Eco's Favorites

 

From Literary Hub, Umberto Eco's favorite books. "Deep Cut"? Seriously? Dumas? Joyce? Jesus wept. 

Green Visitor

 

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), now appearing in our skies. Between the blue tails and the green head, I'm reminded of someting...

It's Elementary, My Dear Watson

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the familiar periodic table of the elements, coded as to origin of said elements. We are, as the astronomer said, all star stuff. 

Cosmic Voyagers

 

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the International Space Station and the Tiangong Space Station "passing" in the night. The image was a time exposure, so the stations were visible simultaneously. I have been lucky enough to see the ISS flying "in tandem" with cargo vessels and even the Space Shuttle on multiple occasions (one time when a sunset comet was also visible in the sky). 

Lunar Cycles

 

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the full moons of 2022. Hopefully you get a chance to enjoy 2023's lunar bounty (I usually get socked in by clouds on that night). 

Sisters

 

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Messier 45, The Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, children of Atlas and Pleione. Those who are long-time readers of this blog will be familiar with a bit of doggerel associated with this grouping of stars. 

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade,
Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.

The Menace of the Galaxies

 

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows a galaxy being menaced by a cometary globule (CG4). A cometary globule has the same relationship to comets as a planetary nebula has to planets, and furthermore, is not really in a position to menace that much further galaxy, but it's a lovely shot.

 

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the asterism known as Kemble's Cascade. Twenty-odd stars, all (more or less) in a row, in the constellation of the giraffe (not the camel), Camelopardalis. 

March of the Planets

 

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows the western sky after sunset. "Mouseover" the image in the link to flip the image from a labeled guide to the current planetary lineup and a unlabeled view. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury and Venus all in one view! (Caveat: Mercury is notoriously hard to spot.)

Blue and Green

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is an image from Voyager 1. Nearly lost in the haze of Saturn's rings is our small rock of a world.

2023: The Year in Shorts

 As with the past several years, I'm going to attempt to read a number of shorter works (primarily fiction, if the past is a guide) equal to the number of days in the year (365). These will mostly be from anthologies (single author or multiple author), as the number of periodicals that I subscribe to shrinks.

Number of Stories Read: 341 (out of 365) as of September 14, 2023.

Iain M. Banks: The State of the Art. Made up of: Road of Skulls; A Gift from the Culture; Odd Attachment; Descendant; Cleaning Up; Piece; The State of the Art; Scratch; A Few Notes on the Culture (4 stories, continuing to read).

Bertrand R. Brinley: The Mad Scientists' Club 01—The Mad Scientists' Club. Made up of: Introduction (Sheridan Brinley); The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake; The Big Egg; The Secret of the Old Cannon; The Unidentified Flying Man of Mammoth Falls; The Great Gas Bag Race; The Voice in the Chimney; Night Rescue; Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Edition (Sheridan Brinley) (9 stories or essays; collection completed).

Jorge Luis Borges: On Argentina. Made up of: Man on Pink Corner; Buenos Aires; The Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires; Asbasbui; The Criollo Element in Ipuche; The Complaint of All Criollos; Eduardo Gonzalez Lanuza; General Quiroga Rides to His Death in a Carriage; Carriego and the Meaning of the Arrabal; The Full Extent of My Hope; The Pampa and the Surburbio Are Gods; The Purple Land; Leopoldo Lugones—Romancero; Truco; Truco (poem); Genealogy of the Tango; Situating Almafuerte; The Language of the Argentines; Buenos Aires—Palerno; A History of the Tango; Our Inabilities; I, a Jew; Borges's Prologue to the German Edition of Enrique Amorim's La carreta; Definition of a Germanophile; Our Poor Individualism; The Argentine Writer and Tradition; The South (27 essays; collection completed). 

Jorge Luis Borges: On Writing. Made up of: Ultra Manifesto; On Expressionism; After Images; Joyce's Ulysses; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Verbiage for Poems; An Investigation of the Word; The Art of Verbal Abuse; On Literary Description; On Metaphor; Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass; Two Ways to Translate; The Homeric Versions; A Profession of Literary Faith; Literary Pleasure; The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader; The Paradox of Apollinaire; Kafka and His Precursors; Flaubert and His Exemplary Destiny; Virginia Woolf; T.S. Eliot; Paul Valery; William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!; Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener; Henry James, The Abasement of the Northmores; Marcel Schwob, Imaginary Lives; H.G. Wells, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man; Julio Cortazar, Stories; The Labyrinths of the Detective Story and Chesterton; Ellery Queen, Halfway House; Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel; Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone; The Detective Story; Stories from Turkestan; The Cinematograph, the Biograph; Narrative Art and Magic; Preface to the 1954 Edition of A Universal History of Infamy; When Fiction Lives in Fiction (38 essays; collection completed).

Bertrand R. Brinley: The Mad Scientists' Club 02—The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club. Made up of: Introduction (Sheridan Brinley); The Telltale Transmitter; The Cool Cavern; Big Chief Rainmaker; The Flying Sorcerer; The Great Confrontation (6 stories or essays; collection completed). 

Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others. Made up of: Tower of Babylon; Understand; Division by Zero; Story of Your Life; Seventy-Two Letters; The Evolution of Human Science; Hell is the Absence of God; Liking What You See; Story Notes (9 stories or essays; collection completed). 

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Made up of: Foreword: A Study in Scarlet (Stephen Fry); A Study in Scarlet; Foreword: The Sign of Four (Stephen Fry); The Sign of Four; Foreword: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Stephen Fry); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia; The Adventure of the Red-Headed League; A Case of Identity; The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Five Orange Pips; The Man with the Twisted Lip; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Adventure of the Speckled Band; The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb; The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor; The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet; The Adventure of the Copper Beeches; Foreword: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Stephen Fry); The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Silver Blaze; The Adventure of the Cardboard Box; The Adventure of the Yellow Face; The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk; The Adventure of the Gloria Scott; The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual; The Adventure of the Reigate Squire; The Adventure of the Crooked Man; The Adventure of the Resident Patient; The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter; The Adventure of the Naval Treaty; The Final Problem; Foreword: The Hound of the Baskervilles; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Foreword: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Stephen Fry); The Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Empty House; The Adventure of the Norwood Builder; The Adventure of the Dancing Men; The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist; The Adventure of the Priory School; The Adventure of Black Peter; The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton; The Adventure of the Six Napoleons; The Adventure of the Three Students; The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez; The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter; The Adventure of the Abbey Grange; The Adventure of the Second Stain; Foreword: The Valley of Fear (Stephen Fry); The Valley of Fear; Foreword: His Last Bow (Stephen Fry); His Last Bow: Preface; The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles; The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, The Tiger of San Pedro; The Adventure of the Red Circle; The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans; The Adventure of the Dying Detective; The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; The Adventure of the Devil's Foot; His Last Bow (51 stories, continuing to read).

Arthur Conan Doyle and William S. Baring-Gould (Editor and Annotator): The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume I. Made up of: "I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Since You Became His Chronicler" (Baring-Gould); "He Is Now Translating My Small Works Into French" (Baring-Gould); "I...Have Even Contributed to the Literature of the Subject" (Baring-Gould); "You Would Have Made an Actor, and a Rare One" (Baring-Gould); "Your Pictures Are Not Unlike You, Sir, If I May Say So?" (Baring-Gould); "A Singular Set of People, Watson..." (Baring-Gould); "Your Merits Should Be Publicly Recognized" (Baring-Gould); "The Best and the Wisest Man Whom I Have Ever Known" (Baring-Gould); "Good Old Watson!" (Baring-Gould); "He Is The Napoleon of Crime, Watson" (Baring-Gould); "I Have My Eye on a Suite in Baker Street" (Baring-Gould); What Is It That We Love in Sherlock Holmes? (Baring-Gould); The Gloria Scott; The Musgrave Ritual; A Study in Scarlet; "As to Your Dates, That is the Biggest Mystification of All" (Baring-Gould); The Adventure of the Speckled Band; "It Is...The Deadliest Snake in India" (Baring-Gould); The Resident Patient; The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor; The Adventure of the Second Stain; "Now, Watson, the Fair Sex Is Your Department" (Baring-Gould); The Reigate Squires; A Scandal in Bohemia; The Man with the Twisted Lip; The Five Orange Pips; A Case of Identity; The Red-Headed League; The Adventure of the Dying Detective; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Valley of Fear; The Yellow Face; The Greek Interpreter; "Your Hand Stole Towards Your Old Wound..." (Baring-Gould); The Sign of the Four (9 stories, continuing to read). 

David Drake: The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume 1. Made up of: Introduction (Gene Wolfe); Foreword: Becoming a Professional Writer by Way of Southeast Asia; Under the Hammer; Supertanks; The Butcher's Bill; The Church of the Lord's Universe; But Loyal to His Own; Powerguns; Caught in the Crossfire; Backdrop to Chaos; Cultural Conflict; The Bonding Authority; Hangman; Table of Organization and Equipment, Hammer's Regiment; Standing Down; Code-Name Feirefitz; The Interrogation Team; The Tank Lords; Liberty Port; Night March; The Immovable Object; The Irresistible Force; A Death in Peacetime; Afterword: Accidentally and by the Back Door (24 stories; collection completed).

David Drake: The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume 2. Made up of: In Defense of David Drakes's Hammer's Slammers Stories: An Introduction (David G. Hartwell); Foreword: We Happy Few; At Any Price; Counting the Cost; Rolling Hot; The Warrior; The Day of Glory; Afterword: What's for Sale (4 stories; collection completed; novels read separately). 

David Drake: The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume 3. Made up of: Inextricable Disengagement: The War Games of David Drake: An Introduction (Barry N. Malzberg); The Sharp End; Paying the Piper; Choosing Sides; The Political Process; Neck or Nothing; The Darkness; Jim (5 stories; collection completed; novels read separately). 

George Alec Effinger: Budayeen Nights. Made up of: (read in 2022) Foreword (Barbara Hambly); King of the Cyber Rifles; Marid and the Blood Trail; (read in 2023) Marid Changes His Mind; Marid Throws a Party; Schrodinger's Kitten; Slow, Slow Burn; The City on the Sand; The Plastic Pasha; The World as We Know It (3 stories read previously, continuing to read).

Robert E. Howard: Bran Mak Morn—The Last King. Made up of: Foreword (Gary Gianni); Introduction (Rusty Burke); Men of the Shadows; Kings of the Night; Song of the Race; Worms of the Earth; The Dark Man; The Lost Race; The Drums of Pictdom; Notes on Miscellanea (Rusty Burke); The Little People; The Little People—Typescript?; The Children of the Night; Bran Mak Morn; Bran Mak Morn—Manuscript?; Untitled Synopsis ("The story of a forgotten age...); Worms of the Earth—Draft?; Untitled Fragment ("A grey sky arched over..."); Untitled Poem ("There's a bell that hang's...") (variant of The Bell of Morni); The Wheel Turns; Robert E. Howard and the Picts: A Chronology (Uncredited); Robert E. Howard, Bran Mak Morn and the Picts (Rusty Burke and Patrice Louinet); Notes on the Original Howard Texts (Uncredited) (23 stories, collection completed).

M.R. James: The M.R. James BBC Radio Collection. Made up of: The Mezzotint; Casting the Runes; The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral; A Warning to the Curious; Rats; Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad!; The Tractate Middoth; Lost Hearts; The Rose Garden; Number 13; Canon Alberic's Scrapbook; A School Story; The Haunted Doll's House; Martin's Close; Count Magnus; The Haunting of M.R. James (Neil Brand); Great Lives—M.R. James (Muriel Gray, Christopher Frayling and Humphrey Carpenter); The Ghosts of M.R. James (Michell Raper) (18 stories or essays; completed).

George R. R. Martin (editor): Wild Cards Volume 1. Made up of: Prologue (George R. R. Martin); Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! (Howard Waldrop); The Sleeper (Roger Zelazny); Witness (Walter Jon Williams); Degradation Rites (Melinda Snodgrass); Interlude One (George R. R. Martin); Captain Cathode and the Secret Ace (Michael Cassutt); Powers (David D. Levine); Shell Games (George R. R. Martin); Interlude Two (George R. R. Martin); The Long, Dark Night of Fortunato (Lewis Shiner); Transfigurations (Victor Milan); Interlude Three (George R. R. Martin); Down Deep (Edward Bryant and Leanne C. Harper); Interlude Four (George R. R. Martin); Strings (Stephen Leigh as S. L. Farrell); Interlude Five (George R. R. Martin); Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan (Carrie Vaughn); Comes a Hunter (John J. Miller); Epilogue—Third Generation (Lewis Shiner); Appendix—The Science of the Wild Card Virus (Lewis Shiner); Excerpts from the Minutes of the American Metabiological Society Conference on Metahuman Abilities (not listed) (2 stories, continuing to read).

Michael Moorcock: Elric of Menibone. Made up of: One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock (Neil Gaiman); Elric of Mennibone; The Fortress of the Pearl; The Sailor on the Seas of Fate; The Weird of the White Wolf; The Elric Saga—A Reader's Guide (John Davey) (6 stories, collection completed). 

Michael Moorcock: Stormbringer. Made up of: The Vanishing Tower; The Revenge of the Rose; The Bane of the Black Sword; Stormbringer (3 stories; continuing to read).

Michael Moorcock: The White Wolf. Made up of: The Dreamthief's Daughter; The Skrayling Tree; The White Wolf's Song (0 stories; continuing to read).

Michael Moorcock: Elric—The Stealer of Souls. Made up of: The Return on the Thin White Duke (Alan Moore); Introduction; Putting a Tag on It; The Dreaming City; While the Gods Laugh; The Stealer of Souls; Kings in Darkness (with James Cawthorn); The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams; Mission to Asno!; Stormbringer; Dead God's Homecoming; Black Sword's Brothers; Sad Giant's Shield; Doomed Lord's Passing; Elric; The Secret Life of Elric of Melniboné; Final Judgement (Alan Forrest); Review: Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock (Alan Forrest); The Zenith Letter (Anthony Skene); Acknowledgments (9 stories; continuing to read).

Frederik Pohl: The Gold at the Starbow's End (1 story, completed). 

Tim Powers: Nobody's Home. The Properties of Rooftop Air (2 stories, completed).

Tim Powers: Down and Out in Purgatory—The Stories of Tim Powers. Made up of: Dark Paths Through Dark Woods (David Drake); The Powers Effect (Tony Daniels); Savage and Demolition; The Bible Repairman; Appointment on Sunset; The Better Boy (with James Blaylock); Pat Moore; The Way Down the Hill; Itinerary; A Journey of Only Two Places; The Hour of Babel; Where They Are Hid; We Traverse Afar (with James Blaylock); Through and Through; Night Moves; A Soul in a Bottle; Parallel Lines; Fifty Cents (with James Blaylock); Nobody's Home; A Time to Cast Away Stones; Down and Out in Purgatory; Sufficient Unto the Day (22 stories or essays, collection completed). After Many a Summer (1 story, completed). 

Alastair Reynolds: Troika (1 story, completed). Slow Bullets (1 story, completed). 

Kim Stanley Robinson: Escape from Kathmandu. Made up of: Escape from Kathmandu; Mother Goddess of the World; The True Nature of Shangri-La; The Kingdom Underground (4 stories, collection completed). 

Fred Saberhagen: Wings Out of Shadow (1 story, completed). 

Clark Ashton Smith: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 03—A Vintage from Atlantis. Made up of: Introduction (Michael Dirda); A Note on the Texts (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); The Holiness of Azédarac; The Maker of Gargoyles; Beyond the Singing Flame; Seedling of Mars (with E.M. Johnston); The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis; The Eternal World; The Demon of the Flower; The Nameless Offspring; A Vintage from Atlantis; The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan; The Invisible City; The Immortals of Mercury; The Empire of the Necromancers; The Seed from the Sepulcher; The Second Interment; Ubbo-Sathla; The Double Shadow; The Plutonian Drug; The Supernumerary Corpse; The Colossus of Ylourgne; The God of the Asteroid •(variant of Master of the Asteroid); Story Notes (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); The Flower-Devil; Bibliography (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger) (11 stories read; continuing to read).

Charles Stross: Laundry 01—The Atrocity Archives. Made up of: The Atrocity Archives; The Concrete Jungle (2 stories; collection completed). Laundry 02—The Jennifer Morgue. Made up of: The Jennifer Morgue; Pimpf (2 stories, completed). The Laundry Series. Uncollected short stories: Overtime; Down on the Farm; Equoid; Escape from Yokai Land  (4 stories; uncollected short stories completed). Accelerando. Made up of: Lobsters; Troubadour; Tourist; Halo; Router; Nightfall; Curator; Elector; Survivor (9 stories; completed). 

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth 01—The Dying Earth. Made up of: Mazirian the Magician; Turjan of Miir; T'sais; Liane the Wayfarer; Ulan Dohr Ends a Dream; Guyal of Sfere (6 stories; completed). 

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth 02—The Eyes of the Overworld. Made up of: The Overworld; Cil; The Mountains of Magnatz; The Sorcerer Pharesm; The Pilgrims; The Cave in the Forest; The Manse of Iucounu (7 stories; completed).

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth 03—Cugel's Saga. Made up of: Flutic; The Inn of Blue Lamps; Aboard the Galante; Lausicaa; The Ocean of Sighs; The Columns; Faucelme; On the Docks; The Caravan; The Seventeen Virgins; The Bagful of Dreams; The Four Wizards; Spatterlight (13 stories, collection completed). 

Jack Vance: The Dying Earth 04—Rhialto the Marvelous. Made up of: Foreword; The Murthe; Fader's Waft; Morreion (4 stories, collection completed). 

Jeff VanderMeer: Ambergris (Omnibus). Made up of: City of Saints and Madmen [Made up of: The Real VanderMeer (Michael Moorcock); Dradin, in Love; The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris by Duncan Shriek; The Transformation of Martin Lake; The Strange Case of X; A Letter from Dr. V to Dr. Simpkin; X's Notes; The Release of Belacqua; King Squid; The Hoegbotton Family History; The Cage; In the Hours After Death; A Note from Dr. V to Dr. Simpkin; The Man Who Had No Eyes; The Exchange; Learning to Leave the Flesh; The Ambergris Glossary.]; Shriek—An Afterword; Finch (3 stories, continuing to read). 

Martha Wells: Murderbot—Compulsory (1 story, completed). 

Roger Zelazny: Threshold—The Complete Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 1. Made up of: (read in 2022) Notes (Christopher S. Kovacs); A Word from the Editors (Ann Crimmins and David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs); Out of Nowhere (Robert Silverberg); Before Amber (Carl B. Yoke); A Rose for Ecclesiastes; A Word from Zelazny: A Rose for Ecclesiastes (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Braxa; Ecclesiastes' Epilogue; Bok; A Word from Zelazny: Bok (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); And The Darkness Is Harsh; A Word from Zelazny: And The Darkness Is Harsh (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Mr. Fuller's Revolt; A Word from Zelazny: Mr. Fuller's Revolt (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Diet; A Word from Zelazny: Diet (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Youth Eternal; Slush, Slush, Slush; The Outward Sign; The Agnostic's Prayer; Passion Play; A Word from Zelazny: Passion Play (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); On May 13, 1937; Cactus King; The Graveyard Heart; A Word from Zelazny: The Graveyard Heart (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); (read in 2023) Flight; Future, Be Not Impatient; In the Dogged House; Our Wintered Way Through Evening, and Burning Bushes Along It; Horseman!; A Word from Zelazny: Horseman! (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Teachers Rode a Wheel of Fire; A Word from Zelazny: The Teachers Rode a Wheel of Fire (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Sense and Sensibility; Moonless in Byzantium; A Word from Zelazny: Moonless in Byzantium (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); On the Road to Splenoba; A Word from Zelazny: On the Road to Splenoba (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Final Dining; The Borgia Hand; Nine Starships Waiting; A Word from Zelazny: Nine Starships Waiting (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Circe Has Her Problems; A Word from Zelazny: Circe Has Her Problems (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Cat Licks Her Coat; A Word from Zelazny: The Cat Licks Her Coat (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Malatesta Collection; A Word from Zelazny: The Malatesta Collection (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); From a Seat in the Chill Park; Rodin's 'The Kiss'; To His Morbid Mistress; The Stainless Steel Leech; A Word from Zelazny: The Stainless Steel Leech (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Old Ohio Folkrag; The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth; A Word from Zelazny: The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); A Thing of Terrible Beauty; A Word from Zelazny: A Thing of Terrible Beauty (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); How A Poem Means; Monologue for Two; Concert; Iceage; Threshold of the Prophet; Hart Crane...; Southern Cross; A Word from Zelazny: Southern Cross (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right; A Word from Zelazny: I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); A Museum Piece; A Word from Zelazny: A Museum Piece (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Hybris, Or The Danger of Hilltops; Mine is the Kingdom; St. Secaire's; In Pheleney's Garage; King Solomon's Ring; The Black Boy's Reply to William Butler Yeats; The Misfit; Rite of Spring; The Great Slow Kings; A Word from Zelazny: The Great Slow Kings (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Collector's Fever; A Word from Zelazny: Collector's Fever (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Night Has 999 Eyes; A Word from Zelazny: The Night Has 999 Eyes: Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Decade Plus One of Roses; A Word from Zelazny: Decade Plus One of Roses (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); He Who Shapes; A Word from Zelazny: He Who Shapes (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); See You Later, Maybe; Sundry Notes on Dybology and Suchlike; A Word from Zelazny: Sundry Notes on Dybology and Suchlike (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); "... And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 1 (Christopher S. Kovacs); Conditional Benefit; A Word from Zelazny: Conditional Benefit (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Hand of the Master; A Word from Zelazny: Hand of the Master (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Great Selchie of San Francisco Bay; Studies in Saviory; Acknowledgments (Ann Crimmins and David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs) (26 entries read in 2022, continuing to read).

Magazines and Other Periodicals:

Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev: Scarlet 001-005 (5 issues, completed). 

Thierry Labrosse: Ab Irato, Book 1. Ab Irato, Book 2 (2 issues, completed). 

Andrew MacLean: ApocalyptiGirl—An Aria for the End Times (1 issue, completed)

2023: The Year in Books

Here is a list of books (or other long-form works) that I have read for the year. They will come in many formats (paper or pBooks; electronic or eBooks; audio or aBooks). I may mix format (I tend to maximize reading by synchronizing audiobooks and electronic books), the format totals at the end of this entry tell you what format I read for the majority of a particular title.

Number of books read (as of September 20, 2023): 141.

Books read (alphabetical by author, then chronological within an author, editor or authors or editors). 

William Ashbless with Tim Powers and James Blaylock: On Pirates (pBook) (February). 

Iain M. Banks: The Culture 01—Consider Phlebas (eBook) (July). The Culture 02—Player of Games (eBook) (July). The Culture 03—Use of Weapons (eBook) (July). The Culture 04—The State of the Art (pBook) (August). 

Alfred A. Bell, Jr.: The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 04—Death in the Ashes (eBook) (April). The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 05—The Eyes of Aurora (eBook) (April). 

Jorge Luis Borges: On Argentina (aBook) (July). On Writing (aBook) (July). 

Ben Bova: Mars, Inc.—The Billionaire's Club (eBook) (May). 

Mark Bowden: Hue 1968—A Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam (aBook) (February). 

Leigh Brackett: Stark 01—Ginger Star (eBook) (June). 

Bertrand R. Brinley: The Mad Scientists' Club 01—The Mad Scientists' Club (eBook) (June). The Mad Scientists' Club 02—The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club (eBook) (June). The Mad Scientists' Club 03—The Big Kerplop! (eBook) (June)

Kenneth Brower: The Starship & the Canoe (eBook) (June). 

Ted Chiang: Stories of Your Life and Others (eBook) (June).

Samuel R. Delany: Nova (eBook) (June). 

Scott Dickerson: Tom Swift Lives! 01—Tom Swift Reimagined—Flying Lab (eBook) (April). 

Ruth Downie: Gaius Petreius Ruso 01—Medicus (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 02—Terra Incognita (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 03—Persona Non Grata (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 04—Caveat Emptor (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 05—Semper Fidelis (ebook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 06—Tabula Rasa (eBook) (May). Gaius Petreius Ruso 07—Vita Brevis (eBook) (May). 

David Drake: At Any Price (eBook) (February). Rolling Hot (eBook) (February). Counting the Cost (eBook) (February). The Sharp End (eBook) (March). Paying the Piper (eBook) (March). The Complete Hammer's Slammers 1 (eBook) (April). The Complete Hammer's Slammers 2 (eBook) (May). The Complete Hammer's Slammers 3 (eBook) (May). 

George Dyson: Analogia—The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control (eBook) (September). 

Alex Finley: Victor Caro 01—Victor in the Rubble (eBook) (August). 

Kenneth F. Gantz: Not in Solitude (eBook) (June).

Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (aBook) (January). 

Max Hastings: Vietnam—An Epic Tragedy: 1945–1975 (eBook) (May).

Robert E. Howard: Bran Mak Morn—The Last King (eBook) (July). 

Barry Hughart: The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox (omnibus) 01—Bridge of Birds (eBook) (June). 02—The Story of the Stone (eBook). 03—Eight Skilled Gentlemen (eBook).

Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men (Omnibus) 01—Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (eBook) (August). 02—Three Men on the Bummel (eBook) (August). 

Raymond F. Jones: This Island Earth (eBook) (June).

Caitlin R. Kiernan: Tinfoil Dossier 01—Agents of Dreamland (eBook) (April). 

Michael Lewis: The Big Short—Inside the Doomsday Machine (eBook) (September). The Premonition—A Pandemic Story (eBook) (September). The Fifth Risk—Undoing Democracy (eBook) (September). Moneyball—The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (eBook) (September). 

R. A. MacAvoy: Black Dragon 01—Tea with the Black Dragon (aBook) (June). 

Dave McKean: Dream States—The Collected Dreaming, Sandman Presents and Sandman Overture Covers 1997–2014. (pBook) (January). 

Nicholas Meyer: The West End Horror (pBook) (March). The Canary Trainer (pBook) (March).

Sergio Miller: In Good Faith—A History of the Vietnam War Volume 1—1945-64 (eBook) (July). 

Michael Moorcock: Elric 01 (Gallery/Saga Press Omnibus Collections 01)—Elric of Melnibone (omnibus edition; counted as four separate books) (eBook) (May).  

Annalee Newitz: The Terraformers (eBook) (March). 

Alice Mary Norton  (writing as Andre Norton or Andrew North or Allen Weston): Solar Queen 01—Sargasso of Space (eBook) (January). Warlock (Omnibus): Forerunner 01—Storm Over Warlock (eBook) (January); Forerunner 02—Ordeal in Otherwhere (eBook) (February); Forerunner 03—Forerunner Foray (eBook) (July). Pax/Astra 01—The Stars Are Ours! (pBook) (January). Pax/Astra 02—Star Born (pBook) (January). Solar Queen 02—Plague Ship (eBook) (June). Moonsinger (Omnibus): Moonsinger 01—Moon of Three Rings (eBook) (July); Moonsinger 02—Exiles of the Stars (eBook) (July). 

Alan E. Nourse: Raiders from the Rings (eBook) (July). Scavengers in Space (eBook) (July). Rocket to Limbo (eBook) (July). 

Malka Older: Mossa and Pleiti 01—The Mimicking of Known Successes (eBook) (March). 

Jay Parini: Borges  and Me (eBook) (June). 

K.J. Parker: Siege 03—A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (eBook) (April). 

Elizabeth Peters: Amelia Peabody 07—The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog (eBook) (March). Amelia Peabody 08—The Hippopotamus Pool (eBook) (May). 

Tim Powers: Medusa's Web (pBook) (January). The Anubis Gates (pBook) (January). The Stress of Her Regard (pBook) (January). Hide Me Among the Graves (pBook) (January). On Stranger Tides (pBook) (January). Down and Out in Purgatory (pBook) (February). Declare (pBook) (February). 

Terry Pratchett: Discworld 02—The Light Fantastic (eBook) (April). Discworld 03—Equal Rites (eBook) (April). Discworld 04—Mort (eBook) (April). Discworld 05—Sourcery (eBook) (April). Discworld 06—Wyrd Sisters (eBook) (April). Discworld 07—Pyramids (eBook) (April). Discworld 08—Guards! Guards! (eBook) (May). Discworld 09—Eric (eBook) (May). Discworld 10—Moving Pictures (eBook) (June). Discworld 11—Reaper Man (eBook) (June). Discworld 12—Witches Abroad (eBook) (June). Discworld 13—Small Gods (eBook) (June). Discworld 14—Lords and Ladies (eBook) (August). Discworld 15—Men at Arms (eBook) (August). Discworld 16—Soul Music (eBook) (August). Discworld 17—Interesting Times (eBook) (August). Discworld 18—Maskerade (eBook) (September). 

Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb (eBook) (August). 

John Maddox Roberts: SPQR 01—The King's Gambit (eBook) (May). 

Kim Stanley Robinson: Escape from Kathmandu (eBook) (August). The Three Californias 01—The Wild Shore (eBook) (August). 

Steven Saylor: Roma Sub Rosa 01—Roman Blood (eBook) (May). 

P.W. Singer and August Cole: Ghost Fleet—A Novel of the Next World War (eBook) (August).

E. E. "Doc" Smith: Lensman 01—Triplanetary (pBook) (March). Lensman 02—First Lensman (pBook) (May). Lensman 03—Galactic Patrol (pBook) (June). 

Olaf Stapledon: Last and First Men (eBook) (July). 

Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (aBook) (June).

Charles Stross: The Laundry File 001—The Atrocity Archives (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 002—The Jennifer Morgue (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 003—The Fuller Memorandum (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 004—The Apocalypse Codex (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 005—The Rhesus Chart (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 006—The Annihilation Score (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 007—The Nightmare Stacks (eBook) (January). The Laundry Files 008—The Delirium Brief (eBook) (February). Accelerando (eBook) (February).  Halting State 01—Halting State (eBook) (June). Halting State 02—Rule 34 (eBook) (July). The Laundry Files 009—The Labyrinth Index (eBook) (July). The Laundry Files 010—Dead Lies Dreaming (eBook) (July). The Laundry Files 011—Quantum of Nightmares (eBook) (July). The Laundry Files 012—Season of Skulls (eBook) (July).

Jack Vance: The Demon Princes 01—The Star King (aBook) (March). The Demon Princes 02—The Killing Machine (aBook) (March). The Dying Earth 01—The Dying Earth (aBook) (April). The Dying Earth 02—The Eyes of the Overworld (aBook) (April). Dying Earth 03—Cugel's Saga (aBook) (April). Dying Earth 04—Rhialto the Marvelous (aBook) (April). 

John Varley: Eight Worlds 01—The Ophiuchi Hotline (eBook) (June). 

James Webb: Fields of Fire (eBook) (May). 

Andrew Wiest: The Vietnam War—1956-1975 (eBook) (February). 

Kate Wilhelm: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (aBook) (June). 

Walter Jon Williams: Hardwired 01—Hardwired (eBook) (July). 

Jack Williamson: Eldren 01—Lifeburst (eBook) (June).

Connie Willis: Oxford Time Travel 02—To Say Nothing of the Dog (eBook) (August). 

David Wishart: Marcus Corvinus 01—Ovid (eBook) (June). 

Books read in chronological order (master list): 001: Dream States (McKean). 002: The Maltese Falcon (Hammett). 003: The Atrocity Archives (Stross). 004: The Jennifer Morgue (Stross). 005: The Fuller Memorandum (Stross). 006: The Apocalypse Codex (Stross). 007: The Rhesus Chart (Stross). 008: Sargasso of Space (Norton). 009: The Annihilation Score (Stross). 010: Medusa's Web (Powers). 011: The Anubis Gates (Powers). 012: Storm Over Warlock (Norton). 013: The Stress of Her Regard (Powers). 014: The Stars Are Ours! (Norton). 015: Star Born (Norton). 016: Hide Me Among the Graves (Powers). 017: On Stranger Tides (Powers). 018: The Nightmare Stacks (Stross). 019: The Delirium Brief (Stross). 020: Ordeal in Otherwhere (Norton). 021: On Pirates (Ashbless, Powers and Blaylock). 022: Accelerando (Stross). 023: Down and Out in Purgatory (Powers). 024: Hue 1968 (Bowden). 025: Declare (Powers). 026: At Any Price (Drake). 027: Rolling Hot (Drake). 028: Counting the Cost (Drake). 029: The Vietnam War—1956-1975 (Wiest). 030: Triplanetary (Smith). 031: The Terraformers (Newitz). 032: The Mimicking of Known Successes (Older). 033: The Star King (Vance). 034: The West End Horror (Meyer). 035: The Canary Trainer (Meyer). 036: The Killing Machine (Vance). 037: The Sharp End (Drake). 038: Paying the Piper (Drake). 039: The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog (Peters). 040: The Dying Earth (Vance). 041: The Eyes of the Overworld (Vance). 042: Cugel's Saga (Vance). 043: Rhialto the Marvelous (Vance). 044: Flying Lab (Dickerson). 045: The Light Fantastic (Pratchett). 046: Equal Rites (Pratchett). 047: Mort (Pratchett). 048: Sourcery (Pratchett). 049: Wyrd Sisters (Pratchett). 050: Death in the Ashes (Bell). 051: Pyramids (Pratchett). 052: The Eyes of Aurora (Bell). 053: A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (Parker). 054: Agents of Dreamland (Kiernan). 055: Hammer's Slammers 01 (Drake). 056: Vietnam—An Epic Tragedy: 1945–1975 (Hastings). 057: Hammer's Slammers 02 (Drake). 058: The Complete Hammer's Slammers 03 (Drake). 059: Medicus (Downie). 060: Terra Incognita (Downie). 061: Persona Non Grata (Downie). 062: Caveat Emptor (Downie). 063: Roman Blood (Saylor). 064: The King's Gambit (Roberts). 065: Semper Fidelis (Downie). 066: Tabula Rasa (Downie). 067: Vita Brevis (Downie). 068: Fields of Fire (Webb). 069: Mars, Inc. (Bova). 070: The Hippopotamus Pool (Peters). 071: Guards! Guards! (Pratchett). 072: First Lensman (Smith). 073: Eric (Pratchett). 074-077: Elric of Melnibone (omnibus) (Moorcock). 078: Snow Crash (Stephenson). 079: Moving Pictures (Pratchett). 080: Reaper Man (Pratchett). 081: Witches Abroad (Pratchett). 082: The Starship & the Canoe (Brower). 083: Borges  and Me (Parini). 084: Stories of Your Life and Others (Chiang). 085: Ovid (Wishart). 086: Ginger Star (Brackett). 087: Small Gods (Pratchett). 088: Nova (Delany). 089: Galactic Patrol (Smith). 090: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Wilhelm). 091: Plague Ship (Norton). 092: Bridge of Birds (Hughart). 093: Not in Solitude (Gantz). 094: Lifeburst (Williamson). 095: The Ophiuchi Hotline (Varley). 096: The Mad Scientists' Club (Brinley). 097: The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club (Brinley). 098: Halting State (Stross). 099: The Big Kerplop! (Brinley). 100: Tea with the Black Dragon (MacAvoy). 101: This Island Earth (Jones). 102: Consider Phlebas (Banks). 103: Forerunner Foray (Norton). 104: Moon of Three Rings (Norton). 105: Exiles of the Stars (Norton). 106: Raiders from the Rings (Nourse). 107: Rule 34 (Stross). 108: Scavengers in Space (Nourse). 109: Hardwired (Williams). 110: The Labyrinth Index (Stross). 111: Dead Lies Dreaming (Stross). 112: Rocket to Limbo (Nourse). 113: Quantum of Nightmares (Stross). 114: Season of Skulls (Stross).115: Bran Mak Morn (Howard). 116: Player of Games (Banks). 117; On Argentina (Borges). 118: On Writing (Borges). 119: Use of Weapons (Banks). 120: Last and First Men (Stapledon). 121: In Good Faith (Miller). 122: The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Rhodes). 123: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Willis). 124: Ghost Fleet (Singer and Cole). 125: Lords and Ladies (Pratchett). 126: Men at Arms (Pratchett). 127: Soul Music (Pratchett). 128: Three Men in a Boat (Jerome). 129: Escape from Kathmandu (Robinson). 130: Interesting Times (Pratchett). 131 and 132: Three Men on a Boat/Three Men on the Bummel (Jerome). 133: The Wild Shore (Robinson). 134: Victor in the Rubble (Finley). 135: The State of the Art (Banks). 136: The Big Short (Lewis). 137: Analogia (Dyson). 138: The Premonition (Lewis). 139: The Fifth Risk (Lewis). 140: Moneyball (Lewis). 141: Maskerade (Pratchett). 

Paper Books: 017.

Electronic Books: 112.

Audiobooks: 015.

2022: The Year in Reading

 And thus ends the year in reading that was 2022. What was the rundown?

For books and longer works: 171 (up from 156 in 2021).

For short works of all types: 525 (up from 416 in 2021).

Once again, there was a net positive as I cut back on viewing time to one hour a night and continued to prune podcasts. I also did a lot more "synchronized reading" where I would listen to the audiobook while walking or driving and then switch over to the electronic book while at home. I can't listen to a book as fast as I can read pages (paper or on a screen), but by combining the two, I continue to increase my reading overall.

Best reads of the year? A mix of fiction and non-fiction. On the fiction side, the best reads included Gregory Benford's Galactic Center series (six books, a reread); Nicola Griffith's Spear (an expansion of the Arthurian Canon); Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (which might be better than everybody's favorite in his Amber Series); and the two Monk and Robot books by Becky Chambers. 

It would be hard to pick the best out of these: Benford soars when it comes to his descriptions of astronomical phenomena and being able to combine transhumanism with Mark Twain. Griffith brings us a fresh new take on Arthur, something I didn't think was possible anymore. Zelazny is the oldest of the three, but his gonzo take on Buddhist mythology, space opera, and religious war has not been matched.  I'm not sure if the Monk and Robot books are a new genre of "hopepunk" or just what you need after multiple years of crazed politics and pandemic in the form of comfort reads. 

Runner ups would include The Expanse (9 books and one anthology) by James S. A. Corey; The Amber Series by Roger Zelazny; the Murderbot Series by Martha Wells; the Revelation Space/Cojoiner Series by Alastair Reynolds and the first two books of The Red Trilogy by Linda Nagata. 

All of these were rereads, and might have been in the earlier category if they had been first reads. This run through was to take a look at each, plus who doesn't love a good Sec Unit (Murderbot). 

On the nonfiction side, the best reads were The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam (covering the Vietnam War); The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (designing a new computer); Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson; Mars Rover Curiosity—An Inside Account From Curiosity's Chief Engineer by Rob Manning and William L. Simon; Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945 by Ian Toll (the third in a trilogy on the Second World War in the Pacific Theater). 

It would be hard to pick out the best here, as each was read for a different reason. Kidder and Manning/Simon turned out to give me some thoughts about my job. McPherson was a fantastic read showing a lot about the American Civil War that is overlooked by many popular histories on the subject (politics and economics). Halberstam is part of an ongoing project to understand a major conflict that we should have studied more before getting involved in other conflicts. And the Toll was the third installment of a trilogy that continued to make me drop my jaw in terms of learning things about a conflict I thought I already knew a lot about. 

Runner ups would include The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman; Danse Macabre by Stephen King; Future Shock by Alvin Toffler; The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. 

As with the fiction runner ups, these were all rereads. Each has stood the test of time (no suck fairy here) and have been made relevant by other things since I first read them (while they illuminated those other books when I read those). 

There were disappointments this year: The Planeteers by John W. Campbell, Jr. (this space opera series did not age well); Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy (sometimes a trunk novel should stay in the trunk); Chieftains by Bob Forrest-Webb (congratulations, you made war boring); Switched-On Bach by Roshanak Khesti (if it had actually been about the album, and not the author's political theories, there might have actually been a mediocre book there); Martian Summer by Andrew Kessler (the author affected an air of ignorance and bad humor throughout the book that completely took away from the story he was claiming to want to document).

What will next year bring? Stand by!

2022: The Year in Audio

 Just as the past few years saw me try to reignite a love of reading, this year I am going to try and listen to more music (more often). So, what will 2022 bring?

Current as of: December 31, 2022.

10,000 Maniacs: In My Tribe. Hope Chest. 

A Produce: A Smooth Surface. Land of a Thousand Trances. 

The Alan Parsons Project: Gaudi. Ammonia Avenue. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe. The Time Machine. Try Anything Once. A Valid Path. 

Isaac Albeniz: Echoes of Spain. Cantos De Espana (3x). 

Sir Malcolm Arnold: English, Scottish, Cornish, Irish and Welsh Dances. Chamber Music of Arnold. 

The Art of Noise: Into Battle (2x). The Seduction of Claude Debussy. The Best of The Art of Noise. And What Have You Done With My Body, God? Daft. 

B-52's: Time Capsule. 

Johann Sebastian Bach: Bach's Italian Journey. A Bach Celebration. Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould, 1955 Recording). J.S. Bach Complete Edition (Disc 01). J.S. Bach Complete Edition (CD 01-12). The Art of the Fugue and A Musical Offering (2 CD's). Two-Part Inventions and Three-Part Inventions.

The Bangles: Greatest Hits. 

The Beatles: Rubber Soul. Revolver. 

Adrian Belew: Desire of the Rhino King (x2). 

Black Water: Beneath the Skin. 

Rachel Bloom: Please Love Me.

Blue Oyster Cult: The Essential Blue Oyster Cult. 

David Bowie: Station to Station (3x). Blackstar (x2). Diamond Dogs. The Man Who Sold the World. Heroes. ChangesBowie. Fame '90. Tonight. Outside. Scary Monsters. A Reality Tour. Nothing Has Changed. 

Gavin Bryars: Obscure Music 01—The Sinking of the Titanic. 

Harold Budd: Lovely Thunder (x2). Obscure Music 10—The Pavilion of Dreams.

Kate Bush: Before the Dawn (Live). The Kick Inside. The Dreaming. Lionheart. Never for Ever. Hounds of Love. The Sensual World. Aerial: A Sky of Honey. Aerial: A Sea of Honey. 

David Byrne: The Catherine Wheel (x2). American Utopia on Broadway (x2).

Channel Light Vessel: Automatic. 

The Clash: London Calling. Combat Rock.

Dead Can Dance: Dead Can Dance (3 CD's) (x2). 

Alexandre Desplat: Zero Dark Thirty. The Imitation Game. 

Dire Straits: Dire Straits. Making Movies. 

The Doors: Strange Days. L.A. Woman. The Doors. 

Electric Light Orchestra/ELO: Face the Music. Eldorado. Discovery. 

Harlan Ellison: On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 01. On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 02. On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 03. On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 04. On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 05. On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 06. On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 07. 

Brian Eno: Nerve Net (2x). Generative Music I. 

Brian Eno and David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

Brian Eno and Rick Holland: Drums Between the Bells. 

Brian Eno and Karl Hyde: Someday World. 

Roger Eno: Voices. 

Roger Eno and Jill St. John: The Familiar. 

Enya: Watermark. The Celts. Shepherd Moons. A Day Without Rain. 

Donald Fagan: Kamakiriad. 

Fleetwood Mac: Rumours. Tusk. Tango in the Night.  

Peter Gabriel: Up. So. Peter Gabriel 03. 

Genesis: Abacab. Invisible Touch. Duke. We Can't Dance. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (2 CD's). 

Neil Gaiman & Co.: Where's Neil When You Need Him? 

Lisa Gerrard: The Mirror Pool.

Gentle Giant: Octopus. The Missing Piece. In a Glass House. Free Hand. 

Philip Glass: Satyagraha (Metropolitan Opera) (11x). Mishima. Akhnaten (Metropolitan Opera) (14x). Dracula. Kundun (x2). Naqoyqatsi (3x). Powaqqatsi (3x). Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance (3x). Anima Mundi. Satyagraha (The New York City Opera, Orchestra & Chorus). Akhnaten (The Stuttgart State Opera, Orchestra & Chorus) (2x). Galileo Galilei. Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode). Symphony No. 5 (Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya) (x4). Symphony No. 3. Symphony No. 2. Symphony No. 3 and Short Pieces. Symphony No. 2 and Shorter Pieces. Philip on Film (Filmworks by Philip Glass) (CD01-05). Music from the Fog of War. Glassmasters (CD01-03). Einstein on the Beach (x2). Roving Mars. 

Global Communications: 76:14. 

Elliot Goldenthal & Others: Heat. 

Ludwig Goransson: The Mandolorian, Chapter 1. The Mandolorian, Chapter 2. The Mandolorian, Chapter 3. The Mandolorian, Chapter 4. The Mandolorian, Chapter 5. The Mandolorian, Chapter 6. The Mandolorian, Chapter 7. The Mandolorian, Chapter 8. The Mandolorian Season 2, Volume 1 (Chapters 9-12). The Mandolorian Season 2, Volume 2 (Chapters 13-16).

Ferde Grofe: Orchestral Works. 

Jan Hammer: Miami Vice—The Complete Collection. 

Herbie Hancock: Future Shock. 

Bernard Herrmann: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. The Day the Earth Stood Still. 

Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL): Mad Max—Fury Road (2x).

Hootie & the Blowfish: Cracked Rear View. 

Indigo Girls: 1200 Curfews (CD01-02). Nomads Saints Indians. 

Jade Warrior: Elements (CD01-02) (2x). 

James Horner: A Beautiful Mind. Sneakers. 

Eric Idle & John Du Prez: Spamalot. 

Elton John: Greatest Hits Volume 1. Greatest Hits Volume 2. 

Yakko Kanno: Ghost in the Shell—Stand Alone Complex OST 01. Ghost in the Shell—Stand Alone Complex OST 02. Ghost in the Shell—Stand Alone Complex—Be Human. 

Kenji Kawai: Ghost in the Shell (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

Kevin Kiner: Star Wars: The Clone Wars—Seasons One Through Six. Star Wars: The Clone Wars—The Final Season (Episodes 1-4). 

King Crimson: The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson. In the Court of the Crimson King. 

Mark Knopfler: One Take Radio Sessions. Down the Road Whatever.

Mark Korven: The Peripheral (Original Television Series Soundtrack). 

Kraftwerk: Radioactivity. Trans-Europe Express. Autobahn. Man-Machine. Computer World. Tour de France. 3-D The Catalogue (CD01-08). Techno-Pop. Ralf & Florian. Kraftwerk 1. Kraftwerk 2. 

Kraftwerk & Friends: Kraftwerk Kover Kollection (CD01-06). 

Jonathan Larson: Rent. 

Led Zeppelin: Mothership (x2). 

Annie Lennox: Medusa. 

Clint Mansell: Moon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). 

Cliff Martinez: Solaris (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). 

Sarah McLachlan: Surfacing. 

Loreena McKennitt: The Book of Secrets. 

Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell. 

The Mechanisms: Death to the Mechanisms. 

New People: Might Get It Right. 

Troy Sterling Nies: Music of Dark Adventure (Omnibus Edition) (x2). 

Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I-IV.

Of Monsters and Men: Fever Dream. 

Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells. 

Patti Smith Group: Radio Ethiopia. Horses. Easter. 

Tom Petty: Wildflowers. 

Pink Floyd: Cre/ation—The Early Years (1967–1972). The Dark Side of the Moon. Wish You Were Here. 

Prince: 1999 (x2). Batman. 

Queen: Live Killers (x2). Live at Wembley Stadium. Greatest Hits (CD01-02). The Platinum Collection. 

Bonnie Raitt: Luck of the Draw. The Bonnie Raitt Collection. Nick of Time. Souls Alike. 

Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (x4). Works—1965–1995 (CD001–CD010). Tehillim. The Desert Music. 

R.E.M.: Dead Letter Office. Green. Fables of the Reconstruction. Eponymous (x2). Document (x2). Automatic for the People. Out of Time. New Adventures in Hi-Fi. Murmur (x2). Monster. Life's Rich Pageant. Green. 

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: The Vietnam War (Original Score) (x2). The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (x2).

Robert Rich: Bestiary. Seven Veils. 

Robert Rich and Alio Die: Fissures. 

Robert Rich and Lisa Moskow: Yearning. 

Steve Roach and Roger King: Dust to Dust.

The Robert Fripp String Quartet: The Bridge Between. 

The Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks (1964-1971) (x2). 

Todd Rundgren: Faithful (x2). Something/Anything. 

Andres Segovia: A Tribute to Segovia. 

Howard Shore: The Hobbit 01—An Unexpected Journey. The Hobbit 02—The Desolation of Smaug. 

Mark Snow: The Truth and the Light—Music from the X-Files.

Bruce Springsteen: Devils & Dust. The River. High Hopes. Letter to You. 

Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy. Can't Buy a Thrill. Aja. 

Sting: Brand New Day. Ten Summoner's Tales. The Dream of the Blue Turtles. 

Talking Heads: Sand in the Vaseline (4x). The Name of This Band is Talking Heads. Naked. Fear of Music. 

Tangerine Dream: Strange Behavior. The Park is Mine. The Private Music of Tangerine Dream. Ricochet. Risky Business. 220 Volt Live. Thief. 

John Tams & Dominic Muldowney: Over the Hills and Far Away (The Music of Sharpe).

Tangerine Dream: The Keep. Stratosfear. Logos. Strange Behavior. Lily on the Beach. Le Parc. Firestarter. Exit. Ricochet. Thief. Rockoon. Wavelength. 

Peter Tchaikovsky & Others: 1812 Overture and Other Pieces.

They Might Be Giants: Dial A Song—20 Years of They Might Be Giants. Apollo 18. The Else. Join Us. 

Tin Machine: Tin Machine. 

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: Playback (01-05). 

Traditional: Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick. Roast Beef of Old England. 

The Traveling Wilbury's: The Traveling Wilbury's Volume 1. The Traveling Wilbury's Volume 3. 

Jethro Tull: War Child.

U2: Rattle and Hum. 

Vangelis: China. Albedo 0.39. Spiral. 

Various: The Vietnam War (Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick) (x2). O, Brother Where Art Thou? (x2). Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music. English Country Dances. Guitar Concertos. Compounds + Elements. The Bells of St. Genevieve and Other Baroque Delights. O Brother, Where Art Thou? More Songs and Music from Gettysburg. 

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras (x2).

Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti "Alla Rustica" and Others. 

Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy. A Feather on the Breath of God. 

The Who: Quadrophenia. 

John Williams: Star Wars 01: The Phantom Menace. Star Wars 02: The Attack of the Clones. Star Wars 03: The Revenge of the Sith. 

John Williams and John Powell: Solo: A Star Wars Story. 

Steve Winwood: Roll With It. 

XTC: Skylarking. English Settlement. Drums and Wires (x2). Nonsuch. 

Yes: Magnification I. The Yes Album. Union. 

Hans Zimmer: Interstellar (x4). Blackhawk Down.

2021: The Year in Reading

 Another year in the books!

Long forms read? 156!

Short forms read? 416!

The biggest improvement year over year was to maximize my reading time. I cut way back on television and podcasts and did a lot of reading where I was using both the eBook and aBook of the same title. I also spent a significant amount of time reading series (it's a lot easier to continue with a story and a set of characters you love than to start a new work): Peter Grant, the Vorkosigan Saga, Brother Cadfael, The Black Company and more.

2022? More of the same, I expect. Fingers crossed.

2022: The Year in Shorts

  Across the eons comes a tale of a time in a galaxy far, far away, when John DeNardo of SF Signal started tracking his short stories read as a way of trying to make a goal of reading one short work for each day of the year. I've managed, more often than not, to match that goal myself. While the tradition has faded at SF Signal, it continues here. The legend continues!

Number of Stories Read: 525 (out of 365) as of December 31, 2022.

Poul Anderson; The Technic Civilization 04—Young Flandry. Made up of: Enter a Hero, Somewhat Flawed (Hank Davis); Ensign Flandry; A Circus of Hells; The Rebel Worlds; Chronology of Technic Civilization (Sandra Miesel) (4 stories, completed).

Stephen Baxter (from his website): Meeting Medusa; Avatar—The Seven Wonders of the Solar System; The Xeelee Sequence Timeline; H.G. Wells—No End to War; Sir Arthur C. Clarke—1917–2008—A Tribute; The Flooding of London; If Britain Had Fallen; Living at the North Pole of Mars; How William the Conqueror Might Have Lost at Hastings; The Origin of the Destiny's Children Series; The Unconquered Sun; The Origin of the Xeelee Universe; Where Do I Get My Ideas From? — The Roots of Manifold; Other Romes (14 essays; continuing to read). 

Gregory Benford: The Galactic Center Companion. Made up of: Introduction; A Hunger for the Infinite; Afterword—A Hunger for the Infinite; Galactic Center Astronomy—2013; Life at Galactic Center; Writing the Galactic Center Series; Astrophysical Journal—1988—An Electrodynamic Model of the Galactic Center; Perspectives (8 entries; collection completed). 

Gregory Benford and David G. Hartwell (editor): The Best of Gregory Benford. Made up of: Nobody Lives on Burton Street; Doing Lennon; White Creatures; In Alien Flesh; Redeemer; Dark Sanctuary; Time Shards; Exposures; Relativistic Effects; Of Space/Time and the River (variant of Of Space-Time and the River); Time's Rub; Freezeframe; Proselytes; Matter's End; Mozart on Morphine; Centigrade 233; World Vast, World Various; In the Dark Backward (variant of The Dark Backward); A Desperate Calculus; Zoomers; Slow Symphonies of Mass and Time; A Dance to Strange Musics; Anomalies; Comes the Evolution; Twenty-Two Centimeters; A Life with a Semisent; Applied Mathematical Theology; Bow Shock; Reasons Not to Publish; The Champagne Award; Penumbra; Gravity's Whispers; Mercies; Grace Immaculate; Eagle; The Sigma Structure Symphony; Backscatter; Afterword (38 stories read; collection completed).

John W. Campbell, Jr.: The Planeteers. Made up of: The Brain Stealers of Mars; The Double Minds; The Immortality Seekers; The Tenth World; The Brain Pirates (5 stories, collection completed). 

James S. A. Corey: The Expanse 00—Memory's Legion. Made up of: Drive; The Butcher of Anderson Station; Gods of Risk; The Churn; The Vital Abyss; Strange Dogs; Auberon; The Sins of Our Fathers (8 stories, collection completed).

Gordon R. Dickson: Lost Dorsai. Made up of: Lost Dorsai; Warrior (2 stories, collection completed). 

Gordon R. Dickson: The Spirit of Dorsai. Made up of: Prologue; Amanda Morgan; Interlude; Brothers; Epilogue (5 stories, collection completed).

Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan (editors): The New Space Opera 01. Made up of: (read in 2021) Introduction (Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan); Saving Tiamat (Gwyneth Jones); Verthandi's Ring (Ian McDonald); Hatch (Robert Reed); (read in 2022) Winning Peace (Paul J. McAuley); Glory (Greg Egan); Maelstrom (Kage Baker); Blessed by an Angel (Peter F. Hamilton); Who's Afraid of Wolf 359? (Ken MacLeod); The Valley of the Gardens (Tony Daniel); Dividing the Sustain (Patrick Kelly); Minla's Flowers (Alastair Reynolds); Splinters of Glass (Mary Rosenblum); Remembrance (Stephen Baxter); The Emperor and the Maula (Robert Silverberg); The Worm Turns (Gregory Benford); Send Them Flowers (Walter Jon Williams); Art of War (Nancy Kress); Muse of Fire (Dan Simmons) (4 stories read in 2021; 0 stories read in 2022, continuing to read).

George Alec Effinger: Budayeen Nights. Made up of: Foreword (Barbara Hambly); King of the Cyber Rifles; Marid and the Blood Trail; Marid Changes His Mind; Marid Throws a Party; Schrodinger's Kitten; Slow, Slow Burn; The City on the Sand; The Plastic Pasha; The World as We Know It (3 stories, continuing to read).

Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson: Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 01. Made up of: Introduction (Stuart Moore); Transmetropolitan Issues 001-018; I Hate It Here; Vertigo's Winter Edge 02; Transverse Sections (22 stories; collection completed). Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 02. Made up of: Introduction (Darick Robertson); Transmetropolitan Issues 019-036; Next Winters; Filth of the City; Transverse Sections (22 stories; collection completed). Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 03. Made up of: Introduction (Warren Ellis); Transmetropolitan Issues 037-060; Transverse Sections (26 stories, collection completed). 

Harlan Ellison: A Boy and His Dog. Made up of: A Boy and His Dog; Ahbhu (2 stories, chapbook collection completed).

Harlan Ellison: Vic and Blood. Made up of: Latest Breaking News—The Kid and the Pooch; Eggsucker; A Boy and His Dog; Run, Spot, Run (3 stories, chapbook collection completed).

Harlan Ellison: "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman. Made up of: Stealing Tomorrow; "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman (2 stories chapbook collection completed).

William Gibson: Distrust That Particular Flavor. Made up of: Introduction—African Thumb Piano; Rocket Radio; Since 1948; Any 'Mount of World; The Baddest Dude on Earth; Talk for Book Expo, New York; Dead Man Sings; Up the Line; Disneyland with the Death Penalty; Mr. Buk's Window; Shiny Balls of Mud—Hikaru Dorodango and Tokyu Hands; An Invitation (Foreword to Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges); Metrophagy—The Art and Science of Digesting Great Cities; Modern Boys and Mobile Girls; My Obesssion; My Own Private Tokyo; The Road to Oceania; Skip Spence's Jeans; Terminal City (Introduction to Phantom Shanghai by Greg Girard); Introduction—"The Body" (Foreword to Stelarc: The Monograph by Marquard Smith); The Net is a Waste of Time; Time Machine Cuba; Will We Have Computer Chips in Our Heads?; William Gibson's Filmless Festival; Johnny—Notes on a Process; Goggling the Cyborg (26 essays; collection completed).

Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo (editors): Tolkien and the Critics—Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Made up of: Foreword (Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo); On the Possibilities of Writing Tolkien Criticism (Neil D. Isaacs); The Dethronement of Power (C.S. Lewis); The Lord of the Hobbits (Edmund Fuller); The Quest Hero (W.H. Auden); The Appeal of The Lord of the Rings—A Struggle for Life (Hugh T. Keenan); Power and Meaning in The Lord of the Rings (Patricia Mayer Spacks); Moral Vision in The Lord of the Rings (Rose A. Zimbardo); Men, Halflings, and Hero-Worship (Marion Zimmer Bradley); Tolkien and the Fairy Story (Robert J. Reilly); Tolkien—The Monsters and the Critters (Thomas J. Gasque); Old English in Rohan (John Tinkler); The Poetry of Fantasy—Verse in The Lord of the Rings (Mary Quella Kelly); The Shire, Mordor, and Minas Tirith (Charles Moorman); The Lord of the Rings As Literature (Burton Raffel); Tolkien and Frodo Baggins (Roger Sale) (6 entries; continuing to read). 

M.R. James: Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories. Made up of: (read in 2021) Introduction (S.T. Joshi); Suggestions for Further Reading; A Note on the Text; Canon Alberic's Scrap-book; Lost Hearts; The Mezzotint (x2); The Ash-Tree; Number 13; (read in 2022) Count Magnus; "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"; The Treasure of Abbot Thomas; A School Story; The Rose Garden; The Tractate Middoth; Casting the Runes; The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral; Martin's Close; Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance; Appendix: Ghost Stories; A Night in King's College Chapel; Preface to Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary; Preface to More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary; Explanatory Notes (7 stories read in 2021; 2 stories read in 2022, continuing to read).

H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (An Audiobook). Made up of: Foreword (The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society); The Alchemist; At the Mountains of Madness; Azathoth; The Beast in the Cave; Beyond the Wall of Sleep; The Book; The Call of Cthulhu; The Case of Charles Dexter Ward; The Cats of Ulthar; Celephais; The Colour Out of Space; Cool Air; Dagon; The Descendant; The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Discarded Draft); The Doom That Came to Sarnath; The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath; The Dreams in the Witch House; The Dunwich Horror; The Evil Clergyman; Ex Oblivione; Facts Concerning; The Festival; From Beyond; The Haunter of the Dark; He; Herbert West—Reanimator; History of the Necronomicon; The Horror at Red Hook; The Hound; Hypnos; Ibid; In the Vault; The Little Glass Bottle; The Lurking Fear; Memory; The Moon-Bog; The Music of Eric Zann; The Mysterious Ship (Long Version); The Mysterious Ship (Short Version); The Mystery of the Grave-Yard; The Nameless City; Nyarlathotep; Old Bugs; The Other Gods; The Outsider; Pickman's Model; The Picture in the House; Polaris; The Quest of Iranon; The Rats in the Walls; A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson; The Secret Cave; The Shadow Out of Time; The Shadow Over Innsmouth; The Shunned House; The Silver Key; The Statement of Randolph Carter; The Strange High House in the Mist; The Street; Sweet Ermengarde; The Temple; The Terrible Old Man; The Thing on the Doorstep; Through the Gates of the Silver Key; The Tomb; The Transition of Juan Romero; The Tree; Under the Pyramids; The Unnameable; The Very Old Folk; What the Moon Brings; The Whisperer in Darkness; The White Ship; Bonus Interview (The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society); Outtakes (The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society); Supernatural Horror in Literature (44 stories; continuing to read).

George R. R. Martin (editor): Wild Cards Volume 1. Made up of: Prologue (George R. R. Martin); Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! (Howard Waldrop); The Sleeper (Roger Zelazny); Witness (Walter Jon Williams); Degradation Rites (Melinda Snodgrass); Interlude One (George R. R. Martin); Captain Cathode and the Secret Ace (Michael Cassutt); Powers (David D. Levine); Shell Games (George R. R. Martin); Interlude Two (George R. R. Martin); The Long, Dark Night of Fortunato (Lewis Shiner); Transfigurations (Victor Milan); Interlude Three (George R. R. Martin); Down Deep (Edward Bryant and Leanne C. Harper); Interlude Four (George R. R. Martin); Strings (Stephen Leigh as S. L. Farrell); Interlude Five (George R. R. Martin); Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan (Carrie Vaughn); Comes a Hunter (John J. Miller); Epilogue—Third Generation (Lewis Shiner); Appendix—The Science of the Wild Card Virus (Lewis Shiner); Excerpts from the Minutes of the American Metabiological Society Conference on Metahuman Abilities (not listed) (22 stories, collection completed).

Paul McAuley: Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was (1 story, completed).

Joe McCabe (editor): Hanging Out with the Dream King—Conversations with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators. Made up of: Foreword; Introduction; Neil Gaiman, Part One; Dave McKean; Kim Newman; Stephen Jones; Karen Berger; Sam Kieth; Mike Dringenberg; Kelley Jones; Charles Vess; Colleen Doran; Shawn McManus; Jill Thompson; P. Craig Russell; Bryan Talbot; Marc Hempel; Michael Zullli; Daniel Vozzo; Todd Klein; Tori Amos; Alice Cooper; Mark Buckingham; Chris Bachalo; Yoshitaka Amano; Andy Kubert; The Flash Girls; Folk Underground; Terry Pratchett; Gene Wolfe; Neil Gaiman, Part Two (31 entries; collection completed). 

C.L. Moore: The Best of C.L. Moore. Made up of: Shambleau; Black Thirst; The Bright Illusion; Black God's Kiss; Tryst in Time; Greater Than Gods; Fruit of Knowledge; No Woman Born; Daemon; Vintage Season; Afterword—Footnote to "Shambleau"...and Others (9 stories, continuing to read).

Frederik Pohl: The Gold at Starbow's End (1 story, completed).

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 8th Baron Dunsany, generally known as Lord Dunsany (edited by Lin Carter): At the Edge of the World. Made up of: About "At the Edge of the World" and Lord Dunsany: The Dreams of Mana-Yood-Sushai (Lin Carter); The Cave of Kai; Of the Gods of Averon (variant of The Sorrow of Search); Mlideen; The King That Was Not; The Men of Yarnith; In the Land of Time; Time and the Gods; The Opulence of Yahn (variant of Usury); The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth; Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean; The Idle City; Bethmoora; Idle Days on the Yann; The Hashish Man; Carcassonne; In Zaccarath; The Dream of King Karna-Vootra; How the Enemy Came to Thlūnrāna?; The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom That Befell Him; A Shop in Go-By Street; The Avenger of Perdóndaris; How the Dwarfs Rose Up in War (variant of A Pretty Quarrel); The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men; The Loot of Bombasharna; The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater; The Bride of the Man-Horse; The Quest of the Queen's Tears; How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never; A Day at the Edge of the World (variant of The Long Porter's Tale); Erlathdronion (variant of A Tale of the Equator); Epilogue to "The Book of Wonder"; Afterword (Lin Carter) (14 stories, continuing to read).

Alastair Reynolds: Galactic North. Made up of: Great Wall of Mars; Glacial; A Spy in Europa; Weather; Dilation Sleep; Grafenwelder's Bestiary; Nightingale; Galactic North; Afterword. (8 stories, completed). Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days. Made up of Diamond Dogs; Turquoise Days (2 stories, completed). 

Fred Saberhagen: Wings Out of Shadow (1 story, completed). 

Clark Ashton Smith: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 01—The End of the Story. Made up of: Introduction (Ramsey Campbell); A Note on the Texts (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); To the Daemon; The Abominations of Yondo; Sadastor; The Ninth Skeleton; The Last Incantation; The End of the Story; The Phantoms of the Fire; A Night in Malnéant; The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake; Thirteen Phantasms; The Venus of Azombeii; The Tale of Satampra Zeiros; The Monster of the Prophecy; The Metamorphosis of the World; The Epiphany of Death; A Murder in the Fourth Dimension; The Devotee of Evil; The Satyr; The Planet of the Dead; The Uncharted Isle; Marooned in Andromeda; The Root of Ampoi; The Necromantic Tale; The Immeasurable Horror; A Voyage to Sfanomoë; Story Notes (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); The Satyr: Alternate Conclusion; From the Crypts of Memory; Bibliography (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger) (30 stories; collection completed).

Clark Ashton Smith: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 02—The Door to Saturn. Made up of: Introduction (Tim Powers); A Note on the Texts (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); The Door to Saturn; The Red World of Polaris; Told in the Desert; The Willow Landscape; A Rendezvous in Averoigne; The Gorgon; An Offering to the Moon; The Kiss of Zoraida; The Face by the River; The Ghoul; The Kingdom of the Worm; An Adventure in Futurity; The Justice of the Elephant; The Return of the Sorcerer; The City of the Singing Flame; A Good Embalmer; The Testament of Athammaus; A Captivity in Serpens; The Letter from Mohaun Los; The Hunters from Beyond; Story Notes (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); Alternate Ending to "The Return of the Sorcerer"; Bibliography (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); About the Editors (Uncredited) (24 stories; collection completed).

Uncredited: Star Wars—From a Certain Point of View. Made up of: Raymus (Gary Whitta); The Bucket (Christie Golden); The Sith of Datawork (Ken Liu); Stories in the Sand (Griffin McElroy); Reirin (Sabaa Tahir); The Red One (Rae Carson); Rites (John Jackson Miller); Master and Apprentice (Claudia Gray); Beru Whitesun Lars (Meg Cabot); The Luckless Rodian (Renée Ahdieh); Not for Nothing (Mur Lafferty); We Don't Serve Their Kind Here (Chuck Wendig); The Kloo Horn Cantina Caper (Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction); Added Muscle (Paul Dini); You Owe Me a Ride (Zoraida Córdova); The Secrets of Long Snoot (Delilah S. Dawson); Born in the Storm (Daniel José Older); Laina (Wil Wheaton); Fully Operational (Beth Revis); An Incident Report (Mallory Ortberg); Change of Heart (Elizabeth E. Wein); Eclipse (Madeleine Roux); Verge of Greatness (Pablo Hidalgo); Far Too Remote (Jeffrey Brown); The Trigger (Kieron Gillen); Of MSE-6 and Men (Glen Weldon); Bump (Ben Acker and Ben Blacker); End of Watch (Adam Christopher); The Baptist (Nnedi Okorafor); Time of Death (Cavan Scott); There Is Another (Gary D. Schmidt); Palpatine (Ian Doescher); Sparks (Paul S. Kemp); Duty Roster (Jason Fry); Desert Son (Pierce Brown); Grounded (Greg Rucka); Contingency Plan (Alexander Freed); The Angle (Charles Soule); By Whatever Sun (Ashley Eckstein and E. K. Johnston); Whills (Tom Angleberger) (29 stories; continuing to read).

Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost (1 story, completed).

Gene Wolfe: The Best of Gene Wolfe—A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction. Made up of: The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories; Afterword (The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories); The Toy Theater; Afterword (The Toy Theater); The Fifth Head of Cerberus; Afterword (The Fifth Head of Cerberus); Beech Hill; Afterword (Beech Hill); The Recording; Afterword (The Recording); Hour of Trust; Afterword (Hour of Trust); The Death of Dr. Island; Afterword (The Death of Dr. Island); La Befana; Afterword (La Befana); Forlesen; Afterword (Forlesen); Westwind; Afterword (Westwind); The Hero As Werwolf; Afterword (The Hero as Werwolf); The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton; Afterword (The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton); Straw; Afterword (Straw); The Eyeflash Miracles; Afterword (The Eyeflash Miracles); Seven American Nights; Afterword (Seven American Nights); The Detective of Dreams; Afterword (The Detective of Dreams); Kevin Malone; Afterword (Kevin Malone); The God and His Man; Afterword (The God and His Man); On the Train; Afterword (On the Train); From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton; Afterword (From the Desk of Gilmer C. Merton); Death of the Island Doctor; Afterword (Death of the Island Doctor); Redbeard • (1984); Afterword (Redbeard); The Boy Who Hooked the Sun; Afterword (The Boy Who Hooked the Sun); Parkroads—A Review; Afterword (Parkroads—A Review); Game in the Pope's Head; Afterword (Game in the Pope's Head); And When They Appear; Afterword (And When They Appear); Bed and Breakfast; Afterword (Bed and Breakfast); Petting Zoo; Afterword (Petting Zoo); The Tree Is My Hat; Afterword (The Tree Is My Hat); Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?; Afterword (Has Anybody Seen Junie Moon?); A Cabin on the Coast; Afterword (A Cabin on the Coast). (6 stories; continuing to read).

Bill Wood (editor): On Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren. Made up of: Contemporary Reviews, 1975-76: Only One Hundred Years Till Death of Harlow! (Steven Paley); S.F. (Gerald Jonas); Breakdown of a Breakthrough Novel (Harlan Ellison); Galaxy Bookshelf (Theodore Sturgeon); The Autumnal City (Douglas Barbour); Dully Grinning Delany Descends to Disaster (Darrell Schweitzer); Reviews of the 1996 Wesleyan University Press Reprint: Now Read This (John Nizalowski); Dhalgren (Rudi Dornemann); Delany on Dhalgren: Of Sex, Objects, Signs, Systems, Sales, SF, And Other Things (Samuel R. Delany); Some Remarks Toward a Reading of Dhalgren (K. Leslie Steiner); From "The Semiology of Silence", an Interview with Samuel R. Delany Included in Silent Interviews (Samuel R. Delany); Looking Back at the Autumnal City (Samuel R. Delany); Sources: The Instruction Manual (John Ashbery); Critical Reaction: Amnesia (Steven Shaviro); An "Introduction" (Jean Marc Gawron); Rites of Reversal—Double Consciousness in Delany's Dhalgren (Mary Kay Bray); This You-Shaped Hole of Insight and Fire (Robert Elliot Fox); Subverted Equations—G. Spencer Brown's Laws of Form and Samuel R. Delany's Analytics of Attention (Kenneth R. James); The Making of Hogg: The Making of Hogg, An Interview from Fiction International; Errata (8 essays; continuing to read).

Roger Zelazny: Seven Tales in Amber. Made up of: Introduction (Warren Lapine); Prologue to Trumps of Doom; A Secret of Amber (with Ed Greenwood); Salesman's Tale; Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains; The Shroudling and the Guisel; Coming to a Cord; Hall of Mirrors (8 stories, collection completed). 

Roger Zelazny: Threshold—The Complete Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 1. Made up of: Notes (Christopher S. Kovacs); A Word from the Editors (Ann Crimmins and David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs); Out of Nowhere (Robert Silverberg); Before Amber (Carl B. Yoke); A Rose for Ecclesiastes; A Word from Zelazny: A Rose for Ecclesiastes (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Braxa; Ecclesiastes' Epilogue; Bok; A Word from Zelazny: Bok (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); And The Darkness Is Harsh; A Word from Zelazny: And The Darkness Is Harsh (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Mr. Fuller's Revolt; A Word from Zelazny: Mr. Fuller's Revolt (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Diet; A Word from Zelazny: Diet (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Youth Eternal; Slush, Slush, Slush; The Outward Sign; The Agnostic's Prayer; Passion Play; A Word from Zelazny: Passion Play (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); On May 13, 1937; Cactus King; The Graveyard Heart; A Word from Zelazny: The Graveyard Heart (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Flight; Future, Be Not Impatient; In the Dogged House; Our Wintered Way Through Evening, and Burning Bushes Along It; Horseman!; A Word from Zelazny: Horseman! (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Teachers Rode a Wheel of Fire; A Word from Zelazny: The Teachers Rode a Wheel of Fire (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Sense and Sensibility; Moonless in Byzantium; A Word from Zelazny: Moonless in Byzantium (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); On the Road to Splenoba; A Word from Zelazny: On the Road to Splenoba (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Final Dining; The Borgia Hand; Nine Starships Waiting; A Word from Zelazny: Nine Starships Waiting (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Circe Has Her Problems; A Word from Zelazny: Circe Has Her Problems (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Cat Licks Her Coat; A Word from Zelazny: The Cat Licks Her Coat (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Malatesta Collection; A Word from Zelazny: The Malatesta Collection (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); From a Seat in the Chill Park; Rodin's 'The Kiss'; To His Morbid Mistress; The Stainless Steel Leech; A Word from Zelazny: The Stainless Steel Leech (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Old Ohio Folkrag; The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth; A Word from Zelazny: The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); A Thing of Terrible Beauty; A Word from Zelazny: A Thing of Terrible Beauty (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); How A Poem Means; Monologue for Two; Concert; Iceage; Threshold of the Prophet; Hart Crane...; Southern Cross; A Word from Zelazny: Southern Cross (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right; A Word from Zelazny: I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); A Museum Piece; A Word from Zelazny: A Museum Piece (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Hybris, Or The Danger of Hilltops; Mine is the Kingdom; St. Secaire's; In Pheleney's Garage; King Solomon's Ring; The Black Boy's Reply to William Butler Yeats; The Misfit; Rite of Spring; The Great Slow Kings; A Word from Zelazny: The Great Slow Kings (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Collector's Fever; A Word from Zelazny: Collector's Fever (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Night Has 999 Eyes; A Word from Zelazny: The Night Has 999 Eyes: Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Decade Plus One of Roses; A Word from Zelazny: Decade Plus One of Roses (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); He Who Shapes; A Word from Zelazny: He Who Shapes (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); See You Later, Maybe; Sundry Notes on Dybology and Suchlike; A Word from Zelazny: Sundry Notes on Dybology and Suchlike (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); "... And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 1 (Christopher S. Kovacs); Conditional Benefit; A Word from Zelazny: Conditional Benefit (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); Hand of the Master; A Word from Zelazny: Hand of the Master (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); The Great Selchie of San Francisco Bay; Studies in Saviory; Acknowledgments (Ann Crimmins and David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs) (26 entries, continuing to read).

Periodicals:

None yet.

Graphic Novels:

Divers Hands: Darth Vader (2015-2016): 001–025, Annual 01 (26 issues, series completed).

Divers Hands: Star Wars (2015-2019): 004-021, Annual 01, Special: C-3PO (19 issues, continuing to read).

Divers Hands: Star Wars Omnibus 001 (Original Marvel Run): 020-028 (9 issues, collection completed). Star Wars Omnibus 002 (Original Marvel Run): 029-034 (5 issues, continuing to read).

Divers Hands: Vader Down (1 story, completed).