I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar: ( magic, romance, and persecution, not in that order )
Ben H. Winters, Big Time: ( sf thriller )
Naomi Alderman, The Future: ( every billionaire is a policy failure )
Lena Nguyen, We Have Always Been Here: ( androids and people, not quite getting along in space )
Premee Mohamed, The Siege of Burning Grass: ( crapsack world fantasy )
Aimee Ogden, Emergent Properties: ( AI on the moon )
Tade Thompson & Nick Wood, The Last Pantheon: ( African superhero novella )
Robert J. Sawyer, The Downloaded: ( unfrozen in the future )
Adam Roberts, The Midas Rain: ( communist neo-noir sf )
Premee Mohamed, The Butcher of the Forest. ( lost in the forest ).

Carmen Maria Machado & Dani, The Low, Low Woods: ( graphic novel: the horror of misogyny )
Tobias S. Buckell & Dave Klecha, The Runes of Engagement: ( D&D with guns ).

Michael Marshall Smith, Time Out: ( empty world )
T. Kingfisher, What Feasts at Night:( creepy sequel (no fungi this time) )
Sin Blaché & Helen MacDonald, Prophet:( mutual pining with potential apocalypse )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, House of Open Wounds: ( war story sequel )
Fonda Lee, Jade Shards:( short stories )

Saad Z Hossain, Djinn City: ( Djinns as jerks )
Seanan McGuire, Dying with Her Cheer Pants On:( Buffy done by McGuire )
Charles Stross, Escape from Puroland: ( what about Bob? )

Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne: ( magic and burning people )
Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This: ( what realism looks like now )
C.L. Polk, Soulstar: ( the revolution in fantasy industrial England )
Danez Smith, Homie: ( poems )
Linden A. Lewis, The First Sister: ( handmaids and swords )
C.S. Friedman, This Virtual Night: ( virtual reality in the far future )

Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary: ( Boy Scouts in space )

Michael Rutger, The Anomaly: ( creepy cave )
James S.A. Corey, Tiamat’s Wrath: ( fighting empire )
Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower: ( gods and monsters )Michael Marshall Smith, Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence: ( devil's playground )

Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs: ( interesting epic fantasy )

Robert Jackson Bennett, Vigilance: ( guns, no butter )
Robert Jackson Bennett, The Troupe: ( traveling players sing the world into being )
Erica L. Satifka, Stay Crazy: ( paranoid schizophrenia and communication with other dimensions )
Tobias S. Buckell, ( James Bond after climate change )

T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride:( fractured fairy tale )
Alaya Whiteley, The Loosening Skin: ( love is skin deep )

The Best of Subterranean, ( Read more... )
Urban Enemies, ed. Joseph Nassise: ( Read more... )
Claudia Grey, Defy the Stars: ( Read more... )
Women of Futures Past, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch: ( Read more... )
Leta Blake & Indra Vaughn, Vespertine: ( modern gay romance )
Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones: ( Read more... )
Cherie Priest, Chapelwood: ( Read more... )
Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Worship: ( Read more... )
Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep: ( Read more... )
Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day: ( Read more... )Haunted Nights, ed. Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton: ( Read more... )

(1) As my eyes get older, reading tiny type gets harder. Beeline standardizes, often enlarges, and cleans up many webpages, making them much easier for me to read. I’ve found myself using it more and more often. Not great for pages with multiple elements—it picks the one it thinks is most important—but great for everything from LJ to Naked Capitalism.

I have a post up on Tumblr about some statistical research on FF.net and MuggleNet that might be of some interest to some of you!

( decline and fall: police militarization, death of the American dream, anticommunism suppressing liberalism and feminism )

1. The new US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking feedback on how to make mortgage disclosure forms more understandable. If you have a few minutes, go and vote for the alternative you find easiest to understand.

2. I am seriously amused that Patrick Stump’s song This City, now free on iTunes, includes a lyric using the word “gentrification.”
( Civil War, understanding comics, economics and economic collapse, funky numbers )