01 October 2024

Reading Roundup Wrapup: September 2024

Pick of the month: Two months in a row, two Eddie Robson books? I suppose so. Tomorrow Never Knows is everything I ever wanted out of one of his books—this book deserves a wider audience than what it probably has received from Snowbooks.

All books read:

  1. The Father-Thing: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3 by Philip K. Dick
  2. Star Wars: Shadow Games by Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
  3. The Enchanted Island of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illustrated by Dick Martin
  4. Tomorrow Never Knows by Eddie Robson
  5. Captain America: Truth by Robert Morales and Kyle Baker
  6. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
  7. Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman (and Miracleman) by Pádraig Ó Méalóid
  8. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
  9. The Forbidden Fountain of Oz by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw, illustrated by Dick Martin
  10. Star Trek: Prey, Book 3: The Hall of Heroes by John Jackson Miller

Not my best... thank goodness for Oz and teaching!

All books acquired:

  1. Star Trek: Section 31: Control by David Mack
  2. Doctor Who: A History of the Universe in 100 Objects by James Goss and Steve Tribe
  3. Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman (and Miracleman) by Pádraig Ó Méalóid
  4. Sky Pyrates over Oz by Sherwood Smith, illustrated by Kim McFarland
  5. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 8 edited by Neil Clarke
  6. Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll
  7. Storm by Eric Jerome Dickey et al.

Currently reading:

  • The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual by Roland Jackson
  • Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
  • The Neurodiversiverse: Alien Encounters: A Science Fiction Anthology of Stories, Poetry, and Art edited by Anthony Francis and Liza Olmsted
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation: Headlong Flight by Dayton Ward
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 8 edited by Neil Clarke

Up next in my rotations:

  1. Star Trek: Titan: Fortune of War by David Mack
  2. The Pelican History of England: 3. English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307) by Doris Mary Stenton
  3. The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction compiled by Michael Kelahan 
  4. Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World by Michael Freeman

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 664 (down 1)