Despite my best efforts, there are always books I can’t finish. This updates books stopped and sent back to the cloud as of mid-August 2023.
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Science Fiction
Coming soon to a solar system near you.
Cixin Liu Is Not Sure It's Going To Work Out
…but read this anyway — it’s good stuff.
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Mid-Year Update, Pt 1: Finishes
Shorter reviews from June and early July 2023
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Lost Opportunities
Another ambitious series from the indie/self-published scene. How does it measure up?
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Retrospective Spring Wrap Up, Pt. 2
Continuing to catch up from my spring of lots of reading, little writing.
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May Magazine Mayhem
in Horror, Grimdark, Fantasy, Magazine, Science Fiction
Sorry, that’s cheesy. What’s not are the fiction ‘zines within…
Read MoreUm, don’t box sets actually go the other direction IRL?
Assassins, AIs, Power Armor, and Explosions, Oh My...
Another industrial-length series, packed with industrial-strength action. This one is genuinely good.
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Retroactive Spring Wrap Up, Pt. 1
I’ve been more motivated to read than write, so find myself catching up on a few months’ worth of reading. Here are some that didn’t rate longer stand-alone reviews.
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Time-Shifting Private Eye
Quantum twists on classic boiler-plate noir themese.
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Showdown on Jericho Station
Book 1.5…err, Short Story 1.5 in the Galactic Cold War series.
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A Dark Void Arises...
Two delightful issues from a relatively new biannual SF horror e-zine.
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Gunn and Salvo: The, Um, Final Broadside?!?!
Two mostly honest bounty hunters save the universe in style.
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Lightspeed Magazine 152, January 2023
Branching out a bit, finding both new authors and a reassuringly familiar format.
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Nietzsche x K. Gorman = Strong Space Opera
Abysses, archetypes, gods and demons and spaceships and horror and…
Read MoreIron on the Tongue
The second volume of The Reckoning Cycle is even better than the first. Adventure, intrigue and intelligently-drawn characters swirl together in a compelling read.
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The Lost -- And Last? -- Metal
The fourth read in a seven-volume series. Time for a new theme?
Read MoreAn Inhuman Race
Being human may mean less than we think…
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A David Drake Trifecta
Three books from a masterful writer, the “father of military SF” — and much more.
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Reginald Bretnor In Review
An interesting and unusual man who wrote some interesting and unusual things.
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Black Table
When is good good enough? And does it matter if it’s written in Finnish or English?
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