It’s been quite a while since I did a Teaser Tuesday post, even though the whole reason I started posting on Tuesdays was that I discovered “Teaser Tuesday” is a thing and I figured I could fall back to it on weeks when I didn’t have anything else to write about, so I decided it was about time to trot one out ― not because the book I’m currently reading is any great shakes, but it has a couple of interesting things to recommend it. That book is a Skip Langdon mystery1 called Death Before Facebook, by Julie Smith; or at least, that’s what it’s called now.
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Teaser Tuesday: “Burnt Worlds”
So this week I was reading Burnt Worlds, a science fiction novel by S.J. Madill, in which the spaceship Borealis tests out a new hyperspace jump drive by leaping 35,000 light years away from home, whereupon said jump drive promptly explodes, leaving the ship facing a multi-year journey to get back. Of course, they only packed enough supplies for a day trip. Whoops.
Teaser Tuesday: “The Guns Above”
So this week I was reading The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis, a low-technology steampunk adventure where they fly around in zeppelins, but shoot at each other with muzzle-load muskets, cannons, and flintlock rifles. Because why not?
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Teaser Tuesday: Clifford D. Simak, “Way Station”
So this week (well, probably several weeks ago by the time this post appears) I was reading Way Station, a classic SF novel from the 1960s by Clifford D. Simak:
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Teaser Tuesday: “Perhaps the Stars”
So this week I was reading Perhaps the Stars, the final book of “Terra Ignota”:
Twofer Teaser Tuesday
So in the past few weeks I’ve read a couple of books where I decided to snip things for a Teaser Tuesday, even though, technically, on Teaser Tuesday, you’re supposed to take two sentences from whatever book you’re reading on that very day and use that as your teaser. But hey, you know how it is …
Teaser Tuesday: “The Quantum Thief”
So this week I was reading The Quantum Thief, by Hannu Rajaniemi:
Teaser Tuesday: “Ice”
So this week I was reading Ice, by Anna Kavan:
Teaser Tuesday: “Bandwidth”
So recently, I was reading a book called Bandwidth, by Eliot Peper:
Teaser Tuesday: “Robopocalypse”
So this week I was reading Robopocalypse, by Daniel H. Wilson, a book about the aftermath of the impending robot/AI uprising, which maybe you’ve heard people worrying about lately.
Viscosity 