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Originally Posted by DrNefario

Before that I read Undertow by Elizabeth Bear. This is an almost old-fashioned standalone planetary SF novel, featuring an evil corporation exploiting the local alien culture, but with an extra layer of quantum-entanglement to make it a bit stranger. I liked it, but it's the only book I've been bogged down in this month, and maybe it's more promising and interesting than actually great itself.

Elizabeth Bear is an author that I particularly like. I tend to think of her as writing mostly in the fantasy genre, so I'm glad to hear of this SF novel. I'll have to check out its availability.

Originally Posted by DrNefario

And finally, only just making it into August, I finished Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler on the first of the month. This is the first Bryant & May/Peculiar Crimes book. It won a British Fantasy Society award, and is covered in quotes saying how hilarious it is. I have to say I didn't find it very fantastical - it hints at the supernatural - or very funny - there is some mild absurdity - but I did enjoy it as a crime novel. It's a murder mystery set in a theatre in London during the Blitz in WW2. I already have the second in the series, and I'm looking forward to it.

I discovered this series a year or so ago and purchased the first 3 books. They are definitely fun books, though I do find that it takes me longer to read one in this series than in other similar style mysteries.

Originally Posted by Synamon

I also bought some Whispersync for Voice audiobooks cheaply after borrowing the ebook for that purpose (Hugh Howey's Molly Fyde and Sand, Marcus Sakey's second in the Brilliance Saga).

Speaking of KU, do you get to keep the audio book after you return the Kindle book? Or does it get deleted from your Audible library when you're no longer borrowing the text version?

Originally Posted by HarryT

Just finished "The Rising" by James Doohan and S.M. Stirling (although I suspect that Mr Doohan didn't do very much, if any, of the writing!). Bought a long time ago (2000-ish) from Baen.

I really liked this trilogy. I picked up The Rising as part of a Webscriptions bundle and liked it so much that I looped back to Baen and bought two other Webscription bundles that contained the other books in the series. I understand why they now limit the time that the bundle is available, but they miss out on opportunities to place additional books in a situation like this. I could have simply picked up the two individual books at a much lower expenditure, but the "bargain" nature of the bundles meant that I was drawn to buy those instead.