September

[extrapenguin]

It's autumn! University's in, work is now part-time, and the weather is cool enough that I don't melt!

I have recently-ish shared some poetry of mine with some real-life friends. They liked it. I suppose I'll publish 2017's crop somewhere in January. Do any of you know good places to self-pub poetry, or should I just stick it on Amazon?

Speaking of Amazon, I got a crop of books! Updraft and The Man Who Bridged the Mist are fantasy with engineering stuffs, Ninefox Gambit and The Stars Are Legion are MilSF that's hopefully not hilaribadly regressive, Blindsight, Dragon's Egg, and Dichronauts are weird science (and aliens) SF, and I got a nonfiction book on an English cholera epidemic: The Ghost Map. Now, I just have to figure out what to read next...

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

Let me know if you figure out something clever for poetry self-pub. I've been asking myself that question too, rather fruitlessly...

Will be curious to hear what you think of Updraft (which sounded very cool but which I've heard mixed things about) and the other fantasy-with-engineering book (which I had not heard about at all). And I hope you enjoy Ninefox Gambit!

[extrapenguin]

Ha, given that Ninefox Gambit has been recced to me by at least 5 different people, plus a half dozen panels on top of that, I hope I enjoy it, too.

The Man Who Bridged the Mist is a novella by Kij Johnson. It's a skinny thing, and might get itself to the top of the reading pile by virtue of that alone. Decisions, decisions.

[hamsterwoman]

The Man Who Bridged the Mist is a novella by Kij Johnson

Ah! Then I must've heard about it and just not remembered the title, because I was thinking of it as "the Kij Johnson novella". Her short stories that I've read work really nicely for me, and I haven't been able to get into her novels, so it'll be interesting to see which side of that divide a novella ends up falling on :)