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#Books and #stories for #AprilReads. | Tag to mute: #BokBooks

Ten novels:
●●○○○ A New Faith - TinJar
●●●●○ The Unsworth Manor Nudes {Unsworth Manor 1} - P.Z. Walker
●●●●○ Dogs of War {Dogs of War 1} - Adrian Tchaikovsky
●●●◐○ He Dies and Makes No Sign {Dr. Constantine 3} - Molly Thynne
●●●○○ A Fateful Reunion - Martin Brant
●●●◐○ Tenth Artifact {Artifact 10} - David Collins
●●●●○ More Unsworth Manor Nudes {Unsworth Manor 2} - P.Z. Walker
●●◐○○ Civilizations - Laurent Binet
●●●●○ The Hemingway Hoax - Joe Haldeman
●●◐○○ Quaker Quarry {Miles Grant 21} - Jack Dearborn

Two novellas:
●○○○○ New Light on the Drake Equation - Ian R. MacLeod
●●●●○ Tendeléo's Story - Ian McDonald

One novelette:
●●○○○ The Last Ride of German Freddie - Walter Jon Williams

Twenty-nine short stories:
●●●●○ The Traveler - Wade Roush
●●●●○ Airy Servitor - Margaret St. Clair
●●●○○ Romance in the Nudist Colony - Ana Jurić
●●●○○ The Mother - Jacob M’hango
●●●◐○ Kreativity for Kats - Fritz Leiber
●●●◐○ The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For - Cameron Reed
●●●○○ Return Engagement - Margaret St. Clair
●●●○○ She Knew He Was Coming - Kris Neville
●◐○○○ Between the Hard Earth and Dry Heaven - Melusi Nkomo
●●●○○ Whispering Pines - Mel Cowan
●●●◐○ The Inhabited Men - Margaret St. Clair
●●●○○ Heatwave - Gregg B. White
●●●◐○ Our Saucer Vacation - Fritz Leiber
●○○○○ The Girl Who Laughed - Doreen Anyango
●●○○○ The Clearing - Mel Cowan
●●●○○ The House in Bel Aire - Margaret St. Clair
●●●◐○ The Fish Tank Crab - Genna Gardini
●●○○○ Hunt the Hunter - Kris Neville
●●●○○ Consumership - Margaret St. Clair
●●●◐○ The Goggles of Dr. Dragonet - Fritz Leiber
●●○○○ Cormorant Cove - Mel Cowan
●●●○○ The Gardener - Margaret St. Clair
●●●○○ Fire on the Mountain - Bjorn Hasseler
●●○○○ A Knight’s Tale — Therapies - Edith Wild
●●○○○ Another Country Heard From - Jack Carroll
●●●◐○ The Birds of the Muses - Iver P. Cooper
●●○○○ Scars and Prejudice - Hannah Steenbock
●●●◐○ As Holy and Enchanted - Kris Neville
●●●◐○ The Anaheim Disease - Margaret St. Clair

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2026-04: 29 ss | 01 nvt | 02 nva | 10 nov
2026-03: 38 ss | 02 nvt | 02 nva | 08 nov
2026-02: 38 ss | 00 nvt | 02 nva | 09 nov
2026-01: 35 ss | 06 nvt | 02 nva | 10 nov
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#ScienceFiction

#Books and #stories for #MarchReads. | Tag to mute: #BokBooks

Eight novels:
●●●○○ Ill Wind - Doug Beason, Kevin J. Anderson
●●○○○ The Big Eye- Max Ehrlich
●●●●○ Bright White Light {Behold Humanity 19} - Ralts Bloodthorne
●●◐○○ Two Girls, a Naked Guy, and the End of the World - Arthur Pemmington
●●●○○ Chimera {Parasitology 03} - Mira Grant
●●●●○ Vindictive Vixen {Miles Grant 20} - Jack Dearborn
●●●○○ Freebody CO - Rowland Jr
●●●◐○ When the Moon Hits Your Eye - John Scalzi

Two novellas:
●●●◐○ Sailing to Byzantium - Robert Silverberg
●●●◐○ Turquoise Days - Alastair Reynolds

Two novelettes:
●●●◐○ Tethered {Middle Falls Ghosts 01} - Shawn Inmon
●●●◐○ Auk House - Clifford D Simak

Thirty-eight short stories:
●●●◐○ Fort Iron - Margaret St. Clair
●●●◐○ The Toy - Kris Neville
●●◐○○ Starobin - Margaret St. Clair
●●●●○ Dobridust - Margaret St. Clair
●●●◐○ Lydia's Private Casket - James Gault
●●●◐○ The Moon Is Green - Fritz Leiber
●●●●○ Of What We Never Were - David Robertson
●●●○○ The Wines of Earth - Margaret St. Clair
●●○○○ A Defiant Departure - MacSmart Ojiludu
●●◐○○ Emergency Call - E C Tubb
●●●◐○ House Hunting - Mel Cowan
●●●○○ The Replaced - Margaret St. Clair
●●○○○ Before the Rains Came - Nadia Ahidjo
●●○○○ The Unveiling of Elias Thorne - Mel Cowan
●●●○○ Take Two Quiggies - Kris Neville
●●●○○ The Death of Each Day - Margaret St. Clair
●●●●○ The Most Epic Nap in the Universe - A. R. Capetta
●●●●○ Femmequin 973 - Fritz Leiber
●●●◐○ Love Story - Steve Williams
●●◐○○ Hold Back Tomorrow - Kris Neville
●●●●◐ The Unintentional Exhibition of Agnes Prattle - Mel Cowan
●●●●○ Graveyard Shift - Margaret St. Clair
●●○○○ When the Levees Break - Edwin Okolo
●●●○○ Romance in the Nudist Colony - Ana Jurić
●●●◐○ The First - Kris Neville
●●●○○ Cassini Rounds Third - Robert E. Waters
●●●○○ A Fitting Tribute - Bethanne Kim
●●●○○ A Meeting at Midsummer, Part 2 - Marc Tyrrell
●●●◐○ Disturbance at the Nishioka House - Garrett W. Vance
●●●●○ Red, Right, Returning - Fran Wilde
●●●●○ Blythe Method of Unbuttoning - Mel Cowan
●●◐○○ Psychosis from Space - Fritz Leiber
●●○○○ Secret Weapon - E C Tubb
●●●●○ Elijah's Journey - Fabien Barabe
●●●◐○ Death Wish - Margaret St. Clair
●●●○○ Cold War - Kris Neville
●●●○○ Garden of Evil - Margaret St. Clair
●●◐○○ Discovering Self - Mel Cowan

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2026-03: 38 ss | 02 nvt | 02 nva | 08 nov
2026-02: 38 ss | 00 nvt | 02 nva | 09 nov
2026-01: 35 ss | 06 nvt | 02 nva | 10 nov
2025-12: 34 ss | 03 nvt | 01 nva | 07 nov
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#reading #ScienceFiction

#Books and #stories for #DecemberReads. | Tag to mute: #BokBooks

Seven novels:
●●●◐○ The Inheritor's War {Behold: Humanity! 17} - Ralts Bloodthorne
●●●○○ The Librarian of Baker Street - Greg Kauffman-Starkey
●●●◐○ 1637: No Peace Beyond the Line {Ring of Fire} - Charles E. Gannon, Eric Flint
●●●○○ The Case of the Ritual Rapist {Miles Grant 16} - Jack Dearborn
●●●●○ Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz
●●●○○ Death in the Dentist's Chair {Dr. Constantine 02} - Molly Thynne
●●●◐○ Operation Time Search - Andre Norton

One novella:
●●●◐○ Divide and Rule - L. Sprague de Camp

Three novelettes:
●●●◐○ The Feminine Metamorphosis - David H. Keller

●●●◐○ Frolic - Cammie Conte
●●●○○ An Unexpected Adventure - Martin Brant

Thirty short stories:
●●●◐○ The Thirsty God - Margaret St. Clair
●●○○○ Every Work Into Judgment - Kris Neville
●●●○○ What’s Inside of People - Matthew McDermott
●●○○○ Static - Alithnayn Abdulkareem
●●●●○ The Black Ewe - Fritz Leiber
●●○○○ If This Be Utopia… - Kris Neville
●●◐○○ Vessels - Michael Shotter
●●●○○ One Leg Is Enough - Kris Neville
●●●◐○ When the Last Gods Die - Fritz Leiber
●●●◐○ Revenge for Stan - Hannah Steenbock
●●●◐○ Going South: Forever - Ted Bun
●●●●○ Aesop's Elevator - William Alexander
●●○○○ Laatlammer - J.S. Louw
●●●○○ Vector - Margaret St. Clair
●●◐○○ Forty Shades of Green - Ted Bun
●●○○○ The Field Journal of Dr. Franklin Nod - Michael Shotter
●○○○○ Armando's Virtuous Crime - Najwa Binshatwan
●●●●○ I'm Looking for "Jeff" - Fritz Leiber
●●○○○ Pest Control - Will Forest
●●●○○ Piety - Margaret St. Clair
●●●●○ Interloper - Poul Anderson
●●●○○ Seeds of Futurity - Kris Neville
●●●◐○ The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles - Margaret St. Clair
●●●○○ 1632 and Beyond, Issue #1 (= 5 ss)
●●●●○ Zabrina Meets the Retro Club - Maddi Gonzalez
●●●●○ A Deskful of Girls - Fritz Leiber
●●○○○ The Gardener's Pitch - Michael Shotter
●●○○○ Roberta - Margaret St. Clair
●●●◐○ Appointment in Tomorrow - Fritz Leiber
●●●◐○ The Emperor's New Towel - Mel Cowan

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2025-12: 34 ss | 03 nvt | 01 nva | 07 nov
2025-11: 23 ss | 03 nvt | 05 nva | 10 nov
2025-10: 30 ss | 00 nvt | 02 nva | 13 nov
2025-09: 26 ss | 02 nvt | 00 nva | 13 nov

#Books and #stories for #SeptemberReads. | Tag to mute: #BokBooks

Thirteen novels:
●●●○○ The Eighth Artifact {Artifact 08} - David Collins
●●○○○ The Successful Life of Jack Rybicki {Middle Falls 11} - Shawn Inmon
●●●○○ The Case of the Hobbled Hero {Miles Grant 6} - Jack Dearborn
●●●◐○ Alien Clay - Adrian Tchaikovsky
●●○○○ This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
●●●◐○ The Case of the Purloined Parent {Miles Grant 7} - Jack Dearborn
●●●●○ The Many Short Lives of Charles Waters {Middle Falls 12} - Shawn Inmon
●●●○○ Long Way Home - Darrell Bain
●●●◐○ The Case of the Artificial Artist {Miles Grant 8} - Jack Dearborn
●●●●○ Toy Wars - Thomas Gondolfi
●●●◐○ See-Through {Emma Nelson 1} - P.Z. Walker
●●●◐○ The Case of the Nefarious Naturist {Miles Grant 9} - Jack Dearborn
●●○○○ The Nude Vampires - Arthur Pemmington

Zero novellas.

Two novelettes:
●●●○○ The Scarlet Citadel {Conan the Barbarian 1} - Robert E. Howard
●●○○○ Equation of Doom - Gerald Vance

Twenty-six short stories:
●●●◐○ Crow's Feat - Jack Campbell
●●◐○○ The Flying Weathercock - Edward Page Mitchell
●●●○○ Enigma of Migration - Leona Celestia
●●●○○ Lefty Feep Catches Hell {Lefty Feep 10} - Robert Bloch
●●●●○ Quantum Hauntings {Dark Frequencies 01} - Lorna Blackwell
●●●●○ Renegat - Logan Thomas Snyder
●●●●○ The Watchers at the Edge {Dark Frequencies 02} - Lorna Blackwell
●●●○○ Exchanging Their Souls - Edward Page Mitchell
●●○○○ Dark Energy Generator {Agent Adams 5} - Tim Tolbert
●●◐○○ Ministering Angels - C. S. Lewis
●●◐○○ The Chance of a Ghost {Lefty Feep 12} - Robert Bloch
●●●○○ The Story of the Siren - E. M. Forster
●●○○○ The Edge of Awakening - Leona Celestia
●●●○○ Back from that Bourne - Edward Page Mitchell
●●○○○ Virtual Goddess {Agent Adams 6} - Tim Tolbert
●●●○○ The Factory - Michelle Browne
●●●○○ Stuporman {Lefty Feep 15} - Robert Bloch
●●○○○ Rengoku - Sam Best
●●○○○ Invasion Crisis - Leona Celestia
●●●○○ The Final Christmas of Robert Burke {Middle Falls 12½} - Shawn Inmon
●●◐○○ The Alley Man - Philip José Farmer
●●◐○○ Genie with the Light Brown Hair {Lefty Feep 14} - Robert Bloch
●●●○○ A Traveler in Time - August Derleth
●●●●○ Quixote and the Windmill - Poul Anderson
●●●○○ Eighth Amendment - Thomas Robins
●●●◐○ Advance Agent - Christopher Anvil

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2025-09: 26 ss | 02 nvt | 00 nva | 13 nov
2025-08: 26 ss | 02 nvt | 02 nva | 11 nov
2025-07: 24 ss | 01 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2025-06: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov
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Descriptions of the novels, repeated from the weekly posts. Footnotes have been removed, so some parts lack further explanation. For descriptions of the shorter works, see the weekly posts. Tag to mute: #BokBooks

●●●○○ The Secret of ZI - Kenneth Bulmer (nov) 1958
The Alishang took control of Earth almost three centuries ago, first coming as friends, then influencing government, then taking over. Humans had revolted several times, but never successfully. So plans for a more complete revolution were set in motion. They would take a while.

Two years before the plans were due to come to fruition, we follow Rupert, an agent on the run. He knows too much, even though he doesn't know what he knows. We follow him as he escapes Alishang forces and Resistance forces alike. Adventures are had, then two revelations are made. One is so obvious it's on the cover, the other seems super unlikely.

●●●◐○ Times of Trouble {New John Connor Chronicles 3} - Russell Blackford (nov) 2003
The end of the trilogy sees 15-year-old John and his mother return from taking out the backup Skynet in Europe with 45yo General Connor and his team. They participate in some cleanup, taking out Skynet machines that were still attacking humans even after Skynet's destruction, then they have to deal with warlords in South America.

Finally it was time for Jade, the sole surviving bio-enhanced Specialist from the third timeline, to return home. She went with the Connors and some other volunteers, plus a dozen reprogrammed Terminators and T-1000s, and hooked up with a local Resistance group. They conquered the local control node in Venezuela with the help of the T-1000s they had, who had been given the ability to reprogram Skynet machines.

Then the capstone of the fight in Colorado for the Skynet base, and the Connors returning to their timeline to monitor for any reprogrammed humans the government had missed, and to see that the Skynet program wasn't restarted. Not a bad trilogy, though a bit repetitive.

●●●○○ Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray Cummings (nva) 1931
Stories where people shrank and visited worlds within specks of matter were common in the 1930s, and this is one. A scientist invents two drugs, one which will shrink a person (seemingly indefinitely, depending upon dose), and one which will enlarge a person. Oh, and the story avoids always dealing with naked people:

❝The myriad pores of my skin seemed thrilling with activity. I know now it was the exuding volatile gas of this disintegrating drug. Like an aura it enveloped me, acted upon my garments.”

Right, so logic is out the window. Polter (scientist Kent's assistant), fired when he attempted to force himself upon Babs (Kent's daughter), years later kidnaps her. Her brother Alan and his besotted-with-her friend George go to his castle, get drugs from the guards, and shrink down into the tiny realm. Alan ends up falling for a woman who lives in the infinitesimal, and George rescues Babs.

Apparently I read this years ago, but the only part I recalled were the lengthy sequences of shrinking, where one shrinks to a millimeter and climbs on the stone, then takes more drug and waits for the hand-size hole you're standing beside to relatively grow to basement- and then valley-size, climbs in, and repeats many more cycles.

●●●◐○ Case of the Murdered Mayor {Miles Grant 2} - Jack Dearborn
The minor case is the theft of a prize collie from his breeder. Miles easily tracks down the people who stole the dog. It was fairly obvious, given that the woman had just had a difficult separation from her husband. The major case is murder.

The mayor of Seattle is shot dead, but two months later no killer has been arrested, so the mayor's widow hires Miles through a proxy. He can't interfere with the police investigation, which makes his job more difficult. Miles eventually comes to the conclusion that a member of the police force is the killer. Proving that means confronting the man. Where Miles got shot in his first case, he was merely shot at in this one. 1950s-set #mystery.

●●●○○ The Stock Car Race {Behold: Humanity! 15} - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) 2024
Atrekna continue to take over worlds, and the Terran Confederacy continues to take them back. Terran Descent Humans currently remain over 99% extinct from an Atrekna psychic attack that unedited their DNA, but steps are being taken to bring them back from the Sentience Upload Disaster Storage System, if that could be repaired.

We also learn that Earthlings exist, a faction of humankind that set out in slowships after Earth was Glassed. They can sense when Atrekna sink a solar system to change its sun and time flow. They object, and stop by to nova the star.

Many more facets of this hundred-stranded story continue, sometimes with several books between appearances, so I'm stuck thinking "I know that name, but what species are they and what's their plot thread?". Still, it's an absorbing series, and I hope it gets completed. Supposedly the author has late-stage cancer.

●●●◐○ Army of the Undead {Invaders 3} - Rafe Bernard (nov) 1967
This novel is not split into multiple episodes, as the previous two books, but is a single story. It also is odd, in that it seems set late in the course of the TV series, when David Vincent had people in government and industry who believed that the Invaders existed, yet also seems set before the series, in that the Invaders portrayed are quite different from how they were shown on screen.

These Invaders are primarily incorporeal, and can influence human minds. In this tale, they're pulling a trick like the #Mysterons did in Captain Scarlet, arranging accidents to kill people, and then reanimating the bodies to possess them. (The Mysterons create new bodies via "retrometabolism" and just leave the old bodies lying around.)

The Invaders have done this thousands of times, and control most of Auto City. Their plan is to destabilize the country by sabotaging all the new cars. David Vincent figures things out, and finds out that the Invaders have adapted Earth tech to broadcast lifeforce via a radio tower in Serenda Valley to control their reanimated slaves. Naturally he wins out in the end, though at this stage of the series, he needed dozens of helpers to do so. Yet somehow, a week afterward, only a few recalled what happened, it was so unreal to them.

●●◐○○ Case of the Sullied Songstress {Miles Grant 3} - Jack Dearborn (nov) 2016
The minor case in this book is PI Miles Grant surveilling a construction site for a company suffering thievery of building materials. As he watches from his seedy hotel, he listens to the radio and hears a report of a nude woman's body being found in a nearby county. After he wraps up the pilfering case, he reads in the newspaper a similar report from a different county.

Then he's hired by a man whose niece was dumped in a vacant lot, nude and strangled (but not to death!), and Miles is soon chasing a serial murderer, since the girl fears the killer may return to finish the job if it's found out that she survives.

When Miles finds out the connection between the slain women, he learns that his wife Shirley is surely on the killer's list. Regrettably, the motivation of the killer (and his associates) is stupid beyond belief, and the story shudders to a mindless end.

●●●●◐ Head On {Lock In 2} - John Scalzi (nov) 2018
"Hadens" are people suffering "lock in" as a result of a rare side-effect of a flu-like disease that swept the world. Four and a half million Americans became Hadens in the initial pandemic, and thirty thousand more become Hadens each year. They participate in society by tele-operating robotic "threeps" using surgically-embedded neural networks.

There's also a Haden-only sport, an ultra-violent game where one team of eleven tries to tear the head off a randomly chosen member of the opposing team, and make a goal with it. The game involves swords, crossbows, and specially built threeps. And for the first time ever, a player – whose physical body was in a different city – dies in the course of a game, when his head is torn off for the third time.

This book has a detective duo, one of them a Haden himself, investigate the event. It leads to murders, a suicide, revelations of money laundering and betrayal, sketchy drugs, international criminals organizations, more.

Also an oversized sport robot crashing into the building junior Agent Shane shares with five other Hadens, doing much damage while searching for a cat he picked up at the scene of a building fire set to cover up an earlier crime.

●●●○ The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright {Middle Falls 10} - Shawn Inmon (nov) 2019
Rebecca Wright was brought up by an unfeeling mother and a mostly-absent father (he was in the Navy), end never managed to make a real emotional connection with anyone but her little brother. She married a dentist, who ended up divorcing her for his hygienist, and raised her son alone, badly. She died poor and alone.

But in Middle Falls, you get a second chance. If necessary, third, tenth, and fiftieth chances, until you fix your life. On her next twenty or so lives, Rebecca dropped back into her life when her husband was telling her he was leaving her. She knew what was going to happen, so she let him have custody of her son, took the money from the house and practice, and toured the world with her brother. When she got bored, she left her money it to her brother and killed herself to start the next loop.

Over time, she slowly changed, until she managed a life where she helped her gay brother fight AIDS (she knew what companies to invest in, so she was rich), she raised her son decently, and befriended her son's nanny and her out-of-wedlock daughter. Eventually she achieved true empathy, and finally moved on.

●●○○○ The Timothy File {Miles Grant 4} - Jack Dearborn (nov) 2017
Private Investigator Miles Grant arrives at his Seattle office from his suburban Bremerton home to find a request to call a local doctor. The pediatrician is being blackmailed with a nude photo of his four-year-old son sitting on a sofa. No parents of young children will want their kids associated with a seedy doctor, so he needs to find out who the blackmailer is.

In the course of his investigation, Grant discovers the Doctor has lied to him multiple times and is involved in a nefarious business. Despite the obstacles the Doctor has put in his way, Grant solves the case and turns the tables on the Doctor.

This book has similar structural flaws to the last one, primarily "why would a criminal hire a detective?" Add in the nature of the criminality, and it rates even lower.

●●◐○○ The City {Aestus 01} - S. Z. Attwell (nov) 2020 #CliFi
This is an overlong, over-padded novel. The first thirty percent should have been cut. Half the remainder should also have been cut. It's been forever (well, November) since it took me a full week to read a novel, and I also couldn't get into that Star Trek: Enterprise novel.

The story should have begun when Jossey and her Patrol group are searching the Outer Sector caverns for Onlar intruders. The tenth of the novel's first third that mattered (her brother Tark and his friend Gavin taking the ten-year-old Jossey to the surface to see the moon, with an Onlar attack resulting in Jossey getting a scarred face and a bum leg, and Tark going missing, and their father dying searching for him) should have been inserted as flashbacks.

Now grown, solar engineer Josey and her team face an Onlar attack on the way down the shaft to the post-climate-change underground City, in which she kills the attacker. That gets her moved to Patrol for a special project. Which leads to her being kidnapped by Onlar. Whom she finds are not the beasts that City propaganda claims.³

She learns that her City lies beneath India, that it displaced the natives from their ancient caverns to dig itself, and that the Onlar are those natives, still surviving, whereas the City maintains they're the only humans left. And despite the great heat of most of the year in the 2400s, the Onlar partially live on the surface, in sheltered valleys. Jossey becomes involved in the effort to stop the City's expansion, since that will entail the genocide of the remaining natives – who are led by her missing brother.

Add in the middle-school romance with three twenty-somethings – Gavin (now Patrol leader who didn't initially know the secrets revealed by Jossey's kidnapping) and Caspar (Delta Force / Gestapo agent, who knew the secrets and killed to keep them) both love Jossey, but won't admit it to themselves, while Jossey is oblivious to both men's feelings – and this book was a trial. But it's the first part of a duology, so I'll read the (blessedly shorter) sequel. Eventually.

●●●◐○ The Case of the Phantom Phaeton {Miles Grant 5} - Jack Dearborn (nov) 2018
Christmas Eve 1937: A car with its headlights off runs another car off the road. The 19-year-old driver survives, but his wife and infant son die. The other car doesn't stop. The police never even have a suspect.

1959: The driver hires Miles Grant to find out who the hit-and-run driver was. He's hired three other private investigators over the years, and none have ever turned up anything.

Doggedly checking old newspaper files and interviewing everyone mentioned, Miles turns up some leads. Interviewing the woman who lives in the house closest to the accident turns up more. It becomes clear that the Powers That Be are covering up the crime⁴, which is why other detectives gave up. Miles manages to work around the obstacles and get an answer.

#Books and #stories for #AugustReads. | Tag to mute: #BokBooks

Eleven novels:
●●●○○ The Secret of ZI - Kenneth Bulmer
●●●◐○ Times of Trouble {New John Connor Chronicles 3} - Russell Blackford
●●●◐○ Case of the Murdered Mayor {Miles Grant 02} - Jack Dearborn
●●●○○ Stock Car Race {Behold: Humanity! 15} - Ralts Bloodthorne #HFY
●●●◐○ Army of the Undead {Invaders 3} - Rafe Bernard
●●◐○○ Case of the Sullied Songstress {Miles Grant 03} - Jack Dearborn
●●●●◐ Head On {Lock In 2} - John Scalzi
●●●○○ The Empathetic Life of Rebecca Wright {Middle Falls 10} - Shawn Inmon
●●○○○ The Timothy File {Miles Grant 04} - Jack Dearborn
●●◐○○ The City {Aestus 1} - S. Z. Attwell #CliFi
●●●◐○ Case of the Phantom Phaeton {Miles Grant 05} - Jack Dearborn

Two novellas:
●●●○○ Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray Cummings
●●●◐○ Born in the Wrong Body - Martin Brant #trans

Two novelettes:
●●●●○ Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in The Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms - Jack Campbell
●●●●◐ Murder by Memory - Olivia Waite #queer

Twenty-six short stories:
●●○○○ A Day Among the Liars - Edward Page Mitchell
●●●◐○ Where Does a Circle Begin? - Jack Campbell
●●○○○ Natural - Peter Cawdron
●●●○○ Master - Ursula K. Le Guin
●●◐○○ An Extraordinary Wedding - Edward Page Mitchell
●●●○○ The Great Naked Adventure - P.A. Choi
●●●○○ Living Eggs Project {Agent Adams 02} - Tim Tolbert
●●◐○○ King of the Hill - James Blish
●●◐○○ Nothing Happens to Lefty Feep {Lefty Feep 11} - Robert Bloch
●◐○○○ End as a World - F. L. Wallace
●●○○○ Yellow Streak Hero - Harlan Ellison
●●●○○ Son of a Witch {Lefty Feep 6} - Robert Bloch
●●○○○ Entangled Vision {Agent Adams 03} - Tim Tolbert
●●●◐○ Concerns of the Second Sex - Pavarti K. Tyler
●●●●○ The Soul Buyer - Keith Laumer
●●○○○ Jerk the Giant Killer {Lefty Feep 7} - Robert Bloch
●●◐○○ Last Cruise of the Judas Iscariot - Edward Page Mitchell
●●●○○ Unnatural - Ann Christy
●●●●○ These Are the Times - Jack Campbell
●●●◐○ The Sun Never Sets - Anthea Sharp
●●○○○ Sunspot - Hal Clement
●●◐○○ Rocket to Limbo - Margaret St. Clair
●◐○○○ Echoed Life Foundation {Agent Adams 04} - Tim Tolbert
●●○○○ The Witness - Leona Celestia
●●●○○ Lefty Feep and the Racing Robot {Lefty Feep 13} - Robert Bloch
●●●○○ The Devilish Rat - Edward Page Mitchell

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2025-08: 26 ss | 02 nvt | 02 nva | 11 nov
2025-07: 24 ss | 01 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2025-06: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov
2025-05: 24 ss | 06 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
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One very long, very slow novel knocked my reading down, but since I was reading three shorter novels each full week, not by much.

#Reading in Week Thirty-Three of 2025 | August 11–17 | #BokBooks | ~1400 words | ~8000 characters |

●●○○○ Yellow Streak Hero - Harlan Ellison (ss) 1957
Charles was the sole inhabitant of the Scanner base, and had been for 24 years. He would be for life, the Computer having picked the people least likely to go insane. (After the madness and murder that resulted when two or more were selected to crew a base, one became the norm.) The was likely an Enemy out there, and humankind had to know about it.

●●●○○ Son of a Witch {Lefty Feep 6} - Robert Bloch (ss) 1942
Lefty buys a carpet at an auction. The owner had asked him to bid up the price so the other bidders would spend more, but they'd dropped out. Later, a a man demanded to buy the carpet from Feep, but he refused. Thence ensued the usual chaos when Lefty found out the man was a warlock, and he would go to some lengths to obtain the flying carpet.

●●●○○ The Stock Car Race {Behold: Humanity! 15} - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) 2024
Atrekna continue to take over worlds, and the Terran Confederacy continues to take them back. Terran Descent Humans currently remain over 99% extinct from an Atrekna psychic attack that unedited their DNA, but steps are being taken to bring them back from the Sentience Upload Disaster Storage System, if that could be repaired.

We also learn that Earthlings exist, a faction of humankind that set out in slowships after Earth was Glassed. They can sense when Atrekna sink a solar system to change its sun and time flow. They object, and stop by to nova the star.

Many more facets of this hundred-stranded story continue, sometimes with several books between appearances, so I'm stuck thinking "I know that name, but what species are they and what's their plot thread?". Still, it's an absorbing series, and I hope it gets completed. Supposedly the author has late-stage cancer.

●●○○○ Entangled Vision {Agent Adams 03} - Tim Tolbert (ss) 2025
Mika invents the Quentum Photon Reader, which allows her to tease out unheard-of amounts of information from starlight. Attached to a backyard telescope, and using a complex computer program to handle the data, she sees unbelievable¹ things: life on many worlds, and a technological civilization only eight light-years away.

As is the norm in these stories, Agent Adams of the CIA shows up and there's a meeting between him, the young scientist, and her mentor. He says all this is amazing, and he'll pass the information on to the top levels of government, but for now everything should be kept under wraps.

●●●◐○ Concerns of the Second Sex - Pavarti K. Tyler (ss) 2015
In an alternate US where women have nearly zero rights, a fourteen-year-old girl has had no suitors in the month since her first period. Her father considers whether to sell her to a factory or sell her as a surrogate. Her mother, at the cost of her own life, helps Helen escape.

The guide her mother had arranged brings Helen to an estate where men and women, and Black and Chinese and White people, interact with more equality. It turns out the estate is run by Helen's father's thought-to-be-dead pants-wearing sister. Mister Calvin had been willing to let his eccentric sister run her secret shelter, but when it usurped his prerogatives over his own daughter, well…

●●●◐○ Army of the Undead {Invaders 3} - Rafe Bernard (nov) 1967
This novel is not split into multiple episodes, as the previous two books, but is a single story. It also is odd, in that it seems set late in the course of the TV series, when David Vincent had people who in government and industry who believed that the Invaders existed, yet also seems set before the series, in that the Invaders portrayed are quite different from how they were shown on screen.

These Invaders are primarily incorporeal, and can influence human minds. In this tale, they're pulling a trick like the #Mysterons did in Captain Scarlet, arranging accidents to kill people, and then reanimating the bodies to possess them. (The Mysterons create new bodies via "retrometabolism" and just leave the old bodies lying around.)

The Invaders have done this thousands of times, and control most of Auto City. Their plan is to destabilize the country by sabotaging all the new cars. David Vincent figures things out, and finds out that the Invaders have adapted Earth tech to broadcast lifeforce via a radio tower in Serenda Valley to control their reanimated slaves. Naturally he wins out in the end, though at this stage of the series, he needed dozens of helpers to do so. Yet somehow, a week afterward, only a few recalled what happened, it was so unreal to them.

●●●●○ The Soul Buyer - Keith Laumer (ss) 1963
The Norn falls to Earth as a cosmic spore, which grows and grows, consuming bacteria, then insects, then small animals, then eventually everything, before starving and converting its body to spores, which it blasts into space to start the cycle anew.

The Norn is an atemporal, mindless being, using its psi powers to react to events past, present and future, and influencing people. Tony Adair is a gambler who, for the last two months, hasn't lost a single game of cards or dice he's played. The Norn reacted to his future by changing his present to distract him into not being a threat.

When an alien from another world interferes, he accidentally counters the Norn's manipulation, and sets in motion steps that lead to Tony saving Earth.

●●●●○ Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in The Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms - Jack Campbell (nvt) 2011
One again, Jack Campbell [John Hemry] writes a story of a messed-up future that has to send people back in time to alter its past. (Again, it's a story with a single, mutable timeline.)

In this case, the time travel works by sending people's minds back to rewrite their younger selves (in the manner of the Middle Falls stories by Shawn Inmon). The problem is that all the forever chemicals and other substances released by uncareful use of technology is messing up human reproduction and destroying the environment.

Two travelers were sent back, and as far as the future can tell, vanished. (This is a very Time Trax thing, I suddenly think.) Two more ninety-somethings, Betty the chemist and James the game designer (who was selected solely because he went to the same high school, and could protect Betty), were sent back to 1964 to find out what happened, and hopefully complete the original mission of nudging the world onto a less toxic path.

●●◐○○ Case of the Sullied Songstress {Miles Grant 3} - Jack Dearborn (nov) 2016
The minor case in this book is PI Miles Grant surveilling a construction site for a company suffering thievery of building materials. As he watches from his seedy hotel, he listens to the radio and hears a report of a nude woman's body being found in a nearby county. After he wraps up the pilfering case, he reads in the newspaper a similar report from a different county.

Then he's hired by a man whose niece was dumped in a vacant lot, nude and strangled (but not to death!), and Miles is soon chasing a serial murderer, since the girl fears the killer may return to finish the job if it's found out that she survives.

When Miles finds out the connection between the slain women, he learns that his wife Shirley is surely on the killer's list. Regrettably, the motivation of the killer (and his associates) is stupid beyond belief, and the story shudders to a mindless end.

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Cumulative 2025 totals as of Week Thirty-Three:
198 ss | 24 nvt | 04 nva | 80 nov | #books
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Noticed something recently. KOReader says this is Week 32 of the Monday through Sunday ISO week it uses. My computer, also running on a Mon–Sun ISO week, says it's Week 33. Calendar-365·com agrees that the week just past was Week 33, since it uses a Sun–Sat week.

I'm using my computer's system, since I type this there.

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[1] I literally don't believe a bit of it. And it's not like the story's resolution made it worthwhile.

#Books and #stories for #JulyReads. | Tag to mute: #BokBooks

Thirteen novels:
●●●●○ A Half-Built Garden - Ruthanna Emrys #hopepunk
●●●◐○ Murderer Invisible - Philip Wylie #vintage
●●●◐○ Vengeance - Jennifer Foehner Wells {Confluence 5}
●●●◐○ The Crossing {Assiti Shards} - Kevin Ikenberry
●●●○○ Survivors - Terry Nation
●●●◐○ Dark Futures {New John Connor Chronicles 1} - Russell Blackford
●●●●○ Up-Time Pride and Down-Time Prejudice {Ring of Fire} - Mark H. Huston
●●●○○ The Invaders {Invaders 1} - Keith Laumer #TieIn
●●●●○ The Surrogate Affair {Stewart Grant 01} - Jack Dearborn #detective
●●●◐○ An Evil Hour {New John Connor Chronicles 2} - Russell Blackford
●●●●○ Lock In {Lock In 1} - John Scalzi
●●●●○ Miles Grant, Private Investigator {Miles Grant 01}- Jack Dearborn #mystery
●●●◐○ Enemies from Beyond {Invaders 2} - Keith Laumer #TieIn

One novella:
●●●○○ Unlocked {Lock In 0.5} - John Scalzi

One novelette:
●●◐○○ Project Time Machine {Agent Adams 1} - Tim Tolbert

Twenty-four stories:
●●◐○○ Death and the Senator - Arthur C. Clarke
●●●○○ Martian Quest - Leigh Brackett
●●●○○ At the Bottom of New Lake {Warmer 6} - Sonya Larson
●●●◐○ Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee - Fritz Leiber #classic
●●●◐○ Seventh Victim - Robert Sheckley
●●●○○ The Little Man Who Wasn't All There - Robert Bloch {Lefty Feep}
●●●○○ The Hillside - Jane Smiley {Warmer 7}
●●●○○ Naked Ghost Story - P.A. Choi
●●●○○ Old Ventures, New Partners - Nicolas Wilson
●●●◐○ Never Stop to Pat a Kitten - Miriam Allen deFord
●●●◐○ One Long Ribbon - Florence Engel Randall
●●●○○ The Golden Opportunity of Lefty Feep - Robert Bloch
●●●○○ A Big Man with the Girls - Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl
●●●◐○ Ugly Earthling - Elizabeth Chater
●●●◐○ The Maze - A. Bertram Chandler
●●●●◐ Small Moments in Time - Jack Campbell [John Hemry]
●●●○○ Second Variety - Philip K. Dick
●●●○○ A Naked Wish - P.A. Choi
●●●◐○ The Case of the Dow Twins - Edward Page Mitchell #proto
●●●○○ Poor Little Saturday - Madeleine L’Engle
●●●◐○ Youth - Isaac Asimov
●●○○○ 108 Stitches - Tony Bertauski
●●●○○ Lefty Feep and the Sleepy-Time Gal - Robert Bloch
●●●◐○ Helen O'Loy - Lester del Rey

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2025-07: 24 ss | 01 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2025-06: 26 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov
2025-05: 24 ss | 06 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov
2025-04: 29 ss | 06 nvt | 00 nva | 11 nov
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The Miles Grant and Stewart Grant detective novels are interesting, in that they seem to be doing a "case worthy of a book" per year, and after 24 years, Miles retires and Stewart takes over as detective.

The number of novels per month is going up. It used to hover around nine: two per week, with one in the partial week. But I've been reading some shorter books lately, which has boosted the number. Novellas remain rare.

Finally finished all the stories in Pioneering Women of Science Fiction, Christopher Broschell's collection of stories from the 1940s and 1950s.

### #Books and #stories for #MarchReads.
~400 words | Tag to mute: #BokBooks

Twelve novels:¹
●●●●○ Of Men and Monsters - William Tenn #ClassicSciFi
●●●●◐ Infinity Gate - M R Carey {Pandominion 1}
●●●●◐ Echo of Worlds - M R Carey {Pandominion 2}
●●●●○ Dead Blood - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 12}
●●○○○ Jincan Antidote - Pamela B Eglinski {TimeTravel 3}
●●●◐○ Stranded - Vlad ben Avorham {Stranded 1}
●●●○○ Settlement - Vlad ben Avorham {Stranded 2}
●●●◐○ Setting Roots - Vlad ben Avorham {Stranded 3}
●●●○○ Civic Duty - Vlad ben Avorham {Stranded 4}
●●●○○ Establishment - Vlad ben Avorham {Stranded 5}
●●●◐○ Wyrd of the Wyrm - Vlad ben Avorham {Stranded 6}
●●●○○ Gone Native - Vlad ben Avorham {Stranded 7}

One novela:
●●●◐○ The Red Hell of Jupiter - Paul Ernst (nva) #scientifiction

Five novelettes:
●●●●○ Hollywood Horror - Paul Ernst {Doctor Satan 3} #WeirdTales
●●○○○ Earth vs. the Nudist Camp Freaks - Judith Sonnet
●●●◐○ Unwillingly to School - Pauline Ashwell {Lizzie Lee 1}
●●●○○ Corianis Disaster - Murray Leinster
●●●◐○ Rite of Passage - Chad Oliver

Thirty stories:
●●◐○○ Earth Needs a Killer - Bryce Walton
●●●◐○ Remember Valeria - W.J. Davies
●●●◐○ Exile of the Eons - Arthur C. Clarke
●●●○○ Final Enemy - L. Ron Hubbard
●●◐○○ Isolationist - Mack Reynolds
●●●○○ Panic Button - Eric Frank Russell
●●◐○○ Imitation of Death - Lester Del Rey
●●●◐○ Hate - Rog Phillips
●●○○○ Second Suicide - Hugh Howey
●●◐○○ Martians, Keep Out! - Fritz Leiber
●●●◐○ Guests of the Chitterer Liberation Force - Blair S. Babylon
●●◐○○ Wind in Her Hair - Kris Neville
●●◐○○ Emily May - Moira Katson
●●◐○○ Special Feature - Charles V. De Vet
●●●○○ Uncle Allen - Will Swardstrom
●●●◐○ Judas Ram - Sam Merwin Jr
●●○○○ The Bore - James Blish (ss) 1950
●◐○○○ Piebald Hippogriff - Karen Anderson
●●●◐○ The Servant Problem - William Tenn
●●●○○ Robots of the World! Arise! - Mari Wolf
●●●◐○ Nor Custom Stale - Joanna Russ
●●●○○ Night - Chad Oliver
●●○○○ And Be Merry… - Katherine MacLean
●●●○○ The Golden Bugs - Clifford Simak
●●○○○ Halo - Hal Clement
●●●◐○ Atom Drive - Charles Fontenay
●●●●○ Minister Without Portfolio - Mildred Clingerman
●●●○○ Snowball - Poul Anderson
●●◐○○ Trials - Nicolas Wilson
●●○○○ One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts - Shirley Jackson

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2025-03: 30 ss | 05 nvt | 01 nva | 12 nov
2025-02: 34 ss | 00 nvt | 01 nva | 09 nov
2025-01: 26 ss | 05 nvt | 00 nva | 09 nov
2024-12: 31 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov

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March ends a quarter, and if these three months are representative, I average two novels a week, and should manage a hundred this year. Of course, squeezing in five short novels in the last full week of March helped. But if I balance long modern novels with short older books, it should work out. Finished _The Essential Rog Phillips_.

### #Books and #stories for #JanuaryReads.
~500 words | Tag to mute: #BokBooks

Nine 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 Ernst

Twenty-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) 1950

2025-01: 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 nov

I 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.

#Books and #stories for #DecemberReads.

Twelve novels:¹
●●●●○ Quant - Richard F Weyand {Colony 1}
●●●●◐ Arcadia - Richard F Weyand {Colony 2}
●●●●○ Galactic Survey - Richard F Weyand {Colony 3}
●●●●○ Silk Road - Richard F Weyand {Colony 4}
●●●●○ Lost Colony - Richard F Weyand {Colony 5}
●●●●○ Earth - Richard F Weyand {Colony 6}
●●●●○ The Nudist Family of Frolicking Farm - M.S. Rosen
●●●◐○ Hidden Things - P.Z. Walker {Emma Nelson 3}
●●●◐○ Off-World Hotel & Resort, Episode 1 - Dave Terruso
●●●○○ Off-World Hotel & Resort, Episode 2 - Dave Terruso
●◐○○○ Off-World Hotel & Resort, Episode 3 - Dave Terruso
●●○○○ The Unnamed Town - William H Nelson {Awakening Wars 2}

Zero novellas.

Three novelettes:
●●●●◐ The Venusian - Rog Phillips
●●●●◐ Extracurricular Activities - Yoon Ha Lee
●●●○○ The Siege of Tarr-Hostigos - John F Carr & Roland Green

Thirty-one short stories:
●●●●○ Legal Rites - Isaac Asimov & Frederik Pohl
●●●●○ The Wizard Trader War - John F Carr
●●●●○ A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime - Charlie Jane Anders
●●●●○ Lost Ego - Rog Phillips
●●●◐○ And All for One - Jerome Bixby
●●●◐○ Devil's Invention - Alfred Bester
●●●◐○ Firebrand! - A Bertram Chandler
●●●◐○ Forever and the Earth - Ray Bradbury
●●●◐○ Raindrop - Hal Clement
●●●◐○ Satellite Secret - Kris Neville
●●●◐○ Seven Came Back - Clifford D Simak
●●●◐○ The Old Martians - Rog Phillips
●●●◐○ The Perfect Weapon - Poul Anderson
●●●◐○ Time Stops Today - John Wyndham
●●●◐○ Meem - Margaret St Clair
●●●◐○ Deus Ex Machina - Francis G Rayer
●●●◐○ Land of Lost Content - Chad Oliver
●●●○○ All the Colors You Thought Were Kings - Arkady Martine
●●●○○ Battle of the Unborn - James Blish
●●●○○ Nobody Saw the Ship - Murray Leinster
●●●○○ Prison Bright, Prison Deep - Frank Belknap Long
●●●○○ The Moon Devils - John Wyndham
●●●○○ Your Funeral Is Waiting - Rog Phillips
●●●○○ Your Number is Up! - John Jakes
●●●○○ Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance - Tobias S Buckell
●●●○○ Dust Rag - Hal Clement
●●◐○○ Invisible Monsters - John Wyndham
●●◐○○ The Girl from Mars - Robert Bloch
●●○○○ Captain Peabody - Rog Phillips
●●○○○ Supernal Note - Rog Phillips
●◐○○○ Greed - L Ron Hubbard

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 nov
2024-09: 23 ss | 03 nvt | 01 nva | 13 nov

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[1] A reply to this post repeats brief descriptions of the novels. For descriptions of the other tales, see the weekly posts. Most short stories this month come from various collections and anthologies:

The Paratime Wars - John F Carr
New Adventures in Space Opera - Jonathan Strahan, ed.

Edited by Christopher Broschell:
The Essential Rog Phillips
More of the Essential John Wyndham
Legends of Science Fiction, 1950 Edition (two volumes)

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#BokBooks (tag to mute if you dislike these posts)

#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} #horror

One novella:
●●●◐○ Kalvan Kingmaker ⧨ John F Carr #AlternateHistory

Five 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 Wyndham

Thirty-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 Vonnegut

2024-11: 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 nov

Short 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.

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