📖 What are people reading?

The new book: Anne Leckie's Translation State. There's some serious body horror in it that was . . . unexpected. Some very chaotic stuff. Some caused by mysterious and very dangerous aliens. Some by dangerous and narrow minded people. Very good, too. She's from my fair city, and every once in a while she bakes in a reference that makes me happy.
 
^Ooh, an advance copy! I still have a bunch of those from an ex who reviewed for fanlit.net. There was a period of time when I'd come home every day and there'd be a new book sitting on the porch. Mostly unsolicited. Mostly from Scholastic. Many are still in their mailers in my basement.

I do hope you enjoy your advance copy. :-)
 
PrimarchOfIstanbul said:
I'd like to hijack this thread use this opportunity to ask this: Of the recent books (from Black Library), what are your suggestions that match the old-school aesthetics? I don't folow the latest books as in my mind the story lingers somewhere around 1e setting. I mean like the initial Gotrek & Felix short stories, or maybe Deathwing anthology kind of stuff. (Or are there any earlier stuff I might have overlooked and you recommend?)
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Just on the fantasy genre or are you interested in the 40k side of things?
 
PrimarchOfIstanbul said:
I'd like to hijack this thread use this opportunity to ask this: Of the recent books (from Black Library), what are your suggestions that match the old-school aesthetics? I don't folow the latest books as in my mind the story lingers somewhere around 1e setting. I mean like the initial Gotrek & Felix short stories, or maybe Deathwing anthology kind of stuff. (Or are there any earlier stuff I might have overlooked and you recommend?)
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Drachenfels is not new but feels of the same mind of earlier Gotrek and Felix.
Maybe the first Konrad too?
 
PrimarchOfIstanbul said:
I'd like to hijack this thread (Or are there any earlier stuff I might have overlooked and you recommend?)
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Check out Lewis Davis' The Oldhammer Fiction Podcast as it gives a good guide of the novels both fantasy and wh40k that were out there at the time. If you haven't come across it, and also - as mentioned before- anything by 'Jack Yeovil' (Kim Newman's pseudonym) is in the spirit of the era and genre...
 
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