December 2011
Monthly Archive
December 31, 2011
I’m also joining the 2nds challenge in 2012. I read 17 books for this challenge last year, so I’m going to choose the A Full Plate level with 12 books.
Here are the guidelines:
1. Anyone can join. You don’t need a blog to participate. If you’re not a blogger, you can post your reviews at a review site like Goodreads, LibraryThing, or Shelfari and link them up here.
2. There are four levels to choose from in this challenge:
* Just a spoonful – Read 3 books that are 2nd in a series or the second time you’ve read the author.
* A few more bites – Read 6 books that are 2nd in a series or the second time you’ve read the author.
* A full plate – Read 12 books that are 2nd in a series or the second time you’ve read the author.
* All you can eat – Read 20 books (or more) that are 2nd in a series or the second time you’ve read the author.
You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you. Any genre counts. Any book format counts.
3. The challenge runs from January 1 through December 31, 2012.
4. You can join anytime between now and December 31, 2012.
5. A post will be created here where you can link-up your reviews and visit the reviews of other participants.
6. If you’re a blogger, write up a sign-up post that includes the URL to this post so that others can join in. Feel free to use the button! You can grab the code you need from the box in the right sidebar.
Read
1, John Vornholt: A Time to Die
2, Christoper Golden and Nancy Holder: The Ghost Roads
3, Cherie Priest: Clementine
4, Italo Calvino: Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City
5, Tanya Huff: Blood Trail
6, Carolyn Crane: Double Cross
7, Sarah Jane Stratford: The Moonlight Brigade
8, Liz Williams: Bloodmind
9, Robert Greenberger: A Time To Hate
10, Bram Stoker: Dracula’s Guest and other weird stories
11, David Mack: A Time To Heal
12 Karen A. Wyle: Wander Home
13, Rowena Cory Daniells: Exile
14, Lilith Saintcrow: Hunter’s Prayer
December 30, 2011
I’m going to join a couple of more reading challenges for 2012. I had a lot of fun last year with this one, so I’m going take part in the 1st in a series challenge.
Here are the guidelines:
1. Anyone can join. You don’t need a blog to participate. If you’re not a blogger, you can post your reviews at a review site like Goodreads, LibraryThing, or Shelfari and link them up here.
2. There are four levels for this challenge:
* Series Novice: Read 3 books that are the first in any series.
* Series Lover: Read 6 books that are the first in any series.
* Series Expert: Read 12 books that are the first in any series.
* Series Fanatic: Read 20 books that are the first in any series.
You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you. Any genre counts. Any book format counts.
3. The challenge runs from January 1 through December 31, 2012.
4. You can join anytime between now and December 31, 2012.
5. A post will be created here where you can link-up your reviews and visit the reviews of other participants.
6. If you’re a blogger, write up a sign-up post that includes the URL to this post so that others can join in. Feel free to use the button! You can grab the code you need from the box in the right sidebar.
I’m aiming for the Expert level with 12 books.
I have a lot of these in my TBR and I plan to start a few series in audio, too. I tend to read fantasy, science fiction, and mystery.
Books read:
1, Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars
2, John Vornholt: A Time to be Born
3, Christoper Golden and Nancy Holder: Out of the Madhouse
4, H. Beam Piper: Little Fuzzy
5, Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
6, Sue Grafton: A is for Alibi
7, Jennifer Estep: Spider’s Bite
8, Carolyn Crane: Mind Games
9, Barbara Hambly: Dragonsbane
10, Kevin Hearne: Hounded
11, Elizabeth A. Lynn: Watchtower
12, Tanya Huff: Blood Price
13, Liz Williams: Darkland
14, Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris: Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel
15, Lois McMaster Bujold: Shards of Honor
16, Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge: Black and White
17, Rowena Cory Daniells: Besieged
18, Josh Lanyon: Fatal Shadows
19, Elizabeth Peters: Borrower of the Night
20, Susan Wittig Albert: Thyme of Death
21, K. A. Stewart: Devil in the Details
22, Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair
December 29, 2011
Booking Through Thursday
What were your favorite books of 2011?
I had a great reading year so I chose one book for each month:
C. J. Cherryh: Chanur’s Legacy
Liz Williams: The Precious Dragon
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Rachel Caine: Thin Air
Emma Bull: War for the Oaks
Kristine Kathryn Rusch: City of Ruins
Seanan McGuire: An Artificial Night
Steven Brust: Tiassa
Lois McMaster Bujold: Paladin of Souls
Peter Clines: Ex-Patriots
Seanan McGuire: One Salt Sea
C. J. Cherryh: Cyteen
That was already very difficult. I enjoyed both Brust books a lot (Tiassa and Iorich) and both of Marie Brennan’s books (A Star Shall Fall and With Fate Conspire) and Liz Williams’ books and Kerry Greenwood’s books…
I planned to post the list on Tuesday but the power went out during the afternoon and didn’t come back until the next day.
December 28, 2011
A stand alone SF book.
Publication year: 1990
Format: print
Page count: 340
Publisher: Baen
This book has multiple POV characters and two main time lines. One of the time lines is centered into 12th century, during the Third Crusade, and the second one is set in the 21st century in a futuristic US. Additionally, the main POV character in the future story line has dreams/hallucinations about being various people in other times.
The chapters with a heading of “Sura” and a quotations from Omar Khayyam, focus on the 12th century. Thomas Amnet is a Knight of the Temple and the Keeper of the Stone for the Templars. The Stone gives its keeper magical powers and near immortality. Amnet is an advisor to the Grand Master of the Order and so he’s also in the middle of intrigue between the various Christian factions. Amnet is known to be a wizard and the Stone can give him flashes into the future. However, recently when Amnet looks into the Stone, a man’s face prevents Amnet from using it properly. Amnet fears that this is a rival wizard and that they will have to fight.
Raynald the Chatillon, Prince of Antioch, insults a group of important Muslims and as a consequence, their military leader Saladin declares jihad against Raynald. The new King of Jerusalem decides to defend Raynald. Meanwhile, the order of the Assassins are killing knights but decide not to side with Saladin. One of the assassins, Hasan, looks young but is in fact a over a hundred years old and a wizard but not connected to the Stone.
In the 21st century, Tom Gurden is a jazz musician and in trouble. He feels like several men have been following him and they have saved his life a few times. However, now they have tried to kill him. Gurden calls to an on-line psychiatric unit, Eliza 212, and tells his story to her. He has also had a couple of dreams where he was a man in various places in time. In the first dream, Gurden is a poor scholar in Robespierre’s France. Later, Gurden’s old lover returns and a man tries to kill Gurden.
The plot is a rather complicated mystery. There are several POV characters in the chapters set in the 12th century but in the 21st century Gurden is pretty much the only POV character; there’s only one short scene from another POV.
The story lines don’t merge until the very end, but a reader is likely to guess what’s going on. Amnet is a loyal Knight who sometimes warns his Master about future decisions but will follow him in the end. He guards the Stone jealously from even his half-blooded apprentice.
Gurden turns out to be an expert martial artist in addition to a masterful musician. He’s become careful and almost paranoid in recent months. Sandy is his former lover who comes back to him at the start of the book
The book starts with a scene where Sandy orders a specific glass made. Glasses similar to that one feature in Guren’s dreams; the dream always starts when he hurts his hand on a glass. The people he is in the dreams are quite different from each other and don’t seem to have much in common. Yet, he doesn’t gain any knowledge or powers from the glass.
The 12th century chapters have most characters in them. Most of them are Christian knights who aren’t romanticized but shown as scheming men who are cruel and greedy at times. We also get a few brief glimpses from Saladin’s POV. As far as I can tell, the story line is historically accurate (except for the magic and Amnet, of course) but condensed for brevity.
I enjoyed the historical chapters more than the future ones. The future characters felt a bit bland while Gurden felt a bit too conveniently competent. I would have wanted to know just who Sandy was.
It’s a nice quick read but not as good as Amber.
December 26, 2011
I read 17 books for the 2nds Challenge 2011 hosted by A Few More Pages and achieved my goal of 12 books.
I enjoyed all of the books I read for this challenge and intend to continue with most of them. This year, I read three 2nds books from my favorite authors, so I can’t choose between them: A Local Habitation, Flying too High, and City of Ruins were all excellent. Bear and Cherryh are also among my favorite authors but for some reason, I didn’t enjoy these books as much as their previous ones. However, I will continue with these series, too.
Books read:
1, Marjorie M. Liu: Darkness Calls
2, Seanan McGuire: A Local Habitation
3, Tara Maya: Taboo
4, Kerry Greenwood: Flying Too High
5, Tim Powers: On Stranger Tides
6, Kristine Kathryn Rusch: City of Ruins
7, Ben Bova: Vengeance of Orion
8, Layton Green: The Egyptian
9, Jocelynn Drake: Dayhunter
10, Susan Wright: Star Trek: Dark Passions, Book 2
11, C. J. Cherryh: The Faded Sun: Shon’Jir
12, Peter Clines: Ex-Patriots
13, Linda Hawley: Guardian of Time
14, Elizabeth Bear: By the Mountain Bound
15, Carrie Vaughn: Kitty Goes to Washington
16, Baroness Orczy: The Elusive Pimpernel
17, Elizabeth Bear: Chill
December 25, 2011
This is the post to track my reading challenges and link to all the books I’ve read in 2012
Challenges:
R.I.P. VII (4+1+1) 9+1 Done!
Terry Pratchett: (1) 5 Done!
Just for Fun (12) 12 Done!
New Author (25) 30 Done Yay!
The Graphic Novel Challenge (12) 21 Done!
Immortal (3+3+3+1) 3+3+3+1 Done!
Sci-Fi Challenge (12) 12 Done!
Speculative Fiction challenge (48) 48 Done!
Off the Shelf (50) 50 Done!
1st in a series (12) 22 Done!
2nds (12) 14 Done!
The 2012 Science Fiction Experience 10 Done!
Once upon a time VI: 10 Done!
January
1, Kirsten Imani Kasai: Tattoo
2, Marie Brennan: With Fate Conspire
3, A. M. Dellamonica: Indigo Springs
4, Sharon Lee: Carousel Tides (Spec Fic)
5, Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder: The Lost Slayer Omnibus (Fun)
6, Kerry Greenwood: Ruddy Gore
7, Tara Maya: Sacrifice (Spec fic, Immortal)
8, Tara Maya: Root (Spec fic, Immortal)
Novellas:
1, Kristine Kathryn Rusch: The Spires of Denon (Sci fi ex)
Comics:
1, Tom Strong: Book Three (Spec fic, Graphic)
2, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Enemy Unseen (Graphic, Spec Fic, Sci fi Exp)
February
9, Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars (1st, Sci fi Exp, Spec Fic, Off, Sci Fi Chall-modern classic)
10, C. J. Cherryh: Faded Sun: Kutath (Sci fi Exp, Spec Fic, Off, Sci Fi Chall-starships/aliens)
11, John Vornholt: A Time to be Born (Sci fi Exp, Off, 1st, Spec fic, New)
12, Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Boneyards (Sci-fi Exp, Spec fic, Fun)
13, John Vornholt: A Time to Die ST:TNG (Sci fi Exp, Off, 2nd, Spec fic)
14, John Scalzi: Fuzzy Nation (New, Sci-fi Exp, Spec fic, Off, Sci-fi Challenge)
15, Christoper Golden and Nancy Holder: Out of the Madhouse (1st, Spec fic)
16, H. Beam Piper: Little Fuzzy (Spec fic, New, Off, 1st)
17,Christoper Golden and Nancy Holder: The Ghost Roads (Spec fic, 2nds)
Comics:
3, Tom Strong: Book Four
4, Tom Strong: Book Five
Novellas:
2, Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Recovery Man’s Bargain
March
18, Christoper Golden and Nancy Holder: Sons of Entropy
19, Cherie Priest: Clementine (2nds, spec)
20, Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games (new, 1st, spec, sci-fi challenge)
21, Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore: A Time to Sow (new, spec, off)
22, Cherie Priest: Dreadnought (spec)
23, Sue Grafton: A is for Alibi (1st, new, off)
24, Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore: A Time to Harvest (spec, off)
25, Cherie Priest: Ganymede (Spec, fun)
26, Italo Calvino: Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City (2nds, off)
Comics:
5, Kurt Busiek and George Perez: Avengers: The Morgan Conquest
6, Avengers Assemble vol. 1
Novellas:
3, Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Dragon’s Tooth
4, Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Assassin’s Dagger
April
27, Kerry Greenwood: Blood and Circuses fun
28, Robin McKinley: Spindle’s End (spec, once)
29, Jennifer Estep: Spider’s Bite (1st, new, spec, once)
30, Carolyn Crane: Mind Games (1st, once, spec, new)
31, Barbara Hambly: Dragonsbane (off, 1st, spec)
32, Kevin Hearne: Hounded (1st, new, spec)
33, Jules Verne: From Earth to the Moon (off, 1st, sci-fi, new)
Comics
8, Avengers Assemble vol. 2
Novellas
6, Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Coolhunting
7, Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Becalmed
May
34, Robert Greenberger: A Time To Love (new)
35, Liz Williams: The Iron Khan (off, spec, once)
36, Robin McKinley: Sunshine (off, spec, once)
37, Jack Vance: The Dying Earth (new, spec, once)
38, Kerry Greenwood: Urn Burial (fun)
39, Elizabeth A. Lynn: Watchtower (new, spec, once, 1st)
40, Liz Williams: Empire of Bones
41, Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes (new, spec)
42, Tanya Huff: Blood Price (Off, 1st, spec, new)
Comics
9, The Avengers: Nights of Wundagore by David Michelinie and John Byrne
10, Avengers: Living Legends
11, Avengers/Thunderbolts Volume 1: The Nefaria Protocols
12, Avengers: Above and Beyond
Movies:
1, Mirror, Mirror
June
43, Tanya Huff: Blood Trail (2nds, spec, once, off)
44, Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere (spec, once)
45, Carolyn Crane: Double Cross (once, 2nds, spec)
46, Fritz Leiber: Swords in the Mist (once, spec, off)
47, Karin Lowachee: The Gaslight Dogs (new, off, spec, once)
48, Elizabeth Bear: The Sea Thy Mistress (spec)
49, Sarah Jane Stratford: The Moonlight Brigade (2nds, spec, immortals, off))
50, C. J. Cherryh: Downbelow Station (spem sci-fi challenge)
51, Liz Williams: the Poison Master (fun)
Short stories:
DB Jackson: A Spell of Vengeance
Comics:
13, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty
14, Avengers: The Kree-Skrull War
July:
52, Liz Williams: Nine Layers of Sky (fun)
53, Teresa Frohock: Miserere (new, spec)
54, Liz Williams: Darkland (1st, spec)
55, Liz Williams: Bloodmind (2nds, challenge)
56, Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris: Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel (1st, new, off)
57, Rachel Caine and Kerrie L. Hughes, ed.: Chicks Kick Butt
58, John Joseph Adams ed.: The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Comics:
15, X-Men: Second Coming
16, Avengers: Under Siege
August
59, Terry Pratchett: Going Postal
60, Terry Pratchett: Lords and Ladies (off)
62, Robert Greenberger: A Time To Hate (off, 2nds)
63, Terry Pratchett: Wyrd Sisters (fun)
64, Lois McMaster Bujold: Shards of Honor (1st)
65, Amanda McNeil: Waiting for Daybreak (new)
66, David Mack: A Time To Kill (new, off)
67, Bram Stoker: Dracula’s Guest and other weird stories (2nds)
68, Terry Pratchett: Eric (off)
Comics:
17, Avengers Forever
18, Essential X-Men vol. 3
September
69, David Mack: A Time To Heal (off, new)
70, Carolyn Crane: Head Rush (fun)
71, Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge: Black and White (off, 1st, new)
72, Stacia Kane: Sacrificial Magic (rip)
73, Kerry Greenwood: Raisins and Almonds (rip)
74, Rowena Cory Daniells: Besieged (1st, rip)
75, Jocelynn Drake: Pray for Dawn (rip, immortals)
76, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling: Difference Engine (off, new, challenge)
77, Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (new, off, challenge)
October
78, Josh Lanyon: Fatal Shadows (1st, new, off)
79, R. C. Daniells: The Price of Fame (rip)
80, Elizabeth Peters: Borrower of the Night (rip, off, 1st)
81, Karen A. Wyle: Wander Home (2nds)
81, K. A. Stewart: Devil in the Details (off, 1st, new)
82, Susan Wittig Albert: Thyme of Death (off, 1st, new)
84, Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards! (fun)
85, Rowena Cory Daniells: Exile
86, Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book (rip)
Comics
19, Essential X-Men vol. 4
20, Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft (rip)
21, Essential X-Men vol. 5
November
87, Terry Pratchett: Men at arms (off)
88, C. J. Cherryh: Merchanter’s Luck (off)
89, Seanan McGuire: Ashes of Honor (fun)
90, Tara Maya: Wing
91, Jocelynn Drake: Wait for Dusk
92, C. J. Cherryh: Forty Thousand in Gehenna (off)
93, Rowena Cory Daniells: Sanctuary
94, Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (scifi)
December
95, Laura Anne Gilman: Burning Bridges (off)
96, Kage Baker: Mendoza in Hollywood (sci-fi, off)
97, Keith R. A. DeCandido: A Time for War, A Time for Peace (off, new)
98, Lilith Saintcrow: Hunter’s Prayer (off, 2nds, immortals)
99, Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair (off, scifi, 1st, new)
100, Carrie Vaughn: Kitty Take a Holiday (off, immortal)
101, Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Blowback (fun)
102, Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley: Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming (immortal, off)
103, Randall Garrett: Lord Darcy Investigates (off)
104, Tanya Huff: Blood Lines (off)
105, The Shadow Conspiracy, edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and Laura Anne Gilman
106, Tanya Huff: Blood Pact
December 24, 2011
Happy holidays to everyone!
December 22, 2011
Booking Through Thursday
Any books you’re hoping to get for the holidays this year?
How about giving? Are you giving any good ones?
I’m hoping to get a few Terry Pratchett books.
I’ve bought a few non-fiction books for my dad, coloring books for my niece, and a comic for my brother.
December 21, 2011
The second book in the Jacob’s Ladder SF trilogy.
Publication year: 2010
Format: Audio
Publisher: Audible
Narrator: Alma Cuero
Running Time: 11 hrs.
The book starts soon after the end of the previous book, Dust. At the same time, things have changed but some have stayed the same. The one of the main POV characters in Dust, Perceval Conn, is a POV character here, too, but to much smaller degree. Perceval’s uncle and father are the main POV characters this time, together with the Necromancer Mallory and a few other characters.
Even though the generational ship is under way, is badly damaged, has a new AI (called an angel), and has a new captain, there are still people who are trying to take over. The antagonist in Dust, Ariane Conn, is dead but her mother Arianrhod manages to escape her tank and is still determined to become the captain of her world. Another AI is helping her. Tristen and Benedick track her through the ship while Perceval and the AI are trying to keep the ship together and make some hard choices.
They barely escaped the sun going nova and are now speeding through space on the nova’s shock wave. Some of the ship is so badly damaged that it can’t be salvaged. Most of the passengers are sleeping in pods; they are needed to repair the ship but can the ship feed them? However, most of the story follows Tristen and Benedict.
Tristen and Benedick are both troubled characters. They have both done things earlier in their lives, in the service of their father, which they now regret. They both come face to faces with some of the consequences. They are quite introspective and are trying to behave now in a more moral manner. This time, Arianrhod is a POV character and we see what motives her, and the relationship she has with her rebel angel (fragment). We also get to know a few other Conn family members.
Mallory is a more enigmatic character. The Necromancer is more enigmatic character whose job is to take care of the memories of the dead people, so Mallory knows a lot and often advises the other characters. Gavin is a helper AI in the form of a basilisk. However, he has feelings and at one point he muses that humans realized that a brain without feelings wouldn’t function properly.
The characters are interesting but I didn’t really connect with any of them.
There are a lot of religious reference in the book: the AIs are called Angels and the ship itself if called Jacob’s Ladder. There are also quotations from the King James Bible and the New Evolutionist Bible. Some people consider the ship’s builder as gods while others consider them close to torturers. Some of the characters talk about the Christian God and what he apparently wants. This is rather uncommon for SF where religion is often left out, at least on the SF books I’ve read.
Like Dust, Chill also reminds me of Zelazny’s Amber books. Like in Amber, Bear’s trilogy has a feuding family at the heart of it. Perceval, Rien, Tristen, Ariane, Arianrhod, and Benedick are all part of the Conn family, and dangerous to each other. They also live a lot longer than the ordinary people, the means, around them. In this book, it’s because of science and not magic, though. They also have an absent father, dead in this case, who spawned the large family. The ship itself remind me of the way Corwin walked though the Shadow worlds. While Jacob’s Ladder doesn’t have quite as wide a range of different worlds as the Shadows, it’s still possible to encounter a mammoth and a snake cult in different parts of the ship. Also, the names, of course, reference Arthurian stories. Tristen goes through somewhat similar trials as Corwin and Benedick is a bit similar to Zelazny’s Benedict who also withdrew from his scheming family.
There are a lot of ideas in the book about human evolution, post humanity, immortality through technology, and artificial intelligences. Yet, the society in the ship is cruelly divided between the few immortals and the many means so only a few can enjoy the fruits of the high technology.
Chill builds on the characters and places seen in Dust so Chill doesn’t stand alone. Dust should be read first.
December 20, 2011
I had a lot of fun with this challenge this year, so I’m going join the New Author Challenge 2012, too.
The idea behind this is to find new authors that you’ve never tried before, not necessarily ones that are debuting. They can be in your genre of choice or be brave and try something new. You never know what you’re going to like until you try it. If you’re looking for some suggestions, you can check out the Author page here at Literary Escapism or the 2009, 2010 and 2011 Challenge pages. With over 1000 reviews posted, I’m sure there will be something there for everyone.
Here are the guidelines:
1. The challenge will run from January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012.
2. Since this is an author challenge, there is no restriction on choosing your novels. They can definitely be from other challenges. However, the authors must be new to you and, preferably from novels. Anthologies are a great way to try someone new, but only a third of your new authors can be from anthologies.
3. I want this to be an easy challenge, so you can pick to do either 15, 25 or 50 new authors. It all depends on how fast you read and how adventurous you want to be. For me, I want to say I’m going to do another 50 new authors, but with two kids, I didn’t made my goal in 2011, so I’m going to be smarter and say 25. If you reach your goal halfway through the year, don’t stop. Any new author you try can be added to Mr. Linky. We all want to know about your new experience.
4. After reading your new author, write your review and then come back here and add your link to Mr. Linky. Make sure you include your name and the author, but adding the title is completely up to you.
5. Bloggers or Non-Bloggers alike are welcome. You don’t have to have a site to participate. You can link up via Facebook, GoodReads or even Amazon if you’d like.
Once you reach your goal, you don’t have to stop. Any new author you try, go ahead and head back here and add it to the list. Introduce us all to whoever you find. Afterall, there’s no reason to stop trying new authors, right?
I read 30 new authors this year, so 25 is a comfortable number for me next year, too.
Books read:
1, Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars
2, John Vornholt: A Time to be Born
3, John Scalzi: Fuzzy Nation
4, H. Beam Piper: Little Fuzzy
5, Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
6, Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore: A Time to Sow
7, Sue Grafton: A is for Alibi
8, Jennifer Estep: Spider’s Bite
9, Carolyn Crane: Mind Games
10, Kevin Hearne: Hounded
11, Jules Verne: From Earth to the Moon
12, Robert Greenberger: A Time To Love
13, Jack Vance: The Dying Earth
14, Elizabeth A. Lynn: Watchtower
15, Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes
16, Tanya Huff: Blood Price
17, Karin Lowachee: The Gaslight Dogs
18, Teresa Frohock: Miserere
19, Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris: Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel
20, Amanda McNeil: Waiting for Daybreak
21, David Mack: A Time To Kill
22, Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge: Black and White
23, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling: Difference Engine
24, Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
25, Josh Lanyon: Fatal Shadows
26, Susan Wittig Albert: Thyme of Death
27, K. A. Stewart: Devil in the Details
28, Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
29, Keith R. A. DeCandido: A Time for War, A Time for Peace
30, Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair
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