Books Received–Early June
Jeff VanderMeer • June 4th, 2008 @ 12:00 pm • Book Reviews
I’m popping up in amongst Matt Staggs’ posts just long enough to post some lovely books-received eye candy…discuss amongst yourselves, chillins.
Jeff
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June 4, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Sheesh! Good thing you had that book sale last year to clear up some space, right? What do you do with most of these?
June 4, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Well, we give some away to libraries. We route ones I don’t get to to other reviewers. We hold onto a great number of them.
June 4, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Gah! Anathem! I hope it’s awesome.
June 4, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Is that Jeff Ford book an expansion of a short story? It sounds familiar.
June 4, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Off topic, I noticed that Subterranean was promoting their forthcoming Vance tribute book, but I didn’t see your name on the list of contributors. Whassup?
June 4, 2008 at 6:36 pm
That’s just a mistake. I was gonna email him.
June 4, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I really liked that Kress collection and hope to read Dogs in the reasonably near future.
James: I think The Drowned Life is a new collection from Ford. The expansion was The Shadow Year, from the “Botch Town” story.
June 5, 2008 at 9:47 am
Some interesting ones in ther. Out of Picture 2 is a kewl art/graphic novel/short story collection. The Peter David was a fun book and I’m looking forward to jumping back into The Black Company
June 5, 2008 at 10:30 am
If that Eldon Thompson book is anything like his others, it will be bad. Very very bad. But, on the lighter side, I’m happy Stephenson has written a new book.
June 5, 2008 at 11:29 am
Oh, man, there are so many books in those piles that I want to read that I can hardly count them. I’m especially eager to read the Ford short stories — he is one of my favorite writers.
In fact, I could happily spend the next month doing nothing but going straight through those piles, reading and reviewing. Jeez, Jeff, how do you ever get any of your own writing done when so many scrumptious new books are coming in all the time?
June 5, 2008 at 4:13 pm
well, I have actually converted over to an all-pulp diet. what we don’t donate or read, we eat. although I try to avoid eating any clancy–too rough on the system. and I can only stomach a little proust at any one sitting. jeff