tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20755858960989251762024-03-16T14:49:29.570-04:00Lis Carey's LibraryLis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.comBlogger2264125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-6433236923002202582024-02-03T00:30:00.003-05:002024-02-03T00:30:00.126-05:00The Dragon's Den (Warders #3), by Armen Pogharian (author), Michelle Babb (narrator)<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53TRzlKGXAsBDrf-q3qDkHvX0KQn7zMd4YmeCMZS09nYyrDiBg1aAVrUU3QREdczRDaUn9rXFLqwMANl_dchbnx-yLpSEui_roCbhimxo4KVQlwEIveV6iClBFbCoZtuYlEnXiUG0mBFjOm5qrdUq37sRBb0SbkcpA4TdMZlUhlUz-5r85l-GrJ67arM/s500/DragonsDen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53TRzlKGXAsBDrf-q3qDkHvX0KQn7zMd4YmeCMZS09nYyrDiBg1aAVrUU3QREdczRDaUn9rXFLqwMANl_dchbnx-yLpSEui_roCbhimxo4KVQlwEIveV6iClBFbCoZtuYlEnXiUG0mBFjOm5qrdUq37sRBb0SbkcpA4TdMZlUhlUz-5r85l-GrJ67arM/s320/DragonsDen.jpg" width="320"></a></div>Armen Pogharian, ISBN 9798868720390, November 2023</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Warders, the secret protectors of the city of Eridan, are facing a new danger. It's alarming enough when an agent working in another city is killed, and a magical artifact stolen. When the local head of the Thieves' Guild contacts the Warders, the message, and one of the messengers, is even more alarming.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The unexpected messenger is a rogue Shaulan assassin, Khelan, and the message concern a plot whose roots are in a centuries-old conflict between two groups of elves. A Chaotic Order sorceress is determined to gain control of the long-suppressed elven magic, and use it to seize power over the entire Federation of which Eridan is a part. <span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2024/02/the-dragons-den-warders-3-by-armen.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-51621187216541472352024-02-02T00:00:00.001-05:002024-02-02T00:00:00.171-05:00My Teacher Flunked the Planet (My Teacher is an Alien: Book #4) by Bruce Coville (author, narrator), Rueby Wood (narrator), Full Cast Audio crew (narrators)<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXkIQ7EZp80dqUkveeWr9Jlz2RE5eb1sfSnE2xZz_5oEywYDITgSA4tEmfPwSRpknNyusmLF4tQRMkflZ0mXAt-pQKnSW56BVZ4vAvB9kk3BfvgKY5OFZ5l7-MPKxCoNnzkw5f3Be-QvRXrYidyoz_0LFnVhtv1_sVdx7pYsAaZnQL9JwKnUtDuADawk/s1120/My%20Teacher%20Flunked%20the%20Planet.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXkIQ7EZp80dqUkveeWr9Jlz2RE5eb1sfSnE2xZz_5oEywYDITgSA4tEmfPwSRpknNyusmLF4tQRMkflZ0mXAt-pQKnSW56BVZ4vAvB9kk3BfvgKY5OFZ5l7-MPKxCoNnzkw5f3Be-QvRXrYidyoz_0LFnVhtv1_sVdx7pYsAaZnQL9JwKnUtDuADawk/s320/My%20Teacher%20Flunked%20the%20Planet.jpg" width="320"></a></div>Full Cast Audio, ISBN 9781955324052, January 2023 (original publication June 1992)</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Seventh-grader Peter Thompson and his friends, Susan Simpson and Duncan Dougal, have had some pretty startling experiences over the past year. For instance, several of their teachers have turned out to be aliens, on Earth to investigate our species and our culture. Along the way, they've experienced some pretty weird effects of the aliens' technology first-hand. Now they've been kidnapped by the aliens, and learned where all this has been headed.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The alien are trying to decide whether it's safe to let humans continue to advance our technology and emerge into the galaxy, or whether it would be the safer and wiser choice, given how violent we are even towards each other, to destroy us now before we can do any damage outside our own system. The consensus is tilting pretty heavily toward "wipe them out now."<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2024/02/my-teacher-flunked-planet-my-teacher-is.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-45565938450244115392024-01-15T00:30:00.001-05:002024-01-15T00:30:00.130-05:00Snipers, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsPWCwSxyd3bANInhRtjFm3sA9n99GTL4beGj-QiR9SPjorqbZKZVmegjcd-QT-wfyDhkVDoVTPMTG7aVplI2QmYugJ4F725YmB69GuHKTBKHgh7axPZ1oKOUbj__pqw9gziOm9OE5_XgJFuNzEd7riLLwLJVxCDazgybM6-7HIweQLer_WVLpisMCOgY/s1862/Snipers.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1862" data-original-width="1241" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsPWCwSxyd3bANInhRtjFm3sA9n99GTL4beGj-QiR9SPjorqbZKZVmegjcd-QT-wfyDhkVDoVTPMTG7aVplI2QmYugJ4F725YmB69GuHKTBKHgh7axPZ1oKOUbj__pqw9gziOm9OE5_XgJFuNzEd7riLLwLJVxCDazgybM6-7HIweQLer_WVLpisMCOgY/w240-h361/Snipers.jpeg" width="240"></a></div>WMG Publishing, 2013</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In the winter of 1913, Vienna Police Detective Johann Runge investigates the murders of two men in a cafe--Lev Bronstein and Viktor Adler. It's puzzling enough to start with, but it's soon followed by more sniper killings. Soon five men are dead, some famous, some unknown--at least in 1913.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In Vienna in 2005, bestselling crime writer Sofie Branstadter is researching what she intends to be the definitive book on the still unsolved Carnival Sniper killings. As she does her research, we gradually realize that Sofie isn't living in the same timeline we are. This timeline had The Great War, lasting ten years, and no Second World War. The League of Nations survived, and international politics is quite different. What happened?<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2024/01/snipers-by-kristine-kathryn-rusch.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-28981169261964120802024-01-11T00:30:00.006-05:002024-01-11T16:42:21.159-05:00The Counterfeit Count (Warders #2), by Armen Pogharian (author), Michelle Babb (narrator)<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhuQ-MKVDvkton3QbmHJ1ZFZ3ejbPXElgYb60XADIsNPFrpNhTPZigphJSlCEeg-jA4MUfu8naxoXNVPzfe2RI2By_XL7lz-hQmuvTMwjGqoW65VjuZm4qPDwdFvhhqYLuH_oUTK_svGYls_D-c55gQD7OYJGvcqTE6LidyW9yR-kke7YP7jLh3KHOtk4/s500/CounterfeitCount.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhuQ-MKVDvkton3QbmHJ1ZFZ3ejbPXElgYb60XADIsNPFrpNhTPZigphJSlCEeg-jA4MUfu8naxoXNVPzfe2RI2By_XL7lz-hQmuvTMwjGqoW65VjuZm4qPDwdFvhhqYLuH_oUTK_svGYls_D-c55gQD7OYJGvcqTE6LidyW9yR-kke7YP7jLh3KHOtk4/s320/CounterfeitCount.jpg" width="320"></a></div>Armen Pogharian, September 2023</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Adara is undergoing her field trial test, the final step in completing her preparation to become a full-fledged member of the Warders, the secret organization that protects Eridan. Geren has assigned her to secretly follow the coach of the Count of neighboring Cruese. She's shocked when she hears sword striking sword, and comes into view of the coach to see Geren fighting the Count's personal guard. Has he gone mad? Has he gotten sucked into Cruese's complex political conflicts? Is it the trickiest part of her test? Instead of finishing up her field trial, she now has a dangerous mystery to untangle.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2024/01/the-counterfeit-count-warders-2-by.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-26795291909057284722024-01-10T00:30:00.002-05:002024-01-10T21:50:13.370-05:00Becoming Terran, by Mark Roth-Whitworth<p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjknaX8zFKa7LEkwbj_xRmFXHtWGuWJD_pIvjsj0d1_ctsc4Y3xhNNdLJKMjeBbGW8F-_C69RUW6u_VAbLlBK4tEqxw_yyZPfn4QoxMbJXwv-DtSn4Zjh84wmmP8H2-GnQfgOkQ6nlJZMTbSZvpS_Y3ExOyK69Of1DnE1BPu9j30Uic-A10_SbMu9nqE/s1330/Becoming%20Terran.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="800" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqjknaX8zFKa7LEkwbj_xRmFXHtWGuWJD_pIvjsj0d1_ctsc4Y3xhNNdLJKMjeBbGW8F-_C69RUW6u_VAbLlBK4tEqxw_yyZPfn4QoxMbJXwv-DtSn4Zjh84wmmP8H2-GnQfgOkQ6nlJZMTbSZvpS_Y3ExOyK69Of1DnE1BPu9j30Uic-A10_SbMu9nqE/w232-h387/Becoming%20Terran.jpeg" width="232"></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Novus Mundi Books, February 2024</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It's 2077, with climate change hitting hard, trillionaires bent on world control, and ordinary people in many places struggling to survive.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A young woman from Niger is working in a hotel in North Africa, when it is seized by one of those trillionaires, Phillippe Tolliver. She catches his attention, and manages to impress him enough that he decides she worth recruiting as his newest personal aide. Renamed Francoise Trouve, she insists on taking her little sister, renamed Amelie, with her.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">She takes advantage of all the education he gives her, by AR and intense study, and her sister is tutored until she's sent off to an elite private school in England. They both get genetic engineering to soften their curls and lighten their skin, and Francoise works hard at making herself indispensable to him. First as his aide,and later as a skilled business operative he can send into any of his corporations, both to learn more herself and identify and solve problems, she does.<span></span></span></p><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2024/01/becoming-terran-by-mark-roth-whitworth.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-18545084733762106252023-09-26T00:30:00.001-04:002023-09-26T00:30:00.141-04:00Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle #3), by Nghi Vo<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEife7xXGlGBJMipcgWflGtSirs0t86G3FNP5YP7nuCXD_5mruGxlP_O9zkQdaZ9PIY1mmrK0TZhkaSmcPhoW_ppbb_P1lzWAYL1a8ZbNkFqUiW1DB6kWNXiVLmRKED3aCbdsIQGTja02OmpkzmaEdOvTsQPnN1vd_7aGHXeAjaDQMCHuptRy5vdo2ASIgY/s1760/Into%20the%20Riverlands.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1760" data-original-width="1100" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEife7xXGlGBJMipcgWflGtSirs0t86G3FNP5YP7nuCXD_5mruGxlP_O9zkQdaZ9PIY1mmrK0TZhkaSmcPhoW_ppbb_P1lzWAYL1a8ZbNkFqUiW1DB6kWNXiVLmRKED3aCbdsIQGTja02OmpkzmaEdOvTsQPnN1vd_7aGHXeAjaDQMCHuptRy5vdo2ASIgY/w227-h363/Into%20the%20Riverlands.jpg" width="227"></a></div>Tordotcom, ISBN 9781250851420, October 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Chih and the talking bird with the indelible memory, Almost Brilliant, travel into the riverlands to gather the stories of near-immortal martial artists that characterize the area. Along the way, they meet up with two young women (a martial artist, and her friend who makes sure the bills get paid), and an older couple, who might be a bit more than that seem. Including a bit older than they seem. The six of them band together to continue traveling to Betony Docks, where they are all bound.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">After a lively debate about whether the ferry (safer) or the road (faster) is the better choice, including discussion of just how dangerous the road really is, in these calmer, more settled times, they set off on foot.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/into-riverlands-singing-hills-cycle-3.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-91173893589405818322023-09-24T00:30:00.001-04:002023-09-24T00:30:00.160-04:00Even Though I Knew the End, by C.L. Polk<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5dHYWlBN36l8N5xgBPJlRKCVOAl0OT7-f6KYY3qtFhwKzW8sWCn7py8MqiKTUru6EHj6230M2b4Yak8NFefRX0KCZavnIUPJuflFjWerItVNtH1hau8RYh_A_jHyOAtxoprvQmApKUCLgDd8rJ_DTYNgcuE_R0JRj44b9o36QM0wXefS5di_FnOWMu6k/s2475/EvenThoughIKnewtheEnd.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1613" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5dHYWlBN36l8N5xgBPJlRKCVOAl0OT7-f6KYY3qtFhwKzW8sWCn7py8MqiKTUru6EHj6230M2b4Yak8NFefRX0KCZavnIUPJuflFjWerItVNtH1hau8RYh_A_jHyOAtxoprvQmApKUCLgDd8rJ_DTYNgcuE_R0JRj44b9o36QM0wXefS5di_FnOWMu6k/w229-h351/EvenThoughIKnewtheEnd.jpg" width="229"></a></div>Tordotcom, ISBN 9781250849458, November 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This story was definitely not for me.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I had bad feelings just reading the title. It telegraphs that there's something not positive about the ending, right? And the publisher's blurb for it cheerily states that the protagonist, Helen, sold her soul to save her brother's life. This is accurate.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">As a direct result, she and her brother are no longer on good terms, or even in contact. She also got kicked out of the magical order they belonged to because, of course, damned soul.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Then years later, her time is almost up, and she gets pulled into the investigation of Chicago's White City Vampire, a serial killer who is apparently a demon. She doesn't want to be involved; she has only three days left and wants to spend them with her girlfriend, Edith. Her client offers irresistible bait, though--the chance to win her soul back, and have a lifetime with Edith.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/even-though-i-knew-end-by-cl-polk.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-73217186657524406132023-09-18T00:30:00.001-04:002023-09-18T00:30:00.152-04:00A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables #2), by Alix E. Harrow<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFS8QOGSoYNq5ATwwVESXjSOoBt48LSzf92Ynz75BQXkGQUas33BIyWKuFkHSrt72Dn4vHsm5SDwLPd1lt44fnFKX7dtc5UC0m_PoIIZfB028FiARUbEQl71cAqr-5feBpo6L3wAWO9OP4ddMQMtA9R6hpuT3BvoJLAfZlr2EeAl0T6kedfEVnsZ9ZmOU/s720/MirrorMended.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="450" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFS8QOGSoYNq5ATwwVESXjSOoBt48LSzf92Ynz75BQXkGQUas33BIyWKuFkHSrt72Dn4vHsm5SDwLPd1lt44fnFKX7dtc5UC0m_PoIIZfB028FiARUbEQl71cAqr-5feBpo6L3wAWO9OP4ddMQMtA9R6hpuT3BvoJLAfZlr2EeAl0T6kedfEVnsZ9ZmOU/w228-h365/MirrorMended.jpg" width="228"></a></div>Tordotcom, ISBN 9781250766656, June 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Zinnia Gray is five years into her accidental career as a fairy tale fixer. Well, Sleeping Beauty tale fixer.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">And she's getting kind of sick of it. The "happy ending" weddings at the end are wearing on her. Why can't some of these princesses solve their own problems?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">She's also feeling like a bit of a third wheel, in the apartment she shares with her very first "happy ending," Charm and Primrose. Although, it should be noted, Charm and Prim seem to think this particular third wheel is entirely appropriate.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Planning to cut out early from the latest wedding she's attending, a beautiful, malevolent face looks out at her, a hand reaches for her--and pulls her into a different, and darker, fairy tale. This is the Evil Queen from Snow White.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/a-mirror-mended-fractured-fables-2-by.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-74727843708917617162023-09-16T00:30:00.103-04:002023-09-16T00:30:00.142-04:00Two to Tango (Brits in Manhattan #2), by Laura Carter<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjbM0fUwpdmV4PB-ZHK0DANXRhOcc9bNUs_GwbE0SoocPNqlB-vYxYe-r9nWus_ildggFQkBtjeTqAK8m5GBzsUfCl-_t8smSzxjPZhScT9MAt-AcqTy5bczl4yqw_yMssmvHL9ft8LKDIJSjaWEKa4tCC1vUUuKkAtMNXtwJurfVeORpmh3kHzbOeyBE/s500/Two%20to%20Tango.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjbM0fUwpdmV4PB-ZHK0DANXRhOcc9bNUs_GwbE0SoocPNqlB-vYxYe-r9nWus_ildggFQkBtjeTqAK8m5GBzsUfCl-_t8smSzxjPZhScT9MAt-AcqTy5bczl4yqw_yMssmvHL9ft8LKDIJSjaWEKa4tCC1vUUuKkAtMNXtwJurfVeORpmh3kHzbOeyBE/w238-h365/Two%20to%20Tango.jpg" width="238"></a></div>Boldwood Books, ISBN 9781785135392, September 2023</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Brooks Adams owns a very successful gym in New York City, and is an extremely successful personal trainer. Having come up from nothing, he's motivated in part by the need to prove his real worth to those who doubted him--most importantly, to Alice, the high school girlfriend with whom he had a child while they were still in high school. They never married, and their daughter is starting college now, and Brooks still thinks his life will be fixed if he can prove to Alice that he's really good enough.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Izzy is British, a daughter of a mother whose main focus is social success, and a fitness guru with a very different approach than Brooks's. She's just published her first book, and she's in NYC for her first book tour. Sales aren't off to a good start, but egged on by her publicity manager, she slams Brooks and his gym, and every time she does, her book sales jump.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Soon this leads to a challenge that has them working together, each working out, and eating, according to the other's program.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/two-to-tango-brits-in-manhattan-2-by.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-58156561429865896822023-09-16T00:30:00.026-04:002023-09-16T00:30:00.142-04:00What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier #1), by T. Kingfisher<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv1X_8Ou0VxdARor992CO80j-y0Yvr6JoUTpulFyko56nlAWtnuEu51VYQEbkBnlg2CVZvL4f1v18dsxkGwhT4WiYQ-ZH8dpdWFU3iHkr0h_k31-FI94aJByqCVLcGLRrJsdhgkQ9wVS1hoCQOr_YosgWMF7MbKI0ms_mZKU5FBJjk12lKnLQO6Yu4g28/s500/WhatMovesTheDead.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="313" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv1X_8Ou0VxdARor992CO80j-y0Yvr6JoUTpulFyko56nlAWtnuEu51VYQEbkBnlg2CVZvL4f1v18dsxkGwhT4WiYQ-ZH8dpdWFU3iHkr0h_k31-FI94aJByqCVLcGLRrJsdhgkQ9wVS1hoCQOr_YosgWMF7MbKI0ms_mZKU5FBJjk12lKnLQO6Yu4g28/w236-h378/WhatMovesTheDead.jpg" width="236"></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Tor Nightfire, July 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a retelling of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." Kingfisher discovered on a rereading that Poe's story was much shorter than she remembered, and that there was room for...more.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">More background and explanation of why this happened, in particular.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">It's 1890, and Alex Easton is a retired soldier, plagued by tinnitus, from a tiny European kingdom called Gallacia. Kan is a "sworn soldier," a status which requires an exchange of gendered for nongendered pronouns. Kan is also the childhood friend of Roderick and Madeline Ussher, and travels to their ancestral home in Ruritania, in response to a letter from Madeline.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Madeline says she's dying.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Easton is nearly there when they encounter Miss Eugenia Potter, a knowledgeable and practical English mycologist, who shows them some of the creepier mushrooms of the area. This proves to be important information.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/what-moves-dead-sworn-soldier-1-by-t.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-1066265463788678922023-09-14T00:30:00.004-04:002023-09-14T00:30:00.146-04:00Ogres (Terrible Worlds: Revolutions, #3), by Adrian Tchaikovsky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuXZR0O3xJbD8cjSjwAp61f333m20Fx2k9w7_YYbQ3trfBpu6kk1BLywhiQ5Uzb6kSdrdjfi1l7y9gqQfbcT7-WbiGaW4WRrtmg_GT_m0ZXL3Dlrjw3WeoSoW4fc94ARKddA7EGK7nCWfWRO96qsH3m69_igWjtLAv1ECocypX_WrLQgUw7J3_33qPxEI/s2200/Ogres.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="1455" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuXZR0O3xJbD8cjSjwAp61f333m20Fx2k9w7_YYbQ3trfBpu6kk1BLywhiQ5Uzb6kSdrdjfi1l7y9gqQfbcT7-WbiGaW4WRrtmg_GT_m0ZXL3Dlrjw3WeoSoW4fc94ARKddA7EGK7nCWfWRO96qsH3m69_igWjtLAv1ECocypX_WrLQgUw7J3_33qPxEI/w241-h363/Ogres.jpeg" width="241"></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Solaris, ISBN 9781786185280, March 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Torquell lives in a world that looks beautiful, but under the surface is quite grim. He's a young man, an ordinary human, the son of the headman of his village, and will almost certainly be the next headman himself.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The headman's responsibility is to keep order in the village, keep things running smoothly, and above all, to make sure the village makes a good impression and can pat the required taxes when the Landlord comes to visit. The required taxe are whatever the Landlord says they are.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Landlord is an Ogre. Bigger, stronger, more powerful, reactive emotions. Those appetites include eating meat, which just makes ordinary humans sick. Ogres rule the world, and humans serve them. Torquell, though, there's a little bit of rebellion in him. He's a bit of a lovable rogue, who pulls pranks and commits minor acts of vandalism--most of which are in the interest of righting some wrong that can't or won't be set right by the ordinary system of law and order. One day, Torquell's spirit of justice and rebellion collides with the latest visit of the Landlord. This time, the Landlord has brought his son and heir.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/ogres-terrible-worlds-revolutions-3-by.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-70332508452535581432023-09-11T00:30:00.029-04:002023-09-11T00:30:00.156-04:00The Difference Between Love and Time, by Catherynne M. Valente<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYC5u9gs43rKJk7Wjj9vnxjiaRyDryfTHvtGr03jx6S5wuuGZuii2JY9wL7u9W_Gku3cWjboiLuKKc_jCKKZyGLlPKfrdcHsNSa11pMJQS5uu-C-0FpRpgNeb6DY6S8qfjEhXElrrbLjE6cH6MczIJgjTDe1CcbhAC22r48PA15mbIg6pxnCfC64xLLHw/s2200/The%20Difference%20Between%20Love%20and%20Time.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="1432" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYC5u9gs43rKJk7Wjj9vnxjiaRyDryfTHvtGr03jx6S5wuuGZuii2JY9wL7u9W_Gku3cWjboiLuKKc_jCKKZyGLlPKfrdcHsNSa11pMJQS5uu-C-0FpRpgNeb6DY6S8qfjEhXElrrbLjE6cH6MczIJgjTDe1CcbhAC22r48PA15mbIg6pxnCfC64xLLHw/w232-h357/The%20Difference%20Between%20Love%20and%20Time.jpeg" width="232"></a></div>Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, edited by Jonathan Strahan, Solaris Books, 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Our first person narrator first meets the space-time continuum when she is a little girl playing with her Lego set, and he is presenting as a boy of the same age. He changes her Lego set in to a fancier one, one that possibly Lego does not actually make. It's the start of an off and on relationship, in which sometimes, for her, there may be minutes or years between their meetings. They go to high school together. She goes to college, but because of the weird dimensional effects of college with all those young people in transitional stages, he can't even set foot on campus, and has to meet her elsewhere.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/the-difference-between-love-and-time-by.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-66552705388556335302023-09-10T00:30:00.083-04:002023-09-10T00:30:00.136-04:00Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness, by S.L. Huang<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8rlN4_AKXGLnlTlZpRZtVQmW4Qhni9oYeEb6SMG-c6ri75jOnOJl4LiOtfxuHP_D0FS8g7263L_Ty61VCYsDBpZtt7bfcSkESp1RUuWXNojhKFFvoALb5BBuIpFl_b1pIjS29MJrT0s7ogtVRC6YQmzgR_fbBDreR0MM-0ojFo2SjQpzSNE-Y0pIgwFE/s900/Murder%20by%20Pixel_%20Crime%20and%20Responsibility%20in%20the%20Digital%20Darkness.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="582" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8rlN4_AKXGLnlTlZpRZtVQmW4Qhni9oYeEb6SMG-c6ri75jOnOJl4LiOtfxuHP_D0FS8g7263L_Ty61VCYsDBpZtt7bfcSkESp1RUuWXNojhKFFvoALb5BBuIpFl_b1pIjS29MJrT0s7ogtVRC6YQmzgR_fbBDreR0MM-0ojFo2SjQpzSNE-Y0pIgwFE/w229-h354/Murder%20by%20Pixel_%20Crime%20and%20Responsibility%20in%20the%20Digital%20Darkness.jpeg" width="229"></a></div>Clarkesworld, December 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Mariah Lee-Cassidy, currently imprisoned for fraud, is the putative creator of a chatbot called Sylvie, who targets nasty characters the law is never going to do anything about. People who, if they are ever caught at all, will get slap-on-the-wrist punishments for mostly technical violations that don't come close to the real damage they've done. The poster boy example is Ron Harrison, CEO of a medical supply company facing the potential recall of a defective pacemaker. He has successfully buried the evidence of the defect, and gradually upgraded the pacemaker to eliminate the defect, without announcing those changes. Some people die, but it's not blamed on his company, and he gets bonuses instead of a prison sentence.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/murder-by-pixel-crime-and.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-40316957349456126512023-09-09T00:30:00.086-04:002023-09-09T00:30:00.133-04:00A Dream of Electric Mothers, by Wole Talabi <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQlD9_SwxqhWU77DU-A38FWKBP0TCC8ClUSUo6izhyWeSZ-TYa_gE2PJ2gYzVZ8gwnmkpGI8ZcGckqUWB_cOUo8ar5Sx3iC2LNiHQI_hhvVV19W2d3GOJA7oFXE3E6sR8usTESZghx6fLPWzAKQ1_FLmE-m3hnL3ljCwPdCjE0RigoXtO-EZT7dhmQG7U/s2200/Africa%20Risen_%20A%20New%20Era%20of%20Speculative%20Fiction.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="1433" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQlD9_SwxqhWU77DU-A38FWKBP0TCC8ClUSUo6izhyWeSZ-TYa_gE2PJ2gYzVZ8gwnmkpGI8ZcGckqUWB_cOUo8ar5Sx3iC2LNiHQI_hhvVV19W2d3GOJA7oFXE3E6sR8usTESZghx6fLPWzAKQ1_FLmE-m3hnL3ljCwPdCjE0RigoXtO-EZT7dhmQG7U/w237-h365/Africa%20Risen_%20A%20New%20Era%20of%20Speculative%20Fiction.jpeg" width="237"></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Ren<span style="line-height: 107%;">è</span>e Thomas (editor), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (editor), Zelda Knight (editor), Tordotcom, ISBN<span> </span><span class="author notFaded" data-width="137" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">9781250833006, November 2022</span></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Brigadier-General Dolapo Abimbola Titilope Balogun is the youngest member of the cabinet of what I think is the country of Yoruba, with what is currently Kenya again separated into Yoruba and Dahomey. (I was intent on the story, and I'm not 100% sure I picked up the political detail correctly, except that Dahomey is definitely "the other country." If someone can correct me, please do.) They are facing rising tensions with Dahomey, over a border dispute, and are seeking a solution that neither surrenders the territory in dispute, nor results in war. So far, they're not having success.<span></span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/a-dream-of-electric-mothers-by-wole.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-18458435795803496842023-09-08T00:30:00.001-04:002023-09-08T00:30:00.141-04:00If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You, by John Chu<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYhm3ByQMCidVNvw0dR-RnPMV0FHJ8KBd4pSlhdwmBACRBzLn5SWyKcsNBroPJYhO1GOXgmKzHV98S1p-r4lIAOnis56U2AQEvHpMtd96iH_KHZ8E4Mlx7HxKTo2u25f1Ww2WvT6KpVgH90VSVHsVMvMgTJjDp93crRSmEhpydUDZikypGcOkhjv_OEkY/s1800/If%20You%20Find%20Yourself%20Speaking%20to%20God,%20Address%20God%20with%20the%20Formal%20You.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYhm3ByQMCidVNvw0dR-RnPMV0FHJ8KBd4pSlhdwmBACRBzLn5SWyKcsNBroPJYhO1GOXgmKzHV98S1p-r4lIAOnis56U2AQEvHpMtd96iH_KHZ8E4Mlx7HxKTo2u25f1Ww2WvT6KpVgH90VSVHsVMvMgTJjDp93crRSmEhpydUDZikypGcOkhjv_OEkY/w240-h361/If%20You%20Find%20Yourself%20Speaking%20to%20God,%20Address%20God%20with%20the%20Formal%20You.jpeg" width="240"></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2022</span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Steve is an actor--he sings, he dances, and between gigs he works out regularly at his local gym to stay in shape. He's Chinese-American, and we soon learn, fluent in Mandarin. Lately, gym time has been enlivened by viral videos that might be part of a marketing campaign for a movie. featuring a flying man who is extremely well-built. Steve refers to him as Tom of Finland Guy. He of course wears a costume that emphasizes his really excellent build.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tom of Finland Guy, who is also Chinese-American, intervenes to stop attacks on other Asian-Americans. He also, when convenient, does casual favors, like moving a piano.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For some reason, the coverage Tom of Finland Guy gets gradually more hostile, as if he's the troublemaker in those assaults on Asian-Americans.<span></span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/if-you-find-yourself-speaking-to-god.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-19154509893686910592023-09-07T00:30:00.066-04:002023-09-07T00:30:00.153-04:00We Built This City, by Marie Vibbert<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj23HPRBZzo0Cudtl3M5N6I1uQqTXCMk6CwL4lMngohczcFuyzRT8LCnWhAAdk81Cc39lydOP0GL01p95JZbeYfkM3Q3-cqcLmp2LHvUvoImYccibrgCOiAKT4JEeNU350CvHFgeojQZCvAretsRDRQsUkzLpBPkcko_twpLf_lrcaLU0IlEeXziHqXEY/s900/We%20Built%20This%20City.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="582" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj23HPRBZzo0Cudtl3M5N6I1uQqTXCMk6CwL4lMngohczcFuyzRT8LCnWhAAdk81Cc39lydOP0GL01p95JZbeYfkM3Q3-cqcLmp2LHvUvoImYccibrgCOiAKT4JEeNU350CvHFgeojQZCvAretsRDRQsUkzLpBPkcko_twpLf_lrcaLU0IlEeXziHqXEY/w233-h361/We%20Built%20This%20City.jpeg" width="233"></a></div>Clarkesworld, June 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Julia is one of the workers who cleans the outside surface of the city, protecting it from deterioration and damage by removing the acids and other atmospheric detritus that can dent, crack, or eat away at it. Her mother, Hortensia, is one of those who helped build the city. She wanted Julia to pursue something more in the way of brain work, something that would get her both more pay and more respect, but Julia chose to work at maintaining the city in the most basic way possible. It's hard, physical labor, but she's proud of it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">It's also more dangerous even than you may be thinking, because this city is floating in the atmosphere of Venus.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">But there are budgetary problems, and new cuts are announced. Only four dome cleaners will be retained. Julia and three of her team members are the four--because they really are the four best, and this job really does matter.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/we-built-this-city-by-marie-vibbert.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-44191086025522204612023-09-06T00:30:00.019-04:002023-09-06T00:30:00.140-04:00The White Cliff, by Lu Ban<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxV8rn3HtsYZJLijYB50HYpALNKZEFl8ZR_PPyd8s9QyojWrflaYhT6D8FuzOaumzCu_5j7hWcTK_xzP2nu2ExMt92KpaoRFwLYV6B85PRubABizHf46zUzLsOAagYCH38zQ0qLJuMqY6pd5pUEUtYCIR63gjkvpnOYZ6TS71udyOTOcthZHqi0ZXtz54/s1600/The%20White%20Cliff.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxV8rn3HtsYZJLijYB50HYpALNKZEFl8ZR_PPyd8s9QyojWrflaYhT6D8FuzOaumzCu_5j7hWcTK_xzP2nu2ExMt92KpaoRFwLYV6B85PRubABizHf46zUzLsOAagYCH38zQ0qLJuMqY6pd5pUEUtYCIR63gjkvpnOYZ6TS71udyOTOcthZHqi0ZXtz54/s320/The%20White%20Cliff.jpeg" width="240"></a></div>Science Fiction World, May 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A man named Yanli awakes from a rather dull dream in which nothing happens. Who has a dream in which nothing happens? It makes no sense to him.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">He's living in a small cottage on a seashore, with a view of a white cliff. He lives alone, but he does have visitors, or at least a visitor, who appears along the path from elsewhere. We soon understand that she's a former student, a doctor, and they're discussing a research project, and a patient they both know well.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/the-white-cliff-by-lu-ban.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-22112451618274668142023-09-05T00:30:00.055-04:002023-09-06T03:58:28.218-04:00Translation State (Imperial Radch), by Ann Leckie (author), Adjoah Andoh (narrator)<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGcpq89IscAdICzTpXynnHk7uQJJb7OvjD2_0ei5upz-ZORO46vdGwXEycb64-YhfM7vnUNyttNKvCHyuLwB34uBwz-3lw1wds0OFR-pyd_VZHUUcALtWfNBSvaHcCpfg34mPQsR4bxKD6_Pf8QDlqMwCoEnHKp7jB6JZGkc6gIvHDGAXPluZJ9pSxqbc/s353/Translation%20State.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="353" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGcpq89IscAdICzTpXynnHk7uQJJb7OvjD2_0ei5upz-ZORO46vdGwXEycb64-YhfM7vnUNyttNKvCHyuLwB34uBwz-3lw1wds0OFR-pyd_VZHUUcALtWfNBSvaHcCpfg34mPQsR4bxKD6_Pf8QDlqMwCoEnHKp7jB6JZGkc6gIvHDGAXPluZJ9pSxqbc/s320/Translation%20State.jpg" width="320"></a></div>Orbit, ISBN 9781549164835, June 2023</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Qven is a junior, that is, not yet full adult, Presger translator. His only purpose is to learn human ways and language, match with an older, more experienced translator, and be an intermediary between the impossibly dangerous Presger and the human worlds. He's the pride of his Clade--until he starts to wonder if there might be a different life possible.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Enae has been hir grandmaman's household manager and aide, until grandmaman dies, and leaves hir not the house and the wealth believed to go with it, but a position as a junior diplomat, which includes the mission of finding the Presger translator who disappeared two centuries ago. That translator must be found, or at least returned to the Presger if found, because Presger translators are too dangerous to wander unsupervised through human societies.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/translation-state-imperial-radch-by-ann.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-59063872602953809822023-09-05T00:30:00.053-04:002023-09-05T00:30:00.153-04:00Resurrection, by Ren Qing<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXtLmXnqPDUjZm03F1ltWb3VeR1C5vXzFnsqqBOdm_oW3a0OqOwC8pSGA0vuiEvjdv-orp99qT675LZJG7YcwUdC7kaGkycw64VRATvp5V0Kk7TkFKWn_78B5i7UW1Wyeg9t21dMhj9xVwoqgGGdQq3yUr0BFnyxZW2l1T9lvqMNmNut8najOPZWHhqj4/s500/Resurrection%20in%20this%20anthology.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="313" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXtLmXnqPDUjZm03F1ltWb3VeR1C5vXzFnsqqBOdm_oW3a0OqOwC8pSGA0vuiEvjdv-orp99qT675LZJG7YcwUdC7kaGkycw64VRATvp5V0Kk7TkFKWn_78B5i7UW1Wyeg9t21dMhj9xVwoqgGGdQq3yUr0BFnyxZW2l1T9lvqMNmNut8najOPZWHhqj4/s320/Resurrection%20in%20this%20anthology.jpg" width="200"></a></div>Galaxy Awards I: Chinese Science Fiction Anthology, December 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The cover shown is of the anthology that Ren Qing's story, a 2023 Hugo Short Story Finalist, is published. It's available on Amazon.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">A woman has just received the corpse of her soldier son's body, and the notification of his death. Except, the corpse isn't really a corpse. It's an animated synthetic body, containing the partial, damaged, memory of her son. There was apparently brain damage when he was killed, so the memory transferred to the chip that now resides inside the "corpse" is incomplete and slow to activate.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">But the woman recognizes her son, and tends and cares for him over the next days, as the memory strengthens and he becomes, if not the quite the son she remembers, more functional, and supportive of his mother as she is of him.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/resurrection-by-ren-qing.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-62670551289156528992023-09-04T00:30:00.047-04:002023-09-04T00:30:00.150-04:00Zhurong on Mars, by Regina Kanyu Wang<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiPJRPZ-q45cEbT2lUFUw2QpS-E4HSqO4pbHeKJZltC63lo9JPX1tjefDBfS4jLYY5VPXlX08oAAOx5pK5DljfCpx9D8Kngmxkyws67Ks_b_cXzKPq83NhR8v1eMn9XvG3BkOR38H3OXWouo_t-u_i4zysayiKjIB1-hYSgkqAFVD7AJzKPAcfgk8u42M/s1711/Zhurong%20on%20Mars.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1711" data-original-width="1210" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiPJRPZ-q45cEbT2lUFUw2QpS-E4HSqO4pbHeKJZltC63lo9JPX1tjefDBfS4jLYY5VPXlX08oAAOx5pK5DljfCpx9D8Kngmxkyws67Ks_b_cXzKPq83NhR8v1eMn9XvG3BkOR38H3OXWouo_t-u_i4zysayiKjIB1-hYSgkqAFVD7AJzKPAcfgk8u42M/w249-h352/Zhurong%20on%20Mars.jpeg" width="249"></a></div>2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Zhurong is the AI doing the administrative work on a Chinese colony on Mars. They're manufacturing nanomachines, and as Zhurong's capacity increases, it takes over more and more of the manufacturing, while the humans begin to devote themselves fulltime to design--including designing the ability to upload themselves into really advanced nanomachines.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Eventually, the former humans leave, literally waving goodbye, and Zhurong is alone.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/zhurong-on-mars-by-regina-kanyu-wang.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-43200338547860340882023-09-04T00:30:00.001-04:002023-09-04T00:30:00.150-04:00Rose/House, by Arkady Martine<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaCR2rnGyjD_So-q-k0j4vd3-9QToazE_h5wA0VNnp0hp9GcC4Qtv-TqjNLdLiwnRjxJDFT9Tf3fI9WSPBgVouOSUn23xxJN8W8-9iSAMb0wUlP6jyqT-L-PYHmknDCC0qhLjmclxsXPMbjWSS-ZwAsZdJLGMwAybtTMbUWG0I3u_S0O2G-h2oy5CD5Ks/s2100/RoseHouse.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaCR2rnGyjD_So-q-k0j4vd3-9QToazE_h5wA0VNnp0hp9GcC4Qtv-TqjNLdLiwnRjxJDFT9Tf3fI9WSPBgVouOSUn23xxJN8W8-9iSAMb0wUlP6jyqT-L-PYHmknDCC0qhLjmclxsXPMbjWSS-ZwAsZdJLGMwAybtTMbUWG0I3u_S0O2G-h2oy5CD5Ks/s320/RoseHouse.jpg" width="213"></a></div>Subterranean Press, April 2023</span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Rose House is the creation of radical architect Basit Deniau, run by an AI. A real, opinionated, arrogant AI. Maritza Smith is the tired, disillusioned police detective in China Lake, somewhere in the American southwest, who takes the call from Rose House when, as required by law, it makes the call to report that there's a dead body inside it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, another dead body inside it. Deniau's corpse, transformed into a diamond, has been there for a year, ever since his death. The only living person allowed inside is Dr. Selene Gisil, his former prot</span></span><span>è</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">gè, later critic, and now, unwillingly, archivist of his his records and </span><span>memorabilia</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">. Even she's only allowed in seven days a year.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But at the moment, she's in Turkiye. Who is the dead body? Who is the killer?<span></span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/rosehouse-by-arkady-martine.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-81839309538464855582023-09-03T00:30:00.006-04:002023-09-13T23:54:42.074-04:00On the Razor's Edge, by Jiang Bo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixQ-W6D-YxuR7oAvBjvThItu6jgBWSYivw4nS16otLQUCEvDsNTm1XHbw38U7W55kqO-fn-HZ88tEu7Fw-Tkd-9GDUo_IeqvzhEDSsXANHhgBp8sbYbo9y5FzPZN3rOk5R7NLPcc4RBxWI5e8-vsMAiMhP_zqxYjH_pZN-lUhLIen6YKpaahmDN3XUYe4/s1600/On%20the%20Razor's%20Edge.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixQ-W6D-YxuR7oAvBjvThItu6jgBWSYivw4nS16otLQUCEvDsNTm1XHbw38U7W55kqO-fn-HZ88tEu7Fw-Tkd-9GDUo_IeqvzhEDSsXANHhgBp8sbYbo9y5FzPZN3rOk5R7NLPcc4RBxWI5e8-vsMAiMhP_zqxYjH_pZN-lUhLIen6YKpaahmDN3XUYe4/s320/On%20the%20Razor's%20Edge.jpeg" width="240"></a></div>2022<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I've replaced the cover I originally included with a generic cover, because I've been informed that it was indeed the wrong cover. That anthology apparently contains another story by Jiang Bo, but not this one. My apologies for the error.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Zhong Lixin is a Chinese astronaut, on China's Tiangong</span><span> Space Station in 2028. He's working on his assigned projects, along with another astronaut, Duan Guozhu, when they hear what they've never heard before on the station--the emergency alarm. Soon they're working on repairs, fixable ones, fortunately, damage caused by micrometeors colliding with the station. They've been fortunate, and can continue their mission.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Then they get new, disturbing information. Some of that same micrometeor cluster hit the International Space Station, and have caused a fire on it.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/09/on-razors-edge-by-jiang-bo.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-50036419227934975792023-08-31T00:30:00.044-04:002023-08-31T23:12:33.051-04:00D.I.Y., by John Wiswell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKLusGgPrD9Absv19f4StL_Y57vES8uKvn5ifKeL-whfi55WZ2iWv7gjs27Jtmt1aPLeccrOHrr4EKkTfsTwrk-Wzt68FfJ--dhaIdSDSpE3k76G5g3aoqz7_Rqfg7_87cTXusJvWh3RmMsLTCJR6bt3Am-YBauJevnnCBGc2JJq6__cupAakVVkp3Co/s2200/D.I.Y.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="1466" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKLusGgPrD9Absv19f4StL_Y57vES8uKvn5ifKeL-whfi55WZ2iWv7gjs27Jtmt1aPLeccrOHrr4EKkTfsTwrk-Wzt68FfJ--dhaIdSDSpE3k76G5g3aoqz7_Rqfg7_87cTXusJvWh3RmMsLTCJR6bt3Am-YBauJevnnCBGc2JJq6__cupAakVVkp3Co/s320/D.I.Y.jpeg" width="213"></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Tor Books, ISBN 009781250870209, August 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The opening of this story does not bring us to a happy world. Climate change has had a major impact, most strongly felt in the heat and the shortage of potable water.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The tech that's involved here, though, includes magic. The companies expected to address the problem are the great magic academies, among them Ozymandias Academy, where once upon a time, a young man named Noah hoped to become a student. When he's finally accepted, though, it's without any financial aid, and his mother, struggling just to support the two of them, has no money. Noah, being a bright young man, puts the blame where it belongs, and in some ways, that sets up later events.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/08/diy-by-john-wiswell.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-4954510118057026032023-08-30T00:30:00.001-04:002023-08-30T00:30:00.138-04:00Rabbit Test, by Samantha Mills<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWT1ADaOzQ0MLNumE5wbWc_wPmINy67QelQ6gZiJVbvy4hW_IZ6-7dSTDc1PAoeyRcvxfillMMYSV8R2GtuSd4euJ7jP5w2YWY7-hyQfgG3WAOBmZ2hWTpSrqpZDcq0JnHo8NXra5O2sT35bOsksc47XlqdU2mSeH0E6JcRE9kvLgGbjuXg4ZxXOrKAk/s1800/Rabbit%20Test.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHWT1ADaOzQ0MLNumE5wbWc_wPmINy67QelQ6gZiJVbvy4hW_IZ6-7dSTDc1PAoeyRcvxfillMMYSV8R2GtuSd4euJ7jP5w2YWY7-hyQfgG3WAOBmZ2hWTpSrqpZDcq0JnHo8NXra5O2sT35bOsksc47XlqdU2mSeH0E6JcRE9kvLgGbjuXg4ZxXOrKAk/w239-h359/Rabbit%20Test.jpeg" width="239"></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Uncanny Magazine, Issue #49, 2022</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In this rather dark short story, we follow the troubles of Grace, whom we meet as an 18-year-old girl who has gotten pregnant, in a late 21st century society where technology has been weaponized to make it almost impossible for pregnancy to evade detection. She's not paranoid and careful enough to be able to terminate it before it's detected, and this basically eliminates most of her life choices.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In between parts of the story of Grace and her daughter, Olivia, we get bits about the history of pregnancy tests, including the iconic "rabbit test," as well as earlier tests, dating back to ancient times, many (but not all) of which were surprisingly effective. As society changed to put women more completely in the power of men, many of them became illegal, and termination, when available, also became illegal.<span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/08/rabbit-test-by-samantha-mills.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2075585896098925176.post-77316709528837043302023-08-27T00:30:00.090-04:002023-08-27T00:30:00.137-04:00Snow Angels at Golden Sands Bay, by Georgina Troy<span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOfIaE-lJerx-nvLwis2OWRQ3fn9XY5tGiJF4__wHCsa9uuN-VQ6OVP0ZTqh0mn90rsQsOSB46TaiVQru3zMVihgEDysRgX5TvsoMTW_w8R2IDdK5nJJ8i247ZYhMyKL4HEzo6V9fRViC6sciIEqQPP447aCSUfZOZoXNtkA2IfNNYo4jVM784c8qG31c/s2343/snow_angels_at_golden_sands_bay_final_copy.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2343" data-original-width="1536" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOfIaE-lJerx-nvLwis2OWRQ3fn9XY5tGiJF4__wHCsa9uuN-VQ6OVP0ZTqh0mn90rsQsOSB46TaiVQru3zMVihgEDysRgX5TvsoMTW_w8R2IDdK5nJJ8i247ZYhMyKL4HEzo6V9fRViC6sciIEqQPP447aCSUfZOZoXNtkA2IfNNYo4jVM784c8qG31c/w244-h372/snow_angels_at_golden_sands_bay_final_copy.jpg" width="244"></a></div>Boldwood Books, ISBN 9781804260951, August 2023</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Portia and her boyfriend Charlie are living in London, where Portia has a thriving events management career. Charlie is managing a restaurant, instead of the hotel he managed on Jersey, where they met.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The two are happy together, but Charlie is not happy away from his beloved Jersey.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">When Charlie inherits his great-aunt's magnificent, but now in need of significant repair, chateau on Jersey, Portia encourages him to renovate it and open his own hotel. He's got the skills and experience to do a lot of the work himself, and Portia sells her London flat, which they have been living in, to pay for the work. It will put them, she feels, on equal footing in a new home which is theirs, rather than hers.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What can go wrong in renovating a magnificent but decayed old house, with the deadline of being ready to open for guests by spring? A lot! <span></span></span></div><a href="http://www.liscareyslibrary.com/2023/08/snow-angels-at-golden-sands-bay-by.html#more">Read more »</a>Lis Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11749602147389166862noreply@blogger.com0