clifton (ss) #SciFi ●●●○○
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 4} ●●●◐○ #zombies
The Tribulations of Ned Summers - Shawn Inmon (nov) {Middle Falls 9} #reincarnation ●●○○○ [the moral of the story was "sometimes it's best to just give up"]
Lily White Rose Red - Catt Ford (nov) #mystery #lgbtq ●●●◐○
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 5} ●●●◐○
What Now, Little Man? - Mark Clifton (ss) ●●◐○○ #ScienceFiction
Hang Head, Vandal! - Mark Clifton (ss) ●●●○○
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 6} ●●●◐○
The Theater at Ephesus - Pierre E Pettinger Jr (nov) {Sodality Universe 4} ●●●●○
All the Pretty Little Horses - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 7} ●●●●○
When They Come from Space - Mark Clifton (nva) {Ralph Kennedy 5} ●●●◐○ #AceDouble
Beyond His Time - Adrian Cousins (nva) {Jason Apsley 3.5} ●●○○○
Calling Time - Adrian Cousins (nov) {Jason Apsley 4} ●●●○○
The Raft of the Titanic ⬘ James Morrow (ss) ●●○○○
Coming to You Live - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 8} ●●●◐○
Sidewinder ⬘ Ken MacLeod (ss) ●●●◐○
Hush My Mouth ⬘ Suzette Haden Elgin (ss) ●●●●○
Total War - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) {Behold: Humanity! 6} ●●●●○ #HFY
Ink from the New Moon ⬘ A. A. Attanasio (ss) ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
Dispatches from the Revolution ⬘ Pat Cadigan (ss) ●●○○○
His Powder’d Wig, His Crown of Thornes ⬘ Marc Laidlaw (ss) ●●●◐○ #AltHist
Manassas, Again ⬘ Gregory Benford (ss) ●●○○○
The Einstein Gun ⬘ Pierre Gévart (ss) ●●●◐○
Lenin in Odessa ⬘ George Zebrowski (ss) ●●●○○
Such a Deal ⬘ Esther M. Friesner (ss) ●●●●○
A Very British History ⬘ Paul McAuley (ss) ●●●○○
The Francesians - Jim Bowering (nov) {Green Comet 3} ●●◐○○
Catch That Zeppelin! ⬘ Fritz Leiber (nvt) ●●●●◐
Islands in the Sea ⬘ Harry Turtledove (ss) ●●●●○
The Wandering Christian ⬘ Eugene Byrne & Kim Newman (nvt) ●●●●○
Roncesvalles ⬘ Judith Tarr (ss) ●●●◐○
The Man Who Stopped at Nothing - Paul W Fairman (nvt) ●●●●○
Pride of the Genii (nov) {Stargate Atlantis 24} ●●●◐○
Tales from the Venia Woods ⬘ Robert Silverberg (ss) ●●●◐○
O One ⬘ Chris Roberson (ss) ●●●◐○
The English Mutiny ⬘ Ian R. MacLeod (ss) ●●●○○
Jizzle - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
I've gotten better at not cutting off titles, and shuffling stories by title-length and word-count to better fill the grid. Finding one-day-wide titles can be difficult.
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#Books and #stories completed in May:
20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov
⬘ = short story from the anthology
The Mammoth Book of Alternate HistoriesDo Unto Others - Mark Clifton (ss) #SciFi ●●●○○
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 4} ●●●◐○ #zombies
The Tribulations of Ned Summers - Shawn Inmon (nov) {Middle Falls 9} #reincarnation ●●○○○ [the moral of the story was "sometimes it's best to just give up"]
Lily White Rose Red - Catt Ford (nov) #mystery #lgbtq ●●●◐○
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 5} ●●●◐○
What Now, Little Man? - Mark Clifton (ss) ●●◐○○ #ScienceFiction
Hang Head, Vandal! - Mark Clifton (ss) ●●●○○
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 6} ●●●◐○
The Theater at Ephesus - Pierre E Pettinger Jr (nov) {Sodality Universe 4} ●●●●○
All the Pretty Little Horses - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 7} ●●●●○
When They Come from Space - Mark Clifton (nva) {Ralph Kennedy 5} ●●●◐○ #AceDouble
Beyond His Time - Adrian Cousins (nva) {Jason Apsley 3.5} ●●○○○
Calling Time - Adrian Cousins (nov) {Jason Apsley 4} ●●●○○
The Raft of the Titanic ⬘ James Morrow (ss) ●●○○○
Coming to You Live - Mira Grant (nvt) {Rise 8} ●●●◐○
Sidewinder ⬘ Ken MacLeod (ss) ●●●◐○
Hush My Mouth ⬘ Suzette Haden Elgin (ss) ●●●●○
Total War - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) {Behold: Humanity! 6} ●●●●○ #HFY
Ink from the New Moon ⬘ A. A. Attanasio (ss) ●●●◐○ #AltHistory
Dispatches from the Revolution ⬘ Pat Cadigan (ss) ●●○○○
His Powder’d Wig, His Crown of Thornes ⬘ Marc Laidlaw (ss) ●●●◐○ #AltHist
Manassas, Again ⬘ Gregory Benford (ss) ●●○○○
The Einstein Gun ⬘ Pierre Gévart (ss) ●●●◐○
Lenin in Odessa ⬘ George Zebrowski (ss) ●●●○○
Such a Deal ⬘ Esther M. Friesner (ss) ●●●●○
A Very British History ⬘ Paul McAuley (ss) ●●●○○
The Francesians - Jim Bowering (nov) {Green Comet 3} ●●◐○○
Catch That Zeppelin! ⬘ Fritz Leiber (nvt) ●●●●◐
Islands in the Sea ⬘ Harry Turtledove (ss) ●●●●○
The Wandering Christian ⬘ Eugene Byrne & Kim Newman (nvt) ●●●●○
Roncesvalles ⬘ Judith Tarr (ss) ●●●◐○
The Man Who Stopped at Nothing - Paul W Fairman (nvt) ●●●●○
Pride of the Genii (nov) {Stargate Atlantis 24} ●●●◐○
Tales from the Venia Woods ⬘ Robert Silverberg (ss) ●●●◐○
O One ⬘ Chris Roberson (ss) ●●●◐○
The English Mutiny ⬘ Ian R. MacLeod (ss) ●●●○○
Jizzle - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○
I've gotten better at not cutting off titles, and shuffling stories by title-length and word-count to better fill the grid. Finding one-day-wide titles can be difficult.
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#Books completed in March:
An Angel Called Peterbilt - Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett {Assiti Shards | Peterbilt 1} ●●●●◐ #TimeTravel
The Reset Life of Cassandra Collins - Shawn Inmon {Middle Falls 8} ●●○○○ #reincarnation
How Alike Are We - Bo-young Kim (novella) ●●●●○ #AI
The Pool Is Reserved for Podlings - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 3} ●●●●○ #HFY
Parasite Puppeteers - Jim Bowering {Green Comet 2} ●●●○○ #ScienceFiction
Time Shards - Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald {Time Shards 1} ●●●◐○ #SciFi
The Heartfelt Life of Max Hartfield - Shawn Inmon (ss) {Middle Falls 14.5} ●●○○○ #SFF
Delete All Suspects - Donna Andrews {Turing Hopper 4} ●●●●○ #Mystery
The Battlemaster - Christopher Rowley {The Vang 3} ●●●●○ #reading
Shatter War - Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald {Time Shards 2} ●●●◐○ #AltHist
Dome Around America - Jack Williamson ●●◐○○ #ClassicSciFi #AceDouble
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#Books completed in March:
An Angel Called Peterbilt - Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett {Assiti Shards | Peterbilt 1} ●●●●◐ #TimeTravel
The Reset Life of Cassandra Collins - Shawn Inmon {Middle Falls 8} ●●○○○ #reincarnation
How Alike Are We - Bo-young Kim (novella) ●●●●○ #AI
The Pool Is Reserved for Podlings - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 3} ●●●●○ #HFY
Parasite Puppeteers - Jim Bowering {Green Comet 2} ●●●○○ #ScienceFiction
Time Shards - Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald {Time Shards 1} ●●●◐○ #SciFi
The Heartfelt Life of Max Hartfield - Shawn Inmon (ss) {Middle Falls 14.5} ●●○○○ #SFF
Delete All Suspects - Donna Andrews {Turing Hopper 4} ●●●●○ #Mystery
The Battlemaster - Christopher Rowley {The Vang 3} ●●●●○ #reading
Shatter War - Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald {Time Shards 2} ●●●◐○ #AltHist
Dome Around America - Jack Williamson ●●◐○○ #ClassicSciFi #AceDouble
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#Books completed in March:
An Angel Called Peterbilt - Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett {Assiti Shards | Peterbilt 1} ●●●●◐ #TimeTravel
The Reset Life of Cassandra Collins - Shawn Inmon {Middle Falls 8} ●●○○○ #reincarnation
How Alike Are We - Bo-young Kim (novella) ●●●●○ #AI
The Pool Is Reserved for Podlings - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 3} ●●●●○ #HFY
Parasite Puppeteers - Jim Bowering {Green Comet 2} ●●●○○ #ScienceFiction
Time Shards - Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald {Time Shards 1} ●●●◐○ #SciFi
The Heartfelt Life of Max Hartfield - Shawn Inmon (ss) {Middle Falls 14.5} ●●○○○ #SFF
Delete All Suspects - Donna Andrews {Turing Hopper 4} ●●●●○ #Mystery
The Battlemaster - Christopher Rowley {The Vang 3} ●●●●○ #reading
Shatter War - Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald {Time Shards 2} ●●●◐○ #AltHist
Dome Around America - Jack Williamson ●●◐○○ #ClassicSciFi #AceDouble
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#Books completed in March:
An Angel Called Peterbilt - Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett {Assiti Shards | Peterbilt 1} ●●●●◐ #TimeTravel
The Reset Life of Cassandra Collins - Shawn Inmon {Middle Falls 8} ●●○○○ #reincarnation
How Alike Are We - Bo-young Kim (novella) ●●●●○ #AI
The Pool Is Reserved for Podlings - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 3} ●●●●○ #HFY
Parasite Puppeteers - Jim Bowering {Green Comet 2} ●●●○○ #ScienceFiction
Time Shards - Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald {Time Shards 1} ●●●◐○ #SciFi
The Heartfelt Life of Max Hartfield - Shawn Inmon (ss) {Middle Falls 14.5} ●●○○○ #SFF
Delete All Suspects - Donna Andrews {Turing Hopper 4} ●●●●○ #Mystery
The Battlemaster - Christopher Rowley {The Vang 3} ●●●●○ #reading
Shatter War - Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald {Time Shards 2} ●●●◐○ #AltHist
Dome Around America - Jack Williamson ●●◐○○ #ClassicSciFi #AceDouble