{"id":1202,"date":"2008-04-27T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2008-08-03T22:58:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T02:58:26","slug":"bookish-bits-a-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/bookish-bits-a-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookish Bits: A Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/podcastle.org\/\">PodCastle<\/a>, a new podcast of readings from in the F\/SF genre. They got my attention with their first reading, of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_S._Beagle\">Peter Beagle<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/podcastle.org\/2008\/04\/01\/pc001-come-lady-death\/\">Come Lady Death<\/a>. There are several more stories there now, as well.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bigdumbobject.co.uk\/2008\/04\/anathem-neal-st.html\">More details on Anathem<\/a>, the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nealstephenson.com\/\">Neal Stephenson<\/a>. Looks to be another monster of a book. And, I&#8217;m thinking, we&#8217;re going to be seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enoch_Root\">Enoch Root<\/a> again.<\/li>\n<li>I love to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/dd-b.net\/pddb\/\">Pamela Dean<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/pameladean.livejournal.com\/109469.html\">working on a new Liavek novel<\/a>. I guess I shouldn&#8217;t be as surprised as I am, given that she had a Liavek story in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liavek#Casting_Fortune\">Firebirds Rising<\/a>. One of those small press publishers I mentioned below should totally bring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liavek\">those books<\/a> back into print in a nice 5 volume edition (or maybe 5+1 with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liavek#Casting_Fortune\">Ford&#8217;s novella<\/a>), or a giant omnibus, or something. <\/li>\n<li>I see a few things I will be buying on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pyrs-Fall-Winter-08-Season\/lm\/RFUQXB28P3H96\">Pyr&#8217;s Fall\/Winter list for this year<\/a>. One of them is not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justinarobson.co.uk\/\">Justina Robson<\/a>&#8216;s third Quantum Gravity book though, since I&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Going-Under-Quantum-Gravity-Gollancz\/dp\/0575078669\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1209268306&#038;sr=1-5\">buying that in hardback<\/a> from the UK publisher. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?s=robson\">previous Robson love here at Homo Sum<\/a>, particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/19\/keeping-it-real\/\">the post about the first book in this series<\/a>.) I see Amazon.co.uk is also listing an &#8220;untitled 1 of 2&#8221; for her for late 2009 as well, which is good news.<\/li>\n<li>I would normally do a post of who would win each of the fiction categories were I king, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/2008\/LocusAwardsFinalists.html\">the Locus Awards finalists<\/a>, but this year I&#8217;m skipping it. I couldn&#8217;t possibly make a pick in the Fantasy Novel category&#8211;there are three books there that can&#8217;t possibly not win that category, and being forced to choose among them is just too hard for me. Means a great year for readers, though. (There&#8217;s quite a few good things in the other fiction categories, but I could totally force myself to actually pick a winner in every one but Fantasy.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Check out PodCastle, a new podcast of readings from in the F\/SF genre. They got my attention with their first reading, of Peter Beagle&#8216;s Come Lady Death. There are several more stories there now, as well. More details on Anathem, the new Neal Stephenson. Looks to be another monster of a book. And, I&#8217;m thinking, we&#8217;re going to be seeing&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/bookish-bits-a-miscellany\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[257,206,458,325,208],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-authors","tag-awards","tag-books","tag-justina-robson","tag-things-to-listen-to","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-jo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}