To Clear Away The Shadows is David Drake’s latest book in his RCN series. It’s not a Leary/Mundy story, but still worth your time for all that if you read Drake. Still not published, but you can get the eARC here.
Category: Books
They’ve optioned The Laundry Files.
This is very interesting. Also, cool. Lemme make that clear.
Book of the Week: Sword of Dracula.
I don’t know why I have a copy of Sword of Dracula. Well, OK, I know why I have it — it’s a black-and-white graphic novel about a squad of paramilitary vampire hunters trying to fight a blood-magic powered Dracula; this is precisely the sort of thing that I would own — but I have no real clue as to how I got it. Did it coalesce out of my library? Did I grab it on a whim? Did somebody loan it to me? Beats me, but it’s fun to read. Not least because there’s nothing nice about Dracula in it. Like, obviously.
Tweets of the Day, Despair And Hope Cojoined edition.
So. No more chapters of The Stone Table.
…but.
BUT.
“Possibility of publication.” …Well, then.
Hi, let me fill you with anguish (Book of the Week, only it can never be).
There is a book called “The Stone Table.” It was written by a fellow called Francis Spufford. It is, as far as I can tell, spot-on in its emulation of the tone of the Chronicles of Narnia.
AND THERE IS NO WAY FOR ME TO GET A COPY. Only 75 exist (privately bound, I wager, and absolutely not offered for commercial sale). I don’t even know who to suck up to. This is torture.
Book of the Week: Alpha and Omega.
Right now I’m just waiting for books to come out. Harry Turtledove’s Alpha and Omega is one of them. Gonna be about the end of the world, Biblical style! Kind of curious to see what he does with that.
So. *Mayyyyybe* DragonCon in 2020.
Not 2019 because it’s far too late to get a hotel room, I have other stuff going on usually on DragonCon dates, and… 2020 because there is a Plan. It is in the early stages yet, and there have to be things done first, in a particular order. The whole thing will be a bit of a decision tree, in its way.
But there is a Plan.
Book of the Week: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Why Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Mostly because I remembered writing this, a couple of days ago. The poor bastard. I wish that he could have maintained an even strain until the end.
Book of the Week: River of Night.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I have spent most of the last week or so fitfully asleep and/or mildly delirious. I reread a bunch of stuff, when I was reading at all, and I was not particularly concentrating on what I was reading. But I have been haunting Baen.com for the E-ARC of John Ringo and Mike Massa’s River of Night (the next one in Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse series), so I guess that should count, hey? …No, it’s not up at the site. It’s not even coming out until July. But I wants it, I do.
Book of the Week: Pirate Utopia.
Bruce Sterling’s Italian Futurist alternate-history Pirate Utopia is, indeed, more of a novella than a novel, so pick it up in Kindle. If you like Italian-themed dieselpunk that is very, very strange and not at all concerned as to your expectations from books. I will warn you; this is an odd-tasting tome. Many people who have reviewed it seem to scratch their heads as to whether or not they actually liked it, although almost nobody seems to be upset that they read it. I’m not even sure whether I really liked it, either. But I’m not upset that I read it.