Next week I’ll hopefully be moving into my new place. That means my stay in Jersey is over. It will be nice to finally get settled, although living in luxury is pretty good too. Being that it’s my last weekend as a guest out here Stewie got upset and messed up all my clean laundry and stuck his head in my glass of water. Or maybe he was just tired and thirsty, I’m not sure.
I’ve just rejoined my monthly genre fiction book club and my recent selections just arrived from Amazon.
In the Sci-Fi category it’s Keeping It Real by Justina Robson (part of her Quantum Gravity series).
This is what Amazon has to say about it:
“The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe’s different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elven, elemental and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology. Elves are exotic, erotic, dangerous and really bored with the constant Lord of the Rings references. Elementals are a law unto themselves and demons are best left well to themselves. Special agent Lila Black used to be pretty but now she’s not so sure. Her body is now more than half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery. A machine she’s barely in control of. It goes into combat mode, enough weapons for a small army springing from within itself, at the merest provocation. As for her heart . . . well ever since being drawn into a Game by the elven rockstar she’s been assigned to protect, she’s not even sure she can trust that anymore either.”
In the fantasy category it’s The Black Company by Glen Cook (Part of his Black Company Series)
Here’s what Amazon has to say about it:
“Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead.
Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more.
There must be a way for the Black Company to find her…”
Our family always seems to get the WEIRD animals, be they cats or hedgehogs. Always something strange, if not psychotic about them we don’t realize until it’s too late.
Nice to run across a fellow sci fi fan in the blogosphere.
Write on…