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Friday in pyjamas
Jul. 4th, 2014 12:34 pmPeriodic not-wellness happening today, but at least I'm on break and this didn't happen when I wanted to do things.
Yesterday I caught up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leecetheartist for lunch in town - a new and quite good burger place - and we chatted and sacrificed penguins to killer whales. [It's a game!] Quite a bit colder than the day before. I've realised it was about on a par with an Icelandic summer day, which is good practice because I would like to go there and ride their horses and swim in their outdoor natural spas, probably in about two years time.
I am reading Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice which is one of the Hugo nominees. Very good, original and intriguing, though sometimes the pace slows and there is almost too much information to cram in, creating a sense of heavy going. Of the others, I've only read Mira Grant's Parasite which I enjoyed, but is fairly lightweight.
I don't know Charles Stross's book yet and have not heard of Larry Correia. Since his book is a number 3, I doubt I'm going to bother. And I'm definitely not going to read the entire Wheel of Time series. That should not have happened, in my not humble opinion. Yes, I've read the arguments about why it's legal to nominate an entire series where you'd normally nominate a single book, but it's just too much. Even if I liked them.
This is the list of novels:
■Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US/Orbit UK)
■Neptune’s Brood, Charles Stross (Ace / Orbit UK)
■Parasite, Mira Grant (Orbit US/Orbit UK)
■Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles, Larry Correia (Baen Books)
■The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books / Orbit UK)
Of the rest of the Hugos, I'm largely unfamiliar. I know a name here or there but usually have read few if any of the shorter fiction. The Dr Who stuff I've seen, but not the latest entry in the Hunger Games franchise. So to me the Hugos centres mostly on the books.
Yesterday I caught up with
leecetheartist for lunch in town - a new and quite good burger place - and we chatted and sacrificed penguins to killer whales. [It's a game!] Quite a bit colder than the day before. I've realised it was about on a par with an Icelandic summer day, which is good practice because I would like to go there and ride their horses and swim in their outdoor natural spas, probably in about two years time.I am reading Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice which is one of the Hugo nominees. Very good, original and intriguing, though sometimes the pace slows and there is almost too much information to cram in, creating a sense of heavy going. Of the others, I've only read Mira Grant's Parasite which I enjoyed, but is fairly lightweight.
I don't know Charles Stross's book yet and have not heard of Larry Correia. Since his book is a number 3, I doubt I'm going to bother. And I'm definitely not going to read the entire Wheel of Time series. That should not have happened, in my not humble opinion. Yes, I've read the arguments about why it's legal to nominate an entire series where you'd normally nominate a single book, but it's just too much. Even if I liked them.
This is the list of novels:
■Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US/Orbit UK)
■Neptune’s Brood, Charles Stross (Ace / Orbit UK)
■Parasite, Mira Grant (Orbit US/Orbit UK)
■Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles, Larry Correia (Baen Books)
■The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books / Orbit UK)
Of the rest of the Hugos, I'm largely unfamiliar. I know a name here or there but usually have read few if any of the shorter fiction. The Dr Who stuff I've seen, but not the latest entry in the Hunger Games franchise. So to me the Hugos centres mostly on the books.