Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

Much of this batch is stuff I picked up at Wiscon: after getting stuck without enough reading because of a delayed flight on my way out, I stopped in the dealer's room and got, not only one book I was specifically looking for, but five used books for a dollar each, semi-randomly. (I declined a couple of things because I knew I didn't like the writers, and didn't buy anything I'd already read.) [There are some spoilers here, specifically for Lee Killough's Deadly Silents; Pat Murphy's The City, Not Long After; and possibly James White's Tomorrow Is Too Far and Carl Hiaasen's Tourist Season, but I'm cutting mostly for length.]( Read more... )