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Books 2015

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Rereads: Open Season (Linda Howard) Anyone but You (Jennifer Crusie) Cover of Night (Linda Howard) Size 12 Is Not Fat (Meg Cabot) The Iron Duke (Meljean Brook) Dawn Song (Sharon Green) Magic Steps (Tamora Pierce) Street Magic (Tamora Pierce) Cold Fire (Tamora Pierce) Hammered (Elizabeth Bear) The Runelords (David Farland) Pawn of Prophecy (David Eddings) Queen of Sorcery(David Eddings) Magician’s Gambit (David Eddings) Castle of Wizardry (David Eddings)   New reads: Chaos (James Gleick) Clockwork Angel (Cassandra Clare) Rejections, Romance, and Royalties (Laura Resnick) Unsympathetic Magic (Laura Resnick) Vamparrazi (Laura Resnick) Polterheist (Laura Resnick) Abra Cadaver (Laura Resnick) Street of […]

Giving In to Gravity

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Man, I've been out of the SFF scene for over a year now. The last short fiction I submitted to a market was in May 2011. I don't regret my hiatus–among other things, I got a master's degree and an amazing job–but getting back into the flow is going to be work. I understand now why people give up writing seriously. At this point, it would be easier to just keep sliding, write a 300-word blip a month, and pretend that I've still got it, while never finishing anything, never submitting anything. Dreams and goals are exhausting. I already work […]

Book List 2010

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I had a grand plan to read three of the books I got for Christmas before the 31st, so that I could add them to this disgracefully small list. But I have a much better understanding of my limits, these days, so I admit that it won’t happen. With no further ado, then:

Suvudu Cage Match 2010

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So Suvudu’s Cage Match 2010 has finally concluded. (Suvudu is the Del Rey and Spectra site; the cage matches are between a series of fantasy character pairings.) Rand al’Thor (of Jordan’s Wheel of Time) has emerged as the ultimate champion. A lot of authors have been rooting for their characters throughout the progress of the cage matches, but what I enjoyed the most was Brandon Sanderson’s breakdown of how the battle should have ended. In his narrative, balefire erases Suvudu and all the defeated characters come back. My favorite quote, out of the ensuing chaos: Harry Dresden decides this is […]

Shorts

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While at the moment I don’t have the time for a novel (to read or to review), I thought I’d link to a few short stories that I’ve found exceptional in the past. I’ll probably add to this list as I find or recall others. These have been published in Baen’s Universe, Abyss & Apex, Ideomancer, IGMS, ChiZine, and Lone Star Stories. "Cryptic Coloration" (Elizabeth Bear, Baen’s Universe). A Promethean Age story from Elizabeth Bear, set before the events of Blood & Iron with Matthew as a central character. Hard to pinpoint why I like this one so much, but the […]