Oh, look. In Our Stars. It’s going to be yet another God-damned spectacular Jack Campbell novel*.
Yay.
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Book of the Week: In Our Stars.
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Book of the Week: Tales From the Fermi Resolution: Vol. 1: Shadow of the Tower.
Sorry, it was a long day and not a very productive one. Tales From the Fermi Resolution: Vol. 1: Shadow of the Tower is on 99 cent sale this week in Kindle, and happens to be less than four bucks on paperback. The Kickstarter for Vol 2 is also going live in two days. Every little bit, as they say, helps.
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Book of the Week: A Stroke of the Pen.
My wife got me Terry Pratchett’s A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories for Christmas, and I’m finally getting around to it. They’re stories from his earliest years, so I’ll have to remind myself that I shouldn’t expect A+++++ work. A++ will simply have to do.
Book of the Week: TO TURN THE TIDE.
The first book of S.M. Stirling’s new time travel series isn’t going to be out until August, but I’m looking forward to TO TURN THE TIDE anyway. Aside from everything else, it promises to be highly unsentimental. I tend to be a bit more optimistic about human beings than Steve is, which makes his works oddly bracing.
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Book of the Week: The Languages of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth.
I pick this one, knowing that I put my life in my hands. Ruth S Noel’s The Languages of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth was excellent for its time (1980) as an analysis of Tolkien’s invented languages; but there have been a lot of words and grammar found since then. Some of the people most interested in this topic are kind of, ah, intense on the subject, too. I have yet to find a lexicon on the topic that doesn’t have people screaming about it in the reviews, so I decided to go with my first impulse and just go with the book I’ve had for over thirty years.
I’ll be happy to hear any suggested alternatives, as long as you (generic) don’t scream at me over them. Sheesh.
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Book of the Week: Redliners.
Not an Amazon special, this time: Baen Books has made David Drake’s Redliners a free e-library book. So if you’ve never read it (I haven’t, either), check it out. And pour one out for David Drake, while you’re at it. What he didn’t know about writing military science fiction probably didn’t matter much, anyway.
Moe Lane
PS: Personally, I was a big fan of his collaborations with Eric Flint and S.M. Stirling. As for his own work: the RCN series is what I bought, as soon as new ones came out. I am an absolute sucker for Napoleonic War-era naval fiction… In Space! Balefires is likewise a favorite; the man had a dab hand at horror.
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Audiobook of the Week: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
I picked World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War because a buddy from my Secret World Legends MMO cabal told me this morning that they got a full cast for the audiobook, which means it comes across like a radio drama. While I am not really into audiobooks, I am all about radio dramas. It’s also about eleven bucks right now, so why not?
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Book of the Week: Spinning Silver.
I think I’ve done Spinning Silver before, but that’s fine. Naomi Novik’s Russian/Jewish fantasy retelling of Rumpelstiltskin is absolutely worth repeating. …And that’s all I’m going to say about that.
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Book of the Week: Trouble In My Day (Fall of the Censor Book 6).
Trouble in My Day is Karl Gallagher’s latest book in his libertarian military space opera Fall of the Censor series. Check out the whole series! Good stuff.
Book of the Week: Conjure Wife.
Conjure Wife is Fritz Leiber’s classic urban witchery novel, at a reasonable Kindle price, by mainstream publishing standards (which is to say, it’s on sale). Pick it up for Cyber Monday! Or now. Now would be good, too.