Several friends recently have been pressing that I should be more timely about my book reviews, as well as add more depth to them. I haven't quite slipped back into the writer's mind set just yet, so I'm not sure about how much depth I can add at this point. The longer these get, the more it feels like I'm back in school attempting to justify a book, and less like I'm trying to advise people why and whom should read such and such novel.However this is of course an internal type discussion of less substance to this post.
What I really wanted to post about, was what Novels I'm most looking forward to in the year ahead. I'm still combing through all the possible suggestions and deciding what I'd really read as soon as it comes out, versus what I'll probably add to the pile of when I'm in the mood. Yet till I finalize my list, here are the current canidates:
2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson (May)
Angelmaker - Nick Harkaway (March)
Arctic Rising - Tobias S Buckell (Feb)
A Song Called Youth - John Shirley (April)
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons [Ember 1] (Jan)
Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds [Poseidon’s Children Book 1] (June)
Body Inc - Alan Dean Foster (March)
Broken Universe - Paul Melko (June)
Caliban’s War - James S. A. Corey (The Expanse 2) (June)
Cinder - Marissa Meyer
Energized - Edward M. Lerner
Existence - David Brin
Faith - John Love
Giant Thief - David Tallerman
Glamour In Glass - Mary Robinette Kowal
Guardian of Night - Tony Daniel
Intruder - C J Cherryh
Intrusion - Ken MacLeod
Lost Everything - Brian Francis Slattery
RailSea - China Mieville
Range of Ghosts - Elizabeth Bear (The Eternal Sky 1)
Redshirts - John Scalzi
Shadow Blizzard - Alexey Pehov
The Apocalypse Codex - Charles Stross (Laundry #4)
The Devil’s Nebula - Eric Brown (Weird Space 1)
The Games - Ted Kosmatka
The Killing Moon - N K Jemisin
The Night Sessions - Ken Macleod
Tooth and Nail - Jennifer Safrey
Toxicity - Andy Remic
Triggers - Robert J. Sawyer
Wake of the Bloody Angel - Alex Bledsoe
Year Zero by Rob Reid
Of these, the only two so far I can say Yes sir, please!!!! would be those novels by Charles Stross and John Scalzi. As to the rest, I'll let you know as soon as I do.