Teaser Tuesday 4/3/18: “Alice”

This week, having finally finished off all those dystopian stories, I have moved on to something based on Lewis Carroll’s famous stories about Wonderland: Alice, by Christina Henry. No doubt this will be cheerful and wacky, eh?

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Then again, maybe not.

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Teaser Tuesday 3/27/2018: “The Father Hunt”

So this week I’m still reading Brave New Worlds, but I’m also re-reading The Father Hunt, by Rex Stout. And since most of the stories in Brave New Worlds have been firmly on the “meh” side (it was heavily front-loaded with the better ones), I decided I would do something highly unusual and feature a print book Teaser Tuesday this week.

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Teaser Tuesday 3/20/18: “Brave New Worlds”

So this week I’m reading Brave New Worlds, an anthology of dystopian-set short stories. Because, you know, real life isn’t depressing enough these days.

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Teaser Tuesday 3/6/18: “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”

So this week I’m reading, for, somehow, the first time ever, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams, of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame. (Yes, I did read HGttG, which made me laugh. And I read Last Chance to See, which also made me laugh, but made me sad at the same time. So that was confusing. Perhaps I needed a few decades to recover.)

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What has it got in its pocketses?

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Teaser Tuesday 2/27/18: “The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser”

So this week I am, as I predicted a few weeks back I would be, still reading The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, by Fritz Leiber.

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Teaser Tuesday 1/23/2018: “The Way of Kings”

Remember a few weeks ago, when I was reading The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson? Remember when I said I would probably be reading it for several weeks, because it was over a thousand pages long? Well, guess what I’m still reading?

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Practicing to be the guy with flashlights who directs planes where to go

 

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Teaser Tuesday 1/9/2018: “The Way of Kings”

AThis week (and next week, and probably the week after―it’s over a thousand freaking pages long!), I’m reading The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson.

 

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They went thataway.

 

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Teaser Tuesday 10/31/2017: “The Hole Behind Midnight”

This week I’m reading The Hole Behind Midnight, by Clinton J. Boomer, in which Royden Poole, a dwarf (or possibly a midget), gets involved in a conspiracy taking place in the Sideways*, AKA the 25th hour, a place that exists in the second between 11:59:59pm and 12:00:00am, and which can be accessed from locations that are abandoned by or don’t receive much attention from humans, such as your corner video store or my web site.

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Teaser Tuesday 10/10/17: “The Drawing of the Dark”

This week I’m reading The Drawing of the Dark, by Tim Powers.

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He drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink …

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Teaser Tuesday 10/3/2017: “Rage Against the Night”

So this week I’m reading Rage Against the Night, a short story anthology that was put out by the HWA with the charitable goal of helping one of its members, Rocky Wood (who happened to be president of HWA at the time), purchase an eye gaze machine* as he battled ALS.

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That awkward moment when you’re waiting for someone to toss a human finger for you to catch in your mouth.

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