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 )

Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance:( fantasy h/c )
M.A. Carrick, The Mask of Mirrors (book 1 of Rook and Rose):( fantasy and grifting )
Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt: ( So many warnings for this take on  )
Greg Van Eekhout, ( three books set in an alternate California where magic comes from eating bones )


Kai Butler, Wormwood Summer: ( cute urban m/m paranormal )
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau: ( really good retelling )
India Holton, The League of Gentlewoman Witches: ( more flying houses and gentlewoman adventurers )
Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword: ( epic magic struggle continued )
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, eds. Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe: ( Naomi Novik, Max Gladstone, Daryl Gregory, Genevieve Valentine, and many more )

Garth Nix, Newt’s Emerald: ( regency/gender masquerade )
Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman, All of Us Villains: ( teenage deathmatch )
Andrea Stewart, The Bone Shard Daughter: ( and The Bone Shard Emperor: island fantasy )

Grady Hendrix, The Final Girl Support Group: ( if this goes on... )
Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate: ( destroying the Scholomance? )
Jonathan Strahan, ed., The Year’s Best Science Fiction, vol. 2 (2020): ( a mix of 2020 )
Charles Stross, ( three post-Singularity sf novels )

Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun:( taking a brother's destiny )
Susan R. Matthews, ( Jurisdiction books )

But first, has anyone been following the current season of The 100? I have a number of episodes piled up and I can't bear to watch unless they've scored some significant victories so far. Anyone who could provide nonspecific information about this would be greatly appreciated.

KJ Charles, Wanted, a Gentleman: ( more Edwardian romance )Justina Ireland, ( Dread Nation and Promise of Shadows )

T. Kingfisher, ( Beauty and the Beast/Clockwork Boys )Cherie Priest, Bloodshot: ( contemporary urban vampires! )

Catherine Asaro, ( more Ruby empire )

Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver: ( spoilers turn silver to gold )

So apparently there’s a hidden folder in Windows called “system volume information” which stores information related to restoring the system if needed. But here’s the thing: it does not come with any default limit on how big it can get. So my year-old 120-gig hard drive, on which I’d put 30 gigs of stuff, was showing that it only had a few megs of space every couple of days. And this folder is, let me repeat, hidden and admin-only, which meant that the disk analysis utilities I was using didn’t see it/couldn’t tell how big it was! TreeSize Free did tell me that it had been denied access to several folders, including system volume information, and through the power of xkcd-style tech support (that is, I googled the term) I found out that I should use the command line prompt in administrator mode to determine its size. Answer: 80 gigs. A few commands later, I suddenly have 80 gigs free again. Every step of this has been resoundingly stupid: stupid that there’s no programmed constraint on the size of this folder; stupid that it’s then hidden; stupid that it can only be fixed from the command line. Windows tablet PC, I wish I knew how to quit you.

( American Nerd with bonus Naomi Novik )