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  1. ### #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_.