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[james_davis_nicoll]

All sponsored reviews and no two week digressions! The list of to-dos isn't super-long but long enough. I mean, anyone wants to commission more reviews, go ahead but

Phoenix Guard (own)
500 Years After (own)
Fire Logic (own)
Ancillary Sword (own)
Rivers of London (sigh)
Something Norton (part of the 50Ni50W, if that is OK, so beginning the week after Podkayne)
"The Reunion At The Mile-High" (atomigeddon coda) (own)
The Dark Colony (own)
Two Sullivans (must track down)

Did I miss any?

Also, to give my editor reasonable lead time, no review tomorrow so that I can reset to a one-day lead.

Comments

[snippy]

Hey, you were properly credited in this article about English grammar!

[james_davis_nicoll]

I saw!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I have considered doing the rest of the Ace Specials but they trend so male they would throw off my f/t ratio.

Rivers of London (sigh)

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

The bar has been raised by Paul Cornell's series
'Magic Cops in London II - this time two of them are black, and one of those two is gay'

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

None of those is suitable for a Tears review. Bah. Well, I have a couple in mind and the least depressing one is going to win. Sorry, Tiptree.

[(Anonymous)]

Reunion at the Mile High is available on Pohl's website by the way http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2012/03/the-reunion-at-the-mile-high/

[raja1999.livejournal.com]

Very cool; thanks for the pointer. It's got a few typos, (e.g. one "Doe" instead of "Doc") but it's great to see (I presume) the photo referenced in the story.

Edit: On rereading the story, I guess it isn't the photo after all. Still it's nice to see the faces of several people referenced in the story from a similar photo taken at nearly the same time.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Why the sigh by Rivers of London?

[carbonel]

Why the sigh for Rivers of London (aka Midnight Riot)?

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

By the rivers of London, we sat down and wept.

[chrysostom476.livejournal.com]

Obviously, you need to also do the remaining three Khaavren novels.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I'd rather not.

[chrysostom476.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I'd ask if you don't like them, but I suppose I'll find out soon enough.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I don't dislike the last three. I just find them boring and I find it hard to talk about stuff that I am meh to.

[connatic]

Would you like to review some Tricia Sullivan instead?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The new one?

[connatic]

How about I fund two reviews and you pick the books? I like the new one, by the way, and it would be a good pick.

Please don't pick the Valerie Leigh books :-)

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Two Sullivans? Sounds good.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[nocowardsoul]

Brust and Marks? Excellent.

[connatic]

I sponsored the first two of the Brust books, and am willing to sponsor more if somebody else chips in. Any takers?

Edit: given James finds the remaining Khaavren books boring, let's find something else.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

This seems like an apt moment to mention that while I have a shelf of Zelazny novels, most of them have fallen out of memory.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

In the dept. of Tears, I was wondering whether you have already discussed Cities in Flight. I tried some searching through tags but didn't find it that way.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Nope!

[maruad.livejournal.com]

For some reason, when you mentioned Ace Specials I thought of Ace Doubles. My first Ace Double was by Margret St Clair (Message from the Eocene/Three Worlds of Futurity IIRC).

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

Have you come up with a way for people to fund part of a review? Say I want to put $20 toward a review of Ancillary Sword...is that possible?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Sort of (send partial payments and when it adds up to $100 I do the book) but AS is fully paid for.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Unless the new website design does that?

To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Phoenix Guard (own) M
500 Years After (own) M
Ancillary Sword (own) F
Rivers of London (sigh) M
Something Norton (part of the 50Ni50W, if that is OK, so beginning the week after Podkayne) F
The Dark Colony (own) M
Two Sullivans (must track down) F

Re: To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Two Sullivans (must track down) F
The Goblin Emperor (own) F
Something Norton (part of the 50Ni50W, if that is OK, so beginning the week after Podkayne) F

Starship Troopers (own) M
Podkayne of Mars (own) M
Phoenix Guard (own) M
500 Years After (own) M
Rivers of London (sigh) M
The Dark Colony (own) M

Re: To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Two Sullivans (must track down) F
The Goblin Emperor (own) F
Something Norton (part of the 50Ni50W, if that is OK, so beginning the week after Podkayne) F

Podkayne of Mars (own) M
Phoenix Guard (own) M
500 Years After (own) M
Rivers of London (sigh) M
The Dark Colony (own) M

Re: To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Two Sullivans (must track down) F
Something Norton (part of the 50Ni50W, if that is OK, so beginning the week after Podkayne) F

Podkayne of Mars (own) M
Phoenix Guard (own) M
500 Years After (own) M
Rivers of London (sigh) M
The Dark Colony (own) M

Re: To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Two Sullivans (must track down) F
Something Norton (part of the 50Ni50W, if that is OK, so beginning the week after Podkayne) F

Podkayne of Mars (own) M
500 Years After (own) M
Rivers of London (sigh) M
The Dark Colony (own) M

Re: To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

One Sullivan F
Something Norton (part of the 50Ni50W, if that is OK, so beginning the week after Podkayne) F

Podkayne of Mars (own) M
500 Years After (own) M
Rivers of London (sigh) M
The Dark Colony (own) M
Probability Broach (own) M
The Venus Belt (own) M

Re: To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

One Sullivan F
Something Norton (part of the 50Ni50W, if that is OK, so beginning the week after Podkayne) F

500 Years After (own) M
Rivers of London (sigh) M
The Dark Colony (own) M
Probability Broach (own) M
The Venus Belt (own) M

Re: To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

One Sullivan F
Something Norton (part of the 50Ni50W, if that is OK, so beginning the week after Podkayne) F

500 Years After (own) M
Rivers of London (sigh) M
The Dark Colony (own) M
The Venus Belt (own) M

Re: To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

One Sullivan F
Slow River F
Hild F

Rivers of London (sigh) M

Re: To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Sullivan
All of the remaining Griffiths
Rivers of London

The Price of the Stars
Jaran
"The Escape Orbit", by James White
Oliver VII by Antal Szerb (translated by Len Rix)

Re: To do

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Sullivan
All of the remaining Griffiths
The dispossessed
Daggerspell

"The Escape Orbit", by James White
Oliver VII by Antal Szerb (translated by Len Rix)
Imperial Earth
Friday
Job
Mote In God's eye

Re: To do

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

> Imperial Earth

> Friday

> Job

My goodness.

Oh wait, only two of those are Heinlein, my mistake.

Has anyone suggested A Fire Upon the Deep yet? (Not in a position to do more than microsponsoring myself. I really should figure out what I _can_ do that I could get paid $100 a day for... soon ...)

--Dave