New Books and ARCs, 1/26/18
Posted on January 26, 2018 Posted by John Scalzi 22 Comments
Some lovely tomes in this week’s stack of new books and ARCs. Tell us which ones beckon to you in the comments!
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Royal Rabbits of London piques my interest. I’ll have to go look that one up!
Definitely Abercrombie.
Why are they all blue? WHY ARE THEY ALL BLUE!!!!!!
(I don’t know why the drama. It just seemed to fit.)
Sharp Ends! I need an Abercrombie fix…
I looked Royal Rabbits Of London Up. It’s in the same vein as Watership Down and looks worth reading. Catchy title!
@Dan – You beat me to it! I too noticed they all featured the color blue. Another clever Scalzi Easter egg sussed out by his faithful and ever observant readers. Try as you may, you can’t trick us, Scalzi! Nyahaha!
The Queen of Sorrow for me!
Wow… Only 1 author i ever heard of out of the whole pile…
Read me!
Joe Abercrombie absolutely and a couple where I just like the titles: The Royal Rabbits of London and Pride and Prometheus. Also Sue Burke because she asked and why not?
The Royal Rabbits of London, because that title…
I really liked Pride and Prometheus in its original form, and I’m guessing the novel length will be at least as good. John Kessel knows how to write.
Semiosis looks very interesting!
Do you actually find time to read everything that gets sent to you in these stacks? More importantly, do you still have time to read the other things you want to read?
What Scalzi does with his books: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/03/08/because-people-ask-book-acquisition-details/
Abercrombie. I know, I’m already the fourth person to mention him. But hey, the guy writes great stuff.
How could I not be intrigued by “Pride and Prometheus”–more Frankenstein! And “A Study in Honor” looks like an interesting take on Holmes and Watson!
The Sarah Beth Durst is the third book in a trilogy and I enjoyed the first two, so that’s one I’ll definitely be reading. Also, Semiosis has very nice reviews on Good Reads so I’ll add that to my to-be-read list. Someday I’ll try Abercrombie again; I started “Half a King” and it didn’t hold my interest. I suspect it had more to do with me than the author, since most folks seem to really like his books.
Queen of Sorrow for sure; I enjoyed the first two books in the series and am looking forward to the next one. Semiosis has some good reviews on Good Reads, so I’ve added Sue Burke’s book to my to-be-read queue. Someday I’ll give Abercrombie another try; I couldn’t get into Half a King, but he seems quite popular.
Well, I see WordPress found my first post.
Read me! Here’s the blurb from my publisher: “Set in a near future Washington, D.C., a clever, incisive, and fresh feminist twist on a classic literary icon—Sherlock Holmes—in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes will use espionage, advanced technology, and the power of deduction to unmask a murderer targeting Civil War veterans.”
Gunpowder moon looks interesting. A murder mystery on the moon with some decent use of science.