Just a quick note to let you know what I've got on my plate leading up to Worldcon.
Speaking of Worldcon, I'm going to read at least some of the short fiction nominees, as many as time will allow, and give my thoughts. I don't think I'm going to try to read all the novels. The publisher of two of them put a security code of the ebooks that went out in the Hugo voters' packet. I don't appreciate what that implies. I'm not going to upload the books to a file sharing site. I'm not a crook, nor do I care to be treated as though I were. Therefore, I won't be reading (or voting for) Blackout by Mira Grant or 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson. I do have some comments to make about this year's nominees in general.
The Gemmell Awards are a bit later than usual this year to coincide with the World Fantasy Convention. My review copy of Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier arrived the other day. It's on the long ballot for the Morningstar Award. I'm looking forward to reading it. I'll post the review on the Gemmell Awards site and a notice here when it goes live. After the awards are given out, I'll post the review here.
I've got a number of titles from Pyr. The ones I intend to review in July are The Doctor and the Kid by Mike Resnick, Kindred and Wings by Phillipa Ballentine, and Wrath-Bearing Tree by James Enge. Then there's The Scroll of Years by Chris Willrich and The Doctor and the Rough Rider by Mike Resnick. Those I probably won't get to until August.
I've had a copy of the conclusion of Joshua P. Simon's Blood and Tears Trilogy, Trial and Glory on my ereader for far too long. It's going to be reviewed within the next four to six weeks.
I don't know what order I'm going to read them. It will depend on my mood and what I feel like reading. I'm also going to throw in a bit of shorter works, both here and over at Futures Past and Present. There are also a couple of other novels I'd like to read by the end of the summer. And somewhere in there, I'll be reading things for my column at Amazing Stories (TM).
Speaking of Worldcon, I'm going to read at least some of the short fiction nominees, as many as time will allow, and give my thoughts. I don't think I'm going to try to read all the novels. The publisher of two of them put a security code of the ebooks that went out in the Hugo voters' packet. I don't appreciate what that implies. I'm not going to upload the books to a file sharing site. I'm not a crook, nor do I care to be treated as though I were. Therefore, I won't be reading (or voting for) Blackout by Mira Grant or 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson. I do have some comments to make about this year's nominees in general.
The Gemmell Awards are a bit later than usual this year to coincide with the World Fantasy Convention. My review copy of Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier arrived the other day. It's on the long ballot for the Morningstar Award. I'm looking forward to reading it. I'll post the review on the Gemmell Awards site and a notice here when it goes live. After the awards are given out, I'll post the review here.
I've got a number of titles from Pyr. The ones I intend to review in July are The Doctor and the Kid by Mike Resnick, Kindred and Wings by Phillipa Ballentine, and Wrath-Bearing Tree by James Enge. Then there's The Scroll of Years by Chris Willrich and The Doctor and the Rough Rider by Mike Resnick. Those I probably won't get to until August.
I've had a copy of the conclusion of Joshua P. Simon's Blood and Tears Trilogy, Trial and Glory on my ereader for far too long. It's going to be reviewed within the next four to six weeks.
I don't know what order I'm going to read them. It will depend on my mood and what I feel like reading. I'm also going to throw in a bit of shorter works, both here and over at Futures Past and Present. There are also a couple of other novels I'd like to read by the end of the summer. And somewhere in there, I'll be reading things for my column at Amazing Stories (TM).
by Charlton Blake, 
by N. K. Jemison, 
by Alexy Pehov, and 
by Mary Victoria.
by Pierre Pevel, and Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan for 
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