Busy time ahead, and the books piling up on my desk are now starting to look like the Great Wall. Some are ARCs from Netgalley, others are e-books I have purchased on a whim (shouldn’t I know better? I would need three lifetimes to read all I would like to). There are also some selected novels that have been sitting there for a while and that have now become overdue. And since I can’t possibly write full reviews about all of them, I’m going to ask for advice. Here they are, in no particular order:
Poseidon’s Wakes – Alastair Reynolds
Asura Girl – Otaro Maijo
Carrion Comfort – Dan Simmons
Titan – Stephen Baxter
The Deaths of Tao – Wesley Chu
Nexus – Ramez Naam
Eon – Greg Bear
Contagion: Eyre – Alison Sinclair
The Ghosts of Sleath – James Herbert
Discount Armageddon – Seanan McGuire
The Damned – Andrew Pyper
Unlocked: An oral history of Haden’s syndrome – John Scalzi
Philip Jose Farmer – The Lovers
Uttuku – Robert N. Stephenson
The Leper House – Andrew Taylor
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight – Anthology
Inverted World – Christopher Priest
Child of Fortune – Norman Spinrad
Books of Blood – Clive Barker
Undertow – Michael Buckley
Forbidden Knowledge – Stephen Donaldson
In case you’re specifically interested in one or more, please let me know – by email, by social network (mainly FB/Twitter) or by posting a comment here – and I will write a stand-alone review. Otherwise, apart from the ones that take my fancy, I’m just going to post a summary or leave them out completely. Suggestions welcome!
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