Just to get off the Hugo topic for a bit, here’s what I have lined up for the rest of the year. Not exhaustive, but these are books that I actually have, that are actually yelling at me to finish up. Of course, there are some Hugo books still in there, but I should finish them off by the 31st (moot otherwise!). Secret weapon? Audiobooks. I have an Audible account, and a two-hour round-trip commute. I just finished The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms this way, and I thoroughly endorse this method of “reading”. I’ll be listening to Feed whilst reading Dervish House this week, and hopefully plowing through Blackout on my travel day to Vegas. Not like I’ll be doing anything else. I do have a couple of Early Reviewer books to take care of in there, and a couple by authors appearing at Can-Con. Everything else I can read in any order, though Jennifer Morgue should probably fall before the Fuller Memorandum, simply because it’s book 2 in the series. I don’t know if they stand random reading. I’ll keep my eyes open on that one. Ed: According to Charlie, this is the order I should read them. Well, good. Thanks, Charlie!
- Dervish House by Ian McDonald (July 31 – Hugos)
- Feed by Mira Grant (July 31 – Hugos) – started this one today
- Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis ( July 31 – Hugos)
- Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King (Aug 3 – Library book. Maybe I should buy it…)
- What Ho, Automaton by Chris Dolley (Aug 15 – ER)
- Reap the Wild Wind by Julie Czerneda (Sept 9 – Can-Con)
- Destiny’s Blood by Marie Bilodeau (Sept 9 – Can-Con)
- Attack of the Lushites by Russ Crossley (Oct 1 – ER)
- Rule 34 by Charles Stross
- Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
- Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Spellwright by Blake Charlton
- Writing to Sell by Scott Meredith
- Back to Our Future by David Sirota
- The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
- The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross
- Storm Front by Jim Butcher
- The God Engines by John Scalzi
- The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington
- ED:Mr. Monster by Dan Wells (just noticed it was in the photo below…)
The Fuller Memorandum is got sucked into a vortex, and the iPad is there for the e-books in the list…
Note that most links above go to the author’s site, other than Scott Meredith’s, who died the same year NSCA released Mosaic, and probably didn’t have time for the Internet…
There are two reasons I want to get these read. I tend to buy books right when they come out, and let them sit for interminable amounts of time. Rule 34, which I was so chuffed about three weeks ago is still sitting, lonely, on my shelf. Heck, I got Blackout on its release day, and I’m only getting to it now so I can make an informed decision for Renovation. So I want to clear the backlog and start fresh for 2012.
The second? I promised myself I’d read my Robert Jordan books next year. It will be known as the “Time When I Tackle Wheel of Time”, AKA TWITWoT. The series is sitting on my desk (minus, obv., the one coming out in 2012) staring at me sullenly, accusingly almost. So I vowed to read them next year.
A photo from 2008? Nah, we sometimes don’t replace the calendar… for 3 years…
PS: I find it funny that Spellwright got flagged for spelling…
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