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Pebble, you can put me down. Got my room reserved, though I still need to buy the plane tickets.

My Heart is a Chainsaw was okay, but of SGJ's work, I much prefer The Only Good Indian and Mongrels. Earlier this year I read Lone Women by Victor LaValle. Kind of a historical fiction western horror and it was really good. So was The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due. I need to get around to catching up on Slatter. I've also heard good things about Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez.

Like dog-days further up the thread, I read And Put Away Childish Things by Tchaikovsky. Pretty good, though of the author's six novellas for Solaris, this might be my least favorite. The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss, a big collection of the author's short fiction and poetry. I'm a big fan of the author's work so I really enjoyed this. Lastly, I read The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang. This is a science fantasy version of Joan of Arc in the far future. It was quite good, certainly made a lot of points on the dangers of religious fundamentalism. I did wish for more resolution at end where things just kind of peter out.

In April, I'm most looking forward to: The Way Home by Peter S. Beagle In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee Tauhou by Kotuku Titihuia Nuttall

I read The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi, a great little fantasy novella from Tordotcom. I really liked this one. Also read a space opera, Loki's Ring by Stina Leicht, about the captain of a salvage ship who gets a call for help from her AI "daughter" and shenanigans ensue. I've been following this author for years so it's not surprising that I enjoyed this latest book.

Almost the end of March, but besides Dead Country, which I've already read, I'm looking forward to these books this month: Loki's Ring by Stina Leicht Lone Women by Victor LaValle And Put Away Childish Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Use Utomi

In January, besides Hell Bent and Children of Memory, I'm also looking forward to The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz and The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai.

As stated by DaveAx above, I will be there. See you all in a week.

I can't post in Firefox from my laptop, even after clearing the browser history or logging out and back in. Chrome is having issues too. I'm posting this with Explorer.

Hm, I always thought the single moon was intentional. There's a scene in UH where the main character and a few others are in a pleasure house, where one of the others is a poet and he says that one day he may write a poem about a world with two moons.

1. The Sarantine Mosaic 2. Tigana 3. Under Heaven 4. River of Stars 5. A Song for Arbonne Sarantine Mosaic has top billing because it was the first of Kay's books I've read. If I was a little bit more objective, it might be farther down the list. Also, I've often felt the oddball out in not loving Lions of Al-Rassan, but looking here it does seem like a few others had problems with it too. I've read every Kay book except for Fionovar. I do have the books, I just haven't felt the need to read them yet.

Yes, and while he's similar, I don't put him with GGK. But that's just me.

I'll grant you, Lions is probably the least fantastical of GGK's works. His other stuff usually has at least a little magic, notably Tigana with full-fledged wizards, as well as less direct historical plot parallels so they're a little more obviously fantasy. Though I'll be honest and say I don't lump GGK in with most other books in the genre. He seems to have his own niche in what I like to call Alternate Historical Fantasy.

You lucky duck.

You must have some experimental Gungan craft from Naboo or something.

There's an afterward in the tenth anniversary edition in which GGK explains that that's what he intended and that he wanted the debate on capturing the wizard to a real one.

I've always described the majority of Kay's novels as alternate historical fantasy. I think it was Sailing to Sarantium that had the semi-psychic. Crispin visits him just before he heads off to the city. Lions did have a head injury, which happened to Rodrigo's son and Jehane's blind father directed her in the operation that saved the boy's life.