[nesfa-reading-group] Three Body Problem

[David G. Grubbs]

I'd read Jack of Shadows again. And I'd read the Butcher books again, but
please (even if you all find the October connect just too appealing) not
the one he spends the whole book as a ghost. That was the worst of all the
Dresden Files books.


On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 12:32 PM, M M via reading-group <
reading-group at lists.nesfa.org> wrote:

> I have a few suggestions of my own. First is one of my favorites, a short
> novel from Roger Zelazny entitled Jack of Shadows.
>
> Next, I'd be interested in reading a Jim Butcher novel from his Dresden
> Files series. Both fine choices to celebrate the most spooky of months,
> October. I'd also like to include a short story by Neil Gaiman, "October In
> The Chair".
>
> Mike S.
>
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> On Sunday, June 18, 2017 9:11 AM, R. Luoma <malkin8244 at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 23:15:36 -0400
> "David G. Grubbs" <dggrubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > October is not for spooks, it is for opening portals into alternate
> > dimensions, traveling through the multiverse, or worshipping the Great
> > Pumpkin.
> >
> > So I suggest either The Jennifer Morgue (sequel to The Atrocity
> Archives),
>
> Wait, does not any Laundry novel necessarily involve spooks?
>
>
> > a recent Michael Moorcock book in the Eternal Champion series (maybe the
> > first in the most recent trilogy: A Dreamthief's Daughter),
>
>
> Did not Stormbringer drink a lot of souls?
> That seems pretty spooky to me.
>
> > or a big collection of Charles Schulz cartoons.
>
> I found the Great Pumpkin rather spooky.
> While Snoopy's Red Baron episodes might be considered
> slipstream fiction, I am not aware of any science fiction
> or fantasy specific strips.
>
> However, I will also offer some October suggestions
> even though I have not read any of the following --
>
> Tim Powers _Medusa' Web_
> Nick Mamatas _I Am Providence_
> Alan Moore _Providence_  (cartoon)
> Tim Powers _Hide Me Among the Graves_
> --
> R. Luoma    malkin8244 [at] pobox [dot] com
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