I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Still way behind in blogging nonfiction, but I accumulated enough fiction to justify a new entry.


Dan Simmons, ( Hyperion duology; TW for rape )

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model: ( No bugs, only robots/humans )
Paul Cornell, ( a border fantasy that gets interesting with Brexit )

Max Gladstone, Wicked Problems: ( Craft and eldritch horror )
Naomi Novik, Buried Deep and Other Stories: Collection of stories, including from the worlds of Temeraire (Caesar, and also a Pride and Prejudice retelling), the Scholomance, and the in-progress world of (architectural) follies. Nicely representative.

M.R. Carey, Echo of Worlds: ( another many worlds duology )
Arkady Martine, Rose/House: ( AI house with murder )
Steven Brust, Lyorn: ( and here the random Earth memes did annoy me )
Waubgeshig Rice, The Moon of the Turning Leaves: ( Can apocalypse fiction be cozy? )
Jason Pargin, I’m Starting To Worry About This Black Box of Doom:( always online, rarely in doubt )

The New Voices of Science Fiction, ed. Hannu Rajaniemi & Jacob Weisman: ( yay new voices )

Seanan McGuire, Laughter at the Academy: ( short stories )
John Scalzi, A Very Scalzi Christmas: ( xmas stories )
Rainbow Rowell, Attachments: ( big crusher is watching )
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War: ( red v blue )
Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House: ( a different kind of fantasy for Bardugo )
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black: ( Alice in Wonderland kicks ass )
Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter: ( Sherlock Holmes x many fantasy/horror tropes )
Ada Hoffman, The Outside: ( there were AO3 style tags on the back cover, like autistics in space )

( Max Gladstone, Seth Dickinson, Sophia McDougall, David Brin, horror comic )

How lucky we are to be alive right now! It’s a bit strange to share a fandom with people I know as non-fans. Like, I met a colleague’s husband and she mentioned/complained how he played the soundtrack incessantly on the weekends, and we recognized each other as similar souls! (I can only assume that she just wasn’t hearing it during the week, when he played it at work.) On the other hand, I nearly got into a screaming fight with another colleague about whether the genius of the musical depends on its transformativeness or is independent of that transformativeness (both at the level of Founding history and rap music)—the answer is the former, of course, but the discussion got a bit heated. So weird!  Also I am about to go see Hamilton--tomorrow night, yay!--and I am so excited I could burst.