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FMK #25: Anthologies ... in SPAAACE
Last week's F winner was The Jungle Book! I am looking forward to it, even though I will probably have "The Bare Necessities" stuck in my head the whole time. Also, it is short! (Or at least my copy is. If it turns out to be abridged I'm just going to go with it anyway.
The K winner was Shardik. It's been a bad month for Richard Adams here in FMK land. Good month for freeing up space, though!
I'm still slowly working on Locke Lamora. I did start to get pretty invested during Part Two, and then... the fridging happened. UGH.
Between that and Hans of Iceland I have enough long books on my plate right now, and also I kind of don't want to live on this planet right now, so for number 25: Space Anthologies! (There will probably be more anthology weeks coming, because I've been trying to avoid mixing them with novels, but I have a LOT of anthologies. I think in the last cull I preferentially saved them with the idea that if I just wanted to get a taste of a genre or an author's work, and anthology made more sense than Book #4 of a series.)
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)
The K winner was Shardik. It's been a bad month for Richard Adams here in FMK land. Good month for freeing up space, though!
I'm still slowly working on Locke Lamora. I did start to get pretty invested during Part Two, and then... the fridging happened. UGH.
Between that and Hans of Iceland I have enough long books on my plate right now, and also I kind of don't want to live on this planet right now, so for number 25: Space Anthologies! (There will probably be more anthology weeks coming, because I've been trying to avoid mixing them with novels, but I have a LOT of anthologies. I think in the last cull I preferentially saved them with the idea that if I just wanted to get a taste of a genre or an author's work, and anthology made more sense than Book #4 of a series.)
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 #18893 FMK #25: Space Anthologies
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17
Gosh! Wow! Sense of Wonder Science Fiction edited by Forrest J. Ackerman (1982)
Starships edited by Isaac Asimov (And Greenberg and Waugh) (1983)
Far Futures edited by Gregory Benford (1995)
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons edited by Gardner Dozois (2000)
Space Infantry edited by David Drake (and Greenberg and Waugh) (1989)
Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls and Gadgets edited by Mary Fan (2015)
Cats In Space.. And Other Places edited by Brian Fawcett (1992)
The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF edited by David Hartwell (1994)
Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three edited by Don Sakers(1990)
Another Round At The Spaceport Bar edited by George Scithers (1989)
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