I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.

Simon ,'Safe'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


megan walker - Dec 01, 2016 7:57:49 am PST #24187 of 28266
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

ILU S

So much for my eyeglasses protecting my secret identity.


hippocampus - Dec 01, 2016 10:47:42 am PST #24188 of 28266
not your mom's socks.

Megan - fixed that for you.

SJ - yes! there's a short story at BCS at a very different time/place called The Topaz Marquis and there are two more novellas planned and three short stories. [link]


sj - Dec 01, 2016 12:38:07 pm PST #24189 of 28266
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

SJ - yes! there's a short story at BCS at a very different time/place called The Topaz Marquis and there are two more novellas planned and three short stories. [link]

Yay! I've finally started to make room in my day to read again. So, I need to track where I put your larger novels so I can read those as well.


aurelia - Dec 01, 2016 8:03:41 pm PST #24190 of 28266
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Have people read The Mirage by Matt Ruff? I keep hoping our current situation is due to an ill-considered wish.


Susan W. - Dec 02, 2016 3:50:59 pm PST #24191 of 28266
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Has anyone else read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers? It's a sort of found-family-in-SPACE story with good world-building and characterization that I'd recommend for fans of Firefly, the Vorkosigan saga, and maybe Deep Space 9 too.


lisah - Dec 02, 2016 7:06:14 pm PST #24192 of 28266
Punishingly Intricate

Omg, Susan, thank you for mentioning Vorkosigan! I was trying to remember that tonight and couldn't remember enough of the name (let alone the author or any of the books) to be able to google it!


hippocampus - Dec 03, 2016 3:58:43 am PST #24193 of 28266
not your mom's socks.

I put up a post that (also contains links to what I did this year) has a lot of short stories I've loved, and novels too. [link]


Consuela - Dec 03, 2016 9:55:17 am PST #24194 of 28266
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Susan, yes, I enjoyed it. Don't know that it belonged on the Hugo list (or was that the Nebula?), but it was fun. There's a sequel coming out next year, I think.


Susan W. - Dec 03, 2016 1:19:57 pm PST #24195 of 28266
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Omg, Susan, thank you for mentioning Vorkosigan!

You're welcome! I love that series so much.

There's a sequel coming out next year, I think.

Cool! I definitely want to visit these characters again.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 03, 2016 5:59:08 pm PST #24196 of 28266
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

My godson (age 14) has professed an interest in politics. His mom is wondering if this book [link] is a good readable overview. Does anyone have any opinions. I feel that Naomui Wolf is hardly non-partisan, but we are (although the uncles are not) left leaning, so the point may be moot.