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Finished: Glasshouse, by Charles Stross (reread)
Started: Sun of Suns (Book One of Virga), by Karl Schroeder (reread, but signed version!)
It's a reread, so I don't really have extended comments as usual. Some of the things that annoyed me the first time around didn't seem quite as bad, but like last time, I was less interested in the main plot than I was the world revealed through the flashbacks. I'd really like to see more in this future history universe. Particularly (minor spoilers) ( Read more... ).
Finished: The Year's Best SF #13 (short story collection)
Started: Shadows Bend, by David Barbour and Richard Raleigh
Another short story collection, but pretty good. I quite like this particular anthology series, on the whole. This one had a few less hits than the previous ones, but there was some nice work here. I particularly liked Artifice and Intelligence, by Tim Pratt, probably my pick of the book.
What else? Thanks for the congratulations on my last post, detailing my short story evaluation at the library. I didn't respond yet to most of them because I'm still trying to detox from the event... I'm getting there, but my brain STILL constantly tries to think up what I SHOULD have said. (That's actually one of the reasons social interactions is so hard. It's not just the time before of nervousness, it's the time AFTER, even when it went WELL, both that I'm slave to an event that, in any sane world, should last not much longer than the event itself). But I do plan to go back and comment on those that need commenting. Anyway, despite that, I am very tentatively considering actually going to that workshop later this month. It depends on finding out, probably without asking, a few things, though. (whether a signup is required, whether anything is required to be brought, like a laptop, which I don't have, or there's means to write there, and whether there are going to be any conflicting plans for my birthday on that day, by my family, which is possible).
Still quite enjoying Caprica, really look forward to it next week, and only a week or so to the new Who, so that's nice. Survivors ended, pretty good year, though perhaps not as good as last and a couple changes I'm not happy about, but ah well. Still hope it comes back next year.
Edit: Oh, and finally, the Olympics are over. I don't care about the medals or hockey or anything like that. I'm just glad it's on my TV. Every Olympic games, I have my own private competition with myself... I try to watch as little Olympic footage as possible (only counting actual olympic coverage, rather than after-the-fact news reports which I tend to have to suffer through if I want to watch news at all). My record is .5 seconds. This time, I didn't do so well, something like 5-10 seconds (I have fewer channels so there's more chance of stumbling across it accidentally, combined with my channel changer starting to get a little slow on me).
Started: Sun of Suns (Book One of Virga), by Karl Schroeder (reread, but signed version!)
It's a reread, so I don't really have extended comments as usual. Some of the things that annoyed me the first time around didn't seem quite as bad, but like last time, I was less interested in the main plot than I was the world revealed through the flashbacks. I'd really like to see more in this future history universe. Particularly (minor spoilers) ( Read more... ).
Finished: The Year's Best SF #13 (short story collection)
Started: Shadows Bend, by David Barbour and Richard Raleigh
Another short story collection, but pretty good. I quite like this particular anthology series, on the whole. This one had a few less hits than the previous ones, but there was some nice work here. I particularly liked Artifice and Intelligence, by Tim Pratt, probably my pick of the book.
What else? Thanks for the congratulations on my last post, detailing my short story evaluation at the library. I didn't respond yet to most of them because I'm still trying to detox from the event... I'm getting there, but my brain STILL constantly tries to think up what I SHOULD have said. (That's actually one of the reasons social interactions is so hard. It's not just the time before of nervousness, it's the time AFTER, even when it went WELL, both that I'm slave to an event that, in any sane world, should last not much longer than the event itself). But I do plan to go back and comment on those that need commenting. Anyway, despite that, I am very tentatively considering actually going to that workshop later this month. It depends on finding out, probably without asking, a few things, though. (whether a signup is required, whether anything is required to be brought, like a laptop, which I don't have, or there's means to write there, and whether there are going to be any conflicting plans for my birthday on that day, by my family, which is possible).
Still quite enjoying Caprica, really look forward to it next week, and only a week or so to the new Who, so that's nice. Survivors ended, pretty good year, though perhaps not as good as last and a couple changes I'm not happy about, but ah well. Still hope it comes back next year.
Edit: Oh, and finally, the Olympics are over. I don't care about the medals or hockey or anything like that. I'm just glad it's on my TV. Every Olympic games, I have my own private competition with myself... I try to watch as little Olympic footage as possible (only counting actual olympic coverage, rather than after-the-fact news reports which I tend to have to suffer through if I want to watch news at all). My record is .5 seconds. This time, I didn't do so well, something like 5-10 seconds (I have fewer channels so there's more chance of stumbling across it accidentally, combined with my channel changer starting to get a little slow on me).
