Reading Roundup Wrapup: March 2026

Pick of the month: The Maze Agency, Volume 1 by Mike W. Barr, Adam Hughes, et al. This is a collection of the first five issues of a "fair-play whodunit" comic series from the late 1980s. I enjoyed it immensely: Barr and Hughes are both accomplished comics creators, and this is both of them at the top of their game. It's a shame there's only ever been the one collection!

All books read:

1. Getting There by Manjula Padmanabhan
2. Batgirl: Year One: The Deluxe Edition by Scott Beatty & Chuck Dixon, Marcos Martin, and Alvaro Lopez
3. Timelink: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Exploration of Doctor Who Continuity, Volume Two by Jon Preddle
4. Carpatho-Ukraine in the Twentieth Century: A Political and Legal History by Vincent Shandor
5. The Maze Agency, Volume 1 by Mike W. Barr, Adam Hughes, et al.
6. The Bands of Mourning: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson
7. Timelink: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Exploration of Doctor Who Continuity, Volume One by Jon Preddle
8. Interfaces edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd
9. The Twinkle Tales by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright
10. Saga of the Unfated, Book One: A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
11. Star Trek: Vanguard: Harbinger by David Mack
12. Best of American Splendor by Harvey Pekar et al. 

I promise I had a good reason for finishing volume two of Timelink before volume one!

All books acquired:

1. The Maze Agency, Volume 1 by Mike W. Barr, Adam Hughes, et al. 
2. Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors by Brian Hayles
3. Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter
4. Fourth World by John Byrne Omnibus by John Byrne et al. 
5. Doctor Who: Decalog: Ten Stories, Steven Doctors, One Enigma edited by Mark Stammers & Stephen James Walker
6. The New Doctor Who Adventures: Falls the Shadow by Daniel O’Mahony
7. Doctor Who: Decalog 2: Lost Property: Ten Stories, Seven Doctors, No Fixed Abode edited by Mark Stammers & Stephen James Walker
8. Asimov's Science Fiction January/February 2026 edited by Sheila Williams
9. The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continent edited by James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow
10. Utopias of the Third Kind plus Lamentations in a Lost Tongue plus Arctic Sky and much more by Vandana Singh
11. The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu
12. One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson
13. Other Shane Hintons by Shane Hinton 

A bit more than my usual of late! My family discovered a nice local used bookstore, which is where I picked up #3-7. #8-11 were courtesy ICFA (either purchased in the book room or received as gifts), and #12 was a gift from a colleague.

Currently reading:

• Death of the Planet of the Apes by Andrew E.C. Gaska
• Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400–1070 by Robin Fleming
• Star Trek: Vanguard: Summon the Thunder by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore

Up next in my rotations:

1. Star Trek: Vanguard: Declassified by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, Marco Palmieri, and David Mack
2. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois
3. The Poe Clan Vol. 1 by Moto Hagio 
4. On Progress in Physics and Subjectivity Theory: An Amateur’s Meanderings as Inspiration for Actual Physicists by N. Otre Le Vant 

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 671 (up 8)

Last month I asked, "Will my numbers [of books read] go down now that I have to read longer books?" and the answer was yes; it's my first substantive increase in my "To be read" list in some time. Still, I read a bunch of stuff from the list, so I am pretty pleased regardless.