tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69318533484245390672024-03-18T18:07:22.418-04:00Bernal AlphaThese great hollow globes of artificial super-metals, and artificial transparent adamant, ranged in size from the earliest and smallest structures, which were no bigger than a very small asteroid, to spheres considerably larger than the Earth. (Olaf Stapledon, STAR MAKER)Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.comBlogger3679125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-63552767938252734142024-01-01T10:27:00.031-05:002024-03-18T18:06:51.153-04:002024: The Year in Books<p>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.</p><p>Number of books read (as of March 18, 2023): 030.</p><p>Books read (alphabetical by author, then chronological within an author, editor or authors or editors). </p><p><i>Alfred A. Bell, Jr.: </i><b>The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 07</b><b>—</b><b>The Gods Help Those</b> (eBook) (March). <b>The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 08</b><b>—</b><b>Hiding from the Past</b> (eBook) (March). </p><p><i>Berkeley Breathed: </i><b>The Bloom County Library 01</b><b>—</b><b>1980-1982 </b>(pBook) (February). <b>The Bloom County Library 02</b><b>—</b><b>1982-1984 </b>(pBook) (February). <b>The Bloom County Library 03</b><b>—</b><b>1984-1986 </b>(pBook) (February). </p><p><i>Michael Crichton: </i><b>Eaters of the Dead</b> (pBook) (January).</p><p><i>David Drake:</i> <b>Leary of the RCN 01</b><b>—</b><b>With the Lightnings </b>(eBook) (March). </p><p><i>Antony Johnston: </i><b>The Dog Sitter Detective 01</b><b>—</b><b>The Dog Sitter Detective</b> (eBook) (January). <b>The Dog Sitter Detective 02</b><b>—</b><b>The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead</b> (eBook) (January). </p><p><i>Michael Moorcock and Roy Thomas:</i> <b>The Michael Moorcock Library 001</b><b>—</b><b>Elric of Melnibone</b> (pBook) (January).</p><p><i>Larry Niven:</i> <b>Known Space 001b</b><b>—</b><b>Flatlander</b> (eBook) (January).</p><p><i>Patrick O'Brian:</i> <b>Aubrey-Maturin 001</b><b>—</b><b>Master & Commander</b> (aBook) (January).</p><p><i>Jerry Pournelle: </i><b>Janissaries 001</b><b>—</b><b>Janissaries</b> (eBook) (January).</p><p><i>Terry Pratchett: </i><b>Discworld 31</b><b>—</b><b>Monstrous Regiment</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Discworld 28</b><b>—</b><b>The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents</b> (eBook) (March). </p><p><i>Alastair Reynolds:</i> <b>Cojoiner/Revelation Space 00a</b><b>—</b><b>Galactic North</b> (pBook) (January). <b>Cojoiner/Revelation Space 00b</b><b>—Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days</b> (pBook) (January).</p><p><i>Steven Saylor: </i><b>Roma Sub Rosa 04</b><b>—</b><b>Roman Blood</b> (eBook) (March).</p><p><i>E.E. "Doc" Smith:</i> <b>Lensman 04</b><b>—</b><b>Gray Lensman</b> (eBook) (January). <b>Lensman 04</b><b>—</b><b>Second-Stage </b><b>Lensman</b> (eBook) (January). </p><p><i>David Weber:</i> <b>Honorverse/Star Kingdom 01</b><b>—</b><b>A Beautiful Friendship</b> (eBook) (January). </p><p><i>David Weber and Jane Lindskold:</i> <b>Honorverse/Star Kingdom 02</b><b>—</b><b>Fire Season</b> (eBook) (January). <b>Honorverse/Star Kingdom 03</b><b>—Treecat Wars</b> (eBook) (February). <b>Honorverse/Star Kingdom 04</b><b>—A New Clan</b> (eBook) (February). </p><p><i>David Weber, Timothy Zahn and Thomas Pope:</i> <b>Honorverse/Manticore Ascendant 01</b><b>—</b><b>A Call to Duty</b> (eBook) (January). <b>Honorverse/Manticore Ascendant 02</b><b>—</b><b>A Call to Arms</b> (eBook) (February). <b>Honorverse/Manticore Ascendant 03</b><b>—</b><b>A Call to Vengeance</b> (eBook) (February). <b>Honorverse/Manticore Ascendant 04</b><b>—</b><b>A Call to Insurrection</b> (eBook) (February). </p><p><i>Roger Zelazny:</i> <b>Dilvish, the Damned 01</b><b>—</b><b>Dilvish, The Damned</b> (eBook) (February). <b>Dilvish, the Damned 02</b><b>—The Changing Land</b> (eBook) (February). </p><p>Books read in chronological order (master list): 001: <b>Flatlander</b> (Niven). 002: <b>Eaters of the Dead</b> (Crichton). 003: <b>Elric of Melnibone</b> (Moorcock and Thomas). 004: <b>Janissaries </b>(Pournelle). 005: <b>Master & Commander</b> (O'Brian). 006: <b>A Beautiful Friendship</b> (Weber). 007: <b>A Call to Duty</b> (Weber, Zahn and Pope). 008: <b>Fire Season</b> (Weber and Lindskold). 009: <b>Gray Lensman</b> (Smith). 010: <b>The Dog Sitter Detective</b> (Johnston). 011: <b>The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead</b> (Johnston). 012: <b>Galactic North</b> (Reynolds). 013: <b>Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days</b> (Reynolds). 014: <b>Second-Stage Lensman</b> (Smith). 015: <b>Dilvish, the Damned </b>(Zelazny). 016: <b>The Bloom County Library 01</b><b>—</b><b>1980-1982</b> (Breathed). 017: <b>The Bloom County Library 02</b><b>—</b><b>1982-1984</b> (Breathed). 018: <b>The Changing Land</b> (Zelazny). 019: <b>Treetcat Wars</b> (Weber and Lindskold). 020: <b>A New Clan</b> (Weber and Lindskold). 021: <b>A Call to Arms</b> (Weber, Zahn and Pope). 022: <b>A Call to Vengeance</b> (Weber, Zahn and Pope). 023: <b>The Bloom County Library 02</b><b>—</b><b>1984-1986</b> (Breathed). 024: <b>A Call to Insurrection</b> (Weber, Zahn and Pope). 025: <b>With the Lightnings </b>(Drake). 026: <b>Monstrous Regiment</b> (Pratchett). 027: <b>The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents</b> (Pratchett). 028: <b>The Gods Help Those</b> (Bell). 029: <b>Hiding from the Past</b> (Bell). 030: <b>Roman Blood</b> (Saylor). </p><p>Paper Books: 005. </p><p>Electronic Books: 024.</p><p>Audiobooks: 001.</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-60906758393489157752024-01-01T10:23:00.050-05:002024-03-03T17:25:06.034-05:002024: The Year In Shorts<p>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.</p><p>Number of Stories Read: 87 (out of 365) as of March 3, 2024.</p><p>Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey (editors): <b>Thieves' World Collection Volume One</b>. Made up of: <b>Thieves' World</b>: <i>Introduction</i> (Robert Asprin); <i>Editor's Note</i> (Robert Asprin); <i>Sentences of Death</i> (John Brunner); <i>The Face of Chaos</i> (Lynn Abbey); <i>The Gate of the Fying Knives</i> (Poul Anderson); <i>Shadowspawn</i> (Andrew Offutt); <i>The Price of Doing Business</i> (Robert Asprin); <i>Blood Brothers </i>(Joe Haldeman); <i>Myrtis</i> (Christine DeWees<i>)</i>; <i>The Secret of the Blue Star</i> (Marion Zimmer Bradley); <i>The Making of Thieves' World</i> (Robert Asprin). <b>Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn:</b> <i>Introduction</i> (Robert Asprin); Spiders of the Purple Mage (Philip Jose Farmer); Goddess (David Drake); The Fruit of Enlibar (Lynn Abbey); The Dream of the Sorceress (A.E. van Vogt); Vashanka's Minion (Janet Morris); Shadow's Pawn (Andrew Offutt); To Guard the Guardians (Robert Apsrin); The Lighter Side of Sanctuary (Robert Asprin). Shadows of Sanctuary: Introduction (Robert Asprin); Looking for Satan (Vonda N. McIntyre); Ischade (C.J. Cherryh); A Gift in Parting (Robert Asprin); The Vivisectionist (Andrew Offutt); The Rhinoceros and the Unicorn (Diana J. Paxton); Then Azyuna Danced (Lynn Abbey); A Man and His God (Janet Morris); Things the Editor Never Told Me (Lynn Abbey) (12 stories, continuing to read). </p><p><i>Arthur C. Clarke:</i> <b>The Collected Stories</b>. Made up of: <i>Foreword</i>; <i>Travel by Wire!</i>; <i>How We Went to Mars</i>; <i>Retreat from Earth</i>; <i>Reverie</i>; <i>The Awakening</i>; <i>Whacky</i>; <i>Loophole</i>; <i>Rescue Party</i>; <i>Technical Error</i>; <i>The Fires Within</i>; <i>Inheritance</i>; <i>Nightfall</i>; <i>History Lesson</i>; <i>Transience</i>; <i>The Wall of Darkness</i>; <i>The Lion of Comarre</i>; <i>The Forgotten Enemy</i>; <i>Hide-and-Seek</i>; <i>Breaking Strain</i>; <i>Nemesis</i>; <i>Guardian Angel</i>; <i>Time’s Arrow</i>; <i>A Walk in the Dark</i>; <i>Silence Please</i>; <i>The Road to the Sea</i>; <i>The Sentinel</i>; <i>Holiday on the Moon</i>; <i>Earthlight</i>; <i>Second Dawn</i>; <i>Superiority</i>; <i>“If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth…”</i>; <i>All the Time in the World</i>; <i>The Nine Billion Names of God</i>; <i>The Possessed</i>; <i>The Parasite</i>; Jupiter Five; Encounter in the Dawn; The Other Tiger; Publicity Campaign; The Deep Range; The Morning After; Big Game Hunt; Patent Pending; Refugee; The Star; What Goes Up; Venture to the Moon; The Pacifist; The Reluctant Orchid; Moving Spirit; The Ultimate Meloday; The Next Tenants; Cold War; Sleeping Beauty; Security Check; The Man Who Ploughed the Sea; Critical Mass; The Other Side of the Sky; Let There Be Light; Out of the Sun; Cosmic Casanova; A Slight Case of Sunstroke; Who’s There?; Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting; I Remember Babylon; Trouble with Time; Into the Comet; Summertime on Icarus; Saturn Rising; Death and the Senator; Before Eden; Hate; Love That Universe; Dog Star; Maelstrom II; An Ape About the House; The Shining Ones; The Secret; Dial F for Frankenstein; The Wind from the Sun; The Food of the Gods; The Last Command; The Light of Darkness; Playback; The Cruel Sky; Herbert George Morley Robert Wells, Esq.; Crusade; Neutron Tide; Reunion; Transit of Earth; A Meeting with Medusa; Quarantine; ‘siseneG’, The Steam-Powered Word Processor; On Golden Seas; The Hammer of God; The Wire Continuum (with Stephen Baxter) (36 stories, continuing to read).</p><p><i>Alastair Reynolds:</i> <b>Revelation Space 01</b><b>—</b><b>Galactic North</b>. Made up of: <i>The Great Wall of Mars</i>; <i>Glacial</i>; <i>A Spy in Europa</i>: <i>Weather</i>; <i>Dilation Sleep</i>; <i>Grafenwelder's Bestiary</i>; <i>Nightingale</i>; <i>Galactic North</i>; <i>Afterword</i> (9 stories; collection completed). </p><p><i>Alastair Reynolds:</i> <b>Revelation Space 02</b><b>—</b><b>Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days</b>. Made up of: <i>Diamond Dogs</i>; <i>Turquoise Days</i> (2 stories, collection completed). </p><p><i>David Weber & Others: </i><b>House of Steel</b><b>—</b><b>The Honorverse Companion</b>. Made up of: <i>I Will Build a House of Steel</i> (David Weber); The Honorverse Companion (Thomas Pope and David Weber); Building a Navy in the Honorverse (Christopher Weuve and David Weber); Frequently Asked Questions (David Weber) (1 story, continuing to read). </p><p><i>David Weber (editor):</i> <b>Worlds of Honor 01</b><b>—</b><b>More Than Hono</b>r. Made up of: <i>A Beautiful Friendship</i> (David Weber); A Grand Tour (David Drake); A Whiff of Grapeshot (S. M. Stirling); The Universe of Honor Harrington (David Weber) (1 story, continuing to read).</p><p><i>David Weber (editor): </i><b>Worlds of Honor 02</b><b>—</b><b>Worlds of Honor</b>. Made up of: <i>The Stray</i> (Linda Evans); <i>What Price Dreams?</i> (David Weber); <i>Queen's Gambit</i> (Jane Lindskold); <i>The Hard Way Home </i>(David Weber); Deck Load Strike (Roland J. Green) (4 stories, continuing to read).</p><p><i>David Weber (editor): </i><b>Worlds of Honor 03</b><b>—</b><b>Changer of Worlds</b>. Made up of: <i>Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington</i> (David Weber); Changer of Worlds (David Weber); From the Highlands (Eric Flint); Nightfall (David Weber) (1 story; continuing to read). </p><p><i>David Weber (editor): </i><b>Worlds of Honor 04</b><b>—</b><b>The Service of the Sword</b>. Made up of: <i>The Promised Land</i> (Jane Lindskold); With One Stone (Timothy Zahn); A Ship Named Francis (Victor Mitchell and John Ringo); Let's Go to Prague (John Ringo); Fanatic (Eric Flint); The Service of the Sword (David Weber) (1 story; continuing to read).</p><p><i>David Weber (editor): </i><b>Worlds of Honor 05</b><b>—</b><b>In Fire Forged</b>. Made up of: <i>Ruthless </i>(Jane Lindskold); An Act of War (Timothy Zahn); <i>"Let's Dance"</i> (David Weber); An Introduction to Modern Starship Armor Design (Andy Presby); Appendix—Armor Design Figures (William H. Edwards; Thomas Marrone and Thomas Pope) (2 stories; continuing to read).</p><p><i>David Weber (editor): </i><b>Worlds of Honor 06</b><b>—</b><b>Beginnings</b>. Made up of: <i>By the Book</i> (Charles E. Gannon); <i>A Call to Arms</i> (Timothy Zahn); <i>Beauty and the Beast</i> (David Weber); <i>The Best Laid Plans</i> (David Weber); Obligated Service (Joelle Presby) (4 stories; continuing to read). </p><p><i>David Weber (editor): </i><b>Worlds of Honor 07</b><b>—</b><b>What Price Victory? </b>Made up of: <i>Traitor</i> (Thomas Pope and Timothy Zahn); <i>Deception on Gryphon </i>(Jane Lindskold); The Silesian Command (Jan Kotouc); If Wishes Were Space Cutters (Joelle Presby); <i>First Victory</i> (David Weber) (3 stories; continuing to read). </p><p><i>Roger Zelazny: </i><b>Dilvish, The Damned 01</b><b>—</b><b>Dilvish, The Damned</b>. Mad up of: <i>Passage to Dilfar</i>; <i>Thelinde's Song</i>; <i>The Bells of Shoredan</i>; <i>A Knight for Merytha</i>; <i>The Places of Aache</i>; <i>A City Divided</i>; <i>The White Beast</i>; <i>Tower of Ice</i>; <i>Devil and the Dancer</i>; <i>Garden of Blood</i>; <i>Dilvish, the Damned</i> (11 stories, collection completed). </p><p><br /></p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-1296788140951365582023-06-25T17:37:00.000-04:002023-06-25T17:37:04.251-04:00Eco's Favorites<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vHE136elVnrsHEfQj_AK7bhIHAjwvXmqa3u1v7-wvcu4JtV3Zc6XP1Kc9-MQbJEzZdxLuzBQG5W6fLSO3QnmnZzat9gODwRc7MstHbizZq3Kf5qrezDNf02OkLn2vrUbNQ9uy4l7UA_u_fC6L7DzZPDuQKL-amkgaZF9KHaNcmOwHMBWxKoioNQ7DRI/s1200/Pendulum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="839" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vHE136elVnrsHEfQj_AK7bhIHAjwvXmqa3u1v7-wvcu4JtV3Zc6XP1Kc9-MQbJEzZdxLuzBQG5W6fLSO3QnmnZzat9gODwRc7MstHbizZq3Kf5qrezDNf02OkLn2vrUbNQ9uy4l7UA_u_fC6L7DzZPDuQKL-amkgaZF9KHaNcmOwHMBWxKoioNQ7DRI/s320/Pendulum.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>From <a href="https://lithub.com/support/">Literary Hub</a>, <a href="https://lithub.com/umberto-ecos-favorite-books-give-new-meaning-to-the-phrase-deep-cut/">Umberto Eco's favorite books</a>. "Deep Cut"? Seriously? Dumas? Joyce? Jesus wept. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHD9E4IHblL067telknksBEyQ3TYKaGehlB6n1IDAJD36YnXUeXpHqIzxu5GeuIAu3K-90vzx54ciMWZVTsKtSjtYRteaZsGJwkoOn3nwUmEBkiPNnK7vFTxlVAndi1ul0kmlE3DW9NTPPfSovgknX11wzO9GAefRHSqXB60Hy8K6Xq1ncYwwSyZ_vxns/s850/Eco%20Quote.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHD9E4IHblL067telknksBEyQ3TYKaGehlB6n1IDAJD36YnXUeXpHqIzxu5GeuIAu3K-90vzx54ciMWZVTsKtSjtYRteaZsGJwkoOn3nwUmEBkiPNnK7vFTxlVAndi1ul0kmlE3DW9NTPPfSovgknX11wzO9GAefRHSqXB60Hy8K6Xq1ncYwwSyZ_vxns/s320/Eco%20Quote.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-82440316308674746072023-01-09T08:15:00.015-05:002023-01-16T08:29:05.611-05:00Green Visitor<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoQy-DBhkIY5qoavwltutrjjx2Sait0eaPyUpGIcujTtBuVAqZHn9qhcBP0ZCBERbYJ8p4EOkz-EankmInLc659z_SYiBcPOpBtUSRDqWp1iYtHcFsdYrby7XwRuNydVGCqBGlsCnigOGZ0V5p0vale6bG6aJWXdsM8c7mp7lI2ZxBunhr5rARdHFW/s2048/CometZtf_Hernandez_1395.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1395" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoQy-DBhkIY5qoavwltutrjjx2Sait0eaPyUpGIcujTtBuVAqZHn9qhcBP0ZCBERbYJ8p4EOkz-EankmInLc659z_SYiBcPOpBtUSRDqWp1iYtHcFsdYrby7XwRuNydVGCqBGlsCnigOGZ0V5p0vale6bG6aJWXdsM8c7mp7lI2ZxBunhr5rARdHFW/s320/CometZtf_Hernandez_1395.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Today's <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230109.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day</a> shows Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), now appearing in our skies. Between the blue tails and the green head, I'm reminded of someting...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt62t9oFseX3zvaioAqR2xp5jVMKqli-EQaTsqFJ2hW0eV2swWu9ybMizjetjorqKHHNhbdYgeixE_Sc8hsvSHIabJeaHUGuQ9mi0HFTvxUvGx8siam7Nbb2NF8LKgDZItgpnE22IIYnLd1-NC3267uo0ff8FCLGgjaO3WywFN9PfLvp0SNobCDA7e/s400/Virgil%20Finlay%20-%20The%20Cometeers%20(Jack%20Williamson).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt62t9oFseX3zvaioAqR2xp5jVMKqli-EQaTsqFJ2hW0eV2swWu9ybMizjetjorqKHHNhbdYgeixE_Sc8hsvSHIabJeaHUGuQ9mi0HFTvxUvGx8siam7Nbb2NF8LKgDZItgpnE22IIYnLd1-NC3267uo0ff8FCLGgjaO3WywFN9PfLvp0SNobCDA7e/s320/Virgil%20Finlay%20-%20The%20Cometeers%20(Jack%20Williamson).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-67217804635326369052023-01-08T15:02:00.009-05:002023-01-15T15:06:08.379-05:00It's Elementary, My Dear Watson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqBlR04jF7OtTUoRU668nxhQcDYlCogzI2uRXlRz0SQh6BBPibNK2hmDL9qFEsoEngUBF0032eESGFLFenZbGAD5z0pbhcYuhKzkwEPevx0n9qrTZA_i4WkCUcJlXMK-QPcrUkKl9lmHqybdW3cgnkhgUTn9qw-ob0lBcW3yeBvMWXMZbMowIUgaG7/s2000/Nucleosynthesis2_WikipediaCmglee_2000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="2000" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqBlR04jF7OtTUoRU668nxhQcDYlCogzI2uRXlRz0SQh6BBPibNK2hmDL9qFEsoEngUBF0032eESGFLFenZbGAD5z0pbhcYuhKzkwEPevx0n9qrTZA_i4WkCUcJlXMK-QPcrUkKl9lmHqybdW3cgnkhgUTn9qw-ob0lBcW3yeBvMWXMZbMowIUgaG7/s320/Nucleosynthesis2_WikipediaCmglee_2000.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Today's <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230108.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day</a> shows the familiar periodic table of the elements, coded as to origin of said elements. We are, as the astronomer said, all star stuff. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpfhDboa-NkRFm1GuPmwTrRVuWMpBImskHOcL-WXVcBwOWC7fLcdOHd5kGHPTou1VtiB_yliPbkVAKPJsRg1pGVsAb1tCQer9ft6RsL0fs_mKFITz917UufzEuuQ9Nf2RLwEkqFHbMI8nETwgIxMgIaCV4ho7Vpf22xmys10rceeDx6nawEekDGviQ/s500/Sagan.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="500" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpfhDboa-NkRFm1GuPmwTrRVuWMpBImskHOcL-WXVcBwOWC7fLcdOHd5kGHPTou1VtiB_yliPbkVAKPJsRg1pGVsAb1tCQer9ft6RsL0fs_mKFITz917UufzEuuQ9Nf2RLwEkqFHbMI8nETwgIxMgIaCV4ho7Vpf22xmys10rceeDx6nawEekDGviQ/s320/Sagan.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-72205606448456580952023-01-07T10:43:00.013-05:002023-01-15T10:48:32.867-05:00Cosmic Voyagers<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3WxM8eaIF6lSFjJp-_HX4I6aEl97cau5JH1KqLbV4F2S_STzaHksPfKheaw4zlv2XUerI8XH9NDhYaddpC_IYNlUyEdv2DtXAomIZXQKHWUm5ZZNqkXUIhkpow09HiNapu4zruyzPi4hn8pPciNfOvHtYPGzlOA8nxWmBQFncH38aRxXU0lFfeFIq/s4500/ISS_TIANHE_FINAL_4_APOD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4500" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3WxM8eaIF6lSFjJp-_HX4I6aEl97cau5JH1KqLbV4F2S_STzaHksPfKheaw4zlv2XUerI8XH9NDhYaddpC_IYNlUyEdv2DtXAomIZXQKHWUm5ZZNqkXUIhkpow09HiNapu4zruyzPi4hn8pPciNfOvHtYPGzlOA8nxWmBQFncH38aRxXU0lFfeFIq/s320/ISS_TIANHE_FINAL_4_APOD.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Today's <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230107.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day</a> 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). </p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-51586667062239310012023-01-06T10:38:00.008-05:002023-01-15T10:40:19.758-05:00Lunar Cycles<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEs1-DizJpv0mjDSK-2sHP83ynG2F6wmCqBr_vOB4Rs6ZjLm2VR7VnJj7x1--N2UsTF87sD2WhCrqx5vfLp1Eu4wgYMkz0HWfZsegsK_OI1EODxN2DSoI-ZMwB70a5XG1QkQdyhlb9gJhIkIfLu-0g-ZePt7NiRjniGhoyYdZiEw1A3jTmBv_kJYSf/s8000/MoonOClock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7067" data-original-width="8000" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEs1-DizJpv0mjDSK-2sHP83ynG2F6wmCqBr_vOB4Rs6ZjLm2VR7VnJj7x1--N2UsTF87sD2WhCrqx5vfLp1Eu4wgYMkz0HWfZsegsK_OI1EODxN2DSoI-ZMwB70a5XG1QkQdyhlb9gJhIkIfLu-0g-ZePt7NiRjniGhoyYdZiEw1A3jTmBv_kJYSf/s320/MoonOClock.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Today's <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230106.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day</a> 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). </p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-8054385582853052802023-01-05T10:33:00.015-05:002023-01-15T10:36:54.332-05:00Sisters<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVW2YVkoybA2fhMvc3l58B5B5eWU_3jTWmZzBsLF43ldFPiob6JZwljMC7Hwwlfd-Dl6oosbmJhDL6LJMrM8Du-pcv2n5zssvTKbixLP1ak03Xn2Kdq-qzW9G_Gx_dzyNmqDAvZEgNW7qA5i2WwsScRR41gPRM68OajORBibmTwQxMiZxSmpn-EQbi/s4096/M_45_Plejarden_Stefan_Thrun_klein4096.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2746" data-original-width="4096" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVW2YVkoybA2fhMvc3l58B5B5eWU_3jTWmZzBsLF43ldFPiob6JZwljMC7Hwwlfd-Dl6oosbmJhDL6LJMrM8Du-pcv2n5zssvTKbixLP1ak03Xn2Kdq-qzW9G_Gx_dzyNmqDAvZEgNW7qA5i2WwsScRR41gPRM68OajORBibmTwQxMiZxSmpn-EQbi/s320/M_45_Plejarden_Stefan_Thrun_klein4096.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Today's <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230105.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day</a> 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. </p><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade,<br />Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.</i></div>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-9934497981231042202023-01-04T10:28:00.012-05:002023-01-15T10:31:34.477-05:00The Menace of the Galaxies<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtb5BuOaN1b7jutUw8rC7F7R75D64JSsCFUv_D2keCUAdkwLPT9Yd9Bs31VDwUZCW_i3EWX-Ps--PYYXdvLIIAEMULteJEg3IIIKWeBhL3ybwY3CnV5gJBUw2Ks7zlBihuhSknHdt4LV5xP22ZGBurc6mieca84N3SR6X5HdZJLN9w2ElG4CqR7zsF/s5430/cg4_selby_5430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4363" data-original-width="5430" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtb5BuOaN1b7jutUw8rC7F7R75D64JSsCFUv_D2keCUAdkwLPT9Yd9Bs31VDwUZCW_i3EWX-Ps--PYYXdvLIIAEMULteJEg3IIIKWeBhL3ybwY3CnV5gJBUw2Ks7zlBihuhSknHdt4LV5xP22ZGBurc6mieca84N3SR6X5HdZJLN9w2ElG4CqR7zsF/s320/cg4_selby_5430.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Today's <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230104.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day</a> 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.</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-5278564716214221062023-01-03T19:03:00.001-05:002023-01-03T19:03:25.910-05:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduEpy8PbynhzhU4ySOh6Ux_9udzAVAgz-GGZogBsgBrULRxLgimP65W3z5BWBbfL0kVsxGe6ozm6hW9wG21KyBjoRendaRPFD6bAwBpyuAuDtKifmPbtqeYESN6mHW0_fW57PN_ibrcXf5PRSktDGv_AxqpNsG4lDgnqsygIBIK-wCZti8yL3OFKG/s4823/KembleCascade_Lease_3668.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4823" data-original-width="3668" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduEpy8PbynhzhU4ySOh6Ux_9udzAVAgz-GGZogBsgBrULRxLgimP65W3z5BWBbfL0kVsxGe6ozm6hW9wG21KyBjoRendaRPFD6bAwBpyuAuDtKifmPbtqeYESN6mHW0_fW57PN_ibrcXf5PRSktDGv_AxqpNsG4lDgnqsygIBIK-wCZti8yL3OFKG/s320/KembleCascade_Lease_3668.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Today's <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230103.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day</a> 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. </p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-83770732098973438942023-01-02T08:20:00.006-05:002023-01-02T08:20:56.394-05:00March of the Planets<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA2u8oQmPllQo6GZW9l-x9LKH0A5BiJMd18tHxyc0Ti9g3s1qrK8qaPr9nbagKo6m5Qpb8D_B6kXO21OqBiDR4MWBAfQnKdnfBRvla7AkADK_M0_AaySrdTDOz5QV1GOf8S7lex4H-V6u4pstLniFSznHOOWepebYQHC9Ahcoc5ulr6aeNQJYJ6JLT/s1680/AllPlanets_Tezel_1680_annotated.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="1680" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA2u8oQmPllQo6GZW9l-x9LKH0A5BiJMd18tHxyc0Ti9g3s1qrK8qaPr9nbagKo6m5Qpb8D_B6kXO21OqBiDR4MWBAfQnKdnfBRvla7AkADK_M0_AaySrdTDOz5QV1GOf8S7lex4H-V6u4pstLniFSznHOOWepebYQHC9Ahcoc5ulr6aeNQJYJ6JLT/s320/AllPlanets_Tezel_1680_annotated.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Today's <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230102.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day</a> 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.)</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-80708834205602215622023-01-01T15:11:00.003-05:002023-01-01T15:11:54.390-05:00Blue and Green<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2mKImMS210EsJqw7tBhrZEcyY6XagjQZzybjB3lErvjATDvT6S1BKcawC7STYAbdBOxtyyapmqr9VRXUWJDZzJ4cvjTq19AD658cuQF4TAOlcZev6zR8ij4hISPJzA0SyPtJdBcZ6UNxNcWigvxTL5RZFvo6T5qK3Y-bPkt2FJFqmxoPhfkdXycfX/s1301/PaleBlueDotOrig_Voyager1_960.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1301" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2mKImMS210EsJqw7tBhrZEcyY6XagjQZzybjB3lErvjATDvT6S1BKcawC7STYAbdBOxtyyapmqr9VRXUWJDZzJ4cvjTq19AD658cuQF4TAOlcZev6zR8ij4hISPJzA0SyPtJdBcZ6UNxNcWigvxTL5RZFvo6T5qK3Y-bPkt2FJFqmxoPhfkdXycfX/s320/PaleBlueDotOrig_Voyager1_960.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><p>Today's <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230101.html">Astronomy Picture of the Day</a> is an image from <a href="https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/">Voyager 1</a>. Nearly lost in the haze of Saturn's rings is our small rock of a world.</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-32262742964855024832023-01-01T10:25:00.067-05:002024-01-13T10:43:16.948-05:002023: The Year in Shorts<p> 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.</p><p>Number of Stories Read: 485 (out of 365) as of December 31, 2023.</p><p><i>Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey (editors)</i>: <b>Thieves' World 01</b><b>—</b><b>Thieves' World</b>. Made up of: <i>Editor's Note</i> (Robert Asprin); <i>Sentences of Death</i> (John Brunner); <i>The Face of Chaos</i> (Lynn Abbey); <i>The Gate of Flying Knives</i> (Poul Anderson); <i>Shadowspawn</i> (Andrew J. Offutt); <i>The Price of Doing Business</i> (Robert Asprin); Blood Brothers (Joe Haldeman); Myrtis (Christine DeWees); The Secret of the Blue Star (Marion Zimmer Bradley); The Making of Thieves' World (Robert Asprin) (6 stories, continuing to read).</p><p><i>Iain M. Banks: </i><b>The State of the Art</b>. Made up of: <i>Road of Skulls</i>; <i>A Gift from the Culture;</i> <i>Odd Attachment</i>; <i>Descendant</i>; Cleaning Up; Piece; The State of the Art; Scratch; A Few Notes on the Culture (4 stories, continuing to read).</p><p><i>Jorge Luis Borges:</i> <b>On Argentina</b>. Made up of: <i>Man on Pink Corner</i>; <i>Buenos Aires</i>; <i>The Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires</i>; <i>Asbasbui</i>; <i>The <b>Criollo</b> Element in Ipuche</i>; T<i>he Complaint of All <b>Criollos</b></i>; <i>Eduardo Gonzalez Lanuza</i>; <i>General Quiroga Rides to His Death in a Carriage</i>; <i>Carriego and the Meaning of the <b>Arrabal</b></i>; <i>The Full Extent of My Hope</i>; <i>The Pampa and the <b>Surburbio</b> Are Gods</i>; <b><i>The Purple Land</i></b>; <i>Leopoldo Lugones—<b>Romancero</b></i>; <i>Truco</i>; <i>Truco (poem)</i>; <i>Genealogy of the Tango</i>; <i>Situating Almafuerte</i>; <i>The Language of the Argentines</i>; <i>Buenos Aires—Palerno</i>; <i>A History of the Tango</i>; <i>Our Inabilities</i>; <i>I, a Jew</i>; <i>Borges's Prologue to the German Edition of Enrique Amorim's <b>La carreta</b></i>; <i>Definition of a Germanophile</i>; <i>Our Poor Individualism</i>; <i>The Argentine Writer and Tradition</i>; <i>The South</i> (27 essays; collection completed). </p><p><i>Jorge Luis Borges: </i><b>A Universal History of Iniquity</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Andrew Hurley); <i>Preface to the First Edition</i>; <i>Preface to the 1954 Edition</i>; <i>The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morrell</i>; <i>The Improbable Imposter Tom Castro</i>; <i>The Widow Ching—Pirate</i>; <i>Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities</i>; <i>The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan</i>; <i>The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke</i>; <i>Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv—For Angelica Ocampo</i>; <i>Man on Pink Corner—For Enrique Amorim</i>; <i>Et Cetera—For Nestor Ibarra</i>; <i>Index of Source</i>s (13 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Jorge Luis Borges: </i><b>On Writing</b>. Made up of: <i>Ultra Manifesto</i>; <i>On Expressionism</i>; <i>After Images</i>; <i>Joyce's <b>Ulysses</b></i>; <b><i>The Ballad of Reading Gaol</i></b>; <i>Verbiage for Poems</i>; <i>An Investigation of the Word</i>; <i>The Art of Verbal Abuse</i>; <i>On Literary Description</i>; <i>On Metaphor</i>; <i>Walt Whitman, <b>Leaves of Grass</b></i>; <i>Two Ways to Translate</i>; <i>The Homeric Versions</i>; <i>A Profession of Literary Faith</i>; <i>Literary Pleasure</i>; <i>The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader</i>; <i>The Paradox of Apollinaire</i>; <i>Kafka and His Precursors</i>; <i>Flaubert and His Exemplary Destiny</i>; <i>Virginia Woolf</i>; <i>T.S. Eliot</i>; <i>Paul Valery</i>; <i>William Faulkner, <b>Absalom, Absalom!</b></i>; <i>Herman Melville, <b>Bartleby the Scrivener</b></i>; <i>Henry James, <b>The Abasement of the Northmores</b></i>; <i>Marcel Schwob, <b>Imaginary Lives</b></i>; <i>H.G. Wells, <b>The Time Machine and The Invisible Man</b></i>; <i>Julio Cortazar, <b>Stories</b></i>; <i>The Labyrinths of the Detective Story and Chesterton</i>; <i>Ellery Queen, <b>Halfway House</b></i>; <i>Adolfo Bioy Casares, <b>The Invention of Morel</b></i>; <i>Wilkie Collins, <b>The Moonstone</b></i>; <i>The Detective Story</i>; <i>Stories from Turkestan</i>; <i>The Cinematograph, the Biograph</i>; <i>Narrative Art and Magic</i>; <i>Preface to the 1954 Edition of <b>A Universal History of Infamy</b></i>; <i>When Fiction Lives in Fiction</i> (38 essays; collection completed).</p><p><i>Bertrand R. Brinley:</i> <b>The Mad Scientists' Club 01—The Mad Scientists' Club</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Sheridan Brinley); <i>The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake</i>; <i>The Big Egg</i>; <i>The Secret of the Old Cannon</i>; <i>The Unidentified Flying Man of Mammoth Falls</i>; <i>The Great Gas Bag Race</i>; <i>The Voice in the Chimney</i>; <i>Night Rescue</i>; <i>Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Edition</i> (Sheridan Brinley) (9 stories or essays; collection completed).</p><p><i>Bertrand R. Brinley:</i> <b>The Mad Scientists' Club 02—The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Sheridan Brinley); <i>The Telltale Transmitter</i>; <i>The Cool Cavern</i>; <i>Big Chief Rainmaker</i>; <i>The Flying Sorcerer</i>; <i>The Great Confrontation</i> (6 stories or essays; collection completed). </p><p><i>Ted Chiang:</i> <b>Stories of Your Life and Others</b>. Made up of: <i>Tower of Babylon</i>; <i>Understand</i>; <i>Division by Zero</i>; <i>Story of Your Life</i>; <i>Seventy-Two Letters</i>; <i>The Evolution of Human Science</i>; <i>Hell is the Absence of God</i>; <i>Liking What You See</i>; <i>Story Notes</i> (9 stories or essays; collection completed). </p><p><i>Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener:</i> <b>Atomic Robo 01</b><b>—</b><b>The Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne</b>. Made up of: <i>The Will to Power</i>; <i>Pest Control</i>; <i>Pyramid Scheme</i>; <i>Atomic Robo of Mars</i>; <i>Unearthed (Part 01)</i>; <i>Unearthed (Part 02)</i> (6 stories; collection completed). </p><p><i>Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener:</i> <b>Atomic Robo 02</b><b>—</b><b>The Dogs of War</b>. Made up of: <i>Operation Husky</i>; <i>And Then There's the Robots</i>; <i>Going Off Track</i>; <i>Nemesis</i>; <i>It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow</i>; <i>An Appointment in Madrid</i>; <i>A Bad Case of Crabs</i>; <i>What Happens in Egypt Stays in Egypt</i>; <i>Caribbean Cartel Massacre</i>; <i>Robo and Goliath</i>; <i>Free Comic Book Day 2008</i> (11 stories; collection completed). </p><p><i>Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener:</i> <b>Atomic Robo 03</b><b>—Atomic Robo and </b><b>The Shadow from Beyond Time.</b>. Made up of: <i>Horror on Houston Street</i>; <i>The Doom That Came to Robo</i>; <i>At the Farm of Madness</i>; <i>The Crawling Chaos</i>; <i>From Beyond</i> (5 stories; collection completed).</p><p><i>Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener:</i> <b>Atomic Robo Vol 4</b><b>—</b><b>Other Strangeness</b>. Made up of: <i>Revenge of the Vampire Dimension</i>; <i>Atomic Robo Big In Japan</i>; <i>Why Atomic Robo Hates Dr. Dinosaur and Why Dr. Dinosaur Hates Atomic Robo</i>; <i>Incandescent Soul</i> (4 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener:</i> <b>Atomic Robo Vol 5</b><b>—</b><b>The Deadly Art of Science</b>. Made up of: <i>The Man With Two Skulls</i>; <i>The Robot Who Wouldn’t Go Away</i>; <i>Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang</i>; <i>The Wizard of Menlo Park</i>; <i>The War of the Currents</i> (5 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener:</i> <b>Atomic Robo Vol 6</b><b>—</b><b>The Ghost of Station X</b>. Made up of: <i>Acceleration</i>; <i>Explosion</i>; <i>Propagation</i>; <i>Transformation</i>; <i>Two Faces of Tomorrow</i> (5 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener:</i> <b>Atomic Robo Vol 7</b><b>—</b><b>The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific</b>. Made up of: <i>Women in War</i>; <i>Pacific Rendezvous</i>; <i>Out of the Depths</i>; <i>Behind the Rising Sun</i>; <i>The Blazing Heavens </i>(5 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Arthur Conan Doyle:</i> <b>The Complete Sherlock Holmes</b>. Made up of: <i>Foreword: A Study in Scarlet</i> (Stephen Fry); <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>; <i>Foreword: The Sign of Four</i> (Stephen Fry); <i>The Sign of Four</i>; <i>Foreword: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</i> (Stephen Fry); <b>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</b>: <i>A Scandal in Bohemia</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Red-Headed League</i>; <i>A Case of Identity</i>; <i>The Boscombe Valley Mystery</i>; <i>The Five Orange Pips</i>; <i>The Man with the Twisted Lip</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Speckled Band</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Copper Beeches</i>; <i>Foreword: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes</i> (Stephen Fry); <b>The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes</b>: <i>Silver Blaze</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Cardboard Box</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Yellow Face</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Gloria Scott</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Reigate Squire</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Crooked Man</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Resident Patient</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Naval Treaty</i>; <i>The Final Problem</i>; <i>Foreword: The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>; <b><i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i></b>; <i>Foreword: The Return of Sherlock Holme</i>s (Stephen Fry); <b>The Return of Sherlock Holmes:</b> <i>The Adventure of the Empty House</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Norwood Builder</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Dancing Men</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Priory School</i>; <i>The Adventure of Black Peter</i>; <i>The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Six Napoleons</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Three Students</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Abbey Grange</i>; <i>The Adventure of the Second Stain</i>; <i>Foreword: <b>The Valley of Fear</b></i><b> </b>(Stephen Fry); <b><i>The Valley of Fear</i></b>; <i>Foreword: <b>His Last Bow</b> </i>(Stephen Fry); <i>His Last Bow: Preface</i>; <i>The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge</i>, 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).</p><p><i>Arthur Conan Doyle and William S. Baring-Gould (Editor and Annotator): </i><b>The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volume I</b>. Made up of: <i>"I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere Since You Became His Chronicler"</i> (Baring-Gould); <i>"He Is Now Translating My Small Works Into French" </i>(Baring-Gould); <i>"I...Have Even Contributed to the Literature of the Subject"</i> (Baring-Gould); <i>"You Would Have Made an Actor, and a Rare One"</i> (Baring-Gould); <i>"Your Pictures Are Not Unlike You, Sir, If I May Say So?"</i> (Baring-Gould); <i>"A Singular Set of People, Watson..." </i>(Baring-Gould); <i>"Your Merits Should Be Publicly Recognized"</i> (Baring-Gould); <i>"The Best and the Wisest Man Whom I Have Ever Known"</i> (Baring-Gould); <i>"Good Old Watson!"</i> (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). </p><p><i>David Drake: </i><b>The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume 1</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Gene Wolfe); <i>Foreword: Becoming a Professional Writer by Way of Southeast Asia</i>; <i>Under the Hammer</i>; <i>Supertanks</i>; <i>The Butcher's Bill</i>; <i>The Church of the Lord's Universe</i>; <i>But Loyal to His Own</i>; <i>Powerguns</i>; <i>Caught in the Crossfire</i>; <i>Backdrop to Chaos</i>; <i>Cultural Conflict</i>; <i>The Bonding Authority</i>; <i>Hangman</i>; <i>Table of Organization and Equipment, Hammer's Regiment</i>; <i>Standing Down</i>;<i> Code-Name Feirefitz</i>; <i>The Interrogation Team</i>; <i>The Tank Lords</i>; <i>Liberty Port</i>; <i>Night March</i>; <i>The Immovable Object</i>; <i>The Irresistible Force</i>; <i>A Death in Peacetime</i>; <i>Afterword: Accidentally and by the Back Door</i> (24 stories; collection completed).</p><p><i>David Drake:</i> <b>The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume 2</b>. Made up of: <i>In Defense of David Drakes's Hammer's Slammers Stories: An Introduction</i> (David G. Hartwell); <i>Foreword: We Happy Few</i>; <b>At Any Price</b>; <b>Counting the Cost</b>; <b>Rolling Hot</b>; <b>The Warrior</b>; <i>The Day of Glory</i>; <i>Afterword: What's for Sale</i> (4 stories; collection completed; novels read separately). </p><p><i>David Drake:</i> <b>The Complete Hammer's Slammers, Volume 3</b>. Made up of: <i>Inextricable Disengagement: The War Games of David Drake: An Introduction</i> (Barry N. Malzberg); <b>The Sharp End</b>; <b>Paying the Piper</b>; <i>Choosing Sides</i>; <i>The Political Process</i>; <i>Neck or Nothing</i>; <i>The Darkness</i>; <i>Jim</i> (5 stories; collection completed; novels read separately). </p><p><i>George Alec Effinger:</i> <b>Budayeen Nights</b>. Made up of: <i>(read in 2022)</i> <i>Foreword</i> (Barbara Hambly); <i>King of the Cyber Rifles</i>; <i>Marid and the Blood Trail</i>; <i>(read in 2023) </i>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).</p><p><i>Robert E. Howard:</i> <b>Bran Mak Morn—The Last King</b>. Made up of: <i>Foreword</i> (Gary Gianni); <i>Introduction</i> (Rusty Burke); <i>Men of the Shadows</i>; <i>Kings of the Night</i>; <i>Song of the Race</i>; <i>Worms of the Earth</i>; <i>The Dark Man</i>; <i>The Lost Race</i>; <i>The Drums of Pictdom</i>; <i>Notes on Miscellanea</i> (Rusty Burke); <i>The Little People</i>; <i>The Little People—Typescript?</i>; <i>The Children of the Night</i>; <i>Bran Mak Morn</i>; <i>Bran Mak Morn—Manuscript?</i>; <i>Untitled Synopsis ("The story of a forgotten age...)</i>; <i>Worms of the Earth—Draft?</i>; <i>Untitled Fragment ("A grey sky arched over...")</i>; <i>Untitled Poem ("There's a bell that hang's...") (variant of The Bell of Morni)</i>; <i>The Wheel Turns</i>; <i>Robert E. Howard and the Picts: A Chronology</i> (Uncredited); <i>Robert E. Howard, Bran Mak Morn and the Picts</i> (Rusty Burke and Patrice Louinet); <i>Notes on the Original Howard</i> Texts (Uncredited) (23 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>M.R. James:</i> <b>The M.R. James BBC Radio Collection</b>. Made up of: <i>The Mezzotint</i>; <i>Casting the Runes</i>; <i>The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral</i>; <i>A Warning to the Curious</i>; <i>Rats</i>; <i>Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come To You, My Lad!</i>; <i>The Tractate Middoth</i>; <i>Lost Hearts</i>; <i>The Rose Garden</i>; <i>Number 13</i>; <i>Canon Alberic's Scrapbook</i>; <i>A School Story</i>; <i>The Haunted Doll's House</i>; <i>Martin's Close</i>; <i>Count Magnus</i>; <i>The Haunting of M.R. James</i> (Neil Brand); <i>Great Lives—M.R. James</i> (Muriel Gray, Christopher Frayling and Humphrey Carpenter); <i>The Ghosts of M.R. James</i> (Michell Raper) (18 stories or essays; completed).</p><p><i>George R. R. Martin (editor): </i><b>Wild Cards Volume 1</b>. Made up of: <i>Prologue</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>Thirty Minutes Over Broadway!</i> (Howard Waldrop); <i>The Sleeper</i> (Roger Zelazny); <i>Witness</i> (Walter Jon Williams); <i>Degradation Rites</i> (Melinda Snodgrass); <i>Interlude One</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>Captain Cathode and the Secret Ace</i> (Michael Cassutt); <i>Powers</i> (David D. Levine); <i>Shell Games</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>Interlude Two</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>The Long, Dark Night of Fortunato</i> (Lewis Shiner); <i>Transfigurations</i> (Victor Milan); <i>Interlude Three</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>Down Deep</i> (Edward Bryant and Leanne C. Harper); <i>Interlude Four </i>(George R. R. Martin); <i>Strings</i> (Stephen Leigh as S. L. Farrell); <i>Interlude Five</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan</i> (Carrie Vaughn); <i>Comes a Hunter</i> (John J. Miller); <i>Epilogue—Third Generation</i> (Lewis Shiner); <i>Appendix—The Science of the Wild Card Virus</i> (Lewis Shiner); <i>Excerpts from the Minutes of the American Metabiological Society Conference on Metahuman Abilities</i> (not listed) (22 stories; collection completed).</p><p><i>Michael Moorcock: </i><b>Elric of Menibone</b>. Made up of: <i>One Life, Furnished in Early Moorcock</i> (Neil Gaiman); <i><b>Elric of Mennibone</b></i>; <i><b>The Fortress of the Pearl</b></i>; <i><b>The Sailor on the Seas of Fate</b></i>; <i><b>The Weird of the White Wolf</b></i>; <i>The Elric Saga—A Reader's Guide </i>(John Davey) (6 novels and stories, collection completed). </p><p><i>Michael Moorcock:</i> <b>Stormbringer</b>. Made up of: <b><i>The Vanishing Tower</i></b>; <b><i>The Revenge of the Rose</i></b>; <b><i>The Bane of the Black Sword</i></b>; <b>Stormbringer</b> (4 novels; collection completed).</p><p><i>Michael Moorcock: </i><b>The White Wolf</b>. Made up of: <b>The Dreamthief's Daughter</b>; <b>The Skrayling Tree</b>; <b>The White Wolf's Song</b> (3 stories; collection completed).</p><p><i>Michael Moorcock:</i> <b>Elric—The Stealer of Souls</b>. Made up of: <i>The Return on the Thin White Duke</i> (Alan Moore); <i>Introduction</i>; <i>Putting a Tag on It</i>; <i>The Dreaming City</i>; <i>While the Gods Laugh</i>; <i>The Stealer of Souls</i>; <i>Kings in Darkness (with James Cawthorn)</i>; <i>The Caravan of Forgotten Dreams</i>; <i>Mission to Asno!</i>; <b><i>Stormbringer</i></b>; <i>Dead God's Homecoming</i>; <i>Black Sword's Brothers</i>; <i>Sad Giant's Shield</i>; <i>Doomed Lord's Passing</i>; <i>Elric</i>; <i>The Secret Life of Elric of Melniboné</i>; <i>Final Judgement</i> (Alan Forrest); <i>Review: Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock</i> (Alan Forrest); <i>The Zenith Letter</i> (Anthony Skene); <i>Acknowledgments</i> (19 novels and stories; collection completed).</p><p><i>Frederik Pohl:</i> <i>The Gold at the Starbow's End </i>(1 story, completed). </p><p><i>Tim Powers:</i> <i>Nobody's Home</i>. <i>The Properties of Rooftop Air</i> (2 stories, completed).</p><p><i>Tim Powers:</i> <b>Down and Out in Purgatory—The Stories of Tim Powers</b>. Made up of: <i>Dark Paths Through Dark Woods</i> (David Drake); <i>The Powers Effect</i> (Tony Daniels); <i>Savage and Demolition</i>; <i>The Bible Repairman</i>; <i>Appointment on Sunset</i>; <i>The Better Boy </i>(with James Blaylock); <i>Pat Moore</i>; <i>The Way Down the Hill</i>; <i>Itinerary</i>; <i>A Journey of Only Two Places</i>; <i>The Hour of Babel</i>; <i>Where They Are Hid</i>; <i>We Traverse Afar</i> (with James Blaylock); <i>Through and Through</i>; <i>Night Moves</i>; <i>A Soul in a Bottle</i>; <i>Parallel Lines</i>; <i>Fifty Cents</i> (with James Blaylock); <i>Nobody's Home</i>; <i>A Time to Cast Away Stones</i>; <i>Down and Out in Purgatory</i>; <i>Sufficient Unto the Day</i> (22 stories or essays, collection completed). <i>After Many a Summer</i> (1 story, completed). </p><p><i>Terry Pratchett: </i><b>A Blink of the Screen</b><b>—</b><b>Collected Shorter Fiction</b>. Made up of: <i>Foreword</i> (A. S. Byatt); <i>The Hades Business</i>; <i>Solution</i>; <i>The Picture</i>; <i>The Prince and the Partridge</i>; <i>Rincemangle, the Gnome of Even Moo</i>r; <i>Kindly Breathe in Short, Thick Pants</i>; <i>The Glastonbury Tales</i>; <i>There's No Fool Like an Old Fool Found in an English Queue</i>; <i>Coo, They've Given Me the Bird</i>; <i>And Mind the Monoliths</i>; <i>The High Meggas</i>; <i>Twenty Pence, with Envelope and Seasonal Greeting</i>; <i>Incubust</i>; <i>Final Reward</i>; <i>Turntables of the Night</i>; <i>#ifdefDEBUG + 'world/enough' + 'time'</i>; <i>Hollywood Chickens</i>; <i>The Secret Book of the Dead</i>; <i>Once and Future</i>; <i>FTB</i>; <i>Sir Joshua Easement—A Biographical Note</i>; <i>Troll Bridge</i>; <i>Theatre of Cruelty</i>; <i>The Sea and Little Fishes</i>; <i>The Ankh-Morpork National Anthem</i>; <i>Medical Notes</i>; <i>Thud</i><i>—</i><i>A Historical Perspective</i>; <i>A Few Words from Lord Havelock Vetinari</i>; <i>Death and What Comes Next</i>; <i>A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices</i>; <i>Minutes of the Meeting to Form the Proposed Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts</i>; <i>The Ankh-Morpork Football Association Hall of Fame Playing Cards</i>; <i>Deleted Extract from "The Sea and Little Fishes"</i> (34 stories or essays; collection completed).</p><div><i>Alastair Reynolds:</i> <i>Troika</i> (1 story, completed). <i>Slow Bullets</i> (1 story, completed). </div><p><i>Kim Stanley Robinson:</i> <b>Escape from Kathmandu</b>. Made up of: <i>Escape from Kathmandu</i>; <i>Mother Goddess of the World</i>; <i>The True Nature of Shangri-La</i>; <i>The Kingdom Underground</i> (4 stories, collection completed). </p><p><i>Fred Saberhagen:</i> <i>Wings Out of Shadow</i> (1 story, completed). </p><p><i>Clark Ashton Smith: </i><b>The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 03—A Vintage from Atlantis</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Michael Dirda); <i>A Note on the Texts</i> (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); <i>The Holiness of Azédarac</i>; <i>The Maker of Gargoyles</i>; <i>Beyond the Singing Flame</i>; <i>Seedling of Mars </i>(with E.M. Johnston); <i>The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis</i>; <i>The Eternal World</i>; <i>The Demon of the Flower</i>; <i>The Nameless Offspring</i>; <i>A Vintage from Atlantis</i>; <i>The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan</i>; <i>The Invisible City</i>; <i>The Immortals of Mercury</i>; <i>The Empire of the Necromancers</i>; <i>The Seed from the Sepulcher</i>; <i>The Second Interment</i>; <i>Ubbo-Sathla</i>; <i>The Double Shadow</i>; <i>The Plutonian Drug</i>; <i>The Supernumerary Corpse</i>; <i>The Colossus of Ylourgne</i>; <i>The God of the Asteroid</i> (variant of Master of the Asteroid); <i>Story Notes</i> (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); <i>The Flower-Devil</i>; <i>Bibliography</i> (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger) (25 stories read; collection completed).</p><p><i>Charles Stross:</i> <b>Laundry 01—The Atrocity Archives</b>. Made up of: <i>The Atrocity Archives</i>; <i>The Concrete Jungle</i> (2 stories; collection completed). <b>Laundry 02—The Jennifer Morgue</b>. Made up of: <b><i>The Jennifer Morgue</i></b>; <i>Pimpf</i> (2 stories, completed). <b>The Laundry Series</b>. Uncollected short stories: <i>Overtime</i>; <i>Down on the Farm</i>; <i>Equoid</i>; <i>Escape from Yokai Land </i> (4 stories; uncollected short stories completed). A<b>ccelerando</b>. Made up of: <i>Lobsters</i>; <i>Troubadour</i>; <i>Tourist</i>; <i>Halo</i>; <i>Router</i>; <i>Nightfall</i>; <i>Curator</i>; <i>Elector</i>; <i>Survivor</i> (9 stories; completed). </p><p><i>Jack Vance:</i> <b>The Dying Earth 01—The Dying Earth</b>. Made up of: <i>Mazirian the Magician</i>; <i>Turjan of Miir</i>; <i>T'sais</i>; <i>Liane the Wayfarer</i>; <i>Ulan Dohr Ends a Dream</i>; <i>Guyal of Sfere</i> (6 stories; completed). </p><p><i>Jack Vance:</i> <b>The Dying Earth 02—The Eyes of the Overworld</b>. Made up of: <i>The Overworld</i>; <i>Cil</i>; <i>The Mountains of Magnatz</i>; <i>The Sorcerer Pharesm</i>; <i>The Pilgrims</i>; <i>The Cave in the Forest</i>; <i>The Manse of Iucounu</i> (7 stories; completed).</p><p><i>Jack Vance:</i> <b>The Dying Earth 03—Cugel's Saga</b>. Made up of: <i>Flutic</i>; <i>The Inn of Blue Lamps</i>; <i>Aboard the Galante</i>; <i>Lausicaa</i>; <i>The Ocean of Sighs</i>; <i>The Columns</i>; <i>Faucelme</i>; <i>On the Docks</i>; <i>The Caravan</i>; <i>The Seventeen Virgins</i>; <i>The Bagful of Dreams</i>; <i>The Four Wizards</i>; <i>Spatterlight</i> (13 stories, collection completed). </p><p><i>Jack Vance:</i> <b>The Dying Earth 04—Rhialto the Marvelous</b>. Made up of: <i>Foreword</i>; <i>The Murthe</i>; <i>Fader's Waft</i>; <i>Morreion</i> (4 stories, collection completed). </p><p><i>Jeff VanderMeer:</i> <b>Ambergris (Omnibus)</b>. Made up of: <b>City of Saints and Madmen [</b>Made up of: <i>The Real VanderMeer </i>(Michael Moorcock); <i>Dradin, in Love</i>; <i>The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris by Duncan Shriek</i>; 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.]; <b>Shriek—An Afterword</b>; <b>Finch</b> (3 stories, continuing to read). </p><p><i>Martha Wells:</i> <b>Murderbot—Compulsory</b> (1 story, completed). </p><p><i>Roger Zelazny:</i> <b>Threshold—The Complete Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 1</b>. Made up of: <i>(read in 2022)</i> <i>Notes</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs); <i>A Word from the Editors</i> (Ann Crimmins and David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs); <i>Out of Nowhere</i> (Robert Silverberg); <i>Before Amber</i> (Carl B. Yoke); <i>A Rose for Ecclesiastes</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: A Rose for Ecclesiastes</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>Braxa</i>; <i>Ecclesiastes' Epilogue</i>; <i>Bok</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: Bok</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>And The Darkness Is Harsh</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: And The Darkness Is Harsh</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>Mr. Fuller's Revolt</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: Mr. Fuller's Revolt</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>Diet</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: Diet</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>Youth Eternal</i>; <i>Slush, Slush, Slush</i>; <i>The Outward Sign</i>; <i>The Agnostic's Prayer</i>; <i>Passion Play</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: Passion Play</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>On May 13, 1937</i>; <i>Cactus King</i>; <i>The Graveyard Heart</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: The Graveyard Heart</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>(read in 2023) </i>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).</p><p><i>Magazines and Other Periodicals:</i></p><p><i>Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev:</i> <b>Scarlet</b> <i>001-005</i> (5 issues, completed). </p><p><i>Neil Gaiman & Co.</i>: <b>The Dreaming</b><i>, Issue 001</i>. <b>The Dreaming</b><i>, Issue 002</i>.</p><p><i>Thierry Labrosse:</i> <b>Ab Irato, Book 1</b>. <b>Ab Irato, Book 2</b> (2 issues, completed). </p><p><i>Andrew MacLean: </i><b>ApocalyptiGirl—An Aria for the End Times</b> (1 issue, completed)</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-75520035263434713862023-01-01T10:18:00.149-05:002024-01-01T07:58:52.032-05:002023: The Year in BooksHere 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.<div><br /></div><div>Number of books read (as of December 31, 2023): 206.</div><div><br /></div><div>Books read (alphabetical by author, then chronological within an author, editor or authors or editors). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Poul Anderson:</i> <b>The Broken Sword</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>William Ashbless with Tim Powers and James Blaylock:</i> <b>On Pirates</b> (pBook) (February). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Iain M. Banks:</i> <b>The Culture 01—Consider Phlebas</b> (eBook) (July). <b>The Culture 02—Player of Games</b> (eBook) (July). <b>The Culture 03—Use of Weapons</b> (eBook) (July). <b>The Culture 04—The State of the Art</b> (pBook) (August). <b>The Culture 08—Matter</b> (pBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alfred A. Bell, Jr.:</i> <b>The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 04—Death in the Ashes</b> (eBook) (April). <b>The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 05—The Eyes of Aurora</b> (eBook) (April). <b>The Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 06—Fortune's Fool</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Jorge Luis Borges:</i> <b>On Argentina</b> (aBook) (July). <b>On Writing</b> (aBook) (July). <b>The Sonnets</b> (aBook) (October). <b>A Universal History of Iniquity</b> (aBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ben Bova:</i> <b>Mars, Inc.—The Billionaire's Club </b>(eBook) (May). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Mark Bowden:</i> <b>Hue 1968—A Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam</b> (aBook) (February). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Leigh Brackett:</i> <b>Stark 01—Ginger Star</b> (eBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>David Brin:</i> <b>Uplift 01</b><b>—</b><b>Sundiver</b> (eBook) (October).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Bertrand R. Brinley:</i> <b>The Mad Scientists' Club 01—The Mad Scientists' Club</b> (eBook) (June). <b>The Mad Scientists' Club 02—The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club </b>(eBook) (June). <b>The Mad Scientists' Club 03—The Big Kerplop!</b> (eBook) (June)</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Kenneth Brower:</i> <b>The Starship & the Canoe</b> (eBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Gaius Julius Caesar:</i> <b>The Conquest of Gaul</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ted Chiang:</i> <b>Stories of Your Life and Others</b> (eBook) (June).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Arthur C. Clarke: </i><b>Space Odyssey 02</b><b>—</b><b>2010: Odyssey Two</b> (eBook) (October). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener:</i> <b>Atomic Robo 01</b><b>—</b><b>The Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Atomic Robo 02</b><b>—</b><b>The Dogs of War</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Atomic Robo 03</b><b>—Atomic Robo and </b><b>The Shadow From Beyond Time</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Atomic Robo 04</b><b>—Atomic Robo and Other Strangeness</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Atomic Robo 05</b><b>—Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Atomic Robo 06</b><b>—Atomic Robo and The Ghost of Station X</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Atomic Robo 05</b><b>—Atomic Robo and The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Samuel R. Delany: </i><b>Nova</b> (eBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Scott Dickerson:</i> <b>Tom Swift Lives! 01—Tom Swift Reimagined—Flying Lab</b> (eBook) (April). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ruth Downie:</i> <b>Gaius Petreius Ruso 01—Medicus</b> (eBook) (May). <b>Gaius Petreius Ruso 02—Terra Incognita</b> (eBook) (May). <b>Gaius Petreius Ruso 03—Persona Non Grata</b> (eBook) (May). <b>Gaius Petreius Ruso 04—Caveat Emptor</b> (eBook) (May). <b>Gaius Petreius Ruso 05—Semper Fidelis</b> (ebook) (May). <b>Gaius Petreius Ruso 06—Tabula Rasa</b> (eBook) (May). <b>Gaius Petreius Ruso 07—Vita Brevis</b> (eBook) (May). <b>Gaius Petreius Ruso 08—Memento Mori </b>(eBook) (December). <b>Gaius Petreius Ruso 08.5—Prima Facie </b>(eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>David Drake:</i> <b>At Any Price</b> (eBook) (February). <b>Rolling Hot</b> (eBook) (February). <b>Counting the Cost</b> (eBook) (February). <b>The Sharp End</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Paying the Piper</b> (eBook) (March). <b>The Complete Hammer's Slammers 1</b> (eBook) (April). <b>The Complete Hammer's Slammers 2</b> (eBook) (May). <b>The Complete Hammer's Slammers 3</b> (eBook) (May). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>George Dyson:</i> <b>Analogia—The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control</b> (eBook) (September). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alex Finley:</i> <b>Victor Caro 01—Victor in the Rubble</b> (eBook) (August). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Kenneth F. Gantz:</i> <b>Not in Solitude</b> (eBook) (June).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Dashiell Hammett:</i> <b>The Maltese Falcon</b> (aBook) (January). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Max Hastings:</i> <b>Vietnam—An Epic Tragedy: 1945–1975</b> (eBook) (May).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Homer:</i> <b>The Iliad</b> (Robert Fagles, Translator) (eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Robert E. Howard:</i> <b>Bran Mak Morn—The Last King</b> (eBook) (July). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Barry Hughart:</i> <b>The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox (omnibus) 01—Bridge of Birds</b> (eBook) (June). 02—The Story of the Stone (eBook). 03—Eight Skilled Gentlemen (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Jerome K. Jerome:</i> <b>Three Men (Omnibus) 01—Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)</b> (eBook) (August). <b>02—Three Men on the Bummel</b> (eBook) (August). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Raymond F. Jones:</i> <b>This Island Earth </b>(eBook) (June).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Avigdor Kahalani:</i> <b>The Heights of Courage</b><b>—</b><b>A Tank Leader's War on the Golan</b> (pBook) (October). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Caitlin R. Kiernan:</i> <b>Tinfoil Dossier 01—Agents of Dreamland</b> (eBook) (April) (December). <b>Tinfoil Dossier 02—</b><b>Black Helicopters</b> (eBook) December). <b>Tinfoil Dossier 03—</b><b>The Tindalos Asset</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Michael Lewis:</i> <b>The Big Short—Inside the Doomsday Machine</b> (eBook) (September). <b>The Premonition—A Pandemic Story</b> (eBook) (September). <b>The Fifth Risk—Undoing Democracy</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Moneyball</b><b>—The Art of Winning an Unfair Game </b>(eBook) (September). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>R. A. MacAvoy:</i> <b>Black Dragon 01—Tea with the Black Dragon</b> (aBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>George R. R. Martin (editor): </i><b>Wild Cards 01</b><b>—</b><b>Wild Cards</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Dave McKean:</i> <b>Dream States—The Collected Dreaming, Sandman Presents and Sandman Overture Covers 1997–2014</b>. (pBook) (January). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Nicholas Meyer:</i> <b>The West End Horror</b> (pBook) (March). <b>The Canary Trainer</b> (pBook) (March).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Sergio Miller:</i> <b>In Good Faith—A History of the Vietnam War Volume 1—1945-64</b> (eBook) (July). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Michael Moorcock:</i> <b>Elric 01 (Gallery/Saga Press Omnibus Collections 01)—Elric of Melnibone</b> (omnibus edition; counted as four separate books) (eBook) (May). <b>Elric 02 (Gallery/Saga Press Omnibus Collections 02)—Stormbringer</b> (omnibus edition; counted as four separate books) (eBook) (November). <b>Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melnibone 01</b><b>—</b><b>Elric: The Stealer of Souls</b> (omnibus editon; counted as two separate books) (eBook) (November). <b>The Elric Saga 013</b><b>—</b><b>The Citadel of Forgotten Myths</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Annalee Newitz: </i><b>The Terraformers</b> (eBook) (March). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Larry Niven:</i> <b>A Hole in Space</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alice Mary Norton (writing as Andre Norton or Andrew North or Allen Weston)</i>: <b>Solar Queen 01—Sargasso of Space</b> (eBook) (January). <b>Warlock (Omnibus): Forerunner 01—Storm Over Warlock</b> (eBook) (January); <b>Forerunner 02—Ordeal in Otherwhere</b> (eBook) (February); <b>Forerunner 03—Forerunner Foray</b> (eBook) (July). <b>Pax/Astra 01—The Stars Are Ours!</b> (pBook) (January). <b>Pax/Astra 02—Star Born</b> (pBook) (January). <b>Solar Queen 02—Plague Ship</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Moonsinger (Omnibus): Moonsinger 01—Moon of Three Rings</b> (eBook) (July); <b>Moonsinger 02—Exiles of the Stars</b> (eBook) (July). <b>Search for the Star Stones 01</b><b>—</b><b>The Zero Stone</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Search for the Star Stones 02</b><b>—Uncharted Stars</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alan E. Nourse:</i> <b>Raiders from the Rings</b> (eBook) (July). <b>Scavengers in Space</b> (eBook) (July). <b>Rocket to Limbo</b> (eBook) (July). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Malka Older:</i> <b>Mossa and Pleiti 01—The Mimicking of Known Successes</b> (eBook) (March). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Jay Parini:</i> <b>Borges and Me</b> (eBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>K.J. Parker:</i> <b>Siege 03—A Practical Guide to Conquering the World</b> (eBook) (April). <b>Corax 01</b><b>—</b><b>Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Elizabeth Peters:</i> <b>Amelia Peabody 07—The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Amelia Peabody 08—The Hippopotamus Pool</b> (eBook) (May). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tim Powers:</i> <b>Medusa's Web</b> (pBook) (January). <b>The Anubis Gates</b> (pBook) (January). <b>The Stress of Her Regard</b> (pBook) (January). <b>Hide Me Among the Graves </b>(pBook) (January). <b>On Stranger Tides</b> (pBook) (January). <b>Down and Out in Purgatory</b> (pBook) (February). <b>Declare</b> (pBook) (February). <b>Fault Lines 01</b><b>—</b><b>Last Cal</b>l (pBook) (October). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Terry Pratchett:</i> <b>Discworld 02—The Light Fantastic</b> (eBook) (April). <b>Discworld 03—Equal Rites</b> (eBook) (April). <b>Discworld 04—Mort</b> (eBook) (April). <b>Discworld 05—Sourcery</b> (eBook) (April). <b>Discworld 06—Wyrd Sisters</b> (eBook) (April). <b>Discworld 07—Pyramids</b> (eBook) (April). <b>Discworld 08—Guards! Guards!</b> (eBook) (May). <b>Discworld 09—Eric</b> (eBook) (May). <b>Discworld 10—Moving Pictures</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Discworld 11—Reaper Man</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Discworld 12—Witches Abroad</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Discworld 13—Small Gods</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Discworld 14—Lords and Ladie</b>s (eBook) (August). <b>Discworld 15—Men at Arms </b>(eBook) (August). <b>Discworld 16—Soul Music</b> (eBook) (August). <b>Discworld 17—Interesting Times</b> (eBook) (August). <b>Discworld 18—Maskerade</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Discworld 19</b><b>—</b><b>Feet of Clay</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Discworld 20</b><b>—</b><b>Hogfather</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Discworld 21</b><b>—Jingo</b> (eBook) (October). <b>Discworld 22</b><b>—The Last Continent</b> (eBook) (October). <b>Discworld 23</b><b>—Carpe Jugulum</b> (eBook) (October). <b>A Blink at the Screen</b><b>—</b><b>Collected Shorter Fiction</b> (eBook) (November). <b>Discworld 24</b><b>—The Fifth Elephant</b> (eBook) (November). <b>Discworld 25</b><b>—The Truth</b> (eBook) (November). <b>Discworld 29</b><b>—Night Watch</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Richard Rhodes: </i><b>The Making of the Atomic Bomb</b> (eBook) (August). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>John Maddox Roberts:</i> <b>SPQR 01—The King's Gambit </b>(eBook) (May). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Kim Stanley Robinson:</i> <b>Escape from Kathmandu</b> (eBook) (August). <b>The Three Californias 01—The Wild Shore</b> (eBook) (August). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Steven Saylor:</i> <b>Roma Sub Rosa 01—Roman Blood</b> (eBook) (May). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>P.W. Singer and August Cole:</i> <b>Ghost Fleet—A Novel of the Next World War</b> (eBook) (August).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Clark Ashton Smith: </i><b>The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 04</b><b>—</b><b>The Maze of the Enchanter</b> (eBook) (October).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>E. E. "Doc" Smith:</i> <b>Lensman 01—Triplanetary</b> (pBook) (March). <b>Lensman 02—First Lensman</b> (pBook) (May). <b>Lensman 03—Galactic Patro</b>l (pBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Olaf Stapledon:</i> <b>Last and First Men</b> (eBook) (July). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Neal Stephenson:</i> <b>Snow Crash</b> (aBook) (June).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Charles Stross:</i> <b>The Laundry File 001—The Atrocity Archives</b> (eBook) (January). <b>The Laundry Files 002—The Jennifer Morgue</b> (eBook) (January). <b>The Laundry Files 003—The Fuller Memorandum</b> (eBook) (January). <b>The Laundry Files 004—The Apocalypse Codex</b> (eBook) (January). <b>The Laundry Files 005—The Rhesus Chart</b> (eBook) (January). <b>The Laundry Files 006—The Annihilation Score</b> (eBook) (January). <b>The Laundry Files 007—The Nightmare Stacks</b> (eBook) (January). <b>The Laundry Files 008—The Delirium Brief </b>(eBook) (February). <b>Accelerando</b> (eBook) (February). <b>Halting State 01—Halting State</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Halting State 02—Rule 34</b> (eBook) (July). <b>The Laundry Files 009—The Labyrinth Index</b> (eBook) (July). <b>The Laundry Files 010—Dead Lies Dreaming</b> (eBook) (July). <b>The Laundry Files 011—Quantum of Nightmares</b> (eBook) (July). <b>The Laundry Files 012—Season of Skulls</b> (eBook) (July).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Sun Tzu: </i><b>The Art of War</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>E.C. Tubb: </i><b>Dumarest 04</b><b>—</b><b>Kalin</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Dumarest 05</b><b>—The Jester at Scar</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Dumarest 06</b><b>—Lallia</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Dumarest 07</b><b>—Technos</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Dumarest 07</b><b>—Veruchia</b> (eBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Jack Vance:</i> <b>The Demon Princes 01—The Star King</b> (aBook) (March). <b>The Demon Princes 02—The Killing Machine</b> (aBook) (March). <b>The Dying Earth 01—The Dying Earth</b> (aBook) (April). <b>The Dying Earth 02—The Eyes of the Overworld</b> (aBook) (April). <b>Dying Earth 03—Cugel's Saga</b> (aBook) (April). <b>Dying Earth 04—Rhialto the Marvelous</b> (aBook) (April). <b>The Demon Princes 03—The Palace of Love</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Demon Princes 04—The Face</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Demon Princes 05—The Book of Dreams</b> (aBook) (December)</div><div><br /></div><div><i>John Varley:</i> <b>Eight Worlds 01—The Ophiuchi Hotline</b> (eBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>James Webb:</i> <b>Fields of Fire</b> (eBook) (May). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Martha Wells:</i> <b>The Murderbot Diaries 01</b><b>—</b><b>All Systems Red</b> (eBook) (December). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 02</b><b>—</b><b>Artificial Condition</b> (eBook) (December). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 03</b><b>—Rogue Protocol </b>(eBook) (December). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 04</b><b>—Exit Strategy</b> (eBook) (December). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 05</b><b>—Fugitive Telemetry</b> (eBook) (December). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 06</b><b>—Network Effect</b> (eBook) (December). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 07</b><b>—System Collapse</b> (eBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Andrew Wiest:</i> <b>The Vietnam War—1956-1975</b> (eBook) (February). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Kate Wilhelm:</i> <b>Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang</b> (aBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Walter Jon Williams:</i> <b>Hardwired 01—Hardwired</b> (eBook) (July). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Jack Williamson:</i> <b>Eldren 01—Lifeburst</b> (eBook) (June).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Connie Willis: </i><b>Oxford Time Travel 02—To Say Nothing of the Dog</b> (eBook) (August). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>David Wishart:</i> <b>Marcus Corvinus 01—Ovid</b> (eBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div>Roger Zelazny: <b>A Night in the Lonesome October</b> (eBook) (October). <b>Lord of Light </b>(pBook) (October). <b>Doorways in the Sand</b> (pBook) (October). <b>Roadmarks</b> (pBook) (October).</div><div><br /></div><div>Books read in chronological order (master list): 001: <b>Dream States</b> (McKean). 002: <b>The Maltese Falcon</b> (Hammett). 003: <b>The Atrocity Archives</b> (Stross). 004: <b>The Jennifer Morgue</b> (Stross). 005: <b>The Fuller Memorandum</b> (Stross). 006: <b>The Apocalypse Codex</b> (Stross). 007: <b>The Rhesus Chart </b>(Stross). 008: <b>Sargasso of Space</b> (Norton). 009: <b>The Annihilation Score</b> (Stross). 010: <b>Medusa's Web</b> (Powers). 011: <b>The Anubis Gates</b> (Powers). 012: <b>Storm Over Warlock</b> (Norton). 013: <b>The Stress of Her Regard</b> (Powers). 014: <b>The Stars Are Ours!</b> (Norton). 015: <b>Star Born</b> (Norton). 016: <b>Hide Me Among the Graves</b> (Powers). 017: <b>On Stranger Tides</b> (Powers). 018: <b>The Nightmare Stacks</b> (Stross). 019: <b>The Delirium Brief</b> (Stross). 020: <b>Ordeal in Otherwhere</b> (Norton). 021: <b>On Pirates</b> (Ashbless, Powers and Blaylock). 022: <b>Accelerando</b> (Stross). 023: <b>Down and Out in Purgatory</b> (Powers). 024: <b>Hue 196</b>8 (Bowden). 025: <b>Declare</b> (Powers). 026: <b>At Any Price</b> (Drake). 027: <b>Rolling Hot</b> (Drake). 028: <b>Counting the Cost </b>(Drake). 029: <b>The Vietnam War—1956-1975</b> (Wiest). 030: <b>Triplanetary </b>(Smith). 031: <b>The Terraformers</b> (Newitz). 032: <b>The Mimicking of Known Successes</b> (Older). 033: <b>The Star King</b> (Vance). 034: <b>The West End Horror</b> (Meyer). 035: <b>The Canary Trainer</b> (Meyer). 036: <b>The Killing Machine </b>(Vance). 037: <b>The Sharp End</b> (Drake). 038: <b>Paying the Piper</b> (Drake). 039: <b>The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog</b> (Peters). 040: <b>The Dying Earth</b> (Vance). 041: <b>The Eyes of the Overworld</b> (Vance). 042: <b>Cugel's Saga</b> (Vance). 043: <b>Rhialto the Marvelous</b> (Vance). 044: <b>Flying Lab</b> (Dickerson). 045: <b>The Light Fantastic</b> (Pratchett). 046: <b>Equal Rites</b> (Pratchett). 047: <b>Mort</b> (Pratchett). 048: <b>Sourcery</b> (Pratchett). 049: <b>Wyrd Sisters</b> (Pratchett). 050: <b>Death in the Ashes</b> (Bell). 051: <b>Pyramids</b> (Pratchett). 052: <b>The Eyes of Aurora</b> (Bell). 053: <b>A Practical Guide to Conquering the World</b> (Parker). 054: <b>Agents of Dreamland</b> (Kiernan). 055: <b>Hammer's Slammers 01</b> (Drake). 056: <b>Vietnam—An Epic Tragedy: 1945–1975</b> (Hastings). 057: <b>Hammer's Slammers 02</b> (Drake). 058: <b>The Complete Hammer's Slammers 03</b> (Drake). 059: <b>Medicus</b> (Downie). 060: <b>Terra Incognita</b> (Downie). 061: <b>Persona Non Grata</b> (Downie). 062: <b>Caveat Emptor</b> (Downie). 063: <b>Roman Blood</b> (Saylor). 064: <b>The King's Gambit</b> (Roberts). 065: <b>Semper Fidelis</b> (Downie). 066: <b>Tabula Rasa</b> (Downie). 067: <b>Vita Brevis</b> (Downie). 068: <b>Fields of Fire</b> (Webb). 069: <b>Mars, Inc.</b> (Bova). 070: <b>The Hippopotamus Pool</b> (Peters). 071: <b>Guards! Guards!</b> (Pratchett). 072: <b>First Lensman </b>(Smith). 073: <b>Eric</b> (Pratchett). 074-077: <b>Elric of Melnibone </b>(omnibus) (Moorcock). 078: <b>Snow Crash</b> (Stephenson). 079: <b>Moving Pictures</b> (Pratchett). 080: <b>Reaper Man</b> (Pratchett). 081: <b>Witches Abroad</b> (Pratchett). 082: <b>The Starship & the Canoe</b> (Brower). 083: <b>Borges and Me</b> (Parini). 084: <b>Stories of Your Life and Others</b> (Chiang). 085: <b>Ovid</b> (Wishart). 086: <b>Ginger Star</b> (Brackett). 087: <b>Small Gods</b> (Pratchett). 088: <b>Nova</b> (Delany). 089: <b>Galactic Patrol</b> (Smith). 090: <b>Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang</b> (Wilhelm). 091: <b>Plague Ship</b> (Norton). 092: <b>Bridge of Birds </b>(Hughart). 093: <b>Not in Solitude</b> (Gantz). 094: <b>Lifeburst</b> (Williamson). 095: <b>The Ophiuchi Hotline</b> (Varley). 096: <b>The Mad Scientists' Club</b> (Brinley). 097: <b>The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club</b> (Brinley). 098: <b>Halting State</b> (Stross). 099: <b>The Big Kerplop!</b> (Brinley). 100: <b>Tea with the Black Dragon</b> (MacAvoy). 101: <b>This Island Earth</b> (Jones). 102: <b>Consider Phlebas </b>(Banks). 103: <b>Forerunner Foray</b> (Norton). 104: <b>Moon of Three Rings</b> (Norton). 105: <b>Exiles of the Stars</b> (Norton). 106: <b>Raiders from the Rings </b>(Nourse). 107: <b>Rule 34</b> (Stross). 108: <b>Scavengers in Space</b> (Nourse). 109: <b>Hardwired</b> (Williams). 110: <b>The Labyrinth Index</b> (Stross). 111: <b>Dead Lies Dreaming</b> (Stross). 112: <b>Rocket to Limbo</b> (Nourse). 113: <b>Quantum of Nightmares</b> (Stross). 114: <b>Season of Skulls</b> (Stross).115: <b>Bran Mak Morn</b> (Howard). 116: <b>Player of Games</b> (Banks). 117; <b>On Argentina</b> (Borges). 118: <b>On Writing</b> (Borges). 119: <b>Use of Weapons</b> (Banks). 120: <b>Last and First Men</b> (Stapledon). 121: <b>In Good Faith</b> (Miller). 122: <b>The Making of the Atomic Bomb </b>(Rhodes). 123: <b>To Say Nothing of the Dog</b> (Willis). 124: <b>Ghost Fleet </b>(Singer and Cole). 125: <b>Lords and Ladies</b> (Pratchett). 126: <b>Men at Arms</b> (Pratchett). 127: <b>Soul Music</b> (Pratchett). 128: <b>Three Men in a Boat</b> (Jerome). 129: <b>Escape from Kathmandu</b> (Robinson). 130: <b>Interesting Times</b> (Pratchett). 131 and 132: <b>Three Men on a Boat/Three Men on the Bummel </b>(Jerome). 133: <b>The Wild Shore</b> (Robinson). 134: <b>Victor in the Rubble</b> (Finley). 135: <b>The State of the Art</b> (Banks). 136: <b>The Big Short</b> (Lewis). 137: <b>Analogia</b> (Dyson). 138: <b>The Premonition</b> (Lewis). 139: <b>The Fifth Risk</b> (Lewis). 140: <b>Moneyball </b>(Lewis). 141: <b>Maskerade</b> (Pratchett). 142: <b>Feet of Clay </b>(Pratchett). 143: <b>Hogfather</b> (Pratchett). 144: <b>Last Call</b> (Powers). 145: <b>The Heights of Courage </b>(Kahalani). 146: <b>A Night in the Lonesome October</b> (Zelazny). 147: <b>Lord of Light</b> (Zelazny). 148: <b>Doorways in the Sand</b> (Zelazny). 149: <b>The Sonnets</b> (Borges). 150:<b> 2010</b> (Clarke). 151: <b>Roadmarks</b> (Zelazny). 152: <b>Jingo</b> (Pratchett). 153: <b>The Last Continent</b> (Pratchett). 154: <b>Carpe Jugulum</b> (Pratchett). 155: <b>The Maze of the Enchanter</b> (Smith). 156: <b>A Blink at the Screen—Collected Shorter Fiction</b> (Pratchett). 157: <b>Sundiver</b> (Brin). 158: <b>The Iliad</b> (Homer). 159: <b>Matter</b> (Banks). 160: <b>The Fifth Elephant</b> (Pratchett). 161: <b>The Truth</b> (Pratchett). 162-165: <b>Stormbringer</b> (Moorcock). 166-167: <b>The Stealer of Souls</b> (Moorcock). 168: <b>Agents of Dreamland</b> (Kiernan). 169: <b>Black Helicopters </b>(Kiernan). 170: <b>The Tindalos Asset</b> (Kiernan). 171: <b>All Systems Red</b> (Wells). 172: <b>The Conquest of Gaul</b> (Caesar). 173: <b>The Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne</b> (Clevinger and Wegener). 174: <b>The Art of War</b> (Tzu). 175: <b>Memento Mori</b> (Downie). 176: <b>Prima Facie</b> (Downie). 177: <b>Artificial Condition</b> (Wells). 178: <b>Exit Strategy</b> (Wells). 179: <b>Rogue Protocol </b>(Wells). 180: <b>Fugitive Telemetry</b> (Wells). 181: <b>Wild Cards</b> (Martin) 182: <b>The Palace of Love</b> (Vance). 183: <b>Kalin</b> (Tubb). 184: <b>The Dogs of War</b> (Clevinger and Wegener). 185: <b>Night Watch</b> (Pratchett). 186: <b>Atomic Robo and The Shadow From Beyond Time</b> (Clevinger and Wegener). 187: <b>The Broken Sword</b> (Anderson). 188: <b>The Jester at Scar </b>(Tubb). 189: <b>Lallia</b> (Tubb). 190: <b>The Face</b> (Vance). 191: <b>Technos</b> (Tubb). 192: <b>Atomic Robo & Other Strangeness</b> (Clevinger and Wegener). 193: <b>The Zero Stone</b> (Norton). 194: <b>Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science</b> (Clevinger and Wegener). 195: <b>Atomic Robo and The Ghost of Station X</b> (Clevinger and Wegener). 196: <b>Fortune's Fool</b> (Bell). 197: Atomic Robo and <b>The Flying She-Devils of the Pacific</b> (Clevinger and Wegener). 198: <b>Uncharted Stars</b> (Norton). 199: <b>Network Effect</b> (Wells). 200: <b>System Collapse</b> (Wells). 201: <b>The Book of Dreams</b> (Vance). 202: <b>The Citadel of Forgotten Myths</b> (Moorcock). 203: <b>A Universal History of Iniquity</b> (Borges). 204: <b>Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead </b>(Parker). 205: <b>A Hole in Space</b> (Niven). 206: <b>Veruchia</b> (Tubb). </div><div><br /></div><div>Paper Books: 022.</div><div><br /></div><div>Electronic Books: 165.</div><div><br /></div><div>Audiobooks: 019.</div>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-82371552309483242262023-01-01T10:09:00.004-05:002023-01-01T10:26:58.187-05:002022: The Year in Reading<p> And thus ends the year in reading that was 2022. What was the rundown?</p><p>For books and longer works: <a href="https://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022-year-in-books.html">171</a> (up from 156 in 2021).</p><p>For short works of all types: <a href="https://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022-year-in-shorts.html">525</a> (up from 416 in 2021).</p><p>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.</p><p>Best reads of the year? A mix of fiction and non-fiction. On the fiction side, the best reads included Gregory Benford's <b>Galactic Center</b> series (six books, a reread); Nicola Griffith's <b>Spear</b> (an expansion of the Arthurian Canon); <b>Lord of Light</b> by Roger Zelazny (which might be better than everybody's favorite in his <b>Amber Series</b>); and the two <b>Monk and Robot</b> books by Becky Chambers. </p><p>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 <b>Monk and Robot</b> 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. </p><p>Runner ups would include <b>The Expanse</b> (9 books and one anthology) by James S. A. Corey; <b>The Amber Series</b> by Roger Zelazny; the <b>Murderbot Series</b> by Martha Wells; the <b>Revelation Space/Cojoiner Series</b> by Alastair Reynolds and the first two books of <b>The Red Trilogy</b> by Linda Nagata. </p><p>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). </p><p>On the nonfiction side, the best reads were <b>The Best and the Brightest</b> by David Halberstam (covering the Vietnam War); <b>The Soul of a New Machine</b> by Tracy Kidder (designing a new computer); <b>Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era</b> by James McPherson; <b>Mars Rover Curiosity—An Inside Account From Curiosity's Chief Engineer</b> by Rob Manning and William L. Simon; <b>Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945</b> by Ian Toll (the third in a trilogy on the Second World War in the Pacific Theater). </p><p>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. </p><p>Runner ups would include <b>The Character of Physical Law</b> by Richard Feynman; <b>Danse Macabre</b> by Stephen King; <b>Future Shock</b> by Alvin Toffler; <b>The Guns of August</b> by Barbara Tuchman. </p><p>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). </p><p>There were disappointments this year: <b>The Planeteers</b> by John W. Campbell, Jr. (this space opera series did not age well); <b>Red Rabbit </b>by Tom Clancy (sometimes a trunk novel should stay in the trunk); <b>Chieftains</b> by Bob Forrest-Webb (congratulations, you made war boring); <b>Switched-On Bach</b> 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); <b>Martian Summer</b> 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).</p><p>What will next year bring? Stand by!</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-28456526007533776562022-01-10T07:25:00.049-05:002023-02-01T19:31:25.387-05:002022: The Year in Audio<p> 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?</p><p><i>Current as of: December 31</i>, <i>2022.</i></p><p><i>10,000 Maniacs: </i><b>In My Tribe</b>. <b>Hope Chest</b>. </p><p><i>A Produce:</i> <b>A Smooth Surface</b>. <b>Land of a Thousand Trances</b>. </p><p><i>The Alan Parsons Project:</i> <b>Gaudi</b>. <b>Ammonia Avenue</b>. <b>Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe</b>. <b>The Time Machine</b>. <b>Try Anything Once</b>. <b>A Valid Path</b>. </p><p><i>Isaac A</i><i>lbeniz:</i> <b>Echoes of Spain</b>. <b>Cantos De Espana</b> (3x). </p><p><i>Sir Malcolm Arnold:</i> <b>English, Scottish, Cornish, Irish and Welsh Dances</b>. <b>Chamber Music of Arnold</b>. </p><p><i>The Art of Noise:</i> <b>Into Battle (2x). The Seduction of Claude Debussy</b>. <b>The Best of The Art of Noise</b>. <b>And What Have You Done With My Body, God?</b> <b>Daft</b>. </p><p><i>B-52's: </i><b>Time Capsule</b>. </p><p><i>Johann Sebastian Bach:</i> <b>Bach's Italian Journey</b>. <b>A Bach Celebration</b>. <b>Goldberg Variations</b> <b>(Glenn Gould, 1955 Recording)</b>. <b>J.S. Bach Complete Edition (Disc 01)</b>. <b>J.S. Bach Complete Edition</b> (CD 01-12). <b>The Art of the Fugue and A Musical Offering</b> (2 CD's). <b>Two-Part Inventions and Three-Part Inventions</b>.</p><p><i>The Bangles:</i> <b>Greatest Hits</b>. </p><p><i>The Beatles: </i><b>Rubber Soul</b>. <b>Revolver</b>. </p><p><i>Adrian Belew:</i> <b>Desire of the Rhino King</b> (x2). </p><p><i>Black Water:</i> <b>Beneath the Skin</b>. </p><p><i>Rachel Bloom:</i> <b>Please Love Me</b>.</p><p><i>Blue Oyster Cult:</i> <b>The Essential Blue Oyster Cult</b>. </p><p><i>David Bowie:</i> <b>Station to Station</b> (3x). <b>Blackstar</b> (x2). <b>Diamond Dogs</b>. <b>The Man Who Sold the World</b>. <b>Heroes</b>. <b>ChangesBowie</b>. <b>Fame '90</b>. <b>Tonight</b>. <b>Outside</b>. <b>Scary Monsters</b>. <b>A Reality Tour</b>. <b>Nothing Has Changed</b>. </p><p><i>Gavin Bryars:</i> <b>Obscure Music 01—The Sinking of the Titanic</b>. </p><p><i>Harold Budd:</i> <b>Lovely Thunder </b>(x2).<b> Obscure Music 10—The Pavilion of Dreams</b>.</p><p><i>Kate Bush:</i> <b>Before the Dawn (Live)</b>. <b>The Kick Inside</b>. <b>The Dreaming</b>. <b>Lionheart</b>. <b>Never for Ever</b>. <b>Hounds of Love</b>. <b>The Sensual World</b>. <b>Aerial: A Sky of Honey</b>. <b>Aerial: A Sea of Honey</b>. </p><p><i>David Byrne:</i> <b>The Catherine Wheel</b> (x2). <b>American Utopia on Broadway </b>(x2).</p><p><i>Channel Light Vessel:</i> <b>Automatic</b>. </p><p><i>The Clash:</i> <b>London Calling</b>. <b>Combat Rock</b>.</p><p><i>Dead Can Dance: </i><b>Dead Can Dance</b> (3 CD's) (x2). </p><p><i>Alexandre Desplat: </i><b>Zero Dark Thirty</b>. <b>The Imitation Game</b>. </p><p><i>Dire Straits:</i> <b>Dire Straits</b>. <b>Making Movies</b>. </p><p><i>The Doors:</i> <b>Strange Days</b>. <b>L.A. Woman</b>. <b>The Doors</b>. </p><p><i>Electric Light Orchestra/ELO:</i> <b>Face the Music</b>. <b>Eldorado</b>. <b>Discovery</b>. </p><p><i>Harlan Ellison:</i> <b>On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 01</b>. <b>On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 02</b>. <b>On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 03</b>. <b>On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 04</b>. <b>On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 05</b>. <b>On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 06</b>. <b>On the Road with Harlan Ellison, Volume 0</b>7. </p><p><i>Brian Eno:</i> <b>Nerve Net</b> (2x). <b>Generative Music I</b>. </p><p><i>Brian Eno and David Byrne: </i><b>My Life in the Bush of Ghosts</b>.</p><p><i>Brian Eno and Rick Holland:</i> <b>Drums Between the Bells</b>. </p><p><i>Brian Eno and Karl Hyde:</i> <b>Someday World</b>. </p><p><i>Roger Eno:</i> <b>Voices</b>. </p><p><i>Roger Eno and Jill St. John:</i> <b>The Familiar</b>. </p><p><i>Enya:</i> <b>Watermark</b>. <b>The Celts</b>. <b>Shepherd Moons</b>. <b>A Day Without Rain</b>. </p><p><i>Donald Fagan:</i> <b>Kamakiriad</b>. </p><p><i>Fleetwood Mac:</i> <b>Rumours</b>. <b>Tusk</b>. <b>Tango in the Night</b>. </p><p><i>Peter Gabriel:</i> <b>Up</b>. <b>So</b>. <b>Peter Gabriel 03</b>. </p><p><i>Genesis:</i> <b>Abacab</b>. <b>Invisible Touch</b>. <b>Duke</b>. <b>We Can't Dance</b>. <b>The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway</b> (2 CD's). </p><p><i>Neil Gaiman & Co.:</i> <b>Where's Neil When You Need Him?</b> </p><p><i>Lisa Gerrard: </i><b>The Mirror Pool</b>.</p><p><i>Gentle Giant:</i> <b>Octopus</b>. <b>The Missing Piece</b>. <b>In a Glass House</b>. <b>Free Hand</b>. </p><p><i>Philip Glass:</i> <b>Satyagraha</b> (Metropolitan Opera) (11x). <b>Mishima</b>. <b>Akhnaten</b> (Metropolitan Opera) (14x). <b>Dracula</b>. <b>Kundun </b>(x2). <b>Naqoyqats</b>i (3x). <b>Powaqqatsi</b> (3x). <b>Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance</b> (3x). <b>Anima Mundi</b>. <b>Satyagraha</b> (The New York City Opera, Orchestra & Chorus).<b> Akhnaten </b>(The Stuttgart State Opera, Orchestra & Chorus) (2x). <b>Galileo Galilei</b>. <b>Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode)</b>. <b>Symphony No. 5 (Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya)</b> (x4). <b>Symphony No. 3</b>. <b>Symphony No. 2</b>. <b>Symphony No. 3 and Short Pieces</b>. <b>Symphony No. 2 and Shorter Pieces.</b> <b>Philip on Film (Filmworks by Philip Glass) </b>(CD01-05). <b>Music from the Fog of War</b>. <b>Glassmasters</b> (CD01-03). <b>Einstein on the Beach</b> (x2). <b>Roving Mars</b>. </p><p><i>Global Communications:</i> <b>76:14</b>. </p><p><i>Elliot Goldenthal & Others: </i><b>Heat</b>. </p><p><i>Ludwig Goransson: </i><b>The Mandolorian, Chapter 1</b>. <b>The Mandolorian, Chapter 2</b>. <b>The Mandolorian, Chapter 3</b>. <b>The Mandolorian, Chapter 4</b>. <b>The Mandolorian, Chapter 5</b>. <b>The Mandolorian, Chapter 6</b>. <b>The Mandolorian, Chapter 7.</b> <b>The Mandolorian, Chapter 8</b>. <b>The Mandolorian Season 2, Volume 1 (Chapters 9-12)</b>. <b>The Mandolorian Season 2, Volume 2 (Chapters 13-16)</b>.</p><p><i>Ferde Grofe:</i> <b>Orchestral Works</b>. </p><p><i>Jan Hammer:</i> <b>Miami Vice—The Complete Collection</b>. </p><p><i>Herbie Hancock:</i> <b>Future Shock</b>. </p><p><i>Bernard Herrmann:</i> <b>The Ghost and Mrs. Muir</b>. <b>The Day the Earth Stood Still</b>. </p><p><i>Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL):</i> <b>Mad Max—Fury Road</b> (2x).</p><p><i>Hootie & the Blowfish:</i> <b>Cracked Rear View</b>. </p><p><i>Indigo Girls:</i> <b>1200 Curfews</b> (CD01-02). <b>Nomads Saints Indians</b>. </p><p><i>Jade Warrior: </i><b>Elements </b>(CD01-02) (2x). </p><p><i>James Horner:</i> <b>A Beautiful Mind</b>. <b>Sneakers</b>. </p><p><i>Eric Idle & John Du Prez:</i> <b>Spamalot</b>. </p><p><i>Elton John:</i> <b>Greatest Hits Volume 1</b>. <b>Greatest Hits Volume 2</b>. </p><p><i>Yakko Kanno:</i> <b>Ghost in the Shell—Stand Alone Complex OST 01</b>. <b>Ghost in the Shell—Stand Alone Complex OST 02</b>. <b>Ghost in the Shell—Stand Alone Complex—Be Human</b>. </p><p><i>Kenji Kawai:</i> <b>Ghost in the Shell</b> <b>(Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)</b>.</p><p><i>Kevin Kiner: </i><b>Star Wars: The Clone Wars—Seasons One Through Six</b>. <b>Star Wars: The Clone Wars—The Final Season (Episodes 1-4)</b>. </p><p><i>King Crimson:</i> <b>The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson</b>. <b>In the Court of the Crimson King</b>. </p><p><i>Mark Knopfler:</i> <b>One Take Radio Sessions</b>. <b>Down the Road Whatever</b>.</p><p><i>Mark Korven:</i> <b>The Peripheral (Original Television Series Soundtrack)</b>. </p><p><i>Kraftwerk:</i> <b>Radioactivity</b>. <b>Trans-Europe Express</b>. <b>Autobahn</b>. <b>Man-Machine</b>. <b>Computer World</b>. <b>Tour de France</b>. <b>3-D The Catalogue</b> (CD01-08). <b>Techno-Pop</b>. <b>Ralf & Florian</b>. <b>Kraftwerk 1</b>. <b>Kraftwerk 2</b>. </p><p><i>Kraftwerk & Friends:</i> <b>Kraftwerk Kover Kollection</b> (CD01-06). </p><p><i>Jonathan Larson:</i> <b>Rent</b>. </p><p><i>Led Zeppelin: </i><b>Mothership</b> (x2). </p><p><i>Annie Lennox: </i><b>Medusa</b>. </p><p><i>Clint Mansell:</i> <b>Moon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)</b>. </p><p><i>Cliff Martinez:</i> <b>Solaris (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)</b>. </p><p><i>Sarah McLachlan:</i> <b>Surfacing</b>. </p><p><i>Loreena McKennitt: </i><b>The Book of Secrets</b>. </p><p><i>Meat Loaf:</i> <b>Bat out of Hell</b>. </p><p><i>The Mechanisms:</i> <b>Death to the Mechanisms</b>. </p><p><i>New People:</i> <b>Might Get It Right</b>. </p><p><i>Troy Sterling Nies:</i> <b>Music of Dark Adventure (Omnibus Edition)</b> (x2). </p><p><i>Nine Inch Nails: </i><b>Ghosts I-IV</b>.</p><p><i>Of Monsters and Men:</i> <b>Fever Dream</b>. </p><p><i>Mike Oldfield:</i> <b>Tubular Bells</b>. </p><p><i>Patti Smith Group:</i> <b>Radio Ethiopia</b>. <b>Horses</b>. <b>Easter</b>. </p><p><i>Tom Petty:</i> <b>Wildflowers</b>. </p><p><i>Pink Floyd:</i> <b>Cre/ation—The Early Years (1967–1972)</b>. <b>The Dark Side of the Moon</b>. <b>Wish You Were Here</b>. </p><p><i>Prince</i>: <b>1999</b> (x2). <b>Batman</b>. </p><p><i>Queen:</i> <b>Live Killers </b>(x2). <b>Live at Wembley Stadium</b>. <b>Greatest Hits </b>(CD01-02). <b>The Platinum Collection</b>. </p><p><i>Bonnie Raitt:</i> <b>Luck of the Draw</b>. <b>The Bonnie Raitt Collection</b>. <b>Nick of Time</b>. <b>Souls Alike</b>. </p><p><i>Steve Reich:</i> <b>Music for 18 Musicians</b> (x4). <b>Works—1965–1995</b> (CD001–CD010). <b>Tehillim</b>. <b>The Desert Music</b>. </p><p><i>R.E.M.:</i> <b>Dead Letter Office</b>. <b>Green</b>. <b>Fables of the Reconstruction</b>. <b>Eponymous</b> (x2). <b>Document </b>(x2). <b>Automatic for the People</b>. <b>Out of Time</b>. <b>New Adventures in Hi-Fi. Murmur </b>(x2). <b>Monster</b>. <b>Life's Rich Pageant</b>. <b>Green</b>. </p><p><i>Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: </i><b>The Vietnam War (Original Score)</b> (x2). <b>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (x2)</b>.</p><p><i>Robert Rich:</i> <b>Bestiary</b>. <b>Seven Veils</b>. </p><p><i>Robert Rich and Alio Die:</i> <b>Fissures</b>. </p><p><i>Robert Rich and Lisa Moskow:</i> <b>Yearning</b>. </p><p><i>Steve Roach and Roger King:</i> <b>Dust to Dust</b>.</p><p><i>The Robert Fripp String Quartet:</i> <b>The Bridge Between</b>. </p><p><i>The Rolling Stones:</i> <b>Hot Rocks (1964-1971) </b>(x2). </p><p><i>Todd Rundgren:</i> <b>Faithful</b> (x2). <b>Something/Anything</b>. </p><p><i>Andres Segovia:</i> <b>A Tribute to Segovia</b>. </p><p><i>Howard Shore:</i> <b>The Hobbit 01—An Unexpected Journey</b>. <b>The Hobbit 02—The Desolation of Smaug</b>. </p><p><i>Mark Snow:</i> <b>The Truth and the Light—Music from the X-Files</b>.</p><p><i>Bruce Springsteen:</i> <b>Devils & Dust</b>. <b>The River</b>. <b>High Hopes</b>. <b>Letter to You</b>. </p><p><i>Steely Dan:</i> <b>Countdown to Ecstasy</b>. <b>Can't Buy a Thrill</b>. <b>Aja</b>. </p><p><i>Sting:</i> <b>Brand New Day</b>. <b>Ten Summoner's Tales</b>. <b>The Dream of the Blue Turtles</b>. </p><p><i>Talking Heads: </i><b>Sand in the Vaseline</b> (4x). <b>The Name of This Band is Talking Heads</b>. <b>Naked</b>. <b>Fear of Music</b>. </p><p><i>Tangerine Dream:</i> <b>Strange Behavior</b>. <b>The Park is Mine</b>. <b>The Private Music of Tangerine Dream</b>. <b>Ricochet</b>. <b>Risky Business.</b> <b>220 Volt Live</b>. <b>Thief</b>. </p><p><i>John Tams & Dominic Muldowney: </i><b>Over the Hills and Far Away (The Music of Sharpe)</b>.</p><p><i>Tangerine Dream:</i> <b>The Keep</b>. <b>Stratosfear</b>. <b>Logos</b>. <b>Strange Behavior</b>. <b>Lily on the Beach</b>. <b>Le Parc</b>. <b>Firestarter</b>. <b>Exit</b>. <b>Ricochet</b>. <b>Thief</b>. <b>Rockoon</b>. <b>Wavelength</b>. </p><p><i>Peter Tchaikovsky & Others: </i><b>1812 Overture and Other Pieces</b>.</p><p><i>They Might Be Giants:</i> <b>Dial A Song—20 Years of They Might Be Giants</b>. <b>Apollo 18</b>. <b>The Else</b>. <b>Join Us</b>. </p><p><i>Tin Machine: </i><b>Tin Machine</b>. </p><p><i>Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers:</i> <b>Playback</b> (01-05). </p><p><i>Traditional:</i> <b>Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of <i>Moby Dick</i></b>. <b>Roast Beef of Old England</b>. </p><p><i>The Traveling Wilbury's:</i> <b>The Traveling Wilbury's Volume 1</b>. <b>The Traveling Wilbury's Volume 3</b>. </p><p><i>Jethro Tull:</i> <b>War Child</b>.</p><p><i>U2:</i> <b>Rattle and Hum</b>. </p><p><i>Vangelis:</i> <b>China</b>. <b>Albedo 0.39</b>. <b>Spiral</b>. </p><p><i>Various: </i><b>The Vietnam War (Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick) </b>(x2). <b>O, Brother Where Art Thou?</b> (x2). <b>Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music</b>. <b>English Country Dances</b>.<b> Guitar Concertos</b>. <b>Compounds + Elements</b>. <b>The Bells of St. Genevieve and Other Baroque Delights</b>. <b>O Brother, Where Art Thou?</b> <b>More Songs and Music from <i>Gettysburg</i></b>. </p><p><i>Heitor Villa-Lobos: </i><b>Bachianas Brasileiras</b> (x2).</p><p><i>Antonio Vivaldi: </i><b>Concerti "Alla Rustica" and Others</b>. </p><p><i>Hildegard von Bingen: </i><b>Canticles of Ecstasy</b>. <b>A Feather on the Breath of God</b>. </p><p><i>The Who:</i> <b>Quadrophenia</b>. </p><p><i>John Williams: </i><b>Star Wars 01: The Phantom Menace</b>. <b>Star Wars 02: The Attack of the Clones</b>. <b>Star Wars 03: The Revenge of the Sith</b>. </p><p><i>John Williams and John Powell: </i><b>Solo: A Star Wars Story</b>. </p><p><i>Steve Winwood:</i> <b>Roll With It</b>. </p><p><i>XTC:</i> <b>Skylarking</b>. <b>English Settlement</b>. <b>Drums and Wires </b>(x2). <b>Nonsuch</b>. </p><p><i>Yes:</i> <b>Magnification I</b>. <b>The Yes Album</b>. <b>Union</b>. </p><p><i>Hans Zimmer: </i><b>Interstellar</b> (x4). <b>Blackhawk Down</b>.</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-67131857509419381952022-01-01T12:23:00.002-05:002022-01-01T12:23:27.711-05:002021: The Year in Reading<p> Another year in the books!</p><p>Long forms read? <a href="https://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2021/01/2021-year-in-books.html">156!</a></p><p>Short forms read? <a href="https://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2021/01/2021-year-in-shorts.html">416!</a></p><p>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.</p><p>2022? More of the same, I expect. Fingers crossed.</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-19647611337150987312022-01-01T12:15:00.085-05:002023-01-01T10:26:13.939-05:002022: The Year in Shorts<p> Across the eons comes a tale of a time in a galaxy far, far away, when <a href="http://www.sfsignal.com/">John DeNardo of SF Signal</a> 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!</p><p><b>Number of Stories Read:</b> 525 (out of 365) as of December 31, 2022.</p><p><i>Poul Anderson</i>; <b>The Technic Civilization 04—Young Flandry</b>. Made up of: <i>Enter a Hero, Somewhat Flawed</i> (Hank Davis); <i><b>Ensign Flandry</b>; <b>A Circus of Hells</b></i>; <b><i>The Rebel Worlds</i></b>; <i>Chronology of Technic Civilization</i> (Sandra Miesel) (4 stories, completed).</p><p><i>Stephen Baxter</i> (<a href="https://www.stephen-baxter.com/articles.html#xeelee">from his website</a>): <i>Meeting Medusa</i>; <i>Avatar—The Seven Wonders of the Solar System</i>; <i>The Xeelee Sequence Timeline</i>; <i>H.G. Wells—No End to War</i>; <i>Sir Arthur C. Clarke—1917–2008—A Tribute</i>; <i>The Flooding of London</i>; <i>If Britain Had Fallen</i>; <i>Living at the North Pole of Mars</i>; <i>How William the Conqueror Might Have Lost at Hastings</i>; <i>The Origin of the Destiny's Children Series</i>; <i>The Unconquered Sun</i>; <i>The Origin of the Xeelee Universe</i>; <i>Where Do I Get My Ideas From? — The Roots of Manifold</i>; <i>Other Romes </i>(14 essays; continuing to read). </p><p><i>Gregory Benford:</i> <b>The Galactic Center Companion</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i>; <i>A Hunger for the Infinite</i>; <i>Afterword—A Hunger for the Infinite</i>; <i>Galactic Center Astronomy—2013</i>; <i>Life at Galactic Center</i>; <i>Writing the Galactic Center Series</i>; <i>Astrophysical Journal—1988—An Electrodynamic Model of the Galactic Center</i>; <i>Perspectives</i> (8 entries; collection completed). </p><p><i>Gregory Benford and David G. Hartwell (editor):</i> <b>The Best of Gregory Benford</b>. Made up of: <i>Nobody Lives on Burton Street</i>; <i>Doing Lennon</i>; <i>White Creatures</i>; <i>In Alien Flesh</i>; <i>Redeemer</i>; <i>Dark Sanctuary</i>; <i>Time Shards</i>; <i>Exposures</i>; <i>Relativistic Effects</i>; <i>Of Space/Time and the River</i> (variant of <i>Of Space-Time and the River</i>); <i>Time's Rub</i>; <i>Freezeframe</i>; <i>Proselytes</i>; <i>Matter's End</i>; <i>Mozart on Morphine</i>; <i>Centigrade 233</i>; <i>World Vast, World Various</i>; <i>In the Dark Backward</i> (variant of The Dark Backward); <i>A Desperate Calculus</i>; <i>Zoomers</i>; <i>Slow Symphonies of Mass and Time</i>; <i>A Dance to Strange Musics</i>; <i>Anomalies</i>; <i>Comes the Evolution</i>; <i>Twenty-Two Centimeters</i>; <i>A Life with a Semisent</i>; <i>Applied Mathematical Theology</i>; <i>Bow Shock</i>; <i>Reasons Not to Publish</i>; <i>The Champagne Award</i>; <i>Penumbra</i>; <i>Gravity's Whispers</i>; <i>Mercies</i>; <i>Grace Immaculate</i>; <i>Eagle</i>; <i>The Sigma Structure Symphony</i>; <i>Backscatter</i>; <i>Afterword</i> (38 stories read; collection completed).</p><p><i>John W. Campbell, Jr.: </i><b>The Planeteers</b>. Made up of: <i>The Brain Stealers of Mars</i>; <i>The Double Minds</i>; <i>The Immortality Seekers</i>; <i>The Tenth World</i>; <i>The Brain Pirates</i> (5 stories, collection completed). </p><p><i>James S. A. Corey:</i> <b>The Expanse 00—Memory's Legion</b>. Made up of: <i>Drive</i>; <i>The Butcher of Anderson Station</i>; <i>Gods of Risk</i>; <i>The Churn</i>; <i>The Vital Abyss</i>; <i>Strange Dogs</i>; <i>Auberon</i>; <i>The Sins of Our Fathers</i> (8 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Gordon R. Dickson:</i> <b>Lost Dorsai</b>. Made up of: <i>Lost Dorsai</i>; <i>Warrior</i> (2 stories, collection completed). </p><p><i>Gordon R. Dickson:</i> <b>The Spirit of Dorsai</b>. Made up of: <i>Prologue</i>; <i>Amanda Morgan</i>; <i>Interlude</i>; <i>Brothers</i>; <i>Epilogue</i> (5 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan (editors):</i> <b>The New Space Opera 01</b>. Made up of: (read in 2021) <i>Introduction</i> (Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan); <i>Saving Tiamat </i>(Gwyneth Jones); <i>Verthandi's Ring </i>(Ian McDonald); <i>Hatch </i>(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).</p><p><i>George Alec Effinger:</i> <b>Budayeen Nights</b>. Made up of: <i>Foreword</i> (Barbara Hambly); <i>King of the Cyber Rifles</i>; <i>Marid and the Blood Trail</i>; 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).</p><p><i>Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson:</i> <b>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 01</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Stuart Moore); <i>Transmetropolitan Issues 001-018</i>; <i>I Hate It Here</i>; <i>Vertigo's Winter Edge 02; Transverse Sections </i>(22 stories; collection completed). <b>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 02</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Darick Robertson); <i>Transmetropolitan Issues 019-036</i>; <i>Next Winters</i>; <i>Filth of the City; Transverse Sections</i> (22 stories; collection completed). <b>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 03</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Warren Ellis); <i>Transmetropolitan Issues 037-060</i>; <i>Transverse Sections</i> (26 stories, collection completed). </p><p><i>Harlan Ellison: </i><b>A Boy and His Dog</b>. Made up of: <i>A Boy and His Dog</i>; <i>Ahbhu</i> (2 stories, chapbook collection completed).</p><p><i>Harlan Ellison:</i> <b>Vic and Blood</b>. Made up of: <i>Latest Breaking News—The Kid and the Pooch</i>; <i>Eggsucker</i>; A Boy and His Dog; <i>Run, Spot, Run</i> (3 stories, chapbook collection completed).</p><p><i>Harlan Ellison:</i> <b>"Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman</b>. Made up of: <i>Stealing Tomorrow</i>; <i>"Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman</i> (2 stories chapbook collection completed).</p><p><i>William Gibson:</i> <b>Distrust That Particular Flavor</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction—African Thumb Piano</i>; <i>Rocket Radio</i>; <i>Since 1948</i>; <i>Any 'Mount of World</i>; <i>The Baddest Dude on Earth</i>; <i>Talk for Book Expo, New York</i>; <i>Dead Man Sings</i>; <i>Up the Line</i>; <i>Disneyland with the Death Penalty</i>; <i>Mr. Buk's Window</i>; <i>Shiny Balls of Mud—Hikaru Dorodango and Tokyu Hand</i>s; <i>An Invitation (Foreword to <b>Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings</b> by Jorge Luis Borges)</i>; <i>Metrophagy—The Art and Science of Digesting Great Cities</i>; <i>Modern Boys and Mobile Girls</i>; <i>My Obesssion</i>; <i>My Own Private Tokyo</i>; <i>The Road to Oceania</i>; <i>Skip Spence's Jeans</i>; <i>Terminal City (Introduction to <b>Phantom Shanghai</b> by Greg Girard)</i>; <i>Introduction—"The Body" (Foreword to <b>Stelarc: The Monograph</b> by Marquard Smith)</i>; <i>The Net is a Waste of Time</i>; <i>Time Machine Cuba</i>; <i>Will We Have Computer Chips in Our Heads?</i>; <i>William Gibson's Filmless Festival</i>; <i>Johnny—Notes on a Process</i>; <i>Goggling the Cyborg</i> (26 essays; collection completed).</p><p><i>Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo (editors):</i> <b>Tolkien and the Critics—Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien's <i>The Lord of the Rings</i></b>. Made up of: <i>Foreword</i> (Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo); <i>On the Possibilities of Writing Tolkien Criticism</i> (Neil D. Isaacs); <i>The Dethronement of Power</i> (C.S. Lewis); <i>The Lord of the Hobbits</i> (Edmund Fuller); <i>The Quest Hero</i> (W.H. Auden); <i>The Appeal of <b>The Lord of the Rings</b>—A Struggle for Life</i> (Hugh T. Keenan); Power and Meaning in <b>The Lord of the Rings</b> (Patricia Mayer Spacks); Moral Vision in <b>The Lord of the Rings </b>(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 <b>The Lord of the Rings</b> (Mary Quella Kelly); The Shire, Mordor, and Minas Tirith (Charles Moorman); <b>The Lord of the Ring</b>s As Literature (Burton Raffel); Tolkien and Frodo Baggins (Roger Sale) (6 entries; continuing to read). </p><p><i>M.R. James:</i> <b>Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories</b>. Made up of: (read in 2021) <i>Introduction</i> (S.T. Joshi); <i>Suggestions for Further Reading</i>; <i>A Note on the Text</i>; <i>Canon Alberic's Scrap-book</i>; <i>Lost Hearts</i>; <i>The Mezzotint </i>(x2); <i>The Ash-Tree</i>; <i>Number 13</i>; (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; <i>Casting the Runes</i>; 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 <b>Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary</b>; Preface to <b>More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary</b>; Explanatory Notes (7 stories read in 2021; 2 stories read in 2022, continuing to read).</p><p><i>H.P. Lovecraft: </i><b>The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (An Audiobook)</b>. Made up of: <i>Foreword</i> (The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society); <i>The Alchemist</i>; <i>At the Mountains of Madness</i>; <i>Azathoth</i>; <i>The Beast in the Cave</i>; <i>Beyond the Wall of Sleep</i>; <i>The Book</i>; <i>The Call of Cthulhu</i>; <i>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward</i>; <i>The Cats of Ulthar</i>; <i>Celephais</i>; <i>The Colour Out of Space</i>; <i>Cool Air</i>; <i>Dagon</i>; <i>The Descendant</i>; <i>The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Discarded Draft)</i>; <i>The Doom That Came to Sarnath</i>; <i>The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath</i>; <i>The Dreams in the Witch House</i>; <i>The Dunwich Horror</i>; <i>The Evil Clergyman</i>; <i>Ex Oblivione</i>; <i>Facts Concerning</i>; <i>The Festival</i>; <i>From Beyond</i>; <i>The Haunter of the Dark</i>; <i>He</i>; <i>Herbert West—Reanimator</i>; <i>History of the <b>Necronomicon</b></i>; <i>The Horror at Red Hook</i>; <i>The Hound</i>; <i>Hypnos</i>; <i>Ibid</i>; <i>In the Vault</i>; <i>The Little Glass Bottle</i>; <i>The Lurking Fear</i>; <i>Memory</i>; <i>The Moon-Bog</i>; <i>The Music of Eric Zann</i>; <i>The Mysterious Ship (Long Version)</i>; <i>The Mysterious Ship (Short Version)</i>; <i>The Mystery of the Grave-Yard</i>; <i>The Nameless City</i>; <i>Nyarlathotep</i>; <i>Old Bugs</i>; 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).</p><p><i>George R. R. Martin (editor): </i><b>Wild Cards Volume 1</b>. Made up of: <i>Prologue</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>Thirty Minutes Over Broadway!</i> (Howard Waldrop); <i>The Sleeper</i> (Roger Zelazny); <i>Witness </i>(Walter Jon Williams); <i>Degradation Rites</i> (Melinda Snodgrass); <i>Interlude One</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>Captain Cathode and the Secret Ace</i> (Michael Cassutt); <i>Powers</i> (David D. Levine); <i>Shell Games</i> (George R. R. Martin);<i> Interlude Two</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>The Long, Dark Night of Fortunato</i> (Lewis Shiner); <i>Transfigurations</i> (Victor Milan); <i>Interlude Three</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>Down Deep</i> (Edward Bryant and Leanne C. Harper); <i>Interlude Four</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>Strings</i> (Stephen Leigh as S. L. Farrell); <i>Interlude Five</i> (George R. R. Martin); <i>Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan</i> (Carrie Vaughn); <i>Comes a Hunter</i> (John J. Miller); <i>Epilogue—Third Generation</i> (Lewis Shiner); <i>Appendix—The Science of the Wild Card Virus</i> (Lewis Shiner); <i>Excerpts from the Minutes of the American Metabiological Society Conference on Metahuman Abilitie</i>s (not listed) (22 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Paul McAuley:</i> <i>Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was</i> (1 story, completed).</p><p><i>Joe McCabe (editor): </i><b>Hanging Out with the Dream King—Conversations with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators</b>. Made up of: <i>Foreword</i>; <i>Introduction</i>; <i>Neil Gaiman, Part One</i>; <i>Dave McKean</i>; <i>Kim Newman</i>; <i>Stephen Jones</i>; <i>Karen Berger</i>; <i>Sam Kieth</i>; <i>Mike Dringenberg</i>; <i>Kelley Jones</i>; <i>Charles Vess</i>; <i>Colleen Doran</i>; <i>Shawn McManus</i>; <i>Jill Thompson</i>; <i>P. Craig Russell</i>; <i>Bryan Talbot</i>; <i>Marc Hempel</i>; <i>Michael Zullli</i>; <i>Daniel Vozzo</i>; <i>Todd Klein</i>; <i>Tori Amos</i>; <i>Alice Cooper</i>; <i>Mark Buckingham</i>; <i>Chris Bachalo</i>; <i>Yoshitaka Amano</i>; <i>Andy Kubert</i>; <i>The Flash Girls</i>; <i>Folk Underground</i>; <i>Terry Pratchett</i>; <i>Gene Wolfe</i>; <i>Neil Gaiman, Part Two</i> (31 entries; collection completed). </p><p><i>C.L. Moore:</i> <b>The Best of C.L. Moore</b>. Made up of: <i>Shambleau</i>; <i>Black Thirst</i>; <i>The Bright Illusion</i>; <i>Black God's Kiss</i>; <i>Tryst in Time</i>; <i>Greater Than Gods</i>; <i>Fruit of Knowledge</i>; <i>No Woman Born</i>; <i>Daemon</i>; Vintage Season; Afterword—Footnote to "Shambleau"...and Others (9 stories, continuing to read).</p><p><i>Frederik Pohl:</i> <i>The Gold at Starbow's End</i> (1 story, completed).</p><p><i>Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 8th Baron Dunsany, generally known as Lord Dunsany (edited by Lin Carter): </i><b>At the Edge of the World</b>. Made up of: <i>About "At the Edge of the World" and Lord Dunsany: The Dreams of Mana-Yood-Sushai</i> (Lin Carter); <i>The Cave of Kai</i>;<i> Of the Gods of Averon</i> (variant of <i>The Sorrow of Search</i>); <i>Mlideen</i>; <i>The King That Was Not</i>; <i>The Men of Yarnith</i>; <i>In the Land of Time</i>; <i>Time and the Gods</i>; <i>The Opulence of Yahn</i> (variant of <i>Usury</i>); <i>The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth</i>;<i> Poltarnees,</i> <i>Beholder of Ocean</i>; <i>The Idle City</i>; <i>Bethmoora</i>; <i>Idle Days on the Yann</i>; 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).</p><p><i>Alastair Reynolds:</i> <b>Galactic North</b>. Made up of: <i>Great Wall of Mars</i>; <i>Glacial</i>; <i>A Spy in Europa</i>; <i>Weather</i>; <i>Dilation Sleep</i>; <i>Grafenwelder's Bestiary</i>; <i>Nightingale</i>; <i>Galactic North</i>; <i>Afterword</i>. (8 stories, completed). D<b>iamond Dogs/Turquoise Days</b>. Made up of <i>Diamond Dogs</i>; <i>Turquoise Days</i> (2 stories, completed). </p><p><i>Fred Saberhagen:</i> <i>Wings Out of Shadow</i> (1 story, completed). </p><p><i>Clark Ashton Smith:</i> <b>The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 01—The End of the Story</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Ramsey Campbell); <i>A Note on the Texts</i> (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); <i>To the Daemon</i>; <i>The Abominations of Yondo</i>; <i>Sadastor</i>; <i>The Ninth Skeleton</i>; <i>The Last Incantation</i>; <i>The End of the Story</i>; <i>The Phantoms of the Fire</i>; <i>A Night in Malnéant</i>; <i>The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake</i>; <i>Thirteen Phantasms</i>; <i>The Venus of Azombeii</i>; <i>The Tale of Satampra Zeiros</i>; <i>The Monster of the Prophecy</i>; <i>The Metamorphosis of the World</i>; <i>The Epiphany of Death</i>; <i>A Murder in the Fourth</i> <i>Dimension</i>; <i>The Devotee of Evil</i>; <i>The Satyr</i>; <i>The Planet of the Dead</i>; <i>The Uncharted Isle</i>; <i>Marooned in Andromeda</i>; <i>The Root of Ampoi</i>; <i>The Necromantic Tale</i>; <i>The Immeasurable Horror</i>; <i>A Voyage to Sfanomoë</i>; <i>Story Notes</i> (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); <i>The Satyr: Alternate Conclusion</i>; <i>From the Crypts of Memory</i>; Bibliography (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger) (30 stories; collection completed).</p><p><i>Clark Ashton Smith: </i><b>The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 02—The Door to Saturn</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Tim Powers); <i>A Note on the Texts </i>(Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); <i>The Door to Saturn</i>; <i>The Red World of Polaris</i>; <i>Told in the Desert</i>; <i>The Willow Landscape</i>; <i>A Rendezvous in Averoigne</i>; <i>The Gorgon;</i> <i>An Offering to the Moon</i>; <i>The Kiss of Zoraida</i>; <i>The Face by the River;</i> <i>The Ghoul</i>; <i>The Kingdom of the Worm;</i> <i>An Adventure in Futurity</i>; <i>The Justice of the Elephant</i>; <i>The Return of the Sorcerer</i>; <i>The City of the Singing Flame</i>; <i>A Good Embalmer</i>; <i>The Testament of Athammaus</i>; <i>A Captivity in Serpens</i>; <i>The Letter from Mohaun Los</i>; <i>The Hunters from Beyond</i>; <i>Story Notes</i> (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); <i>Alternate Ending to "The Return of the Sorcerer"</i>; Bibliography (Scott Connors and Ron Hilger); About the Editors (Uncredited) (24 stories; collection completed).</p><p><i>Uncredited:</i> <b>Star Wars—From a Certain Point of View</b>. Made up of: <i>Raymus</i> (Gary Whitta); <i>The Bucket</i> (Christie Golden); <i>The Sith of Datawork</i> (Ken Liu); <i>Stories in the Sand</i> (Griffin McElroy); <i>Reirin</i> (Sabaa Tahir); <i>The Red One </i>(Rae Carson); <i>Rites</i> (John Jackson Miller); <i>Master and Apprentice</i> (Claudia Gray); <i>Beru Whitesun Lars</i> (Meg Cabot); <i>The Luckless Rodian</i> (Renée Ahdieh); <i>Not for Nothing</i> (Mur Lafferty); <i>We Don't Serve Their Kind Here</i> (Chuck Wendig); <i>The Kloo Horn Cantina Caper </i>(Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction); <i>Added Muscle</i> (Paul Dini); <i>You Owe Me a Ride</i> (Zoraida Córdova); <i>The Secrets of Long Snoot</i> (Delilah S. Dawson); <i>Born in the Storm </i>(Daniel José Older); <i>Laina</i> (Wil Wheaton); <i>Fully Operational</i> (Beth Revis); <i>An Incident Report</i> (Mallory Ortberg); <i>Change of Heart</i> (Elizabeth E. Wein); <i>Eclipse </i>(Madeleine Roux); <i>Verge of Greatness </i>(Pablo Hidalgo); <i>Far Too Remote</i> (Jeffrey Brown); <i>The Trigger</i> (Kieron Gillen); <i>Of MSE-6 and Men</i> (Glen Weldon); <i>Bump</i> (Ben Acker and Ben Blacker); <i>End of Watch</i> (Adam Christopher); <i>The Baptist </i>(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).</p><p><i>Oscar Wilde:</i> <i>The Canterville Ghost</i> (1 story, completed).</p><p><i>Gene Wolfe:</i> <b>The Best of Gene Wolfe—A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction</b>. Made up of: <i>The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories</i>; <i>Afterword (The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories)</i>; <i>The Toy Theater</i>; <i>Afterword (The Toy Theater)</i>; <i>The Fifth Head of Cerberus</i>; <i>Afterword (The Fifth Head of Cerberus)</i>; 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).</p><p><i>Bill Wood (editor): </i><b>On Samuel R. Delany's <i>Dhalgren</i></b>. Made up of: <b><i>Contemporary Reviews, 1975-76:</i></b> <i>Only One Hundred Years Till Death of Harlow!</i> (Steven Paley); <i>S.F.</i> (Gerald Jonas); <i>Breakdown of a Breakthrough Novel</i> (Harlan Ellison); <i>Galaxy Bookshelf</i> (Theodore Sturgeon); <i>The Autumnal City</i> (Douglas Barbour); <i>Dully Grinning Delany Descends to Disaster</i> (Darrell Schweitzer); <b><i>Reviews of the 1996 Wesleyan University Press Reprint:</i></b> <i>Now Read This</i> (John Nizalowski); <i>Dhalgren</i> (Rudi Dornemann); <b>Delany on <i>Dhalgren</i>:</b> Of Sex, Objects, Signs, Systems, Sales, SF, And Other Things (Samuel R. Delany); Some Remarks Toward a Reading of <b>Dhalgren</b> (K. Leslie Steiner); From "The Semiology of Silence", an Interview with Samuel R. Delany Included in <b>Silent Interviews</b> (Samuel R. Delany); Looking Back at the Autumnal City (Samuel R. Delany); <b>Sources:</b> The Instruction Manual (John Ashbery); <b>Critical Reaction: </b>Amnesia (Steven Shaviro); An "Introduction" (Jean Marc Gawron); Rites of Reversal—Double Consciousness in Delany's <b>Dhalgren</b> (Mary Kay Bray); This You-Shaped Hole of Insight and Fire (Robert Elliot Fox); Subverted Equations—G. Spencer Brown's <b>Laws of Form</b> and Samuel R. Delany's Analytics of Attention (Kenneth R. James); <b>The Making of <i>Hogg</i>:</b> The Making of <b>Hogg</b>, An Interview from <i>Fiction International</i>; Errata (8 essays; continuing to read).</p><p><i>Roger Zelazny:</i> <b>Seven Tales in Amber</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Warren Lapine); <i>Prologue to <b>Trumps of Doom</b></i>; <i>A Secret of Amber</i> (with Ed Greenwood); <i>Salesman's Tale</i>; <i>Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains</i>; <i>The Shroudling and the Guisel</i>; <i>Coming to a Cord</i>; <i>Hall of Mirrors</i> (8 stories, collection completed). </p><p><i>Roger Zelazny:</i> <b>Threshold—The Complete Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 1</b>. Made up of: <i>Notes</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs); <i>A Word from the Editors</i> (Ann Crimmins and David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs); <i>Out of Nowhere</i> (Robert Silverberg); <i>Before Amber</i> (Carl B. Yoke); <i>A Rose for Ecclesiastes</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: A Rose for Ecclesiastes</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>Braxa</i>; <i>Ecclesiastes' Epilogue</i>; <i>Bok</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: Bok</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>And The Darkness Is Harsh</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: And The Darkness Is Harsh</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>Mr. Fuller's Revolt</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: Mr. Fuller's Revolt</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>Diet</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: Diet</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>Youth Eternal</i>; <i>Slush, Slush, Slush</i>; <i>The Outward Sign</i>; <i>The Agnostic's Prayer</i>; <i>Passion Play</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: Passion Play</i> (Christopher S. Kovacs and Roger Zelazny); <i>On May 13, 1937</i>; <i>Cactus King</i>; <i>The Graveyard Heart</i>; <i>A Word from Zelazny: The Graveyard Heart</i> (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).</p><p><b>Periodicals:</b></p><p>None yet.</p><p><b>Graphic Novels:</b></p><p><i>Divers Hands: </i><b>Darth Vader</b><i> (2015-2016): 001–025</i>,<i> Annual 01 </i>(26 issues, series completed).</p><p><i>Divers Hands:</i> <b>Star Wars (2015-2019):</b> <i>004-021</i>, <i>Annual 01</i>, <i>Special: C-3PO</i> (19 issues, continuing to read).</p><p><i>Divers Hands: </i><b>Star Wars Omnibus 001 (Original Marvel Run):</b><i> 020-028</i> (9 issues, collection completed). <b>Star Wars Omnibus 002 (Original Marvel Run):</b> <i>029-034</i> (5 issues, continuing to read).</p><p><i>Divers Hands:</i> <i>Vader Down</i> (1 story, completed).</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-73875564501893189162022-01-01T12:13:00.170-05:002023-02-02T05:51:07.132-05:002022: The Year in Books<p> Here is a list of books (long form works) that I have read for the year. Books will come in many formats: paper (pBooks), audio (aBooks), electronic (eBooks) and possibly even serialized in magazines.</p><div>Number of books read (as of December 31, 2022): 171.</div><div><br /></div><div>Books read (alphabetical by author, then chronological within author):</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alfred, Lord Tennyson:</i> <b>Idylls of the King</b> (eBook) (September). </div><div><br /></div><div>Poul Anderson: <b>The Technic Civilization 04—Young Flandry </b>(omnibus made up of): <b>Ensign Flandry</b> (eBook) (December). <b>A Circus of Hells</b> (eBook) (December). <b>The Rebel Worlds</b> (eBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Isaac Asimov:</i> <b>Foundation Trilogy 03—Second Foundation</b> (eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Marcus Aurelius:</i> <b>The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius</b> (aBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Stephen Baxter:</i> <b>Xeelee 01—Raft</b> (pBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alfred A. Bell, Jr.:</i> <b>A Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 03—The Corpus Conundrum</b> (eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Gregory Benford:</i> <b>The Best of Gregory Benford</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Galactic Center 01—In the Ocean of Night</b> (aBook) (September). <b>Galactic Center 02—Across the Sea of Suns</b> (aBook) (October). <b>Galactic Center 03—Great Sky River</b> (aBook) (October). <b>Galactic Center 04—Tides of Light</b> (aBook) (November). <b>Galactic Center 05—Furious Gulf</b> (aBook) (December). <b>Galactic Center 06—Sailing Bright Eternity</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Galactic Center Companion</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>James Blish:</i> <b>Cities in Flight (omnibus): 01—They Shall Have Stars</b> (eBook) (December). <b>02—A Life for the Stars</b> (eBook) (December). <b>03—Earthman, Come Home </b>(eBook) (December). <b>04—The Triumph of Time</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>John Brunner:</i> <b>Stand on Zanzibar</b> (aBook) (January). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>James Branch Cabell:</i> <b>Figures of Earth</b> (eBook) (February). <b>The High Place </b>(aBook) (April).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>John W. Campbell, Jr.: </i><b>The Planeteers</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Becky Chambers:</i> <b>Monk & Robot 01—A Psalm for the Wild-Built</b> (eBook) (June) and (ebook) (December). <b>Monk & Robot 02—A Prayer for the Crown–Shy</b> (eBook) (June) (eBook) (December). <b>To Be Taught, If Fortunate</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tom Clancy:</i> <b>Jack Ryan 02—Red Rabbit</b> (aBook) (May). <b>Jack Ryan 03—The Hunt for Red October</b> (eBook) (June).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Arthur C. Clarke: </i><b>2001: A Space Odyssey</b> (eBook) (November). <b>The Fountains of Paradise</b> (eBook) (December). <b>Rendezvous with Rama</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>James S.A. Corey:</i> <b>The Expanse 00—Memory's Legion</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Expanse 01—Leviathan Wakes</b> (eBook) (August). <b>The Expanse 02—Caliban's War</b> (eBook) (August). <b>The Expanse 03—Abaddon's Gate</b> (eBook) (August). <b>The Expanse 04—Cibola Burn</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Expanse 05—Nemesis Games</b> (eBook) (October). <b>The Expanse 06—Babylon's Ashes</b> (eBook) (December). <b>The Expanse 07—Persepolis Rising</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Expanse 08—Tiamat's Wrath</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Expanse 09—Leviathan Falls</b> (aBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Michael Crichton:</i> <b>The Andromeda Strain</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Samuel R. Delany:</i> <b>Dhalgren</b> (aBook) (January).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Gordon R. Dickson:</i> <b>Dorsai 01—Necromancer</b> (aBook) (April). <b>Dorsai 02—Tactics of Mistake</b> (aBook) (April). <b>Dorsai 00—Lost Dorsai</b> (aBook) (April). <b>Dorsai 00—The Spirit of Dorsai</b> (aBook) (April). <b>Dorsai 03—Dorsai</b> (aBook) (April). <b>Dorsai 04—Soldier, Ask Not</b> (aBook) (April). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>George Alec Effinger:</i> <b>Marid Audran 03—The Exile Kiss </b>(eBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Warren Ellis:</i> <b>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 01</b> (pBook) (June). <b>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 02</b> (pBook) (June). <b>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 03</b> (pBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Richard Feynman:</i> <b>The Character of Physical Law</b> (aBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Bob Forrest-Webb:</i> <b>Chieftains</b> (eBook) (June).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs:</i> <b>Sandman Act I</b> (aBook) (August).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>William Gibson:</i> <b>Sprawl 01—Neuromancer</b> (aBook) (July). <b>Sprawl 02—Count Zero</b> (aBook) (July). <b>Sprawl 03—Mona Lisa Overdrive</b> (aBook) (July). <b>Bridge 01—Virtual Light</b> (eBook) (July). <b>Bridge 02—Idoru</b> (aBook) (July). <b>Bridge 03—All Tomorrow's Parties</b> (aBook) (July). <b>Blue Ant 01—Pattern Recognition</b> (aBook) (July). <b>Blue Ant 02—Spook Country</b> (aBook) (July). <b>Blue Ant 03—Zero History</b> (aBook) (July). <b>Distrust That Particular Flavor</b> (aBook) (July). <b>Jackpot 01—The Peripheral</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Jackpot 02—Agency</b> (eBook) (September). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Nicola Griffith:</i> <b>Spear</b> (aBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>David Halberstam:</i> <b>The Best and the Brightest</b> (aBook) (August).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Peter F. Hamilton:</i> <b>Greg Mandel 01—Mindstar Rising</b> (aBook) (June). <b>Greg Mandel 02—A Quantum Murder</b> (aBook) (June). <b>Greg Mandel 03—The Nano Flower</b> (aBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Dashiell Hammett:</i> <b>Thin Man 01—The Thin Man</b> (eBook) (November). <b>Thin Man 02—Return of the Thin Man</b> (aBook) (November). <b>The Glass Key</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Seamus Heaney (Translator):</i> <b>Beowulf </b>(aBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Frank Herbert:</i> <b>Under Pressure</b> (eBook) (May). <b>ConSentiency 01—Whipping Star</b> (eBook) (May). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>"Howard of Warwick":</i> <b>The Chronicles of Brother Hermitage 01—The Heretics of De'Ath</b> (eBook) (March).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Jacob Johnston: </i><b>The Art of Ron Cobb</b> (pBook) (October). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Donald Kagan: </i><b>The Peloponnesian War</b> (pBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Andrew Kessler:</i> <b>Martian Summer—Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Roshanak Khesti:</i> <b>Switched-On Bach</b> (eBook) (July).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tracy Kidder:</i> <b>The Soul of a New Machine</b> (eBook) (April).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Stephen King:</i> <b>Danse Macabre</b> (aBook) (May). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Volker Kutscher:</i> <b>Gereon Rath 01—Babylon Berlin</b> (June) (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Michael Lee Lanning:</i> <b>Tours of Duty—Vietnam War Stories</b> (June) (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ken Layne:</i> <b>Desert Oracle Volume 1—Strange True Tales from the American Southwest</b> (eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Rob Manning and William L. Simon:</i> <b>Mars Rover Curiosity—An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Enginee</b>r (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>George R. R. Martin (editor):</i> <b>Wild Cards 1</b> (aBook) (January).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>James Martin, S.J.:</i> <b>The Abbey—A Story of Discovery</b> (eBook) (June).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Joe McCabe (editor):</i> <b>Hanging Out with the Dream King: Conversations with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators</b> (pBook) (September). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Vonda N. McIntyre:</i> <b>Star Trek—The Entropy Effect</b> (eBook) (April).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>James McPherson:</i> <b>Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era</b> (aBook) (July). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tamsyn Muir:</i> <b>Locked Tomb 01—Gideon the Ninth</b> (aBook) (first time, January) (second time, October). <b>Locked Tomb 02—Harrow the Ninth</b> (aBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Linda Nagata:</i> <b>The Red 01—First Light</b> (eBook) (November). <b>The Red 02—The Trials</b> (eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Larry Niven:</i> <b>The State 01—A World Out of Time</b> (eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Patrick O'Brian:</i> <b>Aubrey–Maturin 01—Master and Commander</b> (pBook) (March). <b>Aubrey–Maturin 02—Post Captain</b> (pBook) (April). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>K.J. Parker: </i><b>The Siege 01—Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City</b> (eBook). <b>The Siege 02—How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It </b>(eBook) (August). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Elizabeth Peters: </i><b>Amelia Peabody 002—The Curse of the Pharaohs</b> (aBook) (April). <b>Amelia Peabody 003—The Mummy Case</b> (aBook) (April). <b>Amelia Peabody 004—Lion in the Valley </b>(aBook) (April). <b>Amelia Peabody 005—The Deeds of the Disturber </b>(aBook) (April). <b>Amelia Peabody 006—The Last Camel Died at Noon</b> (aBook) (May). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Terry Pratchett:</i> <b>Discworld 01—The Color of Magic</b> (aBook) (November). <b>Discworld 00—The World of Poo</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen:</i> <b>The Science of Discworld 02—The Globe</b> (eBook) (December)</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Olga Ravn:</i> <b>The Employees</b> (eBook) (October).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alastair Reynolds:</i> <b>Revelation Space 00—Galactic North</b> (eBook) (November). <b>Revelation Space 00—Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days</b> (eBook) (November). <b>The Prefect 01—Aurora</b> (eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Kristine Kathryn Rusch:</i> <b>Retrieval Artist 01—The Disappeared</b> (aBook) (February). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>John Scalzi:</i> <b>The Kaiju Preservation Society</b> (eBook) (March).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Uwe Schutte:</i> <b>Kraftwerk—Future Music from Germany </b>(eBook) (November).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Clifford D. Simak:</i> <b>A Choice of Gods</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Iain Sinclair:</i> <b>White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings</b> (eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Clark Ashton Smith:</i> <b>The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 01—The End of the Story </b>(eBook) (April). <b>The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 02—A Vintage from Atlantis</b> (eBook) (July). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Neal Stephenson:</i> <b>The Baroque Cycle 07—Currency</b> (aBook). <b>The Baroque Cycle 08—The System of the World </b>(aBook) (February).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alvin Toffler:</i> <b>Future Shock</b> (eBook) (July). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien (Editor):</i> <b>The Silmarillion</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Beren & Luthien </b>(eBook) (September). <b>The Children of Hurin</b> (eBook) (September). <b>The Fall of Gondolin</b> (eBook) (September). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ian Toll: </i><b>War in the Pacific 03—Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945</b> (eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>E.C. Tubb:</i> <b>Dumarest of Terra 01—The Winds of Gath</b> (eBook) (November). <b>Dumarest of Terra 02—Derai</b> (eBook) (November). <b>Dumarest of Terra 03—Toyman</b> (eBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Barbara Tuchman:</i> <b>The Guns of August</b> (eBook) (July). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Jack Vance: </i><b>Dying Earth 01—The Dying Earth</b> (eBook) (September). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>A.E. van Vogt:</i> <b>Slan</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Various:</i> <b>Star Wars Omnibus—A Long Time Ago (Volume 01)</b> (eBook) (January).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Hugh Walters:</i> <b>Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. 01—Blast Off at Woomera/Blast Off at 0300</b> (eBook) (July). <b>Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. 02—The Domes of Pico</b> (eBook) (August). <b>Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. 03—Operation Columbus/First on the Moon</b> (eBook) (August). <b>Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. 04—Moon Base One</b> (eBook) (August). <b>Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. 05—Expedition to Venus</b> (eBook) (December). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Martha Wells:</i> <b>Murderbot 01—All Systems Read</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Murderbot 02—Artificial Condition</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Murderbot 03—Rogue Protocol</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Murderbot 04—Exit Strategy</b> (eBook) (October). <b>Murderbot 05—Fugitive Telemetry</b> (eBook) (October). <b>Murderboth 06—Network Effect</b> (eBook) (October). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Gene Wolfe:</i> <b>The Book of the New Sun 05—The Urth of the New Sun</b> (pBook) (July).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Bob Woodward:</i> <b>Fear</b> (eBook) (September). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Timothy Zahn:</i> <b>The Thrawn Trilogy 01—Heir to the Empire</b> (eBook) (February).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Roger Zelazny:</i> <b>Amber 01—Nine Princes in Amber</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Lord of Light</b> (eBook) (May). <b>Creatures of Light and Darkness</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Amber 02—The Guns of Avalon</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Amber 03—Sign of the Unicorn</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Amber 04—The Hand of Oberon</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Amber 05—The Courts of Chaos</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Amber 06—Trumps of Doom</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Amber 07—Blood of Amber</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Amber 08—Sign of Chaos</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Amber 09—Knight of Shadows</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Amber 10—Prince of Chaos</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Amber 00—Seven Tales in Amber</b> (eBook) (September). <b>Amber 00—Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Castle Amber</b> (with Neil Randall) (pBook) (September). <b>A Night in the Lonesome October</b> (aBook) (September). </div><div><br /></div><div>Books read (in chronological order, master list): 001: <b>Wild Cards 1</b> (Martin). 002: <b>Dhalgren</b> (Delany). 003: <b>Stars Wars—A Long Time Ago</b> (Various). 004: <b>Stand on Zanzibar </b>(Brunner). 005: <b>Gideon the Ninth</b> (Muir). 006: <b>Heir to the Empire</b> (Zahn). 007: <b>The Disappeared</b> (Rusch). 008: <b>Figures of Earth</b> (Cabell). 009: <b>Currency</b> (Stephenson). 010: <b>The System of the World</b> (Stephenson). 011: <b>Nine Princes in Amber </b>(Zelazny). 012: <b>The Heretics of De'Ath</b> (Howard of Warwick). 013: <b>Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City</b> (Parker). 014: <b>Master and Commander</b> (O'Brian). 015: <b>The Kaiju Preservation Society</b> (Scalzi). 016: <b>The Andromeda Strain</b> (Crichton). 017: <b>The Soul of a New Machine</b> (Kidder). 018: <b>Star Trek—The Entropy Effect</b> (McIntyre). 019: <b>Amelia Peabody 002—The Curse of the Pharaohs</b> (Peters). 020: <b>Post Captain</b> (O'Brian). 021: <b>The High Place</b> (Cabell). 022: <b>The Mummy Case</b> (Peters). 023: <b>Lion in the Valley</b> (Peters). 024: <b>The Deeds of the Disturber </b>(Peters). 025: <b>Necromancer </b>(Dickson). 026: <b>Tactics of Mistake</b> (Dickson). 027: <b>Lost Dorsai</b> (Dickson). 028: <b>The Spirit of Dorsai</b> (Dickson). 029: <b>Dorsai</b> (Dickson). 030: <b>The End of the Story</b> (Smith). 031: <b>Soldier, Ask Not</b> (Dickson). 032: <b>Danse Macabre</b> (King). 033: <b>The Last Camel Died at Noon</b> (Peters). 034: <b>Red Rabbit</b> (Clancy). 035: <b>Lord of Light</b> (Zelazny). 036: <b>Whipping Star</b> (Herbert). 037: <b>Under Pressure</b> (Herbert). 038: <b>Chieftains</b> (Forrest-Webb). 039: <b>Creatures of Light and Darkness</b> (Zelazny). 040: <b>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 01</b> (Ellis). 041: <b>The Hunt for Red October </b>(Clancy). 042: <b>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 02</b> (Ellis). 043: <b>Babylon Berlin</b> (Kutscher). 044: <b>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 03</b> (Ellis). 045: <b>Tours of Duty—Vietnam War Stories</b> (Lanning). 046: <b>The Abbey—A Story of Discovery</b> (Martin). 047: <b>The Exile Kiss</b> (Effinger). 048: <b>Mindstar Rising</b> (Hamilton). 049: <b>A Quantum Murder</b> (Hamilton). 050: <b>The Nano Flower</b> (Hamilton). 051: <b>Neuromancer</b> (Gibson). 052: <b>The Urth of the New Sun</b> (Wolfe). 053: <b>Count Zero</b> (Gibson). 054: <b>Mona Lisa Overdrive</b> (Gibson). 055: <b>Virtual Light</b> (Gibson). 056: <b>Idoru</b> (Gibson). 057: <b>All Tomorrow's Parties</b> (Gibson). 058: <b>Pattern Recognition</b> (Gibson). 059: <b>Spook Country</b> (Gibson). 060: <b>Zero History</b> (Gibson). 061: <b>Blast Off at Woomera/Blast Off at 0300</b> (Walters). 062: <b>Switched-On Bach </b>(Khesti). 063: <b>Battle Cry of Freedom</b> (McPherson). 064: <b>Future Shock</b> (Toffler). 065: <b>Distrust That Particular Flavor</b> (Gibson). 066: <b>A Vintage from Atlantis</b> (Smith). 067: <b>The Guns of August</b> (Tuchman). 068: <b>Leviathan Wakes</b> (Corey). 069: <b>The Domes of Pico</b> (Walters). 070: <b>Sandman: Act I</b> (Gaiman and Maggs). 071: <b>The Best and the Brightest</b> (Halberstam). 072: <b>Operation Columbus/First on the Moon </b>(Walters). 073. <b>How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It </b>(Parker). 074: <b>Moon Base One</b> (Walters). 075: <b>Caliban's War</b> (Corey). 076: <b>Abaddon's Gate</b> (Corey). 077: <b>Cibola Burn</b> (Corey). 078: <b>The Silmarillion</b> (Tolkien). 079: <b>Beren & Luthien</b> (Tolkien). 080: <b>Hanging Out with the Dream King</b> (McCabe). 081: <b>A Psalm for the Wild-Built</b> (Chambers). 082: <b>A Prayer for the Crown-Shy</b> (Chambers). 083: <b>The Children of Hurin</b> (Tolkien). 084: <b>The Fall of Gondolin</b> (Tolkien). 085: <b>Fear</b> (Woodward). 086: <b>Idylls of the King</b> (Tennyson). 087: <b>The Dying Earth</b> (Vance). 088: <b>The Guns of Avalon</b> (Zelazny). 089: <b>Sign of the Unicorn</b> (Zelazny). 090: <b>The Best of Gregory Benford</b> (Benford). 091: <b>The Hand of Oberon</b> (Zelazny). 092: <b>The Courts of Chaos</b> (Zelazny). 093: <b>Trumps of Doom</b> (Zelazny). 094: <b>Blood of Amber</b> (Zelazny). 095: <b>Sign of Chaos</b> (Zelazny). 096: <b>Knight of Shadows</b> (Zelazny). 097: <b>Prince of Chaos</b> (Zelazny). 098: <b>Seven Tales in Amber </b>(Zelazny). 099: <b>Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Castle Amber</b> (Zelazny and Randall). 100: <b>The Peripheral</b> (Gibson). 101: <b>Agency</b> (Gibson). 102: <b>In the Ocean of Night</b> (Benford). 103: <b>All Systems Read</b> (Wells). 104: <b>Artificial Condition</b> (Wells). 105: <b>Rogue Protocol</b> (Wells). 106: <b>Exit Strategy</b> (Wells). 107: <b>Across the Sea of Suns</b> (Benford). 108: <b>Nemesis Games</b> (Corey). 109: <b>A Night in the Lonesome October</b> (Zelazny). 110: <b>Fugitive Telemetry</b> (Wells). 111: <b>Network Effect</b> (Wells). 112: <b>Gideon the Ninth</b> (Muir). 113: <b>Great Sky River </b>(Benford). 114: <b>The Art of Ron Cobb</b> (Johnston). 115: <b>The Employees</b> (Ravn). 116: <b>Harrow the Ninth</b> (Muir). 117: <b>First Light</b> (Nagata). 118: <b>Raft</b> (Baxter). 119: <b>The Thin Man</b> (Hammett). 120: <b>Return of the Thin Man</b> (Hammett). 121: <b>Kraftwerk—Future Music from Germany</b> (Schutte). 122: <b>Galactic North</b> (Reynolds). 123: <b>Desert Oracle</b> (Layne). 124: <b>Tides of Light</b> (Benford). 125: <b>2001: A Space Odyssey</b> (Clarke). 126: <b>Second Foundation</b> (Asimov). 127: <b>A World Out of Time</b> (Niven). 128: <b>The Character of Physical Law</b> (Feynman). 129: <b>The Trials</b> (Nagata). 130: <b>Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days</b> (Reynolds). 131: <b>White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings</b> (Sinclair). 132: <b>Twilight of the Gods</b> (Toll). 133: <b>The Corpus Conundrum</b> (Bell). 134: <b>Aurora</b> (Reynolds). 135: <b>The Winds of Gath</b> (Tubb). 136: <b>Derai</b> (Tubb). 137: <b>The Color of Magic </b>(Pratchett). 138: <b>The World of Poo</b> (Pratchett). 139: <b>Toyman</b> (Tubb). 140: <b>The Globe</b> (Pratchett, Stewart and Cohen). 141: <b>Expedition to Venu</b>s (Walters). 142: <b>The Fountains of Paradise</b> (Clarke). 143: <b>The Peloponnesian War</b> (Kagan). 144: <b>A Psalm for the Wild-Built</b> (again) (Chambers). 145: <b>A Prayer for the Crown–Shy </b>(Chambers). 146: <b>Mars Rover Curiosity</b> (Manning and Simon). 147: <b>Rendezvous with Rama</b> (Clarke). 148: <b>Babylon's Ashes</b> (Corey). 149: Beowulf (Heaney). 150: <b>To Be Taught, If Fortunate </b>(Chambers). 151: <b>The Planeteers</b> (Campbell). 152: <b>Slan</b> (van Vogt). 153: <b>The Glass Key</b> (Hammett). 154: <b>Ensign Flandry</b> (Poul Anderson). 155: <b>A Circus of Hells</b> (Anderson). 156: <b>The Rebel Worlds</b> (Anderson). 157: <b>The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius</b> (Aurelius). 158: <b>They Shall Have Stars</b> (Blish). 159: <b>A Choice of Gods</b> (Simak). 160: <b>A Life for the Stars</b> (Blish). 161: <b>Furious Gulf </b>(Benford). 162: <b>Sailing Bright Eternity</b> (Benford). 163: <b>The Galactic Center Companion</b> (Benford). 164: <b>Persepolis Rising</b> (Corey). 165: <b>Tiamat's Wrath</b> (Corey) 166: <b>Leviathan Falls </b>(Corey) 167: <b>Memory's Legion</b> (Corey). 168: <b>Earthman, Come Home</b> (Blish). 169: <b>Spear</b> (Griffith). 170: <b>The Triumph of Time</b> (Blish). 171: <b>Martian Summer </b>(Kessler). </div><div><br /></div><div><div>Paper Books: 011. </div><div><br /></div><div>Electronic Books: 103.</div><div><br /></div><div>Audiobooks: 057.</div><div><br /></div><div>For this year, many of the books were read as I synchronized between the audiobook version and the electronic book version. The count was "awarded" to the category where I "read" the most of the book. As you can see, I did a lot of walking this year, so a large chunk of books were consumed while on those walks.</div></div>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-44393376079694994502022-01-01T11:46:00.084-05:002022-12-31T18:49:49.413-05:00Current Reads (2022)<p> I'm listing these as aBooks (audio), eBooks (electronic, various formats) and pBook (paper, various sizes). In some cases you'll see more than one format listed, this is usually where I have both the electronic and audio formats and they can be synchronized. In many cases, I have both the eBook and the pBook, but you can't synchronize those two!</p><p>In the Current Reads folder of my Kindle, on the nightstand in paper form, on the phone as an audiobook, on the magazine or comics racks (current as of December 31, 2022):</p><div><div><i>Poul Anderson:</i> <b><strike>The Technic Civilization 04—Young Flandr</strike>y</b> (aBook). <b>The Technic Civilization 05—Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire</b> (aBook). <b>The Technic Civilization 06—Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra</b> (aBook). <b>The Technic Civilization 07—Flandry's Legacy: The Technic Civilization Saga</b> (aBook) (all the preceding are omnibus editions, made up of novels and short stories). <b>The Complete Psychotechnic League 01 </b>(eBook). <b>The Complete Psychotechnic League 02</b> (eBook). <b>The Complete Psychotechnic League 03</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Isaac Asimov:</i> <b><strike>Foundation 03—Second Foundation</strike></b> (eBook). <b>Foundation 04—Foundation's Edge</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><div><i>Rick Atkinson:</i> <b>The Liberation Trilogy 01—An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943</b> (eBook).<br /><br /><i>Iain M. Banks:</i> <b>Culture 02—The Player of Games</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 03—Use of Weapons</b> (aBook). <b>Culture 04—The State of the Art</b> (pBook). <b>Culture 05—Excession</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 06—Inversions</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 07—Look to Windward</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 08—Matter</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 09—Surface Detail</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 10—Hydrogen Sonata</b> (eBook). <b>Transition</b> (eBook). <b>The Algebraist</b> (pBook). <b>Against a Dark Background</b> (pBook).<br /><br /><i>Stephen Baxter:</i> <b>Xeelee Omnibus</b> (made up of <b><strike>Raft</strike></b>, <b>Timelike Infinity</b>, <b>Flux</b>, <b>Ring</b>) (pBook). <b>Vacuum Diagrams</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alfred A. Bell, Jr.:</i> <b><strike>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 03—The Corpus Conundrum</strike></b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 04—Death in the Ashes</b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 05—The Eyes of Aurora</b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 06—Fortune's Fool</b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 07—The Gods Help Those</b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 08—Hiding from the Past</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /><i>Gregory Benford:</i> <i><strike>Galactic Center 00—A Hunger for the Infinite</strike></i> (aBook). <b><strike>Galactic Center 01—In the Ocean of Nigh</strike></b>t (aBook). <b><strike>Galactic Center 02—Across the Sea of Suns</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Galactic Center 03—Great Sky River</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Galactic Center 04—Tides of Light</strike></b> (aBook). <strike><b>Galactic Center 05—Furious Gulf</b> </strike>(aBook). <b><strike>Galactic Center 06—Sailing Bright Eternity</strike></b> (aBook) <b><strike>The Galactic Center Companion</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Anomalies</b> (eBook). <b>Against Infinity</b> (eBook). <b>The Stars in Shroud</b> (eBook).<br /><br /></div><div><i>James Blish:</i> <b>Cities in Flight</b> (omnibus): <b><strike>They Shall Have Stars</strike></b>; <b><strike>A Life for the Stars</strike></b>; <b><strike>Earthman, Come Home</strike></b>; <b><strike>The Triumph of Time</strike></b> (eBook). <br /><div><br /></div><div><i>John Brunner:</i> <b style="text-decoration-line: line-through;">Stand on Zanzibar</b> (eBook and aBook). <b>The Sheep Look Up</b> (aBook). <b>The Jagged Orbit</b> (eBook). <b>The Squares of the City</b> (eBook).<br /><br /></div><div><i>C.J. Cherryh:</i> <b>The Hinder Stars 01—Alliance Rising</b> (eBook). <b>The Faded Sun Trilogy</b> (omnibus—<b>The Faded Sun: Kesrith</b>; <b>The Faded Sun: Shon'Jir</b>; <b>The Faded Sun: Kutath</b>) (aBook). <b>Cyteen 01—Cyteen</b> (aBook). <b>Cyteen 02—Regenesis</b> (eBook). <b>Company Wars 02—Alliance Space</b> (omnibus—<b>Merchanter's Luck</b> and <b>Forty Thousand in Gehenna</b>) (eBook). <b>Company Wars 00—Hellburner </b>(eBook). <b>Company Wars 00—Heavy Time </b>(eBook). <b>Company Wars 00—Rimrunners</b> (pBook). <b>Company Wars 00—Tripoint</b> (pBook). <b>Company Wars 00—Finity's End</b> (pBook). <b>Chanur 01—The Pride of Chanur</b> (aBook). <b>Chanur 02—Chanur's Venture</b> (aBook). <b>Chanur 03—The Kif Strike Back</b> (aBook). <b>Chanur 04—Chanur's Homecoming</b> (aBook). <b>Chanur 05—Chanur's Legacy</b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tom Clancy:</i> <b><strike>Jack Ryan 02—Red Rabbit</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Jack Ryan 03—The Hunt for Red October</strike></b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Hal Clement:</i> <b>Mesklin 01—Mission of Gravity</b> (eBook). <b>Mesklin 02—Star Light</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>James S. A. Corey:</i> <b><strike>The Expanse 01—Leviathan Wakes</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Expanse 02—Caliban's War</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Expanse 03—Abaddon's Gate</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Expanse 04—Cibola Burn</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Expanse 05—Nemesis Games</strike></b> (eBook). <strike><b>The Expanse 06—Babylon's Ashes</b> </strike>(eBook). <b><strike>The Expanse 07—Persepolis Rising </strike></b>(eBook). <b><strike>The Expanse 08—Tiamat's Wrath</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Expanse 09—Leviathan Falls</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Expanse 00—Memory's Legion</strike></b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Lindsey Davis:</i> <b>Falco 02—Shadows in Bronze</b> (aBook and eBook); <b>Falco 03—Venus in Copper</b> (aBook and eBook); <b>Falco 04—The Iron Hand of Mars</b> (aBook and eBook); <b>Falco 05—Poseidon's Gold</b>; <b>Falco 06—Last Act in Palmyra</b>; <b>Falco 07—Time to Depart</b>; <b>Falco 08—A Dying Light in Corduba</b>; <b>Falco 09—Three Hands in the Fountain</b>; <b>Falco 10—Two for the Lions</b>; <b>Falco 11—One Virgin Too Many</b>; <b>Falco 12—Ode to a Banker</b>; <b>Falco 13—A Body in the Bath House</b>; <b>Falco 14—The Jupiter Myth</b>; <b>Falco 15—The Accusers</b>; <b>Falco 16—Scandal Takes a Holiday</b>; <b>Falco 17—See Delphi and Die</b>; <b>Falco 18—Saturnalia</b>; <b>Falco 19—Alexandria; Falco 20—Nemesis</b>. <b>The Flavia Albia Series: Flavia 01—The Ides of April</b>; <b>Flavia 02—Enemies at Home</b>; <b>Flavia 03—Deadly Election</b>; <b>Flavia 04—The Graveyard of the Hesperides</b>; <b>Flavia 05—The Third Nero</b>; <b>Flavia 06—Pandora's Boy</b>; <b>Flavia 07—A Capitol Death</b>; <b>Flavia 08—The Grove of the Caesar's</b>; <b>Flavia 09—A Comedy of Terrors</b>. <b>Related:</b> <i>The Spook Who Spoke Again</i> (novella); <i>Vesuvius by Night</i> (novella); <i>Invitation to Die</i> (novella).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Samuel R. Delany:</i> <b><strike>Dhalgren</strike></b> (eBook and aBook). <b>The Atheist in the Attic</b> (eBook). <b>About Writing</b> (eBook). <b>In Search of Silence</b> (eBook). <b>Trouble on Triton</b> (eBook). <b>Babel-17</b> (aBook). <b>Letters from Amherst—Five Narrative Letters</b> (eBook). <b>A, B, C: Three Short Novels</b> (eBook). <b>Nova</b> (aBook). <b>The Motion of Light in Water</b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>George Alec Effinger:</i> <b><strike>The Budayeen Cycle Omnibus: The Exiles Kiss</strike></b> (eBook and separate aBooks). <b>Budayeen Nights</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Warren Ellis:</i> <b><strike>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 01</strike></b> (pBook). <b><strike>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 02</strike></b> (pBook). <b><strike>Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 03</strike></b> (pBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>William Gibson:</i> <b><strike>Sprawl 01—Neuromancer</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Sprawl 02—Count Zero</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Sprawl 03—Mona Lisa Overdrive</strike></b> (aBook). <strike><b>Bridge 01—Virtual Light</b> </strike>(eBook). <b><strike>Bridge 02—Idoru</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Bridge 03—All Tomorrow's Parties</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Blue Ant 01—Pattern Recognition</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Blue Ant 02—Spook Country</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Blue Ant—Zero History</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Jackpot 01—The Peripheral</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Jackpot 02—Agency</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Distrust That Particular Flavor</strike></b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>William Gibson and Bruce Sterling:</i> <b>The Difference Engine</b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>David Halberstam:</i> <b><strike>The Best and the Brightest</strike></b> (aBook).<br /><br /><i>Peter F. Hamilton:</i> <b><strike>Greg Mandel 01—Mindstar Rising</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Greg Mandel 02—A Quantum Murder</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Greg Mandel 03—The Nano Flower</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Salvation 01—Salvation</b> (aBook). <b>Salvation 02—Salvation Lost</b> (aBook). <b>Salvation 03—Saints of Salvation</b> (aBook). <b>The Night's Dawn 01—The Reality Dysfunction</b> (aBook). <b>The Night's Dawn 02—The Neutronium Alchemist</b> (aBook). <b>The Night's Dawn 03—The Naked God</b> (aBook). <b>A Confederation Handbook</b> (eBook). <b>A Second Chance at Eden</b> (eBook). <b>Commonwealth 01—Pandora's Star</b> (aBook). <b>Commonwealth 02—Judas Unchained</b> (aBook). <b>Void 01—The Dreaming Void</b> (aBook). <b>Void 02—The Temporal Void</b> (aBook). <b>Void 03—The Evolutionary Void</b> (aBook). <b>The Chronicle of the Fallers 01—The Abyss Beyond Dreams</b> (aBook). <b>The Chronicle of the Fallers 02—Night Without Stars</b> (aBook). <b>Fallen Dragon</b> (aBook). <b>Great North Road</b> (aBook) .</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Frank Herbert:</i> <b>Dune 02—Dune Messiah</b> (eBook). <b>Dune 03—Children of Dune</b> (eBook). <b><strike>Under Prssure/The Dragon in the Sea </strike></b>(eBook). <b><strike>ConSentiency 01—Whipping Star</strike></b> (eBook). <b>ConSentiency 02—The Dosadi Experiment</b> (eBook). <br /><br /><i>M.R. James:</i> <b>Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Stephen King:</i> <b><strike>Danse Macabre</strike></b> (eBook and aBook). <b>On Writing</b> (eBook and aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Volker Kutscher:</i> <b><strike>Gereon Rath 01—Babylon Berlin</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Gereon Rath 02—The Silent Death</b> (aBook). <b>Gereon Rath 03—Goldstein</b> (aBook). <b>Gereon Rath 04—The Fatherland Files</b> (aBook). <b>Gereon Rath 05—The March Fallen</b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Henry Kuttner:</i> <b>The Best of Henry Kuttner</b> (eBook). <b>The Keeps 01—Clash by Night</b> (eBook). <b>The Keeps 02—Fury</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>George R. R. Martin (editor):</i> <b><strike>Wild Cards 1</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Wild Cards 2—Aces High</b> (aBook). <b>Wild Cards 3—Jokers Wild</b> (aBook).<br /><div><br /></div><div><i>John McPhee:</i> <b>Coming into the Country</b> (aBook) (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coming-into-the-Country/dp/B005C45DXS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1551793231&sr=1-4">link to Coming into the Country</a>).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Barbara Mertz (as Elizabeth Peters):</i> <b><strike>Amelia Peabody 002—The Curse of the Pharaohs</strike></b>; <b><strike>Amelia Peabody 003—The Mummy Case</strike></b>; <b><strike>Amelia Peabody 004—Lion in the Valley</strike></b>; <b><strike>Amelia Peabody 005—The Deeds of the Disturber</strike></b>; <b><strike>Amelia Peabody 006—The Last Camel Died at Noon</strike></b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 007—The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 008—The Hippopotamus Pool</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 009—Seeing a Large Cat</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 010—The Ape Who Guards the Balance</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 011—The Falcon at the Portal</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 012—He Shall Thunder in the Sky</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 013—Lord of the Silent</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 014—The Golden One</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 015—Children of the Storm</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 016—Guardian of the Horizon</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 017—The Serpent on the Crown</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 018—Tomb of the Golden Bird</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 019—A River in the Sky</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 020—The Painted Queen</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody's Egypt—A Compendium</b> (associational) (pBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Nicholas Meyer:</i> <b>The West End Horror</b> (aBook). <b>The Canary Trainer</b> (aBook). <b>The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols</b> (aBook). <b>The Return of the Pharaoh</b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>C.L. Moore:</i> <b><strike>The Best of C.L. Moore</strike></b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner:</i> <b>The Best of C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner</b> (eBook). <b>Earth's Last Citadel</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tamsyn Muir:</i> <b><strike>The Locked Tomb 01—Gideon the Ninth</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Locked Tomb 02—Harrow the Ninth</strike></b> (eBook). <b>The Locked Tomb 03—Nona the Ninth</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Linda Nagata:</i> <b><strike>The Red 01—First Light</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Red 02—The Trials</strike></b> (eBook). <b>The Red 03—Going Dark</b> (eBook). Pacific Storm (eBook). <b>Inverted Frontier 01—Edges</b> (eBook). <b>Inverted Frontier 02—Silver</b> (eBook). <b>Inverted Frontier 03—Needle </b>(eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Patrick O'Brian:</i> <b><strike>Aubrey-Maturin 01—Master & Commander</strike></b> (pBook). <b><strike>Aubrey-Maturin 02—Post Captain</strike></b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 03—H.M.S. Surprise</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 04—The Mauritius Command</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 05—Desolation Island</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 06—The Fortune of War</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 07—The Surgeon's Mate</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 08—The Ionian Mission</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 09—Treason's Harbour</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 10—The Far Side of the World</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 11—The Reverse of the Medal</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 12—The Letter of Marque </b>(pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 13—The Thirteen-Gun Salute</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 14—The Nutmeg of Consolation </b>(pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 15—The Truelove</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 16—The Wine-Dark Sea</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 17—The Commodore</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 18—The Yellow Admiral</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 19—The Hundred Days</b> (pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 20—Blue at the Mizzen </b>(pBook). <b>Aubrey-Maturin 21—21 (The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey) </b>(pBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Megan O'Keefe:</i> <b>Protectorate 02—Chaos Vector</b> (aBook). <b>Protectorate 03—Catalyst Gate</b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>K.J. Parker: </i><b><strike>The Siege 01—Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Siege 02—How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It</strike> </b>(eBook). <b>The Siege 03—A Practical Guide to Conquering the World</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Frederik Pohl:</i> <b>Gateway 03—Heechee Rendezvous</b> (aBook). <b>Gateway 04—The Annals of the Heechee</b> (eBook). <b>Gateway 05—The Gateway Trip</b> (pBook). <b>Gateway 06—The Boy Who Would Live Forever</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tim Powers:</i> <b>The Anubis Gates</b> (aBook). <b>Hide Me Among the Graves</b> (aBook). <b>Medusa's Web</b> (aBook). <b>Vickery and Castine 02—Forced Perspectives</b> (aBook). <b>Fault Lines 01—Last Call</b> (aBook). <b>Fault Lines 02—Expiration Date</b> (aBook). <b>Fault Lines 03—Earthquake</b> <b>Weather</b> (aBook). <b>The Stress of Her Regard</b> (aBook). <b>On Stranger Tides</b> (aBook). <b>Declare</b> (aBook). <b>Three Days to Never</b> (aBook). <b>On Pirates</b> (as by "William Ashlbless") (with James Blaylock) (eBook). <br /><br /><i>Alastair Reynolds:</i> <b>Slow Bullets</b> (eBook). <b>Deep Navigation</b> (eBook). <b>Revenger</b> (aBook). <b>Troika</b> (aBook). <b>Poseidon's Children 01—Blue Remembered Earth</b> (aBook). <b>Poseidon's Children 02—On the Steel Breeze</b> (aBook). <b>Poseidon's Children 03—Poseidon's Wake</b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Prefect 01—Aurora</strike></b> (aBook). <b>The Prefect 02—Elysium Fire</b> (aBook). <strike><b>Revelation Space 00—Galactic North</b> </strike>(aBook). <b><strike>Revelation Space 00—Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Revelation Space 01—Revelation Space</b> (aBook). <b>Revelation Space 02—Chasm City</b> (aBook). <b>Revelation Space 03—Redemption Ark</b> (aBook). <b>Revelation Space 04—Absolution Gap</b> (aBook). <b>Terminal World</b> (aBook). <b>House of Suns</b> (aBook). <b>Pushing Ice</b> (aBook). <b>Century Rain</b> (aBook). <b>Beyond the Aquila Rift—The Best of Alastair Reynolds</b> (eBook). <br /><br /><i>Kim Stanley Robinson:</i> <b>Escape from Kathmandu</b> (eBook). <b>Mars 02—Green Mars</b> (aBook). <b>Mars 03—Blue Mars</b> (aBook). <b>Mars 04—The Martians</b> (eBook). <b>Three Californias 01—The Wild Shore</b> (aBook). <b>Three Californias 02—The Gold Coast</b> (aBook). <b>Three Californias 03—Pacific Edge</b> (aBook). <b>Antarctica</b> (aBook). <b>The Years of Rice and Salt</b> (aBook). <b>Galileo's Dream</b> (aBook). <b>2312</b> (aBook). <b>Aurora</b> (aBook). <b>Shaman</b> (aBook). <b>New York 2140</b> (aBook). <b>Red Moon</b> (aBook). <b>The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Clifford D. Simak: </i><b>The Werewolf Principle</b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Goblin Reservation</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Project Pope</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Time is the Simplest Thing</b> (aBook). <b>The Big Front Yard</b> (aBook). <b>The Ghost of a Model T</b> (aBook). <b>I Am Crying All Inside</b> (aBook). <b><strike>Way Station</strike></b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Olaf Stapledon:</i> <b>Last and First Men</b> (eBook and aBook). <b>Last Men in London</b> (eBook). <b>Star Maker</b> (eBook and aBook). <b>Sirius</b> (eBook and aBook). <b>Odd John</b> (eBook and aBook). <b>Four Encounters </b>(eBook). <b>Nebula Maker</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Neal Stephenson:</i> <b><strike>The Baroque Cycle 07—Currency</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Baroque Cycle 08—The System of the World</strike></b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ian W. Toll:</i> <b><strike>Twilight of the Gods—War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945</strike></b> (eBook). <br /><br /><i>Jack Vance:</i> <b>Demon Princes Omnibus: <strike>The Star King;</strike> The Killing Machine; The Palace of Love; The Face; The Book of Dreams</b> (eBook). <b>Tales of the Dying Earth Omnibus: The Dying Earth; The Eyes of the Overworld; Cugel's Saga; Rhialto the Marvellous</b> (eBook). <b>Dying Earth 03—Cugel's Saga</b> (aBook). <b>Dying Earth 04—Rhialto the Marvellous</b> (aBook). <b>Tschai</b> (omnibus of <b>City of the Chasch</b>; <b>Servants of the Wankh/The Wannek</b>; <b>The Dirdir</b>; <b>The Pnume</b>) (eBook). <b>Alastor Cluster—Trullion (Alastor 2262)</b> (eBook). <b>Alastor Cluster—Marune (Alastor 933)</b> (eBook). <b>Alastor Cluster—Wyst (Alastor 1716)</b> (eBook). <b>The Cadwal Chronicles</b> (omnibus of <b>Araminta Station</b>; <b>Ecce and Old Earth</b>; <b>Throy</b>) (eBook). <b>The Jack Vance Lexicon—The Coined Words of Jack Vance from Abiloid to Zygage</b> (eBook). <b>Ports of Call 02—Lurulu</b> (eBook).<br /></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Gene Wolfe:</i> <b><strike>The Book of the New Sun 05—The Urth of the New Sun</strike></b> (pBook). <b>The Fifth Head of Cerberus</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Roger Zelazny:</i> <b><strike>Amber 01—Nine Princes in Ambe</strike></b>r (eBook). <b><strike>Amber 02—The Guns of Avalon</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Amber 03—Sign of the Unicorn</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Amber 04—The Hand of Oberon</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Amber 05—The Courts of Chaos</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Amber 06—Trumps of Doom</strike></b> (eBook). <strike><b>Amber 07—Blood of Amber</b> </strike>(eBook). <b><strike>Amber 08—Sign of Chaos</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Amber 09—Knight of Shadows</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Amber 10—Prince of Chaos</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Lord of Light</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Creatures of Light and Darkness</strike></b> (aBook). </div>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-61894237759701630092021-01-01T11:04:00.001-05:002021-01-02T11:11:33.220-05:002020: The Year in Reading<p> So, that was the year that was.</p><p>I started the year with high hopes, managed to hit the mark on reading long and short works, but overall feel like I did not make much progress. Most of what I read was titles read previously, given the year (both on a society-wide front and a family-focused front), much of what I read was more for comfort than to expand my horizons.</p><p>Long forms read? <a href="https://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2020/01/2020-year-in-books.html">66!</a></p><p>Short forms read? <a href="https://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2020/01/2020-year-in-shorts.html">434!</a></p><p>Graphic forms read? <a href="https://bernalalpha.blogspot.com/2020/01/2020-year-in-graphics.html">2!</a></p><p>For 2021, I probably will reincorporate the graphic novel count back into the short form count.</p><p>Onward!</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-84429920529469340642021-01-01T10:34:00.066-05:002022-01-01T12:45:45.850-05:002021: The Year in Shorts<p> Across the eons comes a tale of a time in a galaxy far, far away, when <a href="http://www.sfsignal.com/">John DeNardo of SF Signal</a> 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!</p><p><b>Number of Stories Read:</b> 416 (out of 365) as of December 31, 2021.</p><p><i>Ben Aaronovitch:</i> <b>Tales from the Folly</b>. Made up of: <i>Charlaine Harris on Rivers of London</i> (Charlaine Harris); <i>An Introduction to The Introductions</i>; <i>The Home Crowd Advantage</i>; <i>The Domestic</i>; <i>The Cockpit</i>; <i>The Loneliness of the Long-Distant Granny</i>; <i>King of the Rats</i>; <i>A Rare Book of Cunning Device</i>; <i>Introduction: The Others' Stories</i>; <i>A Dedicated Follower of Fashion</i>; <i>Favourite Uncle</i>; <i>Vanessa Sommer's Other Christmas List</i>; <i>Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby</i>; <i>Moments One-Three</i>; <i>Just One More Thing...</i> (15 stories, completed).</p><p><i>Ben Aaaronovitch:</i> <i>What Abigail Did That Summer</i>. <i>The Furthest Station</i>. <i>A Rare Book of Cunning Device</i>. <i>The October Man</i> (4 stories, completed).</p><p><i>Poul Anderson:</i> <b>The Technic Civilization 01—The Van Rijn Method</b>. <i>Made up of: Planets and Profits</i> (Hank Davis); <i>The Saturn Game</i>; <i>Introduction—Wings of Victory</i>; <i>Wings of Victory</i>; <i>Introduction—The Problem of Pain</i>; <i>The Problem of Pain</i>; <i>Introduction—Margin of Profit</i>; <i>Margin of Profit (1978 Revised Version</i>); <i>Introduction—How to be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson</i>; <i>How to be Ethnic in one Easy Lesson</i>; <i>Introduction—The Three-Cornered Wheel</i>; <i>The Three-Cornered Wheel</i>; <i>Introduction—A Sun Invisible</i>; <i>A Sun Invisible</i>; <i>Introduction—The Season of Forgiveness</i>; <i>The Season of Forgiveness</i>; <i>Introduction to <b>The Man Who Counts</b></i>; <b><i>The Man Who Counts</i></b>; <i>Afterword to <b>The Man Who Counts</b></i>; <i>Introduction to Esau</i>; <i>Esau</i>; <i>Introduction to Hiding Place</i>; <i>Hiding Place</i>; <i>A Chronology of Technic Civilization</i> (Sandra Miesel); <i>Appendix I—Original Version of Margin of Profit</i>; <i>Appendix II—The Man Who Counts and the Technic Civilization Series</i> (26 stories; collection completed).</p><p><i>Poul Anderson</i>; <b>The Technic Civilization 02—David Falkayn: Star Trader</b>. <i>Made up of: High Profits and High Adventure</i> (Hank Davis); <i>A Historical Reflection</i>; <i>Territory</i>; <i>Plus Ça Change Plus C'est La Même Chose</i>; <i>The Trouble Twisters</i>; <i>Introduction—Day of Burning</i>; <i>Day of Burning</i>; <i>The Master Key</i>; <b>Satan's World</b>; <i>Introduction—A Little Knowledge</i>; <i>A Little Knowledge</i>; <i>Introduction—Lodestar</i>; <i>Lodestar</i>; <i>Afterword—Lodestar</i>; <i>Chronology of Technic Civilization</i> (Sandra Miesel) (15 stories and essays, collection completed).</p><p><i>Gregory Benford and David G. Hartwell (editor):</i> <b>The Best of Gregory Benford</b>. Made up of: <i>Nobody Lives on Burton Street</i>; <i>Doing Lennon</i>; <i>White Creatures</i>; <i>In Alien Flesh</i>; <i>Redeemer</i>; <i>Dark Sanctuary</i>; <i>Time Shards</i>; <i>Exposures</i>; <i>Relativistic Effects</i>; <i>Of Space/Time and the River</i> (variant of <i>Of Space-Time and the River</i>); <i>Time's Rub</i>; <i>Freezeframe</i>; <i>Proselytes</i>; <i>Matter's End</i>; <i>Mozart on Morphine</i>; <i>Centigrade 233</i>; <i>World Vast, World Various</i>; <i>In the Dark Backward</i> (variant of The Dark Backward); <i>A Desperate Calculus</i>; <i>Zoomers</i>; <i>Slow Symphonies of Mass and Time</i>; <i>A Dance to Strange Musics</i>; <i>Anomalies</i>; <i>Comes the Evolution</i>; <i>Twenty-Two Centimeters</i>; <i>A Life with a Semisent</i>; <i>Applied Mathematical Theology</i>; <i>Bow Shock</i>; <i>Reasons Not to Publish</i>; <i>The Champagne Award</i>; <i>Penumbra</i>; <i>Gravity's Whispers</i>; <i>Mercies</i>; <i>Grace Immaculate</i>; <i>Eagle</i>; <i>The Sigma Structure Symphony</i>; <i>Backscatter</i>; <i>Afterword</i> (38 stories read; collection completed).</p><p><i>Ben Bova:</i> <b>The Kinsman Saga</b>. Made up of: <i>Kinsman</i>; <i>Test in Orbit</i>; <i>The Weathermakers</i>; <i>Fifteen Miles</i>; <i>Zero Gee</i>; <i>Build Me a Mountain</i>; <i>The Lieutenant and the Folksinger</i>; <b><i>Millennium</i></b>. (8 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Lois McMaster Bujold:</i> <i>Winterfair Gifts</i> (1 story, completed). <i>The F</i><i>lowers of Vashnoi</i> (1 story, completed).</p><p><i>Lois McMaster Bujold:</i> <b>Proto Zoa</b>. Made up of: <i>Barter</i>; <i>Garage Sale</i>; <i>The Hole Truth</i>; <i>Dreamweaver's Dilemma</i>; <i>Aftermaths</i> (5 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Becky Chambers:</i> <i>To Be Taught, If Fortunate</i> (1 story).</p><p><i>L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt:</i> <b>The Complete Compleat Enchanter</b>. Made up of: <i>Preface</i> (David Drake); <i>The Roaring Trumpet</i>; <i>The Mathematics of Magic</i>; <i>The Castle of Iron</i>; <i>The Wall of Serpents</i>; <i>The Green Magician</i> (6 entries, collection completed). </p><p><i>Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan (editors):</i> <b>The New Space Opera 01</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan); <i>Saving Tiamat </i>(Gwyneth Jones); <i>Verthandi's Ring </i>(Ian McDonald); <i>Hatch </i>(Robert Reed); 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, continuing to read).</p><p><i>David Drake:</i> <b>Other Times Than Peace</b>. Made up of: <i>Lambs to the Slaughter</i>; <i>Men Like Us</i>; <i>The Day of Glory</i>; <i>The Interrogation Team</i>; <i>A Death in Peacetime</i>; <i>Dreams in Amber</i>; <i>Safe to Sea</i>; <i>The Murder of Halley's Comet</i>; <i>The Hunting Ground</i>; <i>The False Prophet</i>; <i>A Grand Tour</i>. (11 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Richard Feynman:</i> <b>The Meaning of It All</b>. Made up of: <i>The Uncertainty of Science</i>; <i>The Uncertainty of Values</i>; <i>This Unscientific Age</i> (3 essays, collection completed.) <b>Six Easy Pieces</b> (6 essays, collection completed). <b>Six Not–So–Easy Pieces</b> (6 essays, collection completed).</p><p><i>William Gibson: </i><b>Burning Chrome</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i>; <i>Johnny Mnemonic</i>; <i>The Gernsback Continuum</i>; <i>Fragments of a Hologram Rose</i>; <i>The Belonging Kind</i>; <i>Hinterlands</i>; <i>Red Star, Winter Orbit</i>; <i>New Rose Hotel</i>; <i>The Winter Market</i>; <i>Dogfight</i>; <i>Burning Chrome</i> (11 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Jack Graham:</i> <i>Eclipse Phase/El Destino Verde 01—El Destino Verde.</i> <i>Eclipse Phase/El Destino Verde 02—Nostrum.</i> <i>Eclipse Phase/El Destino Verde 03—Termites in the Framework</i> (3 stories, completed).</p><p><i>Robert A. Heinlein:</i> <b>Revolt in 2100</b>. Made up of: <i>"If This Goes On—"</i>; <i>Coventry</i>; <i>Misfit</i>; <i>Concerning Stories Never Written—Postscript</i> (4 stories; collection completed). </p><p><i>M.R. James:</i> <b>Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (S.T. Joshi); <i>Suggestions for Further Reading</i>; <i>A Note on the Text</i>; <i>Canon Alberic's Scrap-book</i>; <i>Lost Hearts</i>; <i>The Mezzotint</i>; <i>The Ash-Tree</i>; <i>Number 13</i>; 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 <b>Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary</b>; Preface to <b>More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary</b>; Explanatory Notes (7 stories, continuing to read).</p><p><i>Mary Robinette Kowal:</i> <i>The Lady Astronaut of Mars</i>; <i>Articulated Restraint</i>; <i>We Interrupt This Broadcast</i>; <i>Rocket's Red</i>; <i>The Phobos Experience</i> (5 stories, completed).</p><p><i>C.L. Moore:</i> <b>Jirel of Joiry</b>. Made up of: <i>Black God's Kiss</i>; <i>Black God's Shadow</i>; <i>Jirel Meets Magic</i>; <i>The Dark Land;</i> <i>Hellsgarde</i>; <i>Quest of the Starstone</i> (6 stories read, collection completed).</p><p><i>Tim Powers:</i> <i>Artificial Light</i> (1 story, completed).</p><p><i>Robert Silverberg (editor):</i> <b>The Science Fiction Hall of Fame—Volume 01</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i> (Robert Silverberg); <i>The Martian Odyssey</i> (Stanley G. Weinbaum); <i>Twilight </i>(John W. Campbell, Jr. as Don A. Stuart); <i>Helen O'Loy</i> (Lester del Rey); <i>The Roads Must Roll</i> (Robert A. Heinlein); <i>Microcosmic God</i> (Theodore Sturgeon); <i>Nightfall</i> (Isaac Asimov); <i>The Weapon Shop</i> (A.E. van Vogt); <i>Mimsy Were the Borogoves</i> (Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore as Lewis Padgett); <i>Huddling Place</i> (Clifford D. Simak); <i>Arena</i> (Frederic Brown); <i>First Contact</i> (Murray Leinster); <i>That Only a Mother</i> (Judith Merril); <i>Scanners Live in Vain</i> (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger as Cordwainer Smith); <i>Mars is Heaven! </i>(Ray Bradbury); <i>The Little Black Bag</i> (C.M. Kornbluth); <i>Born of Man and Woman</i> (Richard Matheson); <i>Coming Attraction </i>(Fritz Leiber); <i>The Quest for Saint Aquin</i> (Anthony Boucher); <i>Surface Tension</i> (James Blish); <i>The Nine Billion Names of God</i> (Arthur C. Clarke); <i>It's a Good Life</i> (Jerome Bixby); <i>The Cold Equations</i> (Tom Godwin); <i>Fondly Fahrenheit</i> (Alfred Bester); <i>The Country of the Kind</i> (Damon Knight); <i>Flowers for Algernon</i> (Daniel Keys); <i>A Rose for Ecclesiastes</i> (Roger Zelazny). (28 stories; collection completed).</p><p><i>Clifford D. Simak:</i> <b>City</b>. Made up of: <i>Introduction</i>; <i>Notes on the First Tale</i>; <i>City</i>; <i>Notes on the Second Tale</i>; <i>Huddling Place</i>; <i>Notes on the Third Tale</i>; <i>Census</i>; <i>Notes on the Fourth Tale</i>; <i>Desertion</i>; <i>Notes on the Fifth Tale</i>; <i>Paradise</i>; <i>Notes on the Sixth Tale</i>; <i>Hobbies</i>; <i>Notes on the Seventh Tale</i>; <i>Aesop</i>; <i>Notes on the Eighth Tale</i>; <i>The Simple Way</i>; <i>Introduction to Epilog</i>; <i>Epilog</i> (19 stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Lewis Thomas:</i> <b>The Lives of a Cell—Notes of a Biology Watcher</b>. Made up of: <i>The Lives of a Cell</i>; <i>Thoughts for a Countdown</i>; <i>On Societies as Organism</i>s; <i>A Fear of Pheromones</i>; <i>The Music of This Sphere</i>; <i>An Earnest Proposal</i>; <i>The Technology of Medicine</i>; <i>Vibes</i>; <i>Ceti</i>; <i>The Long Habit</i>; <i>Antaeus in Manhattan</i>; <i>The MBL</i>; <i>Autonomy</i>; <i>Organelles as Organisms</i>; <i>Germs</i>; <i>Your Very Good Health</i>; <i>Social Talk</i>; <i>Information</i>; <i>Death in the Open</i>; <i>Natural Science</i>; <i>Natural Man</i>; <i>The Iks</i>; <i>Computers</i>; <i>The Planning of Science</i>; <i>Some Biomythology</i>; <i>On Various Words</i>; <i>Living Language</i>; <i>On Probability and Possibility;</i> <i>The World's Biggest Membrane</i> (29 essays read; collection completed).</p><p><i>Lewis Thomas:</i> <b>The Youngest Science—Notes of a Medicine Watcher</b>. Made up of: <i>Amity Street</i>; <i>House Calls</i>; <i>1911 Medicine</i>; <i>1933 Medicine</i>; <i>1937 Internship</i>; <i>Leech Leech, Et Cetera</i>; <i>Nurses</i>; <i>Neurology</i>; <i>Guam and Okinawa</i>; <i>Itinerary</i>; <i>NYU Pathology</i>; <i>NYU Bellevue Medicine</i>; <i>The Board of Health</i>; <i>Endotoxin</i>; <i>Cambridge</i>; <i>The Governance of a University</i>; <i>Rheumatoid Arthritis and Mycoplasmas</i>; <i>MSKCC—The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center</i>; <i>Olfaction and the Tracking Mouse</i>; <i>Illness</i>; <i>Scabies, Scrapie</i>; <i>Essays and Gaia</i>; <i>Appendix</i> (22 essays read; collection completed).</p><p><i>Lewis Thomas:</i> <b>The Medusa and the Snail—More Notes of a Biology Watcher</b>. Made up of: <i>The Medusa and the Snail</i>; <i>The Tucson Zoo</i>; <i>The Youngest and Brightest</i>; <i>One Magic in Medicine</i>; <i>The Wonderful Mistake</i>; <i>Ponds</i>; <i>To Err is Human</i>; <i>The Selves</i>; <i>The Health-Care System</i>; <i>On Cloning a Human Being</i>; <i>On Etymons and Hybrids</i>; <i>The Hazards of Science</i>; <i>On Warts</i>; <i>On Transcendental Metaworry (TMM)</i>; <i>An Apology</i>; <i>On Disease</i>; <i>On Natural Death</i>; <i>A Trip Abroad</i>; <i>On Meddling</i>; <i>On Committees</i>; <i>The Scrambler in the Mind</i>; <i>Notes on Punctuation</i>; <i>The Deacon's Masterpiece</i>; <i>How to Fix the Premedical Curriculum</i>; <i>A Brief Historical Notes on Medical Economics</i>; <i>Why Montaigne in Not a Bore</i>; <i>On Thinking About Thinking</i>; <i>On Embryology</i>; <i>Medical Lessons from History</i> (29 essays read; collection completed).</p><p><i>Lewis Thomas:</i> <b>Late</b> <b>Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony</b>. Made up of: <i>The Unforgettable Fire</i>; <i>The Corner of the Eye</i>; <i>Making Science Work</i>; <i>Alchemy</i>; <i>Clever Animals</i>; <i>On Smell</i>; <i>My Magical Metronome</i>; <i>On Speaking of Speaking</i>; <i>Seven Wonders</i>; <i>An Artificial Heart</i>; <i>Things Unflattened by Science</i>; <i>Basic Science and the Pentagon</i>; <i>Science and "Science"</i>; <i>On the Need for Asylums</i>; <i>Altruism</i>; <i>Falsity and Failure</i>; <i>On Medicine and the Bomb</i>; <i>The Problem of Dementia</i>; <i>The Lie Detector</i>; <i>Some Scientific Advice</i>; <i>The Attic of the Brain</i>; <i>Humanities and Science</i>; <i>On Matters of Doubt</i>; <i>Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony</i>; <i>Notes</i> (24 essays read, collection completed).</p><p><i>Lewis Thomas:</i> <b>The Fragile Species</b>. Made up of: <i>Foreword</i> (Kenneth S. Warren); <i>Fifty Years Out</i>; <i>Becoming a Doctor</i>; <i>The Art and Craft of Memoir</i>; <i>The Life in the Mind</i>; <i>In Time of Plague; AIDS and Drug Abuse</i>; <i>The Odds of Normal Aging</i>; <i>Obligations</i>; <i>Comprehending My Cat Jeoffrey</i>; <i>Science and the Health of the Earth</i>; <i>Sermon at St. John the Divine, June 1984</i>; <i>Cooperation</i>; <i>Communication</i>; <i>Connections</i> (14 essays read, collection completed).</p><p><i>Vernor Vinge:</i> <i>Fast Times at Fairmont High</i> (1 story, completed). <b>True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier</b> (edited by James Frenkel). Made up of: <i>Preface</i> (James Frenkel); <i>Introduction</i> (Vernor Vinge); <i>A Time of Transition/The Human Connection</i> (Danny Hillis); <i>True Nyms and Crypto Anarchy</i> (Timothy C. May); <i>Eventful History—Version 1x</i> (John M. Ford); <i>How is the NII Like a Prison</i><b>?</b> (Alan Wexelblat); <i>Intelligent Software</i> (Pattie Maes); <i>The Right to Read </i>(Richard M. Stallman); <i>Cryptography and the Politics of One's True Name </i>(Leonard N. Foner); <i>The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat</i> (E. Randall Farmer and Chip Morningstar); <i>Social Dimensions of Habitat's Citizenry</i> (F. Randll Farmer); <i>Habitat Anecdotes</i> (F. Randall Farmer); <i>True Magic</i> (Mark Pesce); <i>True Names</i> (Vernor Vinge); <i>Afterword</i> (Marvin Minsky). (15 essays and stories, collection completed).</p><p><i>Martha Wells</i>: <i>The Murderbot Diaries 00—Compulsory</i> (1 story, completed). <i>Home—Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory</i> (1 story, completed).</p><p><i>Roger Zelazny:</i> <b>Dilvish, the Damned</b>. Made up of: <i>Passage to Dilfar</i>; <i>Thelinde's Song</i>; <i>The Bells of Shoredan</i>; <i>A Knight for Merytha</i>; <i>The Places of Aache</i>; <i>A City Divided</i>; <i>The White Beast</i>; <i>Tower of Ice</i>; <i>Devil and the Dancer</i>; <i>Garden of Blood</i>; <i>Dilvish, the Damned</i> (11 stories, completed). <i>A Rose for Ecclesiastes</i> (1 story, completed).</p><p><b>Periodicals:</b></p><p>None yet.</p><p><b>Graphic Novels:</b></p><p><i>Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivela & Company: </i><b>Abbott</b> <i>001-005</i> (5 issues, story completed). <b>Abbott 1973</b> <i>001-005</i> (5 issues, story completed). </p><p><i>Divers Hands:</i> <b>Star Wars</b> (original Marvel run) <i>001-019</i> (19 issues, continuing to read).</p><p><i>Divers Hands:</i> <b>Star Wars (2015–2019)</b> <i>001-003</i> (3 issues, continuing to read).</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-5402375119987818012021-01-01T10:29:00.148-05:002022-01-01T09:27:43.098-05:002021: The Year in Books<div>Here is a list of books (long form works) that I have read for the year. Books will come in many formats: paper (pBooks), audio (aBooks), electronic (eBooks) and possibly even serialized in magazines.</div><div><br /></div><div>Number of books read (as of December 31, 2021): 156.</div><div><br /></div><div>Books read (alphabetical by author, then chronological within author):</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ben Aaronovitch:</i> <b>Peter Grant 01—Rivers of London/Midnight Riot</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Peter Grant 02—Moon Over Soho</b> (aBook) (April). <b>Peter Grant 03—Whispers Under Ground</b> (aBook) (August). <b>Peter Grant 04—Broken Homes</b> (aBook) (August). <b>Peter Grant 05—Foxglove Summer</b> (aBook) (August). <b>Peter Grant 06—The Hanging Tree</b> (aBook) (August). <b>Peter Grant 07—Lies Sleeping</b> (aBook) (August). <b>Peter Grant 08—False Value</b> (aBook) (August). <b>Peter Grant 00—Tales from the Folly</b> (aBook) (August).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ben Aaaronovitch & Andrew Carmel:</i> <b>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 01—Body Work</b> (Lee Sullivan & Luis Guerrero, Illustrations) (eBook). <b>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 02—Night Witch</b> (Lee Sullivan, Illustrator) (eBook). <b>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 03—Black Mould</b> (Lee Sullivan, Illustrator) (eBook). <b>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 04—Detective Stories</b> (Lee Sullivan, Illustrator) (eBook). <b>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 05—Cry Fox</b> (eBook). <b>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 06—Water Weed</b> (Lee Sullivan & Luis Guerrero, Illustrations) (eBook). <b>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 07—Action at a Distance</b> (Brian Williamson, Illustrator) (eBook). <b>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 08—The Fey and the Furious</b> (Lee Sullivan, Illustrator) (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Elliot Ackerman & James G. Stavridis:</i> <b>2034—A Novel of the Next World War</b> (eBook) (March).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Poul Anderson:</i> <b>Technic Civilization 01—The Van Rijn Method</b> (contains one novel and parts of three anthologies; counted as two entries) (aBook) (June). <b>Technic Civilization 02—David Falkayn: Star Trader</b> (contains one novel and parts of two anthologies; counted as two entries) (aBook) (November). <b>Technic Civilization 03—The Rise of the Terran Empire</b> (contains two novels and one anthology, counted as three entries) (aBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Isaac Asimov:</i> <b>Foundation 01—Foundation</b> (eBook) (October). <b>Foundation 02—Foundation and Empire</b> (eBook) (October). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alfred A. Bell, Jr.:</i> <b>A Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 01—All Roads Lead to Murder</b> (eBook) (July). <b>A Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 02—Blood of Caesar</b> (eBook) (July). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Gregory Benford:</i> <b>Galactic Center 01—In the Ocean of Night</b> (aBook) (April). <b>The Best of Gregory Benford</b> (eBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Larry Bond:</i> <b>Red Phoenix</b> (aBook) (January).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ben Bova:</i> The <b>Kinsman Saga </b>(short stories plus the novel <b>Millennium) </b>(aBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Lois McMaster Bujold:</i> <b>The Vorkosigan Saga 13—A Civil Campaign</b> (aBook) (January). <b>The Vorkosigan Saga 14—Diplomatic Immunity</b> (aBook) (January). <b>The Vorkosigan Saga 15—Captain Vorpatril's Alliance</b> (aBook) (January). <b>The Vorkosigan Saga 17—Cryoburn</b> (aBook) (January). <b>The Vorkosigan Saga 18—Gentleman Joele and the Red Queen</b> (aBook) (January). <b>Proto Zoa</b> (aBook) (January).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler:</i> <b>Fail-Safe</b> (aBook) (January).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Becky Chambers:</i> <b>Wayfarers 01—The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet</b> (aBook) (September). <b>Wayfarers 02—A Closed and Common Orbit</b> (aBook) (September). <b>Wayfarers 03—Record of a Spaceborn Few</b> (aBook) (October). <b>Wayfarers 04—The Galaxy and the Ground Within</b> (aBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>C.J. Cherryh:</i> <b>Company Wars 01—Downbelow Station </b>(aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Arthur C. Clarke:</i> <b>Against the Fall of Night</b> (eBook) (April).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Hal Clement (G. Harry Stubbs): </i><b>Cycle of Fire</b> (aBook) (May).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Glen Cook:</i> <b>The Black Company 05—Shadow Games</b> (aBook) (January). <b>The Black Company 06—Dreams of Steel</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Black Company 07—The Silver Spike</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Black Company 08—Bleak Seasons</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Black Company 09—She is the Darkness</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Black Company 10—Water Sleeps</b> (aBook) (December). <b>The Black Company 11—Soldiers Live</b> (aBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Lindsey Davis:</i> <b>Marcus Didius Falco 01—The Silver Pigs</b> (aBook) (April).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt:</i> <b>The Complete Compleat Enchanter</b> (aBook) (May).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Samuel R. Delany:</i> <b>Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noel Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White (Why I Write)</b> (eBook) (September).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Xavier Dollo & Co.:</i> <b>The History of Science Fiction—A Graphic Novel Adventure </b>(pBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>David Drake:</i> <b>Other Times Than Peace</b> (aBook) (November).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>George Alec Effinger:</i> <b>Marid Audran 02—A Fire in the Sun</b> (aBook) (November).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Richard Feynman:</i> <b>The Meaning of It All</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Six Easy Pieces </b>(eBook) (November). <b>Six Not–So–Easy Pieces </b>(eBook) (November).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Richard Feynman (author), David Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein (authors and editors): </i><b>Feynman's Lost Lecture</b> (eBook) (November).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Philip Glass:</i> <b>Words Without Music</b> (aBook) (April).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Maria Dahvana Headley:</i> <b>Beowulf—A New Translation</b> (aBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Robert A. Heinlein:</i> <b>Revolt in 2100</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Methuselah's Children</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Orphan's of the Sky/Universe</b> (eBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Frank Herbert:</i> <b>Dune 01—Dune</b> (aBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Stanley Karnow:</i> <b>Vietnam—A History</b> (pBook) (May).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Philip Keith:</i> <b>Blackhorse Riders—A Desperate Last Stand, An Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot</b> (aBook) (July).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Mary Robinette Kowal:</i> <b>The Lady Astronaut 01—The Calculating Stars</b> (aBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>John Le Carre:</i> <b>George Smiley 01—Call for the Dead</b> (aBook) (January). <b>George Smiley 02—A Murder of Quality</b> (aBook) (January). <b>George Smiley 03—The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</b> (aBook) (January). <b>George Smiley 04—The Looking Glass War</b> (aBook) (January). <b>George Smiley 05—Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy </b>(aBook) (May). <b>George Smiley 06—The Honourable Schoolboy</b> (aBook) (June). <b>George Smiley 07—Smiley's People</b> (aBook) (June). <b>George Smiley 08—The Secret Pilgrim</b> (aBook) (June). <b>George Smiley 09—A Legacy of Spies</b> (aBook) (July).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>John McPhee:</i> <b>Annals of the Former World 02—In Suspect Terrain</b> (aBook) (August). <b>Annals of the Former World 03—Rising from the Plains</b> (aBook) (November). <b>Annals of the Former World 04—Assembling California</b> (aBook) (December). <b>Annals of the Former World 05—Crossing the Craton</b> (aBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Barbara Mertz (as Elizabeth Peters):</i> <b>Amelia Peabody 001—Crocodile on the Sandbank</b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Nicholas Meyer:</i> <b>Sherlock Holmes 01—The Seven-Per-Cent Solution</b> (aBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Mike Mignola & Company:</i> <b>Hellboy</b> <b>Omnibus 01—Seed of Destruction</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Hellboy Omnibus 02—Strange Places</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Hellboy Omnibus 03—The Wild Hunt</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Hellboy Omnibus 04—Hellboy in Hell</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Hellboy—The Complete Short Stories 01 </b>(eBook) (April). </div><div><br /></div><div>C.L. Moore: <b>Black God's Kiss </b>(eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tim O'Brien:</i> <b>The Things They Carried</b> (aBook) (May).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Megan O'Keefe:</i> <b>Protectorate 01—Velocity Weapon</b> (aBook) (July).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Malka Older:</i> <b>Centenal Cycle 01—Infomocracy</b> (aBook) (December). <b>Centenal Cycle 02—Null States</b> (aBook) (December). <b>Centenal Cycle 03—Slate Tectonics</b> (aBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ellis Peters:</i> <b>Brother Cadfael 07—The Sanctuary Sparrow</b> (eBook) (January). <b>Brother Cadfael 08—The Devil's Novice</b> (eBook) (February). <b>Brother Cadfael 09—Dead Man's Ransom</b> (eBook) (February). <b>Brother Cadfael 10—The Pilgrim of Hate</b> (eBook) (February).<b>Brother Cadfael 11—An Excellent Mystery</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Brother Cadfael 12—The Raven in the Foregate</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Brother Cadfael 13—The Rose Rent</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Brother Cadfael 14—The Hermit of Eyton Forest</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Brother Cadfael 15—The Confession of Brother Haluin</b> (eBook) (March). <b>Brother Cadfael 16—The Heretic's Apprentice</b> (eBook) (April). <b>Brother Cadfael 17—The Potter's Field</b> (eBook) (June). <b>Brother Cadfael 18—The Summer of the Danes</b> (eBook) (August). <b>Brother Cadfael 19—The Holy Thief</b> (eBook) (August). <b>Brother Cadfael 20—Brother Cadfael's Penance</b> (eBook) (August). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Frederik Pohl:</i> <b>Gateway 01—Gateway</b> (aBook) (May). <b>Gateway 02—Beyond the Blue Event Horizon</b> (aBook) (May). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tim Powers:</i> <b>Vickery and Castine 01—Alternate Routes</b> (aBook) (June).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Kim Stanley Robinson:</i> <b>Mars 01—Red Mars</b> (aBook) (June). <b>The Ministry for the Future</b> (aBook) (August).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Neil Sheehan:</i> <b>A Bright Shining Lie—John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam</b> (aBook) (May).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Robert Silverberg (Editor):</i> <b>The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I</b> (aBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Clifford D. Simak:</i> <b>The Goblin Reservation</b> (aBook) (May). <b>Project Pope</b> (aBook) (May). <b>City</b> (aBook) (May). <b>Way Station</b> (aBook) (June).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Neal Stephenson:</i> <b>The Baroque Cycle 01—Quicksilver</b> (aBook) (September). <b>The Baroque Cycle 02—King of the Vagabonds</b> (aBook) (September). <b>The Baroque Cycle 03—Odalisque</b> (aBook) (September). <b>The Baroque Cycle 04—Bonanza</b> (aBook) (September). <b>The Baroque Cycle 05—Juncto</b> (aBook) (September). <b>The Baroque Cycle 06—Solomon's Gold</b> (aBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Lewis Thomas:</i> <b>The Lives of a Cell—Notes of a Biology Watcher</b> (aBook) (February). <b>The Medusa and the Snail</b> (aBook) (February). <b>Late</b> <b>Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony</b> (aBook) (June). <b>The Youngest Science—Notes of a Medicine–Watcher</b> (aBook) (November). <b>The Fragile Species</b> (aBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ian W. Toll:</i> <b>Pacific Crucible—War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942</b> (eBook) (October). <b>The Conquering Tide—War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944</b> (aBook) (November).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Vernor Vinge:</i> <b>Rainbows End</b> (eBook) (July). <b>True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier</b> (eBook) (November). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Martha Wells:</i> <b>The Murderbot Diaries 01—All Systems Red</b> (eBook) (June). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 02—Artificial Condition</b> (eBook) (June). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 03—Rogue Protocol</b> (eBook) (June). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 04—Exit Strategy</b> (eBook) (June). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 05—Network Effect</b> (eBook) (June). <b>The Murderbot Diaries 06—Fugitive Telemetry</b> (eBook) (June). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Gene Wolfe:</i> <b>The Book of the New Sun 01—The Shadow of the Torturer</b> (pBook) (April). <b>The Book of the New Sun 02—The Claw of the Conciliato</b>r (eBook) (August). <b>The Book of the New Sun 03—The Sword of the Lictor </b>(eBook) (September). <b>Peace</b> (eBook) (September). <b>The Book of the New Sun 04—The Citadel of the Autarch</b> (eBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div>Roger Zelazny: <b>A Night in Lonesome October</b> (eBook) (October). <b>Dilvish 01—Dilvish, the Damned</b> (eBook) (October). <b>My Name is Legion</b> (eBook) (November). <b>Jack of Shadows</b> (eBook) (November). <b>Roadmarks</b> (aBook) (December). <b>Dilvish 02—The Changing Land</b> (eBook) (December).</div><div><br /></div><div>Books read (in chronological order, master list): 001: <b>Shadow Games</b> (Cook). 002: <b>Call for the Dead</b> (Le Carre). 003: <b>A Murder of Quality</b> (Le Carre). 004: <b>The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</b> (Le Carre). 005: <b>The Looking Glass War</b> (Le Carre). 006: <b>Red Phoenix</b> (Bond). 007: <b>Fail-Safe</b> (Burdick and Wheeler). 008: <b>A Civil Campaign</b> (Bujold). 009: <b>Diplomatic Immunity</b> (Bujold). 010: <b>Captain Vorpatril's Alliance</b> (Bujold). 011: <b>Cryoburn</b> (Bujold). 012: <b>Gentleman Joele and the Red Queen</b> (Bujold). 013: <b>The Sanctuary Sparrow</b> (Peters). 014: <b>Proto Zoa</b> (Bujold). 015: <b>The Devil's Novice</b> (Peters). 016: <b>The Lives of a Cell</b> (Thomas). 017: <b>The Medusa and the Snail</b> (Thomas). 018: <b>Dead Man's Ransom</b> (Peters). 019: <b>The Pilgrim of Hate</b> (Peters). 020: <b>An Excellent Mystery</b> (Peters). 021: <b>The Raven in the Foregate</b> (Peters). 022: <b>The Rose Rent</b> (Peters). 023: <b>The Hermit of Eyton Forest</b> (Peters). 024: <b>2034—A Novel of the Next War</b> (Ackerman & Stavridis). 025: <b>The Confession of Brother Haluin</b> (Peters). 026: <b>Seed of Destruction</b> (Mignola & Co.). 027: <b>Strange Places</b> (Mignola & Co.). 028: <b>The Wild Hunt</b> (Mignola & Co.). 029: <b>Rivers of London/Midnight Riot</b> (Aaronovitch). 030: <b>Hellboy in Hell</b> (Mignola & Co.). 031: <b>Moon Over Soho</b> (Aaronovitch). 032: <b>Against the Fall of Night</b> (Clarke). 033: <b>The Heretic's Apprentice</b> (Peters). 034: <b>The Silver Pigs</b> (Davis). 035: <b>In the Ocean of Night</b> (Benford). 036: <b>The Shadow of the Torturer</b> (Wolfe). 037: <b>Hellboy—The Complete Short Stories 01</b> (Mignola & Co.). 038: <b>Words Without Music</b> (Glass). 039: <b>A Bright Shining Lie—John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam</b> (Sheehan). 040: <b>Cycle of Fire</b> (Clement). 041: <b>Gateway</b> (Pohl). 042: <b>Beyond the Blue Event Horizon</b> (Pohl). 043: <b>Vietnam—A History</b> (Karnow). 044: <b>The Things They Carried</b> (O'Brien). 045: <b>The Goblin Reservation</b> (Simak). 046: <b>Project Pope</b> (Simak). 047: <b>City</b> (Simak). 048: <b>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</b> (Le Carre). 049: <b>The Complete Compleat Enchanter</b> (de Camp and Pratt). 050 and 051: <b>The Van Rijn Method</b> (Anderson). 052: <b>Late</b> <b>Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony</b> (Thomas). 053: <b>The Meaning of It All</b> (Feynman). 054: <b>The Honourable Schoolboy</b> (Le Carre). 055: <b>Smiley's People </b>(Le Carre). 056: <b>Revolt in 2100</b> (Heinlein). 057: <b>All Systems Red</b> (Wells). 058: <b>The Potter's Field</b> (Peters) 059: <b>Alternate Routes</b> (Powers). 060: <b>Way Station</b> (Simak). 061: <b>Artificial Condition</b> (Wells). 062: <b>Rogue Protocol</b> (Wells). 063: <b>Red Mars</b> (Robinson). 064: <b>Exit Strategy</b> (Wells). 065: <b>Network Effect</b> (Wells). 066: <b>Fugitive Telemetry</b> (Wells). 067: <b>The Secret Pilgrim</b> (Le Carre). 068: <b>Methuselah's Children</b> (Heinlein). 069: <b>Orphan's of the Sky</b> (Heinlein). 070: <b>Crocodile on the Sandbank</b> (Mertz as Peters). 071: <b>Blackhorse Riders</b> (Keith). 072: <b>Velocity Weapon</b> (O'Keefe). 073: <b>A Legacy of Spies</b> (Le Carre). 074: <b>Rainbows End</b> (Vinge). 075: <b>All Roads Lead to Murder</b> (Bell). 076: <b>The Blood of Caesar</b> (Bell). 077: <b>In Suspect Terrain</b> (McPhee). 078: <b>The Ministry for the Future</b> (Robinson). 079: <b>Whispers Under Ground</b> (Aaronovitch). 080: <b>Broken Homes</b> (Aaronovitch). 081: <b>The Summer of the Danes</b> (Peters). 082: <b>Foxglove Summer</b> (Aaronovitch). 083: <b>The Hanging Tree</b> (Aaronovitch). 084: <b>Lies Sleeping</b> (Aaronovitch). 085: <b>False Value</b> (Aaronovitch). 086: <b>Tales from the Folly</b> (Aaronovitch). 087: <b>The Holy Thief</b> (Peters). 088: <b>Brother Cadfael's Penance</b> (Peters). 089: <b>The Claw of the Conciliator</b> (Wolfe). 090: <b>The Sword of the Lictor</b> (Wolfe). 091: <b>Peace</b> (Wolfe). 092: <b>Quicksilver</b> (Stephenson). 093: <b>King of the Vagabonds</b> (Stephenson). 094: <b>Odalisque</b> (Stephenson). 095:<b> Body Work</b> (Aaronovitch & Carmel); 096: <b>Night Witch</b> (Aaronovitch & Carmel); 097: <b>Black Mould</b> (Aaronovitch & Carmel); 098: <b>Detective Stories</b> (Aaronovitch & Carmel); 099: <b>Cry Fox</b> (Aaronovitch & Carmel); 100: <b>Water Weed</b> (Aaronovitch & Carmel); 101: <b>Action at a Distance</b> (Aaronovitch & Carmel); 102: <b>The Fey and the Furious</b> (Aaronovitch & Carmel). 103: <b>Of Solids and Surds</b> (Delany). 104: <b>Bonanza</b> (Stephenson). 105: <b>Juncto</b> (Stephenson). 106: <b>The Long Way to a Small, Angry Plane</b>t (Chambers). 107: <b>A Closed and Common Orbit</b> (Chambers). 108: <b>Foundation</b> (Asimov). 109: <b>Foundation and Empire</b> (Asimov). 110: <b>Pacific Crucible—War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942</b> (Toll). 111: <b>Record of a Spaceborn Few</b> (Chambers). 112: <b>Downbelow Station</b> (Cherryh). 113: <b>A Night in Lonesome October</b> (Zelazny). 114: <b>Dilvish, the Damned</b> (Zelazny). 115: <b>My Name is Legion</b> (Zelazny). 116: <b>The Galaxy and the Ground Within</b> (Chambers). 117: <b>Black God's Kiss</b> (Moore). 118: <b>The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I</b> (Silverberg). 119: <b>A Fire in the Sun</b> (Effinger). 120: <b>Rising from the Plains</b> (McPhee). 121: <b>Jack of Shadows</b> (Zelazny). 122: <b>The Conquering Tide—War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944</b> (Toll). 123: <b>Other Times Than Peace</b> (Drake). 124: <b>Dune</b> (Herbert). 125: <b>True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier</b> (Vinge). 126: <b>The Youngest Science—Notes of a Medicine–Watcher </b>(Thomas). 127: <b>Six Easy Pieces</b> (Feynman). <b>Six Not–So–Easy Pieces</b> (Feynman). 128 and 129: <b>David Falkayn: Star Trader</b>. 130: <b>Feynman's Lost Lecture</b> (Feynman, Goodstein & Goodstein). 131: <b>The Citadel of the Autarch</b> (Wolfe). 132: <b>Roadmarks</b> (Zelazny). 133: <b>Solomon's Gold</b> (Stephenson). 134: <b>Assembling California</b> (McPhee). 135: <b>Dreams of Steel </b>(Cook). 136: <b>Crossing the Craton</b> (McPhee). 137: <b>The Silver Spike</b> (Cook). 138: <b>The Changing Land</b> (Zelazny). 139: <b>Bleak Seasons</b> (Cook). 140: <b>Infomocracy</b> (Older). 141: <b>Null States</b> (Older). 142: <b>The Calculating Stars</b> (Kowal). 143: <b>The Seven-Per-Cent Solution</b> (Meyer). 144: <b>Slate Tectonics</b> (Older). 145: <b>Beowulf—A New Translation</b> (Headley). 146 and 147: <b>The Kinsman Saga</b> (Bova). 148: <b>She is the Darkness</b> (Cook). 149 and 150 and 151: <b>The Rise of the Terran Empire</b> (Anderson). 152: <b>The History of Science Fiction—A Graphic Novel Adventure</b> (Dollo & Co.). 153: <b>The Fragile Species</b> (Thomas). 154: <b>Water Sleeps</b> (Cook). 155: <b>Soldiers Live</b> (Cook). 156: <b>The Best of Gregory Benford</b> (Benford).</div><div><br /></div><div>Paper Books: 003. </div><div><br /></div><div>Electronic Books: 062.</div><div><br /></div><div>Audiobooks: 091 (three omnibus editions counting as nine, one omnibus edition counting as two).</div><div><br /></div><div>For this year, many of the books were read as I synchronized between the audiobook version and the electronic book version. The count was "awarded" to the category where I "read" the most of the book. As you can see, I did a lot of walking this year, so a large chunk of books were consumed while on those walks.</div><div><br /></div>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-26526243307667167382021-01-01T09:38:00.133-05:002022-01-01T11:58:30.671-05:00Current Reads (2021)<p> I'm listing these as aBooks (audio), eBooks (electronic, various formats) and pBook (paper, various sizes). In some cases you'll see more than one format listed, this is usually where I have both the electronic and audio formats and they can be synchronized. In many cases, I have both the eBook and the pBook, but you can't synchronize those two!</p>In the Current Reads folder of my Kindle, on the nightstand in paper form, on the phone as an audiobook, on the magazine or comics racks (current as of December 31, 2021):<div><br /></div><div><i>Ben Aaronovitch:</i> <b><strike>Peter Grant 01—Rivers of London/Midnight Riot</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Peter Grant 02—Moon Over Soho</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Peter Grant 03—Whispers Under Ground</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Peter Grant 04—Broken Homes</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Peter Grant 05—Foxglove Summer</strike></b> (eBook). <i><strike>Peter Grant 05a—What Abigail Did That Summer</strike></i> (novella) (eBook). <b><strike>Peter Grant 06—The Hanging Tree</strike></b> (eBook). <i><strike>Peter Grant 06a—The Furthest Station</strike></i> (novella) (eBook). <b><strike>Peter Grant 07—Lies Sleeping</strike></b> (eBook). <i><strike>Peter Grant 07a—The October Man</strike></i> (novella) (eBook). <b><strike>Peter Grant 08—False Value</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Peter Grant 00—Tales from the Folly</strike></b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ben Aaaronovitch & Andrew Carmel:</i> <b><strike>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 01—Body Work</strike></b> (Lee Sullivan & Luis Guerrero, Illustrations) (eBook). <b><strike>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 02—Night Witch</strike></b> (Lee Sullivan, Illustrator) (eBook). <b><strike>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 03—Black Mould</strike></b> (Lee Sullivan, Illustrator) (eBook). <b><strike>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 04—Detective Stories</strike></b> (Lee Sullivan, Illustrator) (eBook). <b><strike>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 05—Cry Fox</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 06—Water Weed</strike></b> (Lee Sullivan & Luis Guerrero, Illustrations) (eBook). <b><strike>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 07—Action at a Distanc</strike>e</b> (Brian Williamson, Illustrator) (eBook). <b><strike>Rivers of London Graphic Novel 08—The Fey and the Furious</strike></b> (Lee Sullivan, Illustrator) (eBook). </div><div><div><br /></div><div><i>Elliot Ackerman & James G. Stavridis:</i> <b><strike>2034—A Novel of the Next World War</strike></b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>William Albracht:</i> <b>Abandoned in Hell—The Fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate</b> (eBook). <br /><div><br /></div><div><i>Poul Anderson:</i> <b><strike>The Technic Civilization 01—The Van Rijn Method</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Technic Civilization 02—David Falkayn: Star Trader</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Technic Civilization 03—Rise of the Terran Empire</strike></b> (aBook). <b>The Technic Civilization 04—Young Flandry</b> (aBook). <b>The Technic Civilization 05—Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire</b> (aBook). <b>The Technic Civilization 06—Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra</b> (aBook). <b>The Technic Civilization 07—Flandry's Legacy: The Technic Civilization Saga</b> (aBook) (all the preceding are omnibus editions, made up of novels and short stories). <b>The Complete Psychotechnic League 01 </b>(eBook). <b>The Complete Psychotechnic League 02</b> (eBook). <b>The Complete Psychotechnic League 03</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Isaac Asimov:</i> <b><strike>Foundation 01—Foundation</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Foundation 02—Foundation and Empire</strike></b> (eBook). <b>Foundation 03—Second Foundation</b> (eBook). <b>Foundation 04—Foundation's Edge</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><div><i>Rick Atkinson:</i> <b>The Liberation Trilogy 01—An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943</b> (eBook).<br /><br /><i>Iain M. Banks:</i> <b><strike>Culture 01—Consider Phleba</strike>s</b> (aBook). <b>Culture 02—The Player of Games</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 03—Use of Weapons</b> (aBook). <b>Culture 04—The State of the Art</b> (pBook). <b>Culture 05—Excession</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 06—Inversions</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 07—Look to Windward</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 08—Matter</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 09—Surface Detail</b> (eBook). <b>Culture 10—Hydrogen Sonata</b> (eBook). <b>Transition</b> (eBook). <b>The Algebraist</b> (pBook). <b>Against a Dark Background</b> (pBook).<br /><br /><i>Stephen Baxter:</i> <b>Xeelee Omnibus</b> (pBook). <b>Vacuum Diagrams</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Alfred A. Bell, Jr.:</i> <b><strike>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 01—All Roads Lead to Murder</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 02—The Blood of Caesar</strike></b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 03—The Corpus Conundrum</b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 04—Death in the Ashes</b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 05—The Eyes of Aurora</b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 06—Fortune's Fool</b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 07—The Gods Help Those</b> (eBook). <b>Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 08—Hiding from the Past</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /><i>Gregory Benford:</i> <i>Galactic Center 00—A Hunger for the Infinite</i> (aBook). <b><strike>Galactic Center 01—In the Ocean of Night</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Galactic Center 02—Across the Sea of Suns</b> (aBook). <b>Galactic Center 03—Great Sky River</b> (aBook). <b>Galactic Center 04—Tides of Light</b> (aBook). <b>Galactic Center 05—Furious Gulf</b> (aBook). <b>Galactic Center 06—Sailing Bright Eternity</b> (aBook). <b>Anomalies</b> (eBook). <b>Against Infinity</b> (eBook). <b>The Stars in Shroud</b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Best of Gregory Benford</strike></b> (eBook).<br /><br /><i>Gregory Benford and Gordon Eklund:</i> <b>If the Stars are Gods</b> (eBook).<div><br /></div><div><i>Larry Bond:</i> <b><strike>Red Phoenix</strike></b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ben Bova:</i> <strike><b>The Kinsman Saga</b> </strike>(<b><strike>Kinsman</strike></b> and <b><strike>Millennium</strike></b>) (aBook and eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Peter Bryant:</i> <b>Red Alert</b> (eBook).<br /><br /><i>John Brunner:</i> <b>Stand on Zanzibar</b> (eBook and aBook). <b>The Sheep Look Up</b> (aBook). <b>The Jagged Orbit</b> (eBook). <b>The Squares of the City</b> (eBook).<br /><br /><i>Lois McMaster Bujold:</i> <b><strike>The Vorkosigan Saga 13—A Civil Campaign</strike></b> (aBook). <i><strike>The Vorkosigan Saga 14—Winterfair Gifts</strike></i> (aBook). <b><strike>The Vorkosigan Saga 15—Diplomatic Immunity</strike></b> (aBook).<i> </i><b><strike>The Vorkosigan Saga 17—Captain Vorpatril's Alliance</strike></b> (aBook). <i><strike>The Vorkosigan Saga 16—The Flowers of Vashnoi</strike></i> (eBook). <b><strike>The Vorkosigan Saga 18—Cryoburn</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Vorkosigan Saga 19—Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Proto Zoa</strike></b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler:</i> <b><strike>Fail-Safe</strike></b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Becker Chambers:</i> <b><strike>Wayfarers 01—The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Wayfarers 02—A Closed and Common Orbit</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Wayfarers 03—Records of a Spaceborn Few</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Wayfarers 04—The Galaxy, and the Ground Within</strike></b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>A. Bertram Chandler:</i> <b>Grimes 01—To the Galactic Rim</b> (omnibus of <b>The Road to the Rim</b>, <b>To Prime the Pump</b>, <b>The Hard Way Up</b>, <b>The Broken Cycle</b>) (eBook)<br /><br /><i>C.J. Cherryh:</i> <b><strike>Company Wars 01—Downbelow Station</strike></b> (eBook and aBook). <b>The Hinder Stars 01—Alliance Rising</b> (eBook). <b>The Faded Sun Trilogy</b> (omnibus—<b>The Faded Sun: Kesrith</b>; <b>The Faded Sun: Shon'Jir</b>; <b>The Faded Sun: Kutath</b>) (aBook). <b>Cyteen 01—Cyteen</b> (aBook). <b>Cyteen 02—Regenesis</b> (eBook). <b>Company Wars 02—Alliance Space</b> (omnibus—<b>Merchanter's Luck</b> and <b>Forty Thousand in Gehenna</b>) (eBook). <b>Company Wars 00—Hellburner </b>(eBook). <b>Company Wars 00—Heavy Time </b>(eBook). <b>Company Wars 00—Rimrunners</b> (pBook). <b>Company Wars 00—Tripoint</b> (pBook). <b>Company Wars 00—Finity's End</b> (pBook). <b>Chanur 01—The Pride of Chanur</b> (aBook). <b>Chanur 02—Chanur's Venture</b> (aBook). <b>Chanur 03—The Kif Strike Back</b> (aBook). <b>Chanur 04—Chanur's Homecoming</b> (aBook). <b>Chanur 05—Chanur's Legacy</b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Hal Clement:</i> <b><strike>Cycle of Fire</strike></b> (eBook). <b>Mesklin 01—Mission of Gravity</b> (eBook). <b>Mesklin 02—Star Light</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Arthur C. Clarke:</i> <b><strike>Against the Fall of Night</strike></b> (eBook).<br /><br /><i>Glen Cook:</i> <b><strike>Chronicles of the Black Company 05—Shadow Games</strike></b> (aBook). <strike><b>Chronicles of the Black Company 06—Dreams of Stee</b>l</strike> (aBook). <b><strike>Chronicles of the Black Company 07—The Silver Spike</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Chronicles of the Black Company 08—Bleak Seasons</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Chronicles of the Black Company 09—She is the Darkness</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Chronicles of the Black Company 10—Water Sleeps</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Chronicles of the Black Company 11—Soldiers Live</strike></b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Lindsey Davis:</i> <b>The Marcus Didius Falco Series:</b> <b><strike>Falco 01—The Silver Pigs</strike></b> (aBook and eBook); <b>Falco 02—Shadows in Bronze</b> (aBook and eBook); <b>Falco 03—Venus in Copper</b> (aBook and eBook); <b>Falco 04—The Iron Hand of Mars</b> (aBook and eBook); <b>Falco 05—Poseidon's Gold</b>; <b>Falco 06—Last Act in Palmyra</b>; <b>Falco 07—Time to Depart</b>; <b>Falco 08—A Dying Light in Corduba</b>; <b>Falco 09—Three Hands in the Fountain</b>; <b>Falco 10—Two for the Lions</b>; <b>Falco 11—One Virgin Too Many</b>; <b>Falco 12—Ode to a Banker</b>; <b>Falco 13—A Body in the Bath House</b>; <b>Falco 14—The Jupiter Myth</b>; <b>Falco 15—The Accusers</b>; <b>Falco 16—Scandal Takes a Holiday</b>; <b>Falco 17—See Delphi and Die</b>; <b>Falco 18—Saturnalia</b>; <b>Falco 19—Alexandria; Falco 20—Nemesis</b>. <b>The Flavia Albia Series: Flavia 01—The Ides of April</b>; <b>Flavia 02—Enemies at Home</b>; <b>Flavia 03—Deadly Election</b>; <b>Flavia 04—The Graveyard of the Hesperides</b>; <b>Flavia 05—The Third Nero</b>; <b>Flavia 06—Pandora's Boy</b>; <b>Flavia 07—A Capitol Death</b>; <b>Flavia 08—The Grove of the Caesar's</b>; <b>Flavia 09—A Comedy of Terrors</b>. <b>Related:</b> <i>The Spook Who Spoke Again</i> (novella); <i>Vesuvius by Night</i> (novella); <i>Invitation to Die</i> (novella).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt:</i> <b><strike>The Complete Compleat Enchanter</strike></b> (aBook). </div><div><br /><i>Samuel R. Delany:</i> <b>Dhalgren</b> (eBook and aBook). <b>The Atheist in the Attic</b> (eBook). <b>About Writing</b> (eBook). <b>In Search of Silence</b> (eBook). <b>Trouble on Triton</b> (eBook). <b>Babel-17</b> (aBook). <b>Letters from Amherst—Five Narrative Letters</b> (eBook). <b>A, B, C: Three Short Novels</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>David Drake:</i> <b><strike>Other Times Than Peace</strike></b> (aBook and eBook).<br /><br /><i>George Alec Effinger:</i> <b>The Budayeen Cycle Omnibus: <strike>When Gravity Fails</strike>; <strike>A Fire in the Sun</strike>; The Exiles Kiss</b> (eBook and separate aBooks). <b>Budayeen Nights</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Richard Feynman:</i> <b><strike>The Meaning of It All</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Six Easy Pieces</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Six Not–So–Easy Pieces</strike></b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Richard Feynman (author), David Goodstein, Judith R. Goodstein (authors and editors): </i><b><strike>Feynman's Lost Lecture</strike></b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>William Gibson:</i> <b><strike>Sprawl 00—Burning Chrome</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Sprawl 01—Neuromancer</b> (aBook). <b>Sprawl 02—Count Zero</b> (aBook). <b>Sprawl 03—Mona Lisa Overdrive</b> (aBook). <b>Bridge 01—Virtual Light</b> (eBook). <b>Bridge 02—Idoru</b> (aBook). <b>Bridge 03—All Tomorrow's Parties</b> (aBook). <b>Blue Ant 01—Pattern Recognition</b> (aBook). <b>Blue Ant 02—Spook Country</b> (aBook). <b>Blue Ant—Zero History</b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Philip Glass:</i> <b><strike>Words Without Music</strike></b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>David Halberstam:</i> <b>The Best and the Brightest</b> (aBook).<br /><br /><i>Peter F. Hamilton:</i> <b>Salvation 01—Salvation</b> (aBook). <b>Salvation 02—Salvation Lost</b> (aBook). <b>Salvation 03—Saints of Salvation</b> (aBook). <b>The Night's Dawn 01—The Reality Dysfunction</b> (aBook). <b>The Night's Dawn 02—The Neutronium Alchemist</b> (aBook). <b>The Night's Dawn 03—The Naked God</b> (aBook). <b>A Confederation Handbook</b> (eBook). <b>A Second Chance at Eden</b> (eBook). <b>Commonwealth 01—Pandora's Star</b> (aBook). <b>Commonwealth 02—Judas Unchained</b> (aBook). <b>Void 01—The Dreaming Void</b> (aBook). <b>Void 02—The Temporal Void</b> (aBook). <b>Void 03—The Evolutionary Void</b> (aBook). <b>The Chronicle of the Fallers 01—The Abyss Beyond Dreams</b> (aBook). <b>The Chronicle of the Fallers 02—Night Without Stars</b> (aBook). <b>Fallen Dragon</b> (aBook). <b>Great North Road</b> (aBook) .</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Robert A. Heinlein:</i> <b><strike>Revolt in 2100</strike></b>; <b><strike>Methuselah's Children</strike></b>; <b><strike>Orphan's of the Sky</strike></b>; <b>Destination Moon</b>; <b>Double Star</b>; <b>Friday</b>; <b>Glory Road</b>; <b>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress</b>; <b>The Number of the Beast</b>; <b>The Pursuit of the Pankera</b>; <b>Red Planet</b>; <b>Starship Troopers</b>; <b>Stranger in a Strange Land</b>; <b>Time Enough for Love</b>; <b>Time for the Stars</b>; <b>Variable Star</b>; <b>The Star Beast</b>; <b>Citizen of the Galaxy</b>; <b>Tunnel in the Sky</b>;<b> The Door Into Summer</b>. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Frank Herbert:</i> <b><strike>Dune 01—Dune</strike></b> (eBook and aBook). <b>Dune 02—Dune Messiah</b> (eBook). <b>Dune 03—Children of Dune</b> (eBook).<br /><br /><i>P.C. Hodgell:</i> <b>Chronicles of the Kencyrath 01-02: The God Stalker Chronicles</b> (made up of <b>God Stalk</b> and <b>Dark of the Moon</b>) (eBook).<br /><br /><i>M.R. James:</i> <b>Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Philip Keith:</i> <b><strike>Blackhorse Riders—A Desperate Last Stand, An Extraordinary Rescue Mission, and the Vietnam Battle America Forgot</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Firebase Illingworth</b> (aBook). <br /><br /><i>Stanley Karnow: </i><b><strike>Vietnam—A History</strike></b> (aBook and pBook).<br /><br /><i>Stephen King:</i> <b>Danse Macabre</b> (eBook and aBook). <b>On Writing</b> (eBook and aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Henry Kuttner:</i> <b>The Best of Henry Kuttner</b> (eBook). <b>The Keeps 01—Clash by Night</b> (eBook). <b>The Keeps 02—Fury</b> (eBook). <br /><div><br /></div><div><i>John Le Carre:</i> <b><strike>George Smiley 01—Call for the Dead</strike></b> (aBook). <strike><b>George Smiley 02—A Murder of Quality</b></strike> (aBook). <b><strike>George Smiley 03—The Spy Who Came in from the Cold</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>George Smiley 04—The Looking Glass War</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>George Smiley 05—Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>George Smiley 06—The Honorable Schoolboy</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>George Smiley 07—Smiley's People</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>George Smiley 08—The Secret Pilgrim</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>George Smiley 09—A Legacy of Spies</strike></b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>John McPhee:</i> <b><strike>Annals of the Former World 02—In Suspect Terrain</strike></b> (aBook); <b><strike>Annals of the Former World 03—Rising from the Plains</strike></b> (aBook); <b><strike>Annals of the Former World 04—Assembling California</strike></b> (aBook); <b><strike>Annals of the Former World 05—Crossing the Craton</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Coming into the Country</b> (aBook) (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Annals-Former-World-John-McPhee-ebook/dp/B005H0O8KQ/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=John+McPhee&qid=1551793231&s=digital-text&sr=1-3">link to omnibus edition of Annals of the Former World</a>) (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coming-into-the-Country/dp/B005C45DXS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1551793231&sr=1-4">link to Coming into the Country</a>).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Barbara Mertz (as Elizabeth Peters):</i> <b><strike>Amelia Peabody 001—Crocodile on the Sandbank</strike></b> (aBook); <b>Amelia Peabody 002—The Curse of the Pharaohs</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 003—The Mummy Case</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 004—Lost in the Valley</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 005—The Deeds of the Disturber</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 006—The Last Camel Died at Noon</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 007—The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 008—The Hippopotamus Pool</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 009—Seeing a Large Cat</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 010—The Ape Who Guards the Balance</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 011—The Falcon at the Portal</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 012—He Shall Thunder in the Sky</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 013—Lord of the Silent</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 014—The Golden One</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 015—Children of the Storm</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 016—Guardian of the Horizon</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 017—The Serpent on the Crown</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 018—Tomb of the Golden Bird</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 019—A River in the Sky</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody 020—The Painted Queen</b>; <b>Amelia Peabody's Egypt—A Compendium</b> (associational) (pBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Nicholas Meyer:</i> <b><strike>The Seven-Per-Cent Solution</strike></b> (aBook). <b>The West End Horror</b> (aBook). <b>The Canary Trainer</b> (aBook). <b>The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols</b> (aBook). <b>The Return of the Pharaoh</b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Mike Mignola & Company:</i> <b><strike>Hellboy Omnibus 01—Seed of Destruction</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Hellboy Omnibus 02—Strange Places</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Hellboy Omnibus 03—The Wild Hunt</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Hellboy Omnibus 04—Hellboy in Hell</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Hellboy—The Complete Short Stories 01</strike></b> (eBook). <b>Hellboy—The Complete Short Stories 02</b> (eBook). <br /><br /><i>Richard K. Morgan:</i> <b>Takeshi Kovacs 01—Altered Carbon</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>C.L. Moore:</i> <b>The Best of C.L. Moore</b> (eBook). <b><strike>Black God's Kiss</strike></b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner:</i> <b>The Best of C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner</b> (eBook). <b>Earth's Last Citadel</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tim O'Brien:</i> <b><strike>The Things They Carried</strike></b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Megan O'Keefe:</i> <b><strike>Protectorate 01—Velocity Weapon</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Protectorate 02—Chaos Vector</b> (aBook). <b>Protectorate 03—Catalyst Gate</b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Malka Older:</i> <b><strike>Centenal Cycle 01—Infomocracy</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Centenal Cycle 02—Null States</strike> </b>(aBook). <strike><b>Centenal Cycle 03—State Tectonics</b> </strike>(aBook).</div><div><br /><i>Ellis Peters:</i> <b><strike>Cadfael 07—The Sanctuary Sparrow</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 08—The Devil's Novice</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 09—Dead Man's Ransom</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 10—The Pilgrim of Hate</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 11—An Excellent Mystery</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 12—The Raven in the Foregate</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 13—The Rose Rent</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 14—The Hermit of Eyton Forest</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 15—The Confession of Brother Haluin</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 16—The Heretic's Apprentice</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 17—The Potter's Field</strike></b> (eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 18—The Summer of the Danes</strike></b> (eBooks); <strike><b>Brother Cadfael 19—The Holy Thief</b> </strike>(eBook); <b><strike>Brother Cadfael 20—Brother Cadfael's Penance</strike></b> (eBook). <b>COMPLETE!</b></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Frederik Pohl:</i> <b><strike>Gateway 01—Gateway</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Gateway 02—Beyond the Blue Event Horizon</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Gateway 03—Heechee Rendezvous</b> (aBook). <b>Gateway 04—The Annals of the Heechee</b> (eBook). <b>Gateway 05—The Gateway Trip</b> (pBook). <b>Gateway 06—The Boy Who Would Live Forever</b> (eBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Tim Powers:</i> <b>The Anubis Gates</b> (aBook). <b>Hide Me Among the Graves</b> (aBook). <b>Medusa's Web</b> (aBook). <b><strike>Vickery and Castine 01—Alternate Routes</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Vickery and Castine 02—Forced Perspectives</b> (aBook). <b>Fault Lines 01—Last Call</b> (aBook). <b>Fault Lines 02—Expiration Date</b> (aBook). <b>Fault Lines 03—Earthquake</b> <b>Weather</b> (aBook). <b>The Stress of Her Regard</b> (aBook). <b>On Stranger Tides</b> (aBook). <b>Declare</b> (aBook). <b>Three Days to Never</b> (aBook). <b>On Pirates</b> (as by "William Ashlbless") (with James Blaylock) (eBook). <br /><br /><i>Alastair Reynolds:</i> <b>Slow Bullets</b> (eBook and aBook). <b>Deep Navigation</b> (eBook). <b>Revenger</b> (aBook). <b>Troika</b> (aBook). <b>Poseidon's Children 01—Blue Remembered Earth</b> (aBook). <b>Poseidon's Children 02—On the Steel Breeze</b> (aBook). <b>Poseidon's Children 03—Poseidon's Wake</b> (aBook). <b>The Prefect 01—Elysium Fire</b> (aBook). <b>Revelation Space 00—Galactic North</b> (aBook). <b>Revelation Space 00—Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Day</b>s (aBook). <b>Revelation Space 01—Revelation Space</b> (aBook). <b>Revelation Space 02—Chasm City</b> (aBook). <b>Revelation Space 03—Redemption Ark</b> (aBook). <b>Revelation Space 04—Absolution Gap</b> (aBook). <b>Terminal World</b> (aBook). <b>House of Suns</b> (aBook). <b>Pushing Ice</b> (aBook). <b>Century Rain</b> (aBook). <b>Beyond the Aquila Rift—The Best of Alastair Reynolds</b> (eBook). <br /><br /><i>Kim Stanley Robinson:</i> <b>Escape from Kathmandu</b> (eBook). <b><strike>Mars 01—Red Mars</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Mars 02—Green Mars</b> (aBook). <b>Mars 03—Blue Mars</b> (aBook). <b>Mars 04—The Martians</b> (eBook). <b>Three Californias 01—The Wild Shore</b> (aBook). <b>Three Californias 02—The Gold Coast</b> (aBook). <b>Three Californias 03—Pacific Edge</b> (aBook). <b>Antarctica</b> (aBook). <b>The Years of Rice and Salt</b> (aBook). <b>Galileo's Dream</b> (aBook). <b>2312</b> (aBook). <b>Aurora</b> (aBook). <b>Shaman</b> (aBook). <b>New York 2140</b> (aBook). <b>Red Moon</b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Ministry of the Future</strike></b> (aBook). <b>The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Robert Silverberg (editor):</i> <b><strike>The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1</strike></b> (eBook and aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Clifford D. Simak:</i> <b><strike>City</strike></b> (aBook). <b>The Werewolf Principle</b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Goblin Reservation</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>Project Pope</strike></b> (aBook). <b>Time is the Simplest Thing</b> (aBook). <b>The Big Front Yard</b> (aBook). <b>The Ghost of a Model T</b> (aBook). <b>I Am Crying All Inside</b> (aBook). <b><strike>Way Station</strike></b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Neil Sheehan:</i> <b><strike>A Bright Shining Lie—John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam</strike></b> (aBook).<br /><br /><i>Olaf Stapledon:</i> <b>Star Maker</b> (eBook and aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Neal Stephenson:</i> <b><strike>The Baroque Cycle 01—Quicksilver</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Baroque Cycle 02—King of the Vagabonds</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Baroque Cycle 03—Odalisque</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Baroque Cycle 04—Bonanza</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Baroque Cycle 05—Juncto</strike></b> (aBook). <b><strike>The Baroque Cycle 06—Solomon's Gold</strike></b> (aBook). <b>The Baroque Cycle 07—Currency</b> (aBook). <b>The Baroque Cycle 08—The System of the World</b> (aBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Lewis Thomas: </i><strike><b>The Lives of a Cell</b> (aBook).</strike> <b><strike>The Youngest Science</strike></b> (aBook); <b><strike>The Medusa and the Snail</strike></b> (aBook); <b><strike>Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony</strike></b> (aBook); <b><strike>The Fragile Species</strike></b> (aBook).</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Ian W. Toll:</i> <b><strike>Pacific Crucible—War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Conquering Tide—War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944</strike></b> (eBook). <b>Twilight of the Gods—War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945</b> (eBook). <br /><br /><i>Jack Vance:</i> <b>Demon Princes Omnibus: <strike>The Star King;</strike> The Killing Machine; The Palace of Love; The Face; The Book of Dreams</b> (eBook). <b>Tales of the Dying Earth Omnibus: The Dying Earth; The Eyes of the Overworld; Cugel's Saga; Rhialto the Marvellous</b> (eBook). <b>Dying Earth 03—Cugel's Saga</b> (aBook). <b>Dying Earth 04—Rhialto the Marvellous</b> (aBook). <b>Tshai</b> (omnibus of <b>City of the Chasch</b>; <b>Servants of the Wankh/The Wannek</b>; <b>The Dirdir</b>; <b>The Pnume</b>) (eBook). <b>Alastor Cluster—Trullion (Alastor 2262)</b> (eBook). <b>Alastor Cluster—Marune (Alastor 933)</b> (eBook). <b>Alastor Cluster—Wyst (Alastor 1716)</b> (eBook). <b>The Cadwal Chronicles</b> (omnibus of <b>Araminta Station</b>; <b>Ecce and Old Earth</b>; <b>Throy</b>) (eBook). <b>The Jack Vance Lexicon—The Coined Words of Jack Vance from Abiloid to Zygage</b> (eBook). <b>Ports of Call 02—Lurulu</b> (eBook).<br /></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Vernor Vinge:</i> <strike><b>Rainbows End</b></strike> (eBook). <b><strike>True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier</strike></b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div>Martha Wells: <i><strike>The Murderbot Diaries 00—Compulsory</strike></i> (eBook). <b><strike>The Murderbot Diaries 01—All Systems Red</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Murderbot Diaries 02—Artificial Condition</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Murderbot Diaries 03—Rogue Protocol</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Murderbot Diaries 04—Exit Strategy</strike></b> (eBook). <i>The Murderbot Diaries 05—Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory</i> (eBook). <b><strike>The Murderbot Diaries 06—Network Effect</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>The Murderbot Diaries 07—Fugitive Telemetr</strike>y</b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Gene Wolfe:</i> <b><strike>The Book of the New Sun 01—The Shadow of the Torturer</strike></b> (pBook). <b><strike>The Book of the New Sun 02—The Claw of the Conciliator</strike></b> (pBook). <b><strike>The Book of the New Sun 03—The Sword of the Lictor</strike></b> (pBook). <b><strike>The Book of the New Sun 04—The Citadel of the Autarch</strike></b> (pBook). <b>The Book of the New Sun 05—The Urth of the New Sun</b> (pBook). <b><strike>Peace</strike></b> (eBook). </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Robert Zelazny:</i> <b><strike>My Name is Legion</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>A Night in Lonesome</strike></b> October (eBook). <b><strike>Jack of Shadows</strike></b> (eBook). <b><strike>Dilvish, The Damned</strike></b> (eBook). <strike><b>The Changing Land</b> </strike>(eBook). <b><strike>Roadmarks</strike></b> (aBook).</div>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931853348424539067.post-63051647959562520082020-08-16T20:26:00.003-04:002020-08-16T20:28:35.494-04:00The Silent Tower<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zbro29Sk1f8/XznOa1okP4I/AAAAAAABYPw/qfnTy5FkMCMcsGsZUP_G616qzzxu0tVcACLcBGAsYHQ/s475/176308.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="290" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zbro29Sk1f8/XznOa1okP4I/AAAAAAABYPw/qfnTy5FkMCMcsGsZUP_G616qzzxu0tVcACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/176308.jpg" /></a></div> <p></p><p><i>Barbara Hambley:</i> <b>The Windrose Chronicles 01—The Silent Tower</b> (Del Rey Books, Open Road Media and others).</p><p>I first came across Barbara Hambly when she first started being published in the 1980's by Del Rey Books, as part of their fantasy line. With books such as the first of the <i>Darwath</i> books (<b>The Time of the Dark</b>) and the <i>Sun Wolf</i> sequence (<b>The Ladies of Mandrigyn</b>). They were fun fantasy novels, different from the usual Del Rey fare, quick reads and interesting reads as well. In 1986 came the first of the <i>Windrose Chronicles</i>, <b>The Silent Tower</b>, with elements of both our world and a fantasy world, with implications for both.</p><p>Joanna Sheraton is a programmer at a US government research center who comes across an intruder where none should be, in the heart of a 1980's supercomputer machine room...a man using...candles. No trace of the intruder is seen later until Joanna is drawn into another world when she is at a party of her somewhat flaky boyfriend. She teams up with Caris (guardian of and relative to Archmage Salteris) and Antryg (student of both Salteris and the so-called Darkmage Suraklin) to try and find out whether Suraklin has somehow managed to return from the dead and has taken Salteris prisoner between the worlds. </p><p>Friends become enemies and vice versa (intentionally or not) as the trio try to unravel what exacttly is going on as they travel across the Earth-that-is-not-Earth and back to Earth at the ending (spoilers for a book that was first published in 1986) leading to a...cliffhanger.</p><p>Good thing I already have the second (first read in 1988, but repurchased as an eBook more recently)!</p><p>Like the briefer (and better) <b>Tea with a Black Dragon</b> (R.A. MacAvoy), <b>The Silent Tower</b> mixes our world and the world of our technology—the still nascent world of computer (at that point at least) with decent female characters and a interesting plot. Does it still hold up? I think Joanna gets into the trappings of the alternate Earth a tad fast (especially when it comes to clothing), but she definitely is a strong character and central to the (cliffhanger) resolution. The book held up on this re-reading (some decades later) and I will take up the sequels as well.</p>Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com0