There’s gonna be a new Monster Hunter Files story collection coming soon (MONSTER HUNTER FANTOM, written by Czech authors) , so if you haven’t read MONSTER HUNTER FILES yet, now’s the time to get your MHI short story fix. I gotta go see if it’s still on my own Kindle. If not, looks like I’ll have to download it from Baen again…
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Empire from the Ashes is a compilation of David Weber’s Mutineers’ Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance and Heirs of Empire. Obviously science fiction, with a very heavy dose of space opera tacked on. Fun early Weber, particularly if you enjoy space battles… which is pretty much something you’re going to get from late David Weber, too. And everything science fictional in between.
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This one is sort of meta. Jill Bearup’s Just Stab Me Now is about a romance novelist who is dealing with a main character that is being far more obstreperous than normal, or perhaps physically possible in a normal universe. I don’t actually know; I haven’t read it yet. I’m recommending it because a lot of genre writers who I wouldn’t expect to recommend a romance novel are recommending this one, and I take note of that kind of crossover appeal.
Also, I’m a bit of a sentimentalist. Don’t tell anybody, okay?
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So, my wife and I went over to Games and Stuff‘s new store opening, partially because I wanted to talk to their staff about possibly doing a book signing, and partially because it was, you know. Games. And stuff. It’s a nice story, by the way. The used games section was one of those places where you either walk out at high speed with nothing in your hands; or slowly, and about a hundred bucks poorer. Twenty years ago, it would have been the latter*.
Anyway, I ran across Vampires: A Hunter’s Guide from Dark Osprey. It’s one of the ones I didn’t have, and now I do. Note that, cover to the contrary, it is not a World of Darkness product. It was merely accidentally put there, which had to have been the intent of the publisher. And, one must admit: it worked, didn’t it?
Moe Lane
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*I’m not going to tell you what they have. I haven’t decided yet whether or not I’m going back.
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Damien Lewis’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler’s Downfall, Giving Birth to Modern-Day Black Ops! Soon to be a major motion picture! One unsullied by any attempt to Guy Ritchie to prioritize historical accuracy over gee-whiz (thank God)! Only four bucks on Kindle!
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Oh, look. In Our Stars. It’s going to be yet another God-damned spectacular Jack Campbell novel*.
Yay.
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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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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.
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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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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