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Sword & Laser March Madness will be our only March Madness.The NCAA has canceled men's and women's basketball championships.
https://www.ncaa.com/live-updates/bas...
Ok, not enough of us voted for All Systems Red last week, even though the Supreme Laser accidentally told us to vote for Murderbot. Sort of. That's okay. The next Murderbot novel, Network Effect by Martha Wells, is coming, and if you pre-order and send the publisher a copy of your receipt, you will get a free Murderbot short story on May 5 2020, when the book is released.https://read.macmillan.com/promo/murd...
Trike wrote: "Just a reminder that if you’re traveling to New Zealand for Worldcon, you might want to purchase travel insurance in case travel bans and other lockdowns happen.Travel bans FROM the US are inevit..."
Trip Cancellation For Any Reason is usually an optional purchase for travel insurance. It costs more but gives you more options. I didn't do my research on this topic. I was scheduled to fly to Madrid this afternoon for a vacation to Spain and Portugal. I'm going to find a good book to read instead.
Today's timely non-fiction Kindle daily deal is The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett, only $2.99https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-...
Colin wrote: "Stephen wrote: "The best thing about Rivers of London ? The narration by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith !!!"So I keep hearing. Not likely to switch now, having read the text version of 7 novels - but if the group reads it I might treat myself to the Audible version of the first book."
A good plan, I'll do the same!
Ok, the Supreme Laser has spoken. We must all vote for All Systems Red.
Congratulations! We'll upgrade you to a powder blue Sky King...
The 2020 Audie Awards were announced March 2.Science Fiction winner was Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin read by Jason Isaacs
https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/aud...
Fantasy winner was The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow read by January LaVoy
https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/aud...
And winners in all catergories are here
https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/aud...
Tom wrote: "Every year this tournament reminds me how slow a reader I am: haven’t read a single book in here."Not even All Systems Red? No matter what happens this March Madness you have to read it.
Sarah wrote: "Hmm. Kindle deals, not sure if I should open that can of worms and give myself permission to do that. The main question being: will I stop myself at only the deals... who knows..."
It's a slippery slope.
Oh look!
Children of Time is on sale today for $2.99
Sarah wrote: "A lot of my voting is also influenced by what I have already read and the availability of the book at my library (buying new books every month is very expensive) so I'm wondering what else other pe..."I keep an eye on Kindle sales for recent books that look interesting. I've picked up quite a few books that have become S&L picks. I'm voting for books I have, but haven't read yet.
Iain wrote: "Mark wrote: "The Supremes use Al to seed the selected novels before placing them in the brackets. Or something ;-)"Logically Tom would be the AI"
No, they use Al, Veronica's bookie.
Season 2 coming to Netflix next week, March 13
The Supremes use Al to seed the selected novels before placing them in the brackets. Or something ;-)
Mar 04, 2020 02:24PM
Mmm?
Mar 04, 2020 09:31AM
Hmm
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone is on sale for a limited time $2.99https://www.amazon.com/Empress-Foreve...
two months into the year, I've had lots of time to read and I'm overswording again...Sword: 13/24
Laser: 6/24
Comics: 10/24
Shorts: 6/24
