Fiction log - April 2019

[pedanther]

Fiction books
Charlie Jane Anders. The City in the Middle of the Night (e)
Alan Garner. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Randall Garrett. Too Many Magicians (e) (re-read)
Terry Pratchett. Making Money (e) (re-read)

Non-fiction books in progress
(anthology). Playboys of the Western World

In hiatus
V Anton Spraul. Think Like a Programmer (e)


Short fiction
Randall Garrett. "The Napoli Express" (e) (re-read)
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Fortune's Favors (e)
Jenna Katerin Moran. "Six's Story" (e) (re-read)
Oscar Wilde. "The Birthday of the Infanta" (e)

Fanfic, novel-length
Arsinoe de Blassenville. The Best Revenge (Harry Potter, canon divergence au) (re-read)

Fanfic, novella-length
AJ Hall. "Green Grow the Rushes, O!" (Sherlock) (re-read)
kathkin. "Life Lessons" (Doctor Who)

Film
A Call to Arms (VHS)
McKellen: Playing the Part
Mission: Impossible: Fallout
Up (TV)
The Wizard of Oz (DVD)

Theatre
(none)

Television serials
Babylon 5 (online streaming)

In progress
Crusade (online streaming)

Comic strip serials in progress
Modesty Blaise: The War-Lords of Phoenix


Books bought
(anthology). Playboys of the Western World
Charlie Jane Anders. The City in the Middle of the Night (e)
Andrei Baltakmens. A Hangman for Ghosts (e)
Charles de Lint. Greenmantle
Alan Garner. The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Christopher Lascelles. Pontifex Maximus (e)
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Fortune's Favors (e)
Fritz Leiber. The Green Millennium
Annalee Newitz. Autonomous (e)
Flann O'Brien. The Third Policeman
Cat Sparks. Lotus Blue (e)
John Wyndham. The Chrysalids
Timothy Zahn. Spinneret

Books borrowed
Rebecca Roanhorse. Trail of Lightning

Books received as gifts
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hunt Emerson. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Peter Kropotkin. The Conquest of Bread (e)


Top of the to-read pile
Rebecca Roanhorse. Trail of Lightning

Comments

[igenlode]

You haven't read The Chrysalids before? That should be interesting.

[pedanther]

I have not, although I know roughly what it's about.

The same with The Kraken Wakes and The Midwich Cuckoos, but of course I've read The Day of the Triffids. (And Chocky, because I'm the right age to have been in the target audience of the TV version.)

[igenlode]

I was going to say that I'd had no idea John Wyndham had anything to do with "Chocky", but then I realised it was the film "Chucky" I was thinking of... (I wouldn't have put it past him to have originated a horror film franchise!)

Going by the synopses on the Web, I don't think I've read that one, although I've got some very obscure SF that he originally published under another name; unfortunately I can't lay my hands on my Wyndham books at the moment.

"The Kraken Wakes" (global warming avant la lettre -- I knew about the potential results of a half-centimetre rise in sea levels long before that sort of thing became front-page newspaper stuff!), "The Midwich Cuckoos" and "The Trouble With Lichen" are all well worth reading.