<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">NESFA Recommendations sep 2024 - Stan Zisk</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Helvetica-BoldOblique; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Fuzzy Nation</span> (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">ISBN</span></a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0765367033"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">0765367033</span></a>, published by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Books"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Tor Books</span></a>) is a 2011 novel by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scalzi"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">John Scalzi</span></a>, described as a reboot of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beam_Piper"><span style="color: rgb(107, 75, 161);">H. Beam Piper</span></a>'s 1962 novel <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Fuzzy"><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Oblique; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Little Fuzzy</span></a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(30, 25, 21);">Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, that's not up for discussion.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ZaraCorp holds the right to extract unlimited resources from the verdant planet Zarathustra―as long as the planet is certifiably free of native sentients. So when an outback prospector discovers a species of small, appealing bipeds who might well turn out to be intelligent, language-using beings, it's a race to stop the corporation from "eliminating the problem," which is to say, eliminating the Fuzzies―wide-eyed and ridiculously cute small, and furry―who are as much people as we are.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 13.8px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend: A Novel </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Worst Vacation Ever―Five Stars, Would Recommend." ― Grady Hendrix, </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson in this whip-smart social satire about a man who finds himself trapped on an island resort after the sun explodes, and suddenly must choose whether to save himself from the chaos, or help the fellow guests make it off the island alive…</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Vacation Checklist: Pack swim trunks. Apply sunscreen. Survive the apocalypse?</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Professional underachiever Dan Foster is finally taking a vacation. Sure, his life has been average at best, and yeah, he's never quite lived up to his potential. But after a few Miller Lites in paradise with his girlfriend, Mara, things are starting to look up.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Then the sun explodes.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">With the island resort suddenly plunged into darkness (he really should've sprung for the travel insurance), Dan's holiday goes from bad to worse when elite guests stage a coup and commandeer supplies. As temperatures drop and class tensions rise, revolution begins to brew on the island, and Dan accidentally becomes a beacon of hope for the surviving vacationers. But when one six-person plane is discovered that could get them back to the mainland, Dan realizes he has a choice to make.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Does he escape the island with Mara? Or does he stay and fight to become the most unlikely hero of the end of the world?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 13.8px;"><br></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">By Harry Turtledove</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 12.7px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">The Earth had been invaded in 1941 by a race of lizard-looking high-technology aliens in sub-light spacecraft, intending a quick conquest and colonization, followed by cultural assimilation of the human race into the lizard Empire. However, the lizards’ intelligence was centuries out of date, and their invading army was fought to a standstill by the humans. Several of the Earth’s major nations retained their independence, while others became colonies of the Lizards.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 12.7px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">“Homeward Bound” is the last of the 8-book series, set on the Lizard home-world and wrapping up most of the old sub-plots but best of all (spoiler!!) presenting the basis of the next part of a story (never actually written). Good picture of interacting cultures!</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 12.7px;"><br></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Fun, but not award-winning Sci-fi caliber. Except for this book, mostly political-sociological in genre. “Clash of cultures” theme is especially well done.</p><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 6, 2024, at 8:08 AM, Liz P <lpatton88@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The Murderbot Diaries #7<br>System Collapse<br><br>Martha Wells<br><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Following the events in </span><i style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Network Effect</i><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without </span><i style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">something</i><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div><div><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><a class="gmail_plusreply" id="plusReplyChip-0">+++++++++++++++++</a><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>Legends & Lattes #0.1<br>Bookshops & Bonedust<br><br>Travis Baldree</div><div><div class="gmail-BookPageMetadataSection__description" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.8rem 0px;line-height:1.37;color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-TruncatedContent__text gmail-TruncatedContent__text--large gmail-TruncatedContent__text--expanded" tabindex="-1" style="box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden visible;word-break:break-word;max-height:none"><div class="gmail-DetailsLayoutRightParagraph" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:grid"><div class="gmail-DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-Formatted" style="box-sizing:border-box">In <i style="box-sizing:border-box">Bookshops & Bonedust</i>, a prequel to <i style="box-sizing:border-box">Legends & Lattes</i>, author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">Still, adventure isn't all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.</span></div></div></div><div class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-BookPageMetadataSection__genres" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.8rem 0px;color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><a class="gmail_plusreply" id="plusReplyChip-1">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</a><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div class="gmail-BookPageMetadataSection__genres" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.8rem 0px;color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The Ministry of Time<br><br>Kaliane Bradley</div><div class="gmail-BookPageMetadataSection__genres" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.8rem 0px;color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all:</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,” “Spotify,” and “the collapse of the British Empire.” But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px">Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future.<br><a class="gmail_plusreply"><br></a></div><div><br><span style="color:rgb(30,25,21);font-family:"Proxima Nova",Montserrat,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><a class="gmail_plusreply"><br></a></span></div></div>
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