That's awesome. I have been trying to get back running and I am slowly getting myself back to where I was before going on PT for my knee.
5/2024 4. First Power Play (John Miller): Read this because I love the TSR Gold Box PC games and I have a soft spot for Buck Rogers. I have never read a book which relied on similes as much as this book does.
5/2024 3. The Celestial Steam Locomotive (Michael Coney): Ambitious. It demands more from the reader than most readers would want to give. If you ever wondered what a Prog Rock concept album would be as a novel, this is it.
4/2024-5/2024 2. Gateway (Frederik Pohl): An excellently handled narrative device with remarkably good writing and an effective use of an intriguing SF gimmick to produce a strong metaphor for emotional entropy. I really liked this book.
Books starting April 2024: 1. The Maker of Universes (Philip Jose Farmer): a very Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired fantasy. Some things I appreciate and I get what the writer was going for, but it was not my cup of tea.
I cannot explain it clearly, but a byproduct is that I want to keep a thread of books I'm reading this year. Can we pin stuff here? Gonna find out.
Like some sort of sleeper cell, my brain activated earlier last month and I feel some strange chemical change happened in my brain and it reconnected me with something lost.
Hey hey, looks like the lovely Barnes and Noble people are offering 25% off pre-orders of WARLORDS OF WYRDWOOD as part of their #BNPreorder deal.
"You fear the forest.. It is not foolish." His words rang like bells in the clearing, each face reacting to their din. "But the forest does not hate you, it does not hunt you. It simply...
Hey, US and CANADIAN friends, I do believe you can pick up my debut novel, the coming-of-age/murder mystery AGE OF ASSASSINS for the princely sum of $2.99 on kindle today. Fill your boots!
I read that as "strong lard" first but it still looks like an interesting book.