Posted on July 7, 2023 Posted by John Scalzi 20 Comments
July is sultry, which makes it a fine time to cool off with a fine read. What in this lovely stack of new books and ARCs is your favored read on a summer eve? Share in the comments!
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The Black Scorpions would be my pick. For the rest, I’d look at the blurbs…
The book on the bottom, Forge of Darkness, threw me for a moment…it’s been out for a long time. Then I realized it was a Subterranean Press reprint, looked it up, and realized I am very jealous of you right now. Some of the interior artwork they posted on the website is gorgeous.
Steven Erikson is probably my favorite fantasy author, and I’ve loved everything he’s written.
Huh, coincidentally I just last month read another Tom Reamy collection — “San Diego Lightfoot Sue and other stories”. He’s great and I hope more people find out about his work. (I read his story “The Detweiler Boy” in F&SF a few years after it came out and recent-ishly there was a podcast verson of it that I listened to.)
A Chuck Tingle book that doesn’t involve pounding in the butt?
oooh, Rose/House by Arkady Martine 😍 I read (and very much enjoyed) the ebook version, but would love to have a print copy!
New Josiah Bancroft??? Sign me up.
The review a couple days ago of The Black Scorpions piqued my curiosity. I have an old paperback copy of San Diego Lightfoot Sue; Tom Reamy is underrated.
I’ve already read Camp Damascus and absolutely start with that.
Obviously the Chuck Tingle.
I just read a synopsis of I Thought You Loved Me and it sounds like it is really interesting. Especially the part of Mari working in the video gaming industry. raises eyebrows I’d be interested because it sounds like a book that deals with interesting issues.
Malazan <3
Yup, the Chuck Tingle for sure, the Josiah Bancroft definitely, and probably also Arkady Martine. Some great stuff in this pile! Happy reading, everyone.
Promise — Christi Nogle
I’m waiting (impatiently) for the Chuck Tingle. I have it on hold at the library.
I’m reading the Tom Reamy collection now, it’s really good. Another great artist taken too soon.
Don’t miss his book /Blind Voices/. Reminded me a lot of Ray Bradbury’s /Something Wicked This Way Comes/. They both absolutely nailed small town America, and terror.
Love that Tom Reamy collection!
More Tom Reamy? Yes please!
(Also wouldn’t say no to the Chuck Tingle.)
The Lawrence Block-edited anthology, but then, I already bought it.
the Tom Reamy for sure – I got an email about it, and would love to read a collection of his short fiction, but while Subterranean publishes very nice books, the price point is out of my range at the moment…
I found out, to my joy, that the Kindle version of the Reamy collection is very reasonably priced – it’s in my queue now to be read very soon.