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#26 - "Swallows and Amazons," Arthur Ransome - got really good about halfway through, and toward the end I couldn't put it down. (And now, thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
littleredhead, I have the second one to read! :))
#27 - Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 2007 - Eor had this to say about it. "Don't Stop" was the creepiest JPK story I've ever read, but did have his trademark hopeful ending. Well, usually he tries for really happy endings, and this one was only hopeful, so maybe he's really getting darker. I couldn't read "News from the Front" - too choppy for my tastes. What I did read seemed to line up perfectly with many things I've heard here and there, so I guess I just didn't get to the 'suspension of disbelief' parts Eor mentions. "Three Days of Rain" started out pretty good but left me dry (har) at the end. Wierdly, there was Neal Asher's gabbleduck story (Alien Archeology) - which was rather cool - and then there was another which I could have sworn was intended to be set a few hundred years earlier in the same universe, but was by a different author, which was about a xenologist who goes nuts. The creatures that look just like gabbleducks (to my untrained eye) are minor background for that story.
I just started reading "Microserfs," so I really ought to finish that before I begin the other S & A book.
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bujold_fic ficathon is finishing up, so there's a ton of new and cool stuff to read over there, and I'm having to restrain myself. There's also been a few new fics on indeedsir in the last week - everyone seems to be getting inspired! I've been waiting for the ficathon to get done before posting that Ivan/Byerly story I wrote, and now I'm having my doubts as to my Byerly characterization, but that's okay.
Chapter Six of "Swept Away!" is ready for posting in two days. And now I'm terrified because I have to write, proof and re-write all of Chapter Seven during August. Ow. Why have I done this to myself? I mean, it's not impossible for normal people -daegaer could knock it off in a day - but I'm so damned slow! Speaking of which, Mistress of the Night asked me to send her links to read it. Hm. I should do that tonight.
littleredhead, I have the second one to read! :))#27 - Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 2007 - Eor had this to say about it. "Don't Stop" was the creepiest JPK story I've ever read, but did have his trademark hopeful ending. Well, usually he tries for really happy endings, and this one was only hopeful, so maybe he's really getting darker. I couldn't read "News from the Front" - too choppy for my tastes. What I did read seemed to line up perfectly with many things I've heard here and there, so I guess I just didn't get to the 'suspension of disbelief' parts Eor mentions. "Three Days of Rain" started out pretty good but left me dry (har) at the end. Wierdly, there was Neal Asher's gabbleduck story (Alien Archeology) - which was rather cool - and then there was another which I could have sworn was intended to be set a few hundred years earlier in the same universe, but was by a different author, which was about a xenologist who goes nuts. The creatures that look just like gabbleducks (to my untrained eye) are minor background for that story.
I just started reading "Microserfs," so I really ought to finish that before I begin the other S & A book.
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bujold_fic ficathon is finishing up, so there's a ton of new and cool stuff to read over there, and I'm having to restrain myself. There's also been a few new fics on indeedsir in the last week - everyone seems to be getting inspired! I've been waiting for the ficathon to get done before posting that Ivan/Byerly story I wrote, and now I'm having my doubts as to my Byerly characterization, but that's okay. Chapter Six of "Swept Away!" is ready for posting in two days. And now I'm terrified because I have to write, proof and re-write all of Chapter Seven during August. Ow. Why have I done this to myself? I mean, it's not impossible for normal people -
daegaer could knock it off in a day - but I'm so damned slow! Speaking of which, Mistress of the Night asked me to send her links to read it. Hm. I should do that tonight.