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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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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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She Who Waits (Low Town, #3)
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2013
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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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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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| 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 | |
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| An alien amnesiac crash lands in a medieval world. In two hundred pages Crowley limns an epic fantasy then upend it. Fabulous stuff, Crowley (as I've mentioned earlier) is one of our best. Both this and the earlier Beast are fascinating in that they ...more | |
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| The contemplations of the crew of the international space station over the course of a single 'day' in space, 24 hours spent engaged in the minutia of life as an astronaut along with scattered reflections on the nature of humanity, our relationship w ...more | |
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| The horrifying recollections of a group of youth growing up in a small town in Northern Germany (which, if you haven't been north of Bremen, is a stark and nightmarish landscape). Something like if Patrick Modiano met Stephen King, although honestly ...more | |
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| While back in Baltimore over Christmas I broke out this classic of military theory, in which Keegan rebuts the Clausewitzian paradigm of war as a political activity, arguing instead that mass combat is best understood as an emanation of a particular ...more | |
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| A repressed young woman in post-war Holland finds her life shaken by the arrival of her cad brother's girlfriend. An enchanting and well-realized queer romance, if extremely predictable. That I knew what was going to happen basically from page 2 didn ...more | |
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| The inbred descendants of a freed slave and his Irish wife live out their final days on a tiny island off the coast of Maine. A genuinely odd, interesting setting, along with a story full of rich detail and vibrant characterization. | |
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| An embittered atheist flees her bourgeois existence for the shelter of an order of nuns in the distant outback, survives a mouse plague, considers the enormous guilt incumbent in human existence. Shades of Marilynne Robinson in this somber examinatio ...more | |
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| A recently-widowed Indian immigrant and his daughter take shelter in the pain of their mother's loss/the arrival of puberty in vigorous games of squash. Spare but lovely, Maroo's writing is stripped of anything extraneous, ...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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| 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!!!
