Books Received, September 21 to September 27

[james_davis_nicoll]

An assortment of new-to-me fantasy and science fiction, plus a roleplaying game.

Books Received, September 21 to September 27

Poll #31948 Books Received, September 21 to September 27

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

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Which of these look interesting?

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Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes (April 2025)
15 (34.1%)

Firebird by Juliette Cross (April 2024)
4 (9.1%)

Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow (February 2025)
12 (27.3%)

Chaos by Constance Fay (March 2025)
6 (13.6%)

The Electric State by Nils Hintze & Tomas Härenstam (September 2024)
15 (34.1%)

The Night Is Defying by Chloe C. Peñaranda (January 2025)
5 (11.4%)

Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite (March 2025)
23 (52.3%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
30 (68.2%)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wikipedia says "Frank Wilson is credited with the birth of forensic accounting in the 1930s" - to put Al Capone in jail for federal income tax evasion - but it "was not formally defined until the 1940s". Cory Doctorow perhaps is considering the computerization of the discipline.

Robert Carnegie

[(Anonymous)]

Incidentally, film "The Undercover Man" (1949) just showed up on "Talking Pictures TV". I'll watch it later. Maybe. In it, per Wikipedia (which leads with spoilers), "Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss". Apparently it's quite accurate about Frank Wilson, in which case forensic accounting is more hard work than I thought.

Robert Carnegie