Re: Highlights and Lowlights - May 2025

Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <101q3mt$tr68$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

Highlights and Lowlights - May 2025
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 Thanks, as usual!
 

( +++ 1/2 ) Cast in Atonement - Sagara [Elantra #18]

 My constant plan stated here to get back to these is once more
reiterated!
 

( + - - - ) Rogue Star - Pohl & Williamson [Starchild Trilogy #3]

 I am glad I read these so long ago that I can't recall much more
than liking them.  Definitely sounds like a "my golden age" thing
now.
 

( +++ 1/2 ) A Liaden Universe Constellation Vol 1 - Lee & Miller

 I don't see this one in my library folder.  I need to remedy that,
Liaden stuff is always welcome.  It's interesting that sometimes
characters will intersect with the action in a "main" Liaden book
and I'll think: It seems like those guys have their own story going
on, and sometimes they do...
 

( +++ ) Mistress of the Catacombs - Drake [Lord of the Isles #4]

 I believe I have one book left in this series.  Another one I need
to get back to.  Cashel is possibly Drake's best character, or
certainly the one you'd most want on your side.
 

( +++ 1/2 ) Sweep of the Heart - Andrews [Innkeeper Chronicles #5]

 Another winner.  I hope we get a conclusion someday.  Parent-quest
is conspicuously not done...
 

Collection - The New Hugo Winners Volume II [Presented by Isaac Asimov]

 Looking at the Toc, this is probably about where I started falling out of
short fiction.
 

I have fallen back into short fiction.  In fact, I can no longer recall why I left.
Even though I still am strongly attracted to huge tomes that keep me reading for days.
My return to short fiction was probably due to reading posthumous collections by Avram Davidson.  They were so good that I felt positively guilty that I ever stopped reading his stories.  It felt as if I had ghosted a friend for twenty years, for no reason.
William Hyde