May Media

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Books Read in May

1. Shadow Unit, Season 3, 2011 [O]
   • May 01: Ligature by Elizabeth Bear & Emma Bull (Episode 3.07)
     The Anomaly is evolving
   • May 10: Wireless Girl by Emma Bull and Stephen Shipman (Episode 3.08)
     The tension is building
2. May 06: Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson #2) 2007, Urban Fantasy [S]
An ok story, I'm getting a little tired of the focus on how unenlightened werewolves/vampires are.
3. May 19: Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files #1) 2001, Urban Fantasy [S]
"Werewolves. There's more than one kind of werewolf?"
4. May 22: The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window by Rachel Swirsky, 2010, Fantasy, Nebula Winner [O]
   An extended version ghost story
5. May 27: Regeneration by Julie E. Czerneda (Species Imperative #3), 2006, Alien SF [S]
   Writes really cool aliens
6. May 27: Selected Short stories by Mary Robinette Kowal, 2006-2011, SF [O]
   • Bound Man, (Twenty Epics, July 2006)
     The burden of destiny
   • Waiting for Rain, (Subterranean Magazine, Fall 2008)
     A wine story
   • Evil Robot Monkey, (Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, 2009)
     Nominated for Hugo Award
   • For Want of a Nail, (Asimov’s, September 2010)
     Nominated for Hugo Award
   • Tomorrow and Tomorrow, (Apex, reprint, January 2011)
     A dark story
   • Water to Wine, (Subterranean Magazine, reprint, Spring 2011)
     A wine story
7. May 28: Ill Wind by Rachel Caine (Weather Warden #1) 2003, Urban Fantasy [S]
   A wild ride with an unexpected ending
8. May 30: Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson #3) 2008, Urban Fantasy [S]
   I think I prefer the fae plotlines

Podcasts Listened to in May

1. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, read by author, YA Fantasy
The great momemt was when he stopped reading at a suspenceful moment in chapter 7 and the audience cried out "NO".
2. StarShipSofa Edited by Tony C. Smith (Anthology) Science Fiction
   • Aural Delights No 2: The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald by Peter Watts, read by author, Science Fiction
     An intriguing S.F. procedural
3. Escape Pod Edited by Mur Lafferty (Anthology), science fiction
   • Episode 291: Shannon's Law by Cory Doctorow, read by Mur Lafferty, Bordertown
     The challenge of a kludge resistant domain
4. Shadowmagic by John Lenahan (Shadowmagic #1), read by author, YA Fantasy
   A lively story set in Celtic mythology