MY FIRST READING LIST

I’ve never done one of these before but the pile of owed and pending reviews has gotten quite extensive, so I figured I’d write it down (probably more for my own benefit than for anyone else’s).

Owed books have been read, but the review has not yet been written.? Pending books are either waiting to be read or are currently being read.

Owed:

Marsbound by Haldeman

Fast Forward 2 edited by Lou Anders

The Best Fantasy and Science Fiction of the Year edited by Jonathan Strahan

Space Cop edited by David Riley

After the Downfall by Harry Turtledove

Pending

The Light of Burning Shadows, book 2 Iron Elves series by Chris Evans (reading book 1 to catch up)

The Devil’s Due by David Riley

All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

The Lords of the Sands of Time by Issui Ogawa

Distant Early Warnings edited by Robert J Sawyer

The current issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine

The reviews are owed to SFReader.com, Raygunrevival.com, the Internet Review of Science Fiction and Tangent Online.

In total, this represents an investment of approximately $150 in your’s truly.

Reasons for the delays are due, at least in part to:? life’s normal distractions (like the phone that is ringing right now), a reluctance to write bad reviews (especially for folks who I’m working with for the first time – don’t bother guessing who fits into this category), other work, my own writing, too much to read and a schedule that is completely and totally ennervating (two days of the week working till 10 pm, five days of the week up at 3 am) and a computer that crapped out and which will take longer than expected to get fixed.

But I do take those responsibilities seriously and wish to keep on? receiving free books, so I’ll be working my way through the pile and will soon be caught up.