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Daniel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Daniel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Daniel Polansky
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A City Dreaming Out Now
Friends! Would you believe it or not, I have a new book out. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... It's called A City Dreaming, and it's a ramble through an impossible New York, courtesy of a fast talking lush who prefers quiet beer bars to world saving. It's strange, it's funny, you could do a lot worse. Take a look!
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Low Town (Low Town, #1)
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2011
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41 editions
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The Builders
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2015
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Tomorrow, the Killing (Low Town, #2)
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2012
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18 editions
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She Who Waits (Low Town, #3)
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2013
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13 editions
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Those Above (The Empty Throne, #1)
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2015
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11 editions
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A City Dreaming
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2016
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2 editions
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Those Below (The Empty Throne #2)
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2016
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The Seventh Perfection
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2020
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5 editions
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A Drink Before We Die
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2014
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2 editions
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Tomorrow's Children
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2024
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3 editions
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| Oh man, I loved this. L-O-V-E-D. I like, walked into lamp poles reading this. I tripped on the beach reading this. A brilliant, bizarre comic satire of race relations during the civil war and a hundred years after, taking place in a nonsensical wonde ...more | |
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| Saxberger is an aging civil servant whose stasis is interrupted by the discovery that a book of poems he wrote in his half-remembered youth has become the ur-text for a movement of struggling Viennese artists. A funny, poignant, clever meditation on ...more | |
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| An old man contemplates his life in a letter to his young son in this luminously profound meditation on life, God, and love, one of the best books I can remember reading in a very long time. It isn't enough to say that it's thoughtfully constructed a ...more | |
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| Maybe my favorite one of these? Admittedly they’re all very good, and very similar, but the mystery here was particularly sharp, there was a little bit more of Coffin and Gravedigger than there are in some of the others (which is a good thing), and t ...more | |
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| Absolutely fucking fabulous. Some peculiar crossbreed between Nathanael West and Charles Portis, an absurdist revisionist Western serving double (triple?) duty as a grand comment on racial injustice. Our antihero protagonist, Curt Marder, a cowardly, ...more | |
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| I don’t know why exactly I was driven to work my way through Freud but I’m glad I started. I remain skeptical of his therapeutic value, and he has a bad habit of being unable to recognize his good ideas from his very bad ones (in the fashion of Germa ...more | |
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| Exaggerated retellings of the mental collapses of some of the major contributors to mathematics and quantum physics. This was perfectly engaging and philosophically coherent but I admit I was sort of hoping to have learned more about the actual subje ...more | |
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| In a Sri Lankan version of the afterlife curiously akin to that of the movie Beetlejuice, the ghost of a hard-living homosexual war photographer searches for his killer, tries to save his loved ones. A perfectly engaging work of urban fantasy in an u ...more | |
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| A crew of secretly decent brutes working in a slaughterhouse in an impoverished corner of Brazil investigate a terrible mystery afflicting the herds. Many years ago I spent a few weeks on a cattle ranch in the Pantanal, helping mend fences and drinki ...more | |
“It’s a dangerous thing, pretense. A man ought to know who he is, even if he isn’t proud to be it.”
― Tomorrow, the Killing
― Tomorrow, the Killing
“I remember the lightning in the air, and the lovers bidding goodbye to each other in the streets, and I can tell you what I think. We went to war because going to war is fun, because there's something in the human breast that trills at the thought, although perhaps not the reality, of murdering its fellows in vast numbers. Fighting a war ain't fun - fighting a war is pretty miserable. But starting a war? Hell, starting a war is better than a night floating on daeva's honey.”
― Low Town
― Low Town
“The dangerous men were still asleep, their blades sheathed next to their beds. The really dangerous men had been up for hours, and their quills and ledgers were getting hard use.”
― Low Town
― Low Town
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| Beyond Reality: Forthcoming books for August 2011 | 34 | 101 | Aug 01, 2011 07:22PM | |
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What are you reading in August 2011?
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| Beyond Reality: Nominations for December 2011 | 43 | 112 | Sep 21, 2011 09:32AM | |
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| The Sword and Laser: What books would you recommend to someone scared of the Genre? | 79 | 422 | May 19, 2012 10:23AM | |
| Beyond Reality: Nominations for September 2012! | 19 | 46 | Jun 25, 2012 08:20AM | |
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| The Sword and Laser: Dream guest authors for the podcast | 151 | 570 | Jun 17, 2013 12:19PM | |
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Tracey the Lizard Queen
Dec 05, 2014 11:34AM
Thanks for accepting! Very excited for Those Above!
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Tabitha wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Tabitha wrote: "Flipping fantastic...I hope theres more in the works!"There is more in the works...glad you liked it!"
Wonderful to hear! I'm getting my brother in law who is dep..."
That's all great news...thanks!
Tabitha wrote: "Flipping fantastic...I hope theres more in the works!"There is more in the works...glad you liked it!
Tabitha wrote: "Daniel! I won - I won! I will be reading it as soon as it arrives. Glad you decided to join Goodreads! Now add more books mister so we can cyber stalk your shelves - that is what its all about!"Ha - I'll do my best! Hope you like the book!
When did Nikola Tesla become the person that really stoned people want to ramble about at parties?
Shellie (Layers of Thought) wrote: "Welcome to Goodreads Daniel!!!"Thanks! Happy to be here!
Welcome to Goodreads Daniel!!!
