Short Stuff in September

My short story reading was sorely lacking in September, due to the problems with my eyes. One story only! Sourdough Universe The Sourdough Compendium by A.G. Slatter 688 pages • digital • first pub 2026 Award-winning stories from the world of All the Murmuring Bones and The Briar Book of the Dead, this is a compendium of fantastic tales from the dark gothic heart …

Top Ten Tuesday—Blast From The Past TTT, keep or kick…

Top Ten Tuesday was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday there is a new topic. You’re more than welcome to join and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin …

Ever since childhood I’ve wanted to be abducted by Aliens.

Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter by Neil deGrasse Tyson with Neil deGrasse Tyson(Narrator) 5h 5m • audio • first pub 2026  • 👽👽👽👽☆ America’s favorite astrophysicist has written the most entertaining and universally appealing book of his stellar career: a practical guide for dealing with Alien visitors, an exploration of how it might happen, and a cultural history …

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Elder Race #2 Engines of Reason by Adrian Tchaikovsky with John Lee (Narrator) 4h 11m • audio • first pub 2026  • 🗼🗼¾☆☆ Visit a world where sorcery intertwines with science by multiple Hugo nominee Adrian Tchaikovsky in this highly-anticipated sequel to his hugely popular Elder Race. On a planet where stories govern identity, where science and magic are a merely point of view, a fallen …

Top Ten Tuesday—Books on My To-Read List

Top Ten Tuesday was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday there is a new topic. You’re more than welcome to join and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin …

Just a nibble for a megalodon…

Meg #1.1 Meg: Angel of Death: Survival by Steve Alten with Keith Szarabajka (Narrator) 2h 49m • audio • first pub 2020  • 🦈🦈🦈☆☆  … an action packed trilogy that takes place during the four-year gap between Meg (book 1) and The Trench (book 2). While the stories focus on Angel, the Megalodon pup that was captured at the end of book one, in Survival, Steve …

The Realm of The Elderlings

The Tawny Man #3 Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb with Nick Taylor (Narrator) 31h 41m • audio • first pub 2003  • The triumphant conclusion to the Tawny Man trilogy, from the author of the bestselling Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies. The moving end to the tale of the Farseers, in which kingdoms must stand or fall on the beat of a dragon's wings, or …

Top Ten Tuesday—Going Rogue

Top Ten Tuesday was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday there is a new topic. You’re more than welcome to join and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin …

Short Stuff in August

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022) by Eugen Bacon, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Milton Davis and others  422 pages • digital • first pub 2022   … to introduce readers to an ever more diverse set of writers associated with Africa.  10. Kaleidoscope – Milton J. Davis 👽👽👽👽☆— nice feel-good story with a benevolent alien and hope for the future.11. Memories of the Old Sun …

By The Light of a Blue Moon

Olive: Lost in Inner Space by Véro Cazot with Lucy Mazel (Illustrator), Jessie Aufiery (Translator) 232 pages • digital • first pub 2026  • 🦆🐕👨‍🚀✈️🐋 A fantastical coming-of-age graphic novel involving love, loss, and found family, centered around a determined autistic heroine who refuses to make herself fit neatly into other peoples' space Wherever she is, Olive has never quite fit in, and living …