People, The Strenge Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss is awesome, and you should all go read it. Jilli, I think it's especially up your alley. [link]
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Pix - Jun 23, 2017 8:39:23 am PDT #24630 of 28222
The status is NOT quo.
-t - Jun 25, 2017 9:59:31 am PDT #24631 of 28222
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I definitely will need to read that.
Y'all, The Three-Body Problem series is so good! I don't even want to say anything about it other than that. Kinda reminds me of Olaf Stapledon.
Jessica - Jun 25, 2017 10:00:44 am PDT #24632 of 28222
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have the third one in my TBR pile!
-t - Jun 25, 2017 10:34:18 am PDT #24633 of 28222
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Just finished it. Terrific!.
Atropa - Jun 25, 2017 1:31:06 pm PDT #24634 of 28222
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oooh, I will add The Alchemist's Daughter to my Eventually To Be Read list!
Atropa - Jun 25, 2017 1:35:25 pm PDT #24635 of 28222
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It's not often that fiction makes me feel like I need a hot shower to scrub away the grime from reading it, but a friend of mine gave me a stack of 90s - 2000s small press horror and alterative fiction magazines for the next run of Eldergoth Surprise Boxes, and eeeugh. Half of them were full of bad "edgy" horror porn; the worst sort of examples of splatterpunk and writing to be shocking.
I know he bought them as research into markets that were buying short horror fiction, but they're just ... gross
hippocampus - Jun 26, 2017 3:53:49 am PDT #24636 of 28222
not your mom's socks.
People, The Strenge Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss is awesome, and you should all go read it. Jilli, I think it's especially up your alley.
I blurbed The Alchemist's Daughter! It's so so good you guys. Seconding everything Pix said
Also (coming soon - very much of interest here) VIvian Shaw's Strange Practice - Dr. Greta vanHelsing, physician to monsters [link]
(also news of big old ebook sale for yours truly up in News)
sumi - Jun 26, 2017 8:25:50 am PDT #24637 of 28222
Art Crawl!!!
I am reading Strange Practice from netgalley and it is so much fun. Coming out in July I think.
sumi - Jun 27, 2017 9:11:40 am PDT #24638 of 28222
Art Crawl!!!
Went to the library: they had the sequel to The Rook. The Rook was shelved in the science fiction/fantasy section. Stiletto was shelved in regular fiction. What is up with that?
-t - Jun 27, 2017 5:09:14 pm PDT #24639 of 28222
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is weird, sumi, but I've noticed that even when, say, buying e-books that books in a series will get categorized differently. I suppose it's someone different making the decision each time?
Up to book 17 of the Foreigner series (although I think she calls it something else, First Contact?) and I'm pleased with my decision to catch up on it. Weird to read after the Three Body Problem, I keep thinking about cosmological sociology, but the Trisolarans initiated contact with the Solar System rather than just "cleansing" them, too. So. I don't know what I conclude from that, but I continue to enjoy Cherryh's way with alien cultures.