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

Ryan North & Chris Fenoglio, Star Trek Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way: ( coffee or raktajino? )
Robert Jackson Bennett, A Drop of Corruption: ( kings! what a good idea!  )
Susanna Clarke, The Wood at Midwinter: ( short )
Sharon Shinn, Alibi: ( teleportation and creeping fascism )
Sacha Lamb, The Forbidden Book: ( Yiddish fantasy )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Days of Shattered Faith: ( imperial overreach )

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 )

Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky: ( rocs and manticores )
Douglas Smith, The Hollow Boys: ( dream riders )
Al Hess, World Running Down: ( kindness among ruins )
T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones: ( horror with bugs )
N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make: ( city fight )
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Wish You Weren’t Here: ( hunting things, occasionally saving people )
Kai Butler, Saffron Wilds: ( wedding prep )
Connie Willis, The Road to Roswell:( too cute for me )

Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found: ( cw: threatened child abuse )

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lords of Uncreation: ( destroyers of world destroyers )

Samit Basu, Resistance: ( The Boys with more women )

Eddie Robson, Hearts of Oak:( architecture in the wooden city )

I’m enjoying listening to Nessa Barrett’s “Tired of California”—“I keep saying that I’m leaving/But it doesn’t work that way” seems genuinely creepy to me.

Adrian Tchaikovsky, City of Last Chances: ( new fantasy world(s) )
John Scalzi, ( what if Starship Troopers but updated? )

Alexandra Rowland, A Taste of Gold and Iron: ( tropetastic fantasy )
Jason Pargin (previously David Wong), If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe: A John, Dave, and Amy Novel: ( wacky fun for us, not so much for them )
Edgar Cantero, Meddling Kids: A Novel: The less-weird book of which I spoke.( Read more... )
Simon Stephenson, Sometimes People Die: ( mystery of killer medical professionals )
Nghi Vo, Siren Queen: ( Hollywood glamour )
Frances Hardinge, Unraveller: ( Cursers, cursees )
Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves: ( destroying the enclaves )
R.F. Kuang, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution: ( wherein Britain is rich because others are poor )

A Partial List of Things They Changed in the Movie (2626 words) by rivkat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Speed (1994)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Annie Porter/Jack Traven
Characters: Annie Porter, Jack Traven, Harry Temple
Summary:

Harry lives. Other parts of life go on too. Note: I ignored Speed 2 because I never saw it. It does not exist in this universe.

I've been bingewatching Legends of Tomorrow and ...( theater of the absurd )
( More Merchant Princes )

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ogres: ( novella about genetics and oppression )
Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star:( return of the gods )
Aliya Whiteley, Skyward Inn: ( DNF )
Daniel Abraham, Age of Ash:( epic fantasy )
Kate Elliott, Unconquerable Sun: ( spaaaace opera )

Just finished watching Julie and the Phantoms on Netflix, a show that has no business being as good as it ended up being. Julie is a teen who lost her mom, and also lost the ability to play the music that she used to make with her mom. When she accidentally brings three ghosts—three members of a boy band that was on the verge of breaking out when they died—back, they discover that they can be heard when they’re making music. The actors commit to roles that require extreme suspension of disbelief, and they’re very wholesome and charming. The songs are generic but the lead is a great singer, and I ended up sobbing twice in later episodes because it skillfully played on my heartstrings. Obviously, premised on death of a parent, death of a teenaged child. Mild romance, no sex.

Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves: ( war and intrigue )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Guns of the Dawn: ( monstrous regiment? )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Tiger and the Wolf: ( shapeshifters without fandom tropes )
Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys: ( YA fantasy )
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi: ( drowned world )
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future: ( ecohopepunk? )
Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit: ( romantic SF )
Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields:( unicorns )

Hi, I am not okay, but as someone on Twitter said, I'm doing things I ordinarily enjoy because I don't know what else to do. (Other than volunteer for GOTV activities, which has been surprisingly heartening, though then again I am in a bright blue area.) I hope you all are as well as possible!


Charles Stross, Dead Lies Dreaming: ( new trilogy )
Emily Tesh, Drowned Country: ( another novella )
Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material: ( general romance )

Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Expert System’s Brother: ( AI and wasps )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Firewalkers: ( the apocalypse will have a class divide )
Alina Boyden, Stealing Thunder: ( Hijra fantasy with dragons )
James R. Gapinski, Fruit Rot: ( fantasy about a cure-all with a cost )
Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade: ( fighting a war in time )

A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name: ( escaping a goddess, making other bad choices )
Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January: ( portals, fantasy )
Jim Butcher, Peace Talks: ( by now you know what this will be )
Lauren Beukes, Afterland: ( Y: the last boy and his mom )
K.B. Wagers, Beyond the Empire: ( palace intrigue in space )
Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth: ( well, that was a thing I read )

OK, I found a group of musical creators that call themselves “Hidden Citizens,” and literally every song is bombastic trailer music and I am so here for it. There’s an album of bombastic covers of both bombastic and non-bombastic originals which are largely unnecessary, but the originals are all clearly written to be trailers for movies insisting that they are EPIC. Or maybe for video games. Here’s one with Ruelle and another with Jung Youth (actually is a trailer song) and another with the most banal lyrics yet, their is-that-allness a laugh-inducing contrast to the end-of-the-world seriousness of the music. I am in awe.

E.K. Johnston, The Afterward:( Happily ever? )
Adrian Tchaikovsk/y, Walking to Aldeberan: Space horror novella. ( Read more... )
Yoon Ha Lee, Hexarchate Stories: ( short stories )
T. Kingfisher, ( Swordheart and Jackalope Wives )

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black: Short stories of the if-this-goes-on variety. ( Read more... )
Harry Connolly, A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark: ( magical aunt )
R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic: ( and here my troubles began )
Zen Cho, The True Queen: ( sisterhood is powerful )