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

Sorry I've been gone so long. I'm not sure I even posted my Yuletide pitch hit story, a Severance fic focusing on Helly.

Hernan Diaz, Trust: ( it's a pun )
Ann Leckie, Translation State: ( back to the universe of the Radchhai )
P.B. Rainey, Why Don’t You Love Me?: ( Graphic novel with sad parents )
M.A. Carrick, The Liar’s Knot: ( good palace intrigue )
Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark: ( Pandemic sf )
Sarah Monette, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves: ( short stories )
John Scalzi, Travel by Bullet: ( More Dispatcher )
Ben H. Winters, Self Help: ( Winters goes for AI horror )
R.B. Lemberg, The Four Profound Weaves:( trans fantasy )
Everina Maxwell, Ocean’s Echo: ( mind meld sf; not super tropey )
Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent: ( Alex Stern continues at Yale )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls: ( a dying city on a dying world )
Lawrence Block, John Ferris, & Stephen King, Transgressions: Terror's Echo: Three Novellas: ( not so good )
Karin Tidbeck, Amatka: ( communist SF! )
A. K. Larkwood, The Thousand Eyes:( fantasy palace intrigue, always a pleasure )

Michael Rutger, The Anomaly: ( creepy cave )
James S.A. Corey, Tiamat’s Wrath: ( fighting empire )
Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower: ( gods and monsters )Michael Marshall Smith, Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence: ( devil's playground )

Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs: ( interesting epic fantasy )

Robert Jackson Bennett, Vigilance: ( guns, no butter )
Robert Jackson Bennett, The Troupe: ( traveling players sing the world into being )
Erica L. Satifka, Stay Crazy: ( paranoid schizophrenia and communication with other dimensions )
Tobias S. Buckell, ( James Bond after climate change )

T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride:( fractured fairy tale )
Alaya Whiteley, The Loosening Skin: ( love is skin deep )

Thanks to digitalwave for the birthday wishes!

Fannish Freecycle: Cast-signed Veronica Mars poster. Let me know if you want it!

Good article on perils of big data: "Street Bump offers us 'N = All' in the sense that every bump from every enabled phone can be recorded. That is not the same thing as recording every pothole. As Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford points out, found data contain systematic biases and it takes careful thought to spot and correct for those biases. Big data sets can seem comprehensive but the 'N = All' is often a seductive illusion."

( Ancillary Justice, Three Parts Dead, Chew: Taster's Choice )