View From a Hotel Window: Iowa City + New Books and ARCs, 10/2/15
Posted on October 2, 2015 Posted by John Scalzi 35 Comments
First, the view out my hotel window!
Well, it’s not a parking lot. The room itself is perfectly nice, however, so. For those of you in or near Iowa City, my events are tomorrow: I have a reading/Q&A at 4pm at 135 South Dubuque St (the former Wedge space, I am told) and I will have a signing there immediately thereafter). Come on down!
And now, new books and ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound this week. Obviously I took the picture before I left. Here’s what we have:
What looks good to you? Tell me in the comments!
MERCY!
(Of course I heard that in Roy Orbison’s voice.)
Hey I am a bit low on 80lb bond paper can you grab some for me…..
What’s that Ancillary Mercy book? I haven’t heard anything about it.
*ducks*
Yeah, Ancillary Mercy is next on the list of books to be read.
Yup yup Ancillary Mercy, tis on The List …
Agreed, Rick.
I’m going for Ann Leckie too, it’s been a great story so far and I can’t wait to get my hands on this one.
I am so far behind, I can’t even think about Mercy yet; I still haven’t gotten to Sword.
I’m so jealous — my Mercy doesn’t come until next Tuesday …
I’m really looking forward to Mercy, having read Justice and Sword quite late (and thoroughly enjoying them).
What do you do with all of them? You can’t possibly read them all, and if you kept them you’d need miles of shelves.
Ancillary Mercy! I can’t wait to get mine.
Nope, nope, nothing interesting there…oh, wait! :)
Why did I assume that basically every comment in this thread so far would be about one book? (Assumed correctly, I might add.)
I’ll make a feeble effort to discuss something else. Um, Future Perfect sounds interesting. Anyone know…no, I can’t do it. Mercy FTW! :D
Ancillary Mercy AHHHHHHH
Oh, I guess it’s time to read another enjoyable Leckie novel. What a shame…
Doug: I’m glad I’m not the only one who heard Roy Orbison’s voice….
I don’t usually do this but I’ll follow the crowd. Ann Leckie for me.
Jen Larsen’s FUTURE PERFECT is fucking wonderful, and I’m really looking forward to Leah Bobet’s AN INHERITANCE OF ASHES!
Mystic looks appealing to me. I read a few chapters on tor.com, and I’m hooked!
Ancillary Mercy!
Trail of the Dead is apparently the second book in a post-apocalyptic series in which a teenaged Apache girl named Lozen has been forced to hunt genetically engineered monsters who have escaped the control of the ruling elite class. Also, she apparently has an enigmatic Bigfoot friend named Hally.
To paraphrase Nicolas Cage, how have I not already read this series?!
Already preordered Ancilliary Mercy months ago. Reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell for book club this month.
Wait, how is Future Perfect SF/F? Is it?
OK, davea47, here’s the first verse. What comes next?
Pretty warship, flying through that gate
Pretty warship, Anaander whom you hate
Pretty warship, I don’t believe it, can it be true
No one can plot as good as you … Mercy!
Ancillary Mercy, Ancillary Mercy, Ancillary Mercy!!!!
Future Perfect looks like it’s going to be agonizingly moralizing one way or another. Just reading the amazon blurb annoyed me. 😩
So Ancillary Mercy it is.
Cool, a new Anne Lecke book.
Yeah, I guess it wasn’t an accident that you put the Leckie novel at the bottom of the stack, was it?
I want Ancillary Mercy so much. Can’t wait for Tuesday…
Ancillary Mercy. Can’t wait to read it!
Just wanted to thank you for posting the pictures of the new book stacks you get. First thing I do is trot to Goodreads and look up each one and decide what I want to buy. Your pictures are about the closest thing I have found to a “new books this week” site.
p.s. Any publishers reading this please send him more new books
Ancillary Mercy! Which should be hitting my mailbox tomorrow, Canada Post willing.
Trail of the Dead! I’ve pre-ordered this for our library and am so excited. One of my favorite scifi/post-apocalyptic worlds.
Read the first ‘Ancillary’, no desire to continue. Just didn’t -care- about the characters. Of course, ymmv.
of the two books I already knew I wanted(PeterM’s comment on Trail of the Dead now has me intrigued), Mercy actually comes second to An Inheritance of Ashes.