March's Marvellous Meanderings In Melodious Manuscripts.

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Finished the new Nightshade Books edition of A Matter of Time by Glen Cook

An interesting mix; a sort of time travel / alternate history story told mostly in the style of a police procedural. It seems, at times, to struggle to mesh the requirement for SF info-dumps into the chosen style but is still very readable.

Also mixing in shorts from the Crime Masterworks edition of The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett between novels - I can't help but feel that Cook must have been influenced by Hammett's style.

Next up a start on A Cruel Wind (Dread Empire omnibus edition) by Glen Cook
 
As soon as I finish Algernon Blackwoods short story The Willows (fantastic!!! Did Lovecraft get many of his mythos ideas from this piece I wonder?) I'll be starting C.L. Moores Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams collection.
 
good to see some Glen Cook being perused.

Finished Tanith Lee's Cast A Bright Shadow, she has a unique style which I cam to enjoy after a bit of 'settling in' and it fits the subject well, giving the book a mythic quality. Certainly an epic tale which left me feel a little something was lacking. I will read the rest of the trilogy at some point, but not in any rush to do so.

Moving onto a couple of short story collections:
Nebula Award Showcase 2005 &
The Mammoth book of Extreme Science Fiction

Thats when I can stop watching Firefly which I borrowed from uni.
 
I don't quite believe it but I managed to finish a second (huge) book in the same month as the last.

Wise Man's Fear was a magnificent read, and to follow it up I'm starting Antagonist by Gordon R Dickson and David Wixon

I'm quite intrigued with this one, a final book in Dicksons Childe Cycle, completed after his death.
 
Just finished finished Painted Man, The by Peter V. Brett, Ii enjoyed it but it seemed a bit young adult style to me

Now reading The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
 
Finally finished Sword of Shannara, which I did enjoy but I couldn't help notice the similarities with Lord of the Rings.

Now reading Accidental Sorcerer by K E Mills :)
 
I got sidetracked by The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon which I absolutely adored
 
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Finally got around to finishing it. JD said it was an uneven batch and he was right. My favorite essay was of course "The Beating Of Black Wings: Supernatural Horror In Literature And The Fiction Of Edgar Allan Poe" with Dorothy Scarborough's "Modern Ghost" a very close second, so much so I may order the book this essay was selected from new if I can't find a copy second hand. My least enjoyable essay was "Anthropology, Fiction, And The Occult: The Case Of Carlos Castaneda" by David Murray, not because of poor writing --- Murray is a very capable wordsmith --- but because this type of anthropological mysticism just doesn't appeal to me.

Now am reading BOOKS AND BATTLES by Irene and Allen Cleaton, a look at American Literature in the twenties. Does for the decade of revolt what Stephen King does for horror in his excellent DANSE MACABRE, only with a little more sophisticated pizzazz.
 
I Finished 'Revelation Space' by Alastair Reynolds the other day. Starting off brilliantly, I felt it began to ebb away a little, then a lot by the end. There was so much going on in the first half/two-thirds but by the end all the characters and the story came to a halt on the ship. Some excellent reveals though. Some of it hurt my head if I'm honest but I think that more to do with my incomprehension of a few of the ideas than his writing. In-between reads or just whenever I feel like it I'm reading his collection 'Zima Blue' which I fell shows a greater level of story telling and ideas.
 
Thank you. Never heard of this particular Budrys title, but the art looks like Powers or Powers-inspired. Reminds me of War Of The Worlds, sort of.
 
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Thank you. Never heard of this particular Budrys title, but the art looks like Powers or Powers-inspired. Reminds me of War Of The Worlds, sort of.
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Hmm actually I think it was from the Citadel, another Budrys title, but both were e-stories downloaded from Project Gutenberg so I had to google search for a cover.
 
Still on my quest for the Dark Tower, but it draws near...

Finished Wolves of Calla, which was a disappointment after the first four books, and into Song of Susannah, which is already much improved.
 
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