All right. FMK. Where were we? (Not on Tuesday, apparently.)

I have not read any new FMK books since the last time we had a poll, alas. I did a bunch of re-reading for Yuletide and a bunch of reading comics trades to try to make my Goodreads goal at the last minute (I was ten books down for the year after reading twenty on New Year's Eve. I blame FMK.) And then made the mistake of checking out more library books. On the plus side, I got less than ten new books for Christmas this year, which I think is a record. \o/

I did finally read the newest Young Wizards book, Games Wizards Play. I'd started it a few times and put it down because I was bored, which I did not like, because that's one of my favorite series, so I was afraid to try reading it again, but I finally blew through it for Yuleitde background, and I will admit to continuing to be bored most of the way through. Also I really, really don't like the increasing emphasis on wizarding dynasties and wizardry being primarily heritable. And I am so beyond tired of token ace characters showing up in YA just to cheerfully explain that just because they don't like sex doesn't mean they can't fall in love! It did redeem itself by a) sneaking an explicit sex scene into a series still marketed as junior-grade (There were orbital resonances!) and b) the revelation that DD has moved on to just blatantly trolling her fanbase on the question of Tom/Carl.

I have a lot of anthologies left, so this week is another anthology week! These are all single-author SF anthologies. Some of them are authors where I've read and liked their novels, some of them are classic authors where I haven't read much and felt like I needed a sampler. Hopefully I am correct about what kind of anthologies these are...

How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.

I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.

Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)

( Poll: Anvil, Asimov, Atwood, Bradbury, Clarke, Foster, Hamilton, Heinlein, Lackey, Le Guin, Lee, Lovecraft, Pohl, Pratchett, Resnick, Russell, Silverberg, Van Vogt, Zelazny )