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Books

I read 292 books this year. That’s a lot. Consequently, I awarded many five-star ratings. 72, to be exact. Narrowing down a list of favourites that wouldn’t make your eyes bleed was really, really hard. In the end, I decided on the books that were the biggest surprises.

Science fiction was the most difficult field to narrow. I read a lot of great science fiction this year. I read a lot of great and surprising science fiction–books that did something different, or took an idea and twisted it. I also read a number of books that could be counted as instant classics. Maybe not so new and different, but just such a wonderful illustration of why I love the genre. Among these would be Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold, The Martian* by Andy Weir and Trial by Fire* by Charles E. Gannon.

But the book that did it all differently makes my science fiction book of the year.

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It’s Alvaro’s last year of college. He’s scored one of the coveted singles, but has to share a bathroom with the slob next door. As if the piles of moldy towels weren’t enough, Daniel is in the habit of nightly bubble baths. And he likes to sing. Off-key. Challenging his right to a stress-free senior year isn’t going to go as smoothly as Alvaro would like, however.

Written for the Don’t Read in the Closet event “Love is an Open Road”, hosted by the M/M Romance group, WRONG DIRECTION is now available for download in your preferred format.

Download and story links here. You must 18 years or older to access the group and the site.