I ordered it because this novella was hugely fucking influential on me as a writer, but they didn't have a picture of the cover. It's a dirt-cheap chapbook but fam

Fam

the bridge at the center of the story is a suspension bridge.

What is this "chuck tingle on ambien"-ass cover? How can you miss the most important thing? Why does everything I dig up on the company that printed this look like a scam? I'm dying laughing

This is my to read sack. It's got 11 books on it currently, probably going to end up reading the top two kind of at once. Translation state is a hardcover, and a nice one, so I'm not going to take it with me to work, because I always end up getting my books a little greasy there.

I'm on a veracious reading kick again, I've put 9 books away by my account since the year started, and I've got 3 books on their way to me in the mail. I'm not allowed to buy anymore books until I finish the things that are currently on my stack, unless somehow I come across a copy of Mieville's Railsea, in which case I acquire it on sight.

This is a fucking steal for almost every discworld novel. Having read MOST of them, I cannot recommend it enough. The Thief of Time, Small Gods, and Monstrous Regiment were all huge influences on me as a writer. Jump on this if you can!

Re-read: Authority, by Jeff Vandermeer. The second in the Southern Reach trilogy, and the direct sequel to his most famous novel, Annihilation. Vandermeer is the king of New Weird, and hailed often as a sci-fi/horror writer, but he is an underrated master of the Spy novel as well, and it shines through here. It also manages to take the unsettling nightmare of Annihilation and make it even more terrifying.

New Physical book: only slightly cheating here, but Ally by @makyo, creator of the Post-Self cycle and universe. Ergodic, deeply personal, an amazing example of unintentional plural literature (also ironic, considering recent developments) and prose so lilac it belongs at a festival in my hometown. Completely unrelated to the Post-Self Cycle, but absolutely set the stage for them. I haven't finished it yet, but that will not stop me from recommending it.

New non-physical book: @eatthepen's spectacular novel here on cohost: The First Step. A truly wild and mindbending story that walks a line between clinical hard sci-fi and beautifully expressed existential horror. I linked the first chapter, it is absolutely worth your time. And time, after all, is everything.