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Tamahome wrote: "Good one, Mark."Thanks. It never hurts to check out more books...
What to Read this Summer Based on Your Favorite 'Star Trek' Characterhttps://www.startrek.com/news/what-re...
Many of the recommendations will be familiar to S&L readers!
This is science fiction of the historical kind; an entertaining book about the early days of the US space program.The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
on sale for $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00139XSBA/
Another SF bundle, this one from StoryBundlehttps://storybundle.com/scifi
The 2019 World SF Bundle, curated by Lavie Tidhar
Pay as much as you like for the first tier of books:
Under the Pendulum Sun
by Jeannette Ng
Nexhuman
by Francesco Verso
The Apex Book of World SF 5
edited by Cristina Jurado and Lavie Tidhar
Afro SF V3
edited by Ivor W. Hartmann
Pay at least $15 to add all the books from the bonus tier:
The Vanishing Kind
by Lavie Tidhar
Falling in Love with Hominids
by Nalo Hopkinson
After the Flare
by Deji Bryce Olukotun
Slipping
by Lauren Beukes
Escape from Baghdad!
by Saad Z. Hossain
The Thousand Year Beach
by TOBI Hirotaka
The latest Humble Bundle is up and running with a bunch of SF & F series openers.Humble Book Bundle: Start a New Series by Open Road Media
Supported charity for this Humble Bundle is the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America
Pay $1 or more to unlock:
Alien Blues
Lynn Hightower
[Elaki]
Demon Sword
Dave Duncan
[The Years of Longdirk]
Mirror of Destiny
Andre Norton
[The Five Senses Set]
The Ladies of Mandrigyn
Barbara Hambly
[The Sun Wolf and Starhawk Series]
Pay $8 or more to also unlock:
Dawn
Octavia E. Butler
[The Xenogenesis Trilogy]
The Harrowing of Gwynedd
Katherine Kurtz
[The Heirs of Saint Camber]
Sunglasses After Dark
Nancy A. Collins
[The Sonja Blue Novels]
The Winter Prince
Elizabeth Wein
[The Lion Hunters Novels]
Echoes of Earth
Sean Williams
[The Orphans Trilogy]
The Sunset Warrior
Eric Van Lustbader
[The Sunset Warrior Cycle]
Newton's Cannon
Greg Keyes
[The Age of Unreason]
Legacy
Greg Bear
[Eon]
Pay $15 or more to also unlock:
Quantico
Greg Bear
[Quantico]
Shadow Magic, Book One of the Lyra Novels
Patricia C. Wrede
[The Lyra Novels]
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
[Earthseed]
When Gravity Fails (Budayeen Cycle Book 1)
George Alec Effinger
[Budayeen Cycle Book 1]
Cash Crash Jubilee
Eli K. P. William
[Jubilee Cycle]
Night Train to Rigel
Timothy Zahn
[Quadrail]
Snake Agent
Liz Williams
[The Detective Inspector Chen Novels]
Jaran
Kate Elliott
[The Novels of the Jaran]
Heart of the Ronin
Travis Heermann
[The Ronin Trilogy]
Swords and Deviltry
Fritz Leiber
[The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser]
Clyde wrote: "The Rook has started on Starz. I reckon the first episode hit all the right notes.I wonder how closely they will follow the book. Might be difficult to do it all in eight episodes."
Thread for the Rook tv series
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I haven't watched the first episode yet, but a Verge reviewer thinks they cut too much from the book.Spoilers in the article
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/25/18...
Doing a little retro Thomas Harris reading of Black Sunday, a thriller made into a pretty good movie back in the day.
Trike wrote: "Mark wrote: "As the years pass, my reading is increasingly skewed sword. I used to be more laser. What's up with that?"Imminent dementia, most like. See your doctor, stat."
Yes, but just remember...
Jul 01, 2019 10:42AM
If anyone is interested, Dark Horse Comics will be publishing an omnibus edition of all the Witcher comics. Release date is Jan 15 2020.https://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/2981/s...
My challenge numbers as of July 1 are:Sword: 21/30
Laser: 12/30
Comics: 8/24
Shorts: 26/24
The Hugo shorts put me over the top for the short story challenge. As the years pass, my reading is increasingly skewed sword. I used to be more laser. What's up with that?
As consolation, we'll award Trike a Golden Scoop. Don't ask what it's been scooping.
Silvana wrote: "I still have two related works to read before the deadline, and maybe sampling some of the art books and fanzines....I wish I have time to peruse the editor samples. Need a better time management next year!"I'm trying to finish up my Hugo reading with the novelettes (2 to go), the novellas (3 to go) and one more novel (Space Opera). I wish I had time to look at related works, comics, and art books, but there aren't enough hours in the day.
The STARZ adaptation of Daniel O'Malley's The Rook, a past Sword & Laser pick, premieres on June 30https://mediaroom.starz.com/series/th...
Looks like there will be eight episodes in this mini-series. Will you be watching? I think I may sign up for Starz. The first seven days are free, so I suppose one could also wait a couple of months and binge.
Troy wrote: "Mark wrote: "A big batch of older SF & F titles on sale today...https://theportalist.com/1000-ebook-sale"
Thanks Mark. I don't recall ever being on The Portalist site or any of their affiliates...."
You're welcome. The Portalist is part of Open Road Media which publishes digital editions of older works of fiction. They publish a lot of science fiction that I read years ago and they routinely put interesting books on sale.
As mentioned in the latest podcast, living la vida Tom Merritt...
Tom wrote: "Guess what people. I'm not picking the book next month. And neither is Veronica. And neither are you. (unless the one person who is happens to read this). Stay tuned for more!"Is it Donald?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
