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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-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/

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Why the sigh by Rivers of London?

[carbonel]

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

[chrysostom476.livejournal.com]

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

[nocowardsoul]

Brust and Marks? Excellent.

[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.

[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?

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