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Mervi2012
Posted 2019-06-05 2:21 PM (#20838 - in reply to #19521)
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Congrats on finishing Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, dustydigger! I'm one of those weird people who liked it but I read it years ago, when it first came out, so I don't remember much about it. I was probably more patient when I was younger.

It took me a long time to listen Neil Clarke's huge SF collection "The Final Frontier" even though I had read some of the novellas before. It was mostly enjoyable. However, the vast majority of these stories are about the relationships between the humans who are in space, rather than first contact or colonization which was supposed to be the theme. Some of them also explore the world that the explorers left behind far more than what they encounter.

I finished Greg Cox'a Q-Continuum trilogy. "Q-Zone" focused on Q's past rather than the TNG crew but "Q-Strike" was a good conclusion to the series. Still, it left me wanting more TNG.

I enjoyed V. E. Schwab's Darker shade of magic a lot. It has four Londons in different paraller universes and our hero can travel between them. The Londons are quite different from each other.

Another first in the series was Tanya Huff's Enchantment Emporium which was weird but rather enjoyable urban fantasy.

I also read the fifth book in Genevive Cogman's Invisible Library series, "the Mortal Word". It's a bit different in tone than the previous books because the main character Irene is investigating a murder. The murder of a human-shaped dragon which happened in the middle of a peace conference better mortal enemies (the Fae and the dragons). I throughly enjoyed it.

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