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

Ten novels:
●●●●○ The Case of the Nudist Numismatist {Miles Grant 13} - Jack Dearborn
●●●○○ The Ninth Artifact {Artifact 09} - David Collins
●●●●○ Day Zero {Rust 0.5} - C. Robert Cargill
●●●○○ The Encore Lives of Effie Edenson {Middle Falls 15} - Shawn Inmon
●●●○○ Flare - Thomas T. Thomas, Roger Zelazny
●●●○○ The Case of the Erotic Equestrian {Miles Grant 14} - Jack Dearborn
●●○○○ The Colony {Aestus 2} - S. Z. Attwell
●●●○○ Hole in the Sky - Daniel H. Wilson
●●●○○ Naked Crow {Naked Crow 01} - P.Z. Walker
●●●◐○ The Case of the Bawdy Bartender {Miles Grant 15} - Jack Dearborn

Five novellas:
●●●◐○ One Level Down - Mary G. Thompson
●●●●○ Youthful Secrets - Martin Brant
●●●◐○ A Twelvemonth and a Day - Poul Anderson
●●●●○ Special Delivery - Kris Neville
●●○○○ Peril of the Starmen - Kris Neville

Three novelettes:
●●●○○ Academic Displacement - Michael Shotter
●●●◐○ Inside Earth - Poul Anderson
●●●◐○ Bettyann - Kris Neville

Twenty-three short stories:
●●●○○ Lefty Feep Does Time {Lefty Feep 20} - Robert Bloch
●●●◐○ The Hero Comes - Margaret St. Clair
●●●○○ Satellite Secret - Kris Neville
●●◐○○ A Horse on Lefty Feep {Lefty Feep 18} - Robert Bloch
●●●◐○ The Mutant's Brother - Fritz Leiber
●●●○○ Brightness Falls from the Air - Margaret St. Clair
●●○○○ Birthright - Margaret St. Clair
●●◐○○ Murder in a Nudist Colony - Ted Bun
●●●○○ Follow the Weeds - Margaret St. Clair
●●●◐○ Forbidden Fruit - Kris Neville
●●◐○○ Asking - Margaret St. Clair
●●●○○ The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity - Fritz Leiber
●●●◐○ World of Arlesia - Margaret St. Clair
●●○○○ Tree's a Crowd {Lefty Feep 22} - Robert Bloch
●●●○○ Probate - Margaret St. Clair
●●◐○○ Before We Die Unwritten - Innocent Chizaram Ilo
●●●●○ To-Do List for the Apocalypse - Jenn Reese
●●●◐○ The Perfect Weapon - Poul Anderson
●●○○○ Murder in the Nudist Colony - Ana Jurić
●●●○○ End of Your Rope {Lefty Feep 23} - Robert Bloch
●●○○○ Lucidity - Wayne Smallman
●●●◐○ Personal Monster - Margaret St. Clair
●●◐○○ Nice Girl with Five Husbands - Fritz Leiber

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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
2025-08: 26 ss | 02 nvt | 02 nva | 11 nov
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Fewer novels this month, but the second half of the Aestus duology was both long and plodding, while still not achieving a decent ending. (Oh, wow, Jossey has chosen which of the three men in love with her she'll marry. But we still don't know if her civilization will survive.)

Finished the Lefty Feep collection, but I still have six other multi-work books that I've epub-split to have stories to fill the last two rows of the calendar: single-author collections by Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Kris Neville, Margaret St. Claire, and Michael Shotter; plus the anthologies Murder in the Nudist Colony (2020: self-explanatory), Disruption (2021: African SF/F/H writers), and Starstuff (2025: hopeful science fiction).

#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.

#BokBooks (a tag to filter if you find these weekly posts and monthly summaries annoying)