Swapping this in for the usual Book of the Week*. Why?
Oh, no reason…
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*There’s like, this series of books, though.
PS: Yeah, it’s another spy balloon. Still. You want to watch INDEPENDENCE DAY now, don’t you?
Tag: book of the week
Book of the Week: Operation Sea Lion.
The full title is Operation Sea Lion: The Failed Nazi Invasion That Turned the Tide of War. I’m reading it now; the author (Leo McKinstry) takes the argument that not only was Germany not prepared to invade, but that England was prepared to be invaded. He’s making a good case for it, so far.
Book of the Week: SCARLET.
It’s funny: I would normally presume on old acquaintance and discreetly hint that Genevieve Cogman might pass along an advance review copy of her upcoming vampire alternate Scarlet Pimpernel novel Scarlet – we’re both old In Nomine hands, after all. At the same time, though, I want her new book to sell when it comes out in May, so that same past history is arguing against said presumption. I have it on pre-order, and I’ll undoubtedly order it in paperback, once I’ve read the Kindle. I’m okay with that.
Book of the Week: TINSEL RAIN (now on sale!)
TINSEL RAIN‘s on Kindle sale for the first time, you see. 99 cents for the next week, starting now! Tell all your friends to buy their copy today!
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Book of the Week, POOR MAN’S SKY.
Wil McCarthy’s POOR MAN’S SKY is his sequel to RICH MAN’S SKY, which is an entertaining near-future space novel about what it looks like when space-obsessed trillionaires’ pipe dreams actually get turned into actual projects. I liked the first book because it actually treated said trillionaires as functional (albeit weird) human beings. Even the most unpleasant one wasn’t a cackling Bond villain, which is always nice to see. Anyway, it just came out, so I haven’t read it yet. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Book of the Year: The Golden Enclaves.
Really, the whole Scholomance series, but Naomi Novik’s The Golden Enclaves was probably my favorite book this year that I didn’t actually write, myself. Basically, the trilogy would have been a YA series about an outcast wizard girl (with a dark destiny) going to an alarmingly risky magical school, but the author made one disqualifying mistake: she forgot to make the whole thing suck. They’re so good I don’t even begrudge the big-publisher price. Well, maybe a little, but I bought them all in hardcover too, anyway. Check them out, obviously.
Book of the Week: Tales From the Ferm – Kidding! KIDDING! It’s Children of the Lens.
I’ve been on a Doc E.E. Smith tear for the last week or so, if it wasn’t completely obvious. Finishing up SECOND STAGE LENSMAN right now, and then it’ll be time for CHILDREN OF THE LENS. But not the seventh book; like Bob Heinlein, I doubt Smith ever wrote it, even in manuscript form. It would have been far too controversial for the time period.
Book of the Week: Conan: Blood of the Serpent.
S.M. Stirling wrote a Conan novel! Blood of the Serpent, and it’s a page-turner. Stirling takes the world seriously without slavishly worshipping it, which is sometimes a problem for people trying to work in the style of the pulp classics. I heartily recommend it.
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Book of the Week: Triplanetary.
Really, the entire Lensmen saga, but Triplanetary is the one I’m reading now. They offered me a nice deal on the Kindle version, so… clear ether and hot jets, boys and girls!
Book of the Week: Implacable (The Lost Fleet: Outlands Book 3).
…Damn you, Ace Books. Damn you for knowing I’ll preorder the Kindle version of Implacable at paperback prices. And damn you (much less forgivably) for not giving Jack Campbell more of it.
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