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PKD Award 📚 Nominees

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This year’s stack of Philip K. Dick Award nominees have arrived! (Actually, nominees plus one — Finna is the precursor to Defekt, and I don’t like starting in the middle of a series.) As usual, this looks like a strong selection of books; of note for me is Far From the Light of Heaven, as this is Tade Thompson’s second time as a nominee, and I enjoyed all of his Wormwood trilogy, the third book of which was the earlier nominated work.

Time to get reading! (And if you’re interested, I’ve created a PKD reading challenge on StoryGraph that you’re welcome to join!)

📚 The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse: A Sam Cogley Mystery by Bob Ingersoll and Tony Isabella

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3/2022 – ⭐️⭐️

A somewhat amusing murder mystery and courtroom drama; basically Law & Order: TOS starring Samuel Cogley. Unfortunately, the poor treatment of the two primary female characters (one an overly stereotypical shallow, bitter wife; the other bitter at past events who fares badly) marred my enjoyment.

📚 A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

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2/2022 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A recommendation from my 10-year-old niece (V.E. Schwab is her favorite author), this was a fun fantasy adventure through multiple magical Londons. Neat worldbuilding and magic rules and styles; perhaps a bit more violent than I would have expected from a pre-teen’s recommendation (apparently Schwab also writes YA books, which is how my niece came across her, but this is one of her adult novels), but her parents also read and enjoyed it, she’s none the worse for reading it, and I’ve certainly read far worse.

Preparing for My New Office

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Got myself a little “congrats on the new job and your first actual office” present to go on a bookshelf or my desk (y’know, once we’re moved in and I actually have furniture…right now, it’s just a bare office). 🖖

I’ve been eyeballing Eaglemoss’s Star Trek model ships line for a long time. I don’t have the funds or space to do the “collect the whole set” subscription, so I’m glad they also sell them individually so I could get this.

“NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D.”