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

It's been a while! I've been busy with classes; didn't even manage to pick up a Yuletide pinch hit this year, sadly. I've been listening to Kesha on repeat (and Dessa and Taylor Swift with her cat chorus). And I just saw either a very large mouse or a small rat poke its head out of our basement closet, which was very unpleasant. While I wait for the pest control to call me back, have some fiction!

Alix E. Harrow, Starling House: ( southern gothic )
Jason Pargin, Zoey Ashe Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia: ( book three )
Christopher Golden & Amber Benson, Slayers: A Buffyverse Story: Good to hear the familiar voices, but the writing was sadly not good.

Seth Dickinson, Exordia: ( highly recommended )
Alexis Hall, 10 Things that Never Happened: ( romcom )
Martha Wells, System Collapse: ( Murderbot! )
Rebecca Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023: Isabel J. Kim’s Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist, starring Cool and Sexy Asian Girl, is great. The others were fine but I don't really have anything to say about them.

Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen: ( non-Discworld )
Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory: ( fascist deradicalization )
John Scalzi, Starter Villain: ( eh )
Tobias S. Buckell, A Stranger in the Citadel: ( banned books )
Richard Kadrey & Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A-Train: ( Wolfram & Hart in NYC )
Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World:( accepting self, gaining empire )
Christopher Rowe, The Navigating Fox: ( oneiric fantasy )
Best of British Science Fiction 2022, Donna Bond, ed.: ( AI & environmental collapse )
Stephen King, Holly: ( Covid horror ) Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts: ( side quest )