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Wiki: "I found her in a deck chair with a plaid rug pulled up to her neck, listlessly watching a game of quoits."

05. Kathe Koja - The Neglected Garden, 5 stars. Bad break up leads to a stalemate.
06. Thomas Ligotti - A Soft Voice Whispers Nothing, 3 stars. Former patient overhears doctor's philosophy.
07. China Miéville - Jack, 4 stars. Robin Hood, with bodymods.
08. Jeffrey Thomas - Immolation, 4 stars. Escaped slave makes a living on the street.
09. Jay Lake - The Lizard of Ooze, 2 stars. Underground city is threatened.

01. M. John Harrison - The Luck in the Head, 2 stars. Murderous political plots, creepy lamb.
02. Clive Barker - In the Hills, the Cities, 3 stars. Competition between neighboring cities goes awry.
03. Michael Moorcock - Crossing into Cambodia, 3 stars. Casually raping a foreign country.
04. Simon D. Ings - The Braining of Mother Lamprey, 4 stars. Apprentice suspects master is up to no good.

I am not fancy enough to know these things.

Wiki: "...hothouse grapes draped over the etched-glass epergne."

Wiki: "...the cruet stand minus the vinegar."

Pattern?: "There was a vast dim dining room with William Morris wallpaper, the Strawberry Thief design..."

Wiki: "Upstairs, in Laura’s room, there’s a chip out of the mantelpiece, from where she dropped a firedog; so typical."

Wiki: "What an ugly weapon the ancient knout was—and what beauty there is in ..."

Wiki: "...lit by the polar effulgence of OneState, a blue massif, the sparks of a rainbow, the sun, hundreds of suns, billions of rainbows..."

Massif > Tamu Massif > Olympus Mons

Wiki: "Five minutes later we were already in the aero, moving through the sky of the month of May, its blue majolica, and the light sun was zooming along behind us in its own golden aero, keeping up but never passing."

Wiki: "A scintillator! Far better than his Geiger counter, the little crystal would give off tiny flashes whenever its crystalline interior was struck by gamma radiation.

Word: "... refused even to admit the odium Bruno would inspire that afternoon."

1. the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance
2. hatred and condemnation accompanied by loathing or contempt : detestation
3. disrepute or infamy attached to something :  opprobrium

12. End of the Game, 3 stars. Girls strike a pose every day for passing train.
13. At Your Service, 3 stars. Woman is hired by strange couple.
14. The Pursuer, 1 star. Jazz, heroin.
15. Secret Weapons, 3 stars. Young couple with intimacy issues.

07. Continuity of Parks, 4 stars. Man settles in to finish reading a novel.
08. The Night Face Up, 2 stars. Strange unsettling dreams.
09. Bestiary, 3 stars. Summer vacation with a roaming tiger.
10. The Gates of Heaven, 2 stars. Recently deceased woman loved to dance.
11. Blow-Up, 3 stars. Photographer needs to take a chill pill.

Wiki: "A mate straw muttered very audibly when I passed the kitchen and looked into the death-room."

01. Axolotl, 3 stars. Man becomes obsessed with axolotls.
02. House Taken Over, 4 stars. Siblings try to keep things tidy.
03. The Distances, 2 stars. Diary of a loony tune.
04. The Idol of the Cyclades, 3 stars. Two friends find an artifact.
05. Letter to a Young Lady in Paris, 4 stars. Temporary lodger has an unusual tic.
06. A Yellow Flower, 3 stars. Man finds younger doppelganger on the bus.

Wiki: "...the repeated caressing of the beautiful and expressionless statue’s little body..."
The Idol of the Cyclades

Song: "It was a pleasure to go to bed to the Red Bank Boogie, with a chocolate mint..."

Wiki: "...the emotional version of the horse latitudes, where all the winds died away and one simply drifted."

04. Brothers Grimm - The Singing Bone, 2 stars. Brothers compete to kill a pig.
06. Sir Walter Scott - Wandering Willie's Tale, 1 star. Grandpa tries to pay the rent.
07. James Hogg - The Mysterious Bride, 2 stars. Man sees a pretty girl traveling alone.
08. Charlotte Brontë - Napoleon and the Spectre, 2 stars. Napoleon hears a noise in the closet.

Wiki: "What’s the unlucky callant saying about the 9th of August? Aih? To be sure it is St. Lawrence’s Eve, although the tenth be his day."

Word: "...he had beside him a great, ill-favored jackanape that was a special pet of his."

A monkey on leash was colloquially called a jackanapes.

Wiki: "There were smears of blood on her pale djellaba."

Wiki: "The zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers."

Wiki: "Hope gave Nicky a zwieback and he stopped crying."

29. Intelligences Together, 1 star. More of the same, smart computers.
30. My Robots, 1 star. More of the same, my laws best laws.
31. The Laws Of Humanics, 2 stars. Humans should behave better.
32. Cybernetic Organism, 2 stars. People hate everything.
33. The Sense Of Humor, 2 stars. Robots can't understand jokes.
34. Robots In Combination, 2 stars. How robots behave toward other robots.

23. Our Intelligent Tools, 2 stars. Computers more intelligent than humans.
24. The Laws Of Robotics, 2 stars. Robots as tools.
25. Future Fantastic, 1 star. Free time will make people creative.
26. The Machine And The Robot, 2 stars. Machines replacing humans.
27. The New Profession, 2 stars. More of the same, machine intelligence.
28. The Robot As Enemy?, 2 stars. The three laws are necessary.

17. Mirror Image, 3 stars. Lying mathematician & robot.
18. Christmas Without Rodney, 3 stars. In laws go out of their way to be unpleasant.
19. Robots I Have Known, 3 stars. Origin of the three laws.
20. The New Teachers, 2 stars. Personalized teaching machines.
21. Whatever You Wish, 2 stars. Out of work people would choose liberal arts.
22. The Friends We Make, 2 stars. Robots shaped like people.

10. Robot Visions, 2 stars. Robot peeks into the future.
11. Too Bad!, 3 stars. Nanobot kills cancer.
12. Feminine Intuition, 5 stars. [2017]
13. The Bicentennial Man, 5 stars. [2017]
14. Someday, 3 stars. Robot storyteller learns new material.
15. Think!, 3 stars. Lasering a monkey has unintended features.
16. Segregationist, 3 stars. Life extending surgical options.

11. The Singing Lesson, 3 stars. Moody cow receives conflicting messages.
12. The Stranger, 4 stars. Husband reunited with wife after her long vacation.
13. Bank Holiday, 1 star. Noisy street packed with people.
14. An Ideal Family, 2 stars. Hard working old man's family doesn't appreciate him.
15. The Lady's Maid, 3 stars. Devoted employee never did get to ride a donkey.