Books Received, April 5 — April 11 Poll

[james_davis_nicoll]

Poll #32972 Books Received, April 5 — April 11

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 58

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Which of these look interesting?

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Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree (November 2025)
31 (53.4%)

Woven From Clay by Jennifer Birch (August 2025)
15 (25.9%)

Thief of Night by Holly Black (September 2025)
10 (17.2%)

Pluto by Ben Bova & Les Johnson (November 2025)
9 (15.5%)

This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum (March 2026)
10 (17.2%)

Three Stories of Forgetting by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida (December 2025)
10 (17.2%)

The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (October 2025)
7 (12.1%)

The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi (September 2025)
9 (15.5%)

The Definitions by Matt Greene (December 2025)
2 (3.4%)

Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings (September 2025)
6 (10.3%)

When They Burned the Butterfly by Wen-Yi Lee (October 2025)
14 (24.1%)

Red City by Marie Lu (October 2025)
8 (13.8%)

The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez (September 2025)
10 (17.2%)

Silver and Lead by Seanan McGuire (September 2025)
13 (22.4%)

The Emergency by George Packer (November 2025)
2 (3.4%)

Making History by K. J. Parker (September 2025)
22 (37.9%)

The Last Wish of Bristol Keats by Mary E. Pearson (November 2025)
4 (6.9%)

The Heist of Hollow London by Eddie Robson (September 2025)
10 (17.2%)

The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan (February 2026)
8 (13.8%)

Daedalus Is Dead by Seamus Sullivan (September 2025)
8 (13.8%)

Kill the Beast by Serra Swift (October 2025)
6 (10.3%)

Greenwild: The Forest in the Sky by Pari Thomson (June 2025)
5 (8.6%)

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

Cats!
41 (70.7%)

Comments

[oh6]

Oh, that's a lot.

[bolindbergh]

Misadventures in cover design: Ben Bova Pluto by And Les Johnson.

[patrick_morris_miller]

Coulda been worse. Back about twenty years ago, for a few days the Big South American River's thumbnail for his latest book credited him as Ben Dova.

(Tom Clancy's necrollaborations have his name at the top of the cover and title page in the same typeface and nearly the same pitch as the intended title, so catalogers have been treating them as if their titles were Tom Clancy Blah Blah Blah by Guy You Never Heard Of.)

[bolindbergh]

ISTR speculation about the Dova thing being intended to mess with people who hotlinked cover images.

[james_davis_nicoll]

I discovered after being sent a Clancy necrolaboration for review that his brand is so poisoned there is no demand for used Clancy books.

[patrick_morris_miller]

I suspect that, like the Xanth books, each new one gets checked out by the same two or three patrons, then rots in the stacks. I once freed up almost an entire shelf by declaring that only the most recent three Xanth books would be retained, and that when a new one came in the third one back from it would be wode. Those books do not have a long tail.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Funny Anthony should be mentioned right before I post a review of one of his books.

[patrick_morris_miller]

Thank you for your sacrifice.

[(Anonymous)]

I've read some of Packer's nonfiction. I look forward to reading his fiction.

William Hyde

[ba_munronoe]

Wonder if the goblin is the same one from the goblin detective short, or simply shares taste in cutlery.

[kedamono]

Looking at the cover art, I think she is. She's wearing a coat of pockets...

[ba_munronoe]

I had forgotten that detail!

[mecurtin]

Just reading those blurbs REALLY makes me yearn for spaceships.

[patrick_morris_miller]

Maybe even some of which explode.

[(Anonymous)]

Where are the cosy comfort reads I so desperately need to distract myself from these dystopian times?

One story of a bookseller is not going to carry me through the rise of fascism.

[jbwoodford]

The description of "The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre" reminds me of "Bubba Ho-tep."