andphi's Journal: Tor - Week 8

This week, the nice people at Tor sent us Jane Lindskold's Through Wolf's Eyes

I haven't yet looked closely at the two wallpapers. The one appears to be cover art for a mid-fifties edition of The Green Hills of Earth by Robert Heinlein. It looks cool in a very retro-future sort of way. I can't guess from the art what moment they're trying to capture, but the general theme is spacemen with spearguns, complete with scuba tanks, as if space is like the deep ocean, but with less pressure. It's also amusing. One of them has his weapon pointed at another's head, but the guy on the business end of the speargun is looking someplace else entirely and seems not the least bit worried.

Next week, we get The Disunited States of America by Harry Turtledove.

So, just a recap

Lord of the Isles by David Drake
Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell
Farthing by Jo Walton
The Outstretched Shadow, book one of Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory's Obsidian Trilogy
Robert Charles Wilson's Spin
John Scalzi's Old Man's War
Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn.

I'm chuffed. It's a big, free library of author's I've never read and in many cases have never even encountered before. I have all of these in pdf, if anyone wants a book but didn't get them in time. My personal plan of attack goes like this:

Sanderson
Turtledove
Drake
everyone else as the mood strikes me

subject should fill in automatically like before

[stoolpigeon]

I need to write up a review for "Crystal Rain", I just finished that one. Fun read. I think I'll be reading Drake next.

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[andphi]

Sounds good to me. I've considered writing a comparative review of the book and latest movie version of I Am Legend.