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message 1: by Joseph (last edited Dec 27, 2019 07:43AM) (new)

Joseph | 1651 comments I'm kind of totally cheating on this one, but I just wanted a place where I could include a post that had the covers of everything I read this year, so …

Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1) by George R.R. Martin

Weirdbook 31 by Douglas Draa

Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3) by Seanan McGuire

Alliance Rising by C.J. Cherryh Heavy Time (Company Wars, #4) by C.J. Cherryh Hellburner (The Company Wars, #5) by C.J. Cherryh Downbelow Station (The Company Wars #1) by C.J. Cherryh Alliance Space (Company Wars #2)(The Era of Rapprochement #2) by C.J. Cherryh Rimrunners (The Company Wars, #3) by C.J. Cherryh Tripoint (The Company Wars, #6) by C.J. Cherryh Finity's End (The Company Wars, #7) by C.J. Cherryh Cyteen (Cyteen, #1-3) by C.J. Cherryh Regenesis (Cyteen, #4) by C.J. Cherryh The Pride of Chanur (Chanur #1) by C.J. Cherryh Chanur's Venture (Chanur #2) by C.J. Cherryh The Kif Strike Back (Chanur, #3) by C.J. Cherryh Chanur's Homecoming (Chanur #4) by C.J. Cherryh Chanur's Legacy (Chanur #5) by C.J. Cherryh

Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1) by Tasha Suri

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

Swords of the Steppes The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume Four by Harold Lamb

The Tea Master and the Detective (The Universe of Xuya) by Aliette de Bodard The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard Scattered Among Strange Worlds by Aliette de Bodard

The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1) by Daniel Abraham The King's Blood (The Dagger and the Coin, #2) by Daniel Abraham The Tyrant's Law (The Dagger and the Coin, #3) by Daniel Abraham The Widow's House (The Dagger and the Coin, #4) by Daniel Abraham The Spider's War (The Dagger and the Coin, #5) by Daniel Abraham

Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) by Martha Wells

The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) by Nnedi Okorafor

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut, #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3) by Yoon Ha Lee

The Knight of the Swords (Corum, #1) by Michael Moorcock The Queen of the Swords (Corum, #2) by Michael Moorcock The King of the Swords (Corum, #3) by Michael Moorcock

The Devil in a Forest by Gene Wolfe

Beatrice by H. Rider Haggard The World's Desire  by H. Rider Haggard

Shadow Captain (Revenger, #2) by Alastair Reynolds

The Red-Stained Wings (Lotus Kingdoms, #2) by Elizabeth Bear

Blue Labyrinth (Pendergast, #14) by Douglas Preston Crimson Shore (Pendergast, #15) by Douglas Preston The Obsidian Chamber (Pendergast, #16) by Douglas Preston

Throne of Eldraine The Wildered Quest by Kate Elliott

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) by Tamsyn Muir

House of Cthulhu by Brian Lumley Tarra Khash Hrossak! Tales of the Primal Land by Brian Lumley Sorcery in Shad by Brian Lumley

Lin Carter's Simrana Cycle by Robert M. Price Tower of the Medusa by Lin Carter The Black Star by Lin Carter

The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker The Damnation Game by Clive Barker

Seven Blades in Black (The Grave of Empires, #1) by Sam Sykes The Gallows Black (The Grave of Empires) by Sam Sykes

Bran Mak Morn The Last King by Robert E. Howard

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

For the Killing of Kings (The Ring-Sworn Trilogy #1) by Howard Andrew Jones Upon the Flight of the Queen (The Ring-Sworn Trilogy, #2) by Howard Andrew Jones

Hogfather (Discworld, #20) by Terry Pratchett

The God Stalker Chronicles (Kencyrath, #1-2) by P.C. Hodgell


message 2: by Jim (new)

Jim (jimmaclachlan) That's my kind of challenge. Good luck with it!
:)


message 3: by Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ (new)

Helen | 3616 comments Mod
Lol!


message 4: by Joseph (new)

Joseph | 1651 comments (that version of Pride of Chanur is a cover scan I uploaded myself since I couldn't find any records on file with that particular cover)


message 5: by Tnkw01 (new)

Tnkw01 | 2293 comments Mod
That's an interesting cover. Are these "cat-people" body guards?


message 6: by Joseph (last edited Mar 28, 2019 08:59AM) (new)

Joseph | 1651 comments Tnkw01 wrote: "That's an interesting cover. Are these "cat-people" body guards?"

No, they're actually a race called hani, crew of the ship Pride of Chanur, which happens to pick up a naked, pink-skinned refugee of a race nobody has ever seen before. The entire book is from the POV of Pyanfar Chanur, captain of the ship.

It's also a pretty great book -- one of my favorites by Cherryh.

(And that Michael Whelan painting is pretty much the standard paperback cover, but the actual author & title text on my printing were different than the ones already shown in GR.)


message 7: by Tnkw01 (new)

Tnkw01 | 2293 comments Mod
That actually sounds like a really great story line. A human from the perspective of an alien.


message 8: by Joseph (new)

Joseph | 1651 comments I'd say it's well worth checking out -- it's also relatively short (the paperback was less than 200 pages) and fast-paced.


message 9: by Joseph (new)

Joseph | 1651 comments And that is all she wrote, for 2019 at least.


message 10: by Tnkw01 (new)

Tnkw01 | 2293 comments Mod
Are you doing a repeat of the challenge?


message 11: by Joseph (new)

Joseph | 1651 comments Yep! I'll start a new thread as soon as I finish my first book of 2020.


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