#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - Classic episodic fantasy - Comedy - Revenge! (Eye for an eye style) - Conservation efforts - A fish out of water MC Try @jedediahberry.bsky.social's Kill All Wizards thirdarchive.net#killallwizards A barbarian has beef with the wizards guild, and acts accordingly.

#bookreview #booksky 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚡️ Fan of: - Complex, chonky books - Apophenia? - Not-too-distant-future - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Converging viewpoints - Shark! Try @nickharkaway.com's Gnomon nickharkaway.com/books/gnomon/ A detective has to investigate a death using the victim's own memories.

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Jen Williams | STONEBOUND out next year!@sennydreadful.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bluesky book people! Fantasy books to rejuvenate your love of fantasy - GO! (no DCC pls, not my bag)

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Melissa Caruso@melissacaruso.bsky.social · 3w ago

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

Here's the newsletter sized answer to your excellent question: bsky.app/profile/mich...

Michael Whelan@michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 3w ago

In this week’s newsletter, we talk about secondary rights and get spacy tackling the origin of a pair of album covers for Jonn Serrie. Plus an exclusive digital wallpaper of ARMENIA for our paid subscribers… theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/city-in-th...

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ 📚⚡️ Fan of: - Fantasy worlds with modern problems - Frenemies - Corporate espionage - Chinatown 🎬 - Resource management Try @maxgladstone.bsky.social's Two Serpents Rise maxgladstone.com/writing/two-... A risk manager discovers problematic irregularities in a water company merger

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - Departing gifts - Round tables - Cyborgs - AIs understanding humans - Saying "I don't remember reading _that_" Try Roger Zelazny's The Last Defender of Camelot bookshop.org/p/books/the-... A collection of award winning stories full of sharp writing and on point plots.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚡️ Fan of: - Biohacking - Trying to get an answer - Noir - Critters! - Nods to Blade Runner Try @aptshadow.bsky.social's Green City Wars adriantchaikovsky.com/books-novels... In a city of uplifted animals, a P.I. raccoon has to find a mouse that everyone wants to kill or protect.

Given the similarity of 'papal' and 'PayPal' I can't help but wonder how much accidental income the Vatican is getting, and how many papal bulls are processed by eBay.

One of the best indicators of good #software is that it can handle unexpected cases you just hit, as somebody already thought of it. That said, #duolingo can notify me that I preserved my streak with 3 min to spare, but there's no "Wait 'till the midnight owl" achievement? Time to file a ticket.

#booksky 📚💙 📚💬 A discussion with @wander-the-page.bsky.social brought up the idea of books I've read on title alone, so here are some and with my rationale (if any) Feel free to post any books that got you on the title alone. I'll start with:

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️📚⚡️ Fan of: - Hard-boiled P.I. - Vampires - Low life & old money - Not exactly 📚🌃 - Dead men talking Try: Glen Cook's Sweet Silver Blues bookshop.org/p/books/swee... The MC has to find the beneficiary of a war buddy’s will while someone tries to make sure she never gets the money.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚🩸📚⚡️ Fan of: - Found footage - Affordable real estate - Strange items Try @punkahoy.bsky.social's The Supernatural Enhancements punkahoy.blogspot.com The MC inherits a probably haunted house from a relative who was possibly in a secret society that was definitely up to something.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Cyberpunk - Bad MFs - Corporate malfeasance - Violence - Identity - Upgrading your sound system Try: @trnapper.bsky.social's The Escher Man nappertime.com/my-books/ A troubled hard boiled street samurai's memory loss has him asking questions that just lead to more trouble

Waiting on this spam labeling appeal, all I can think of is Dr. Venture. "Oh, so you _can_ see it?"

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🏺 Fan of: - Trivia - Conversational writing Try Milo Rossi's The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful: Curious and Incredible Facts That Will Blow Your Mind bookshop.org/p/books/the-... A collection of archaeological facts remind us that we're the same people we've always been.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Space opera! - Insurgencies - Big f'n spiders - Messages from space - Mindrot - Genius MCs - Tiny computers - Being roundly screwed Try: Vernor Vinge's A Deepness In the Sky bookshop.org/p/books/a-de... A three way first contact goes degrees of badly for all involved.

There's nothing like working from home to make me realize that the massive pile of laundry I've been walking by all week is suddenly a massive distraction that must be dealt with first if I'm to get anything done.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - OG Cyberpunk - Film noir - Criminals! - 2nd chances - Programmers as MCs - Books going to TV Try @greatdismal.bsky.social's Neuromancer williamgibsonbooks.com#books A burnt out hacker gets recruited as part of a team planning to steal something for a mysterious employer.

So #booksky: just checking that any time someone posts a picture of a #bookshelf, I'm not the only one that stops to check it out faster than a car full of teenage boys spotting a bikini car wash*? *Was that a thing? I watched a lot of movies in the 80's but I'm sure Hollywood was 100% accurate. :)

I'm breaking out my Quite-Briefest of fan shirts for the con today. Fortunately the unexpectedly high humidity will have those wrinkles out right quick. :)

I don't know if the table talk sessions are new at Worldcon but being able to hang out with a favorite author and 8 other people for an hour is incredibly cool. Though it sucks when it collides with other authors signings and ya gotta make a choice.

The "you know it's gonna be a bummer" panel of authors & medical professionals panel at #worldcon, _could_ have ended on a down note, but @seananmcguire.bsky.social dropped some truly horrifying parasite facts with a glee reserved for taunting siblings.🦝 Well played, and a con highlight so far. :)

I do believe the con's badge label maker is making fun of my handle.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - Horticulture - Holmes & Watson - Used Kaiju - Total recall - A particular set of skills Try @robertjbennett.bsky.social's A Drop Of Corruption www.robertjacksonbennett.com/ana-and-din The murder of a tax collector leads two imperial investigators to a whole lot more.

Packing the important stuff first, for #lacon, #worldcon, 📚💙 📚🪐

✨️ LAcon V Badge Pick Up Info ✨️ Your first stop is the Hilton Pacific B ballroom. Pick up your badge at the Registration Desk. You will need to show an ID (it does not need to be a photo ID). Warning! Lines can be long - particularly on Thursday.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Dolphins - Space opera! - Being in Big Trouble - Swimming - Species uplift Try @davidbrin.bsky.social's Startide Rising www.davidbrin.com/startiderisi... A human/dolphin crew found something and are stranded on a water world with most of the galaxy trying to capture them.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚🩸 Fan of: - MCs who have seen horror movies - Found object art - Compulsions - Hoarding Try @tkingfisher.com's The Twisted Ones redwombatstudio.com/horror/ A woman cleaning out her grandmother's house finds a journal about things in the woods. So you know how that's gonna go...

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚🩸 Fan of: - First contact - Found family with twists - Flora meeting fauna - Getting a heads up Try @seananmcguire.bsky.social (as Mira Grant)'s Overgrowth bookshop.org/p/books/over... A pod person has to figure out who she is and where she stands as an alien invasion approaches.