Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, March 2026
Attention conservation notice: I have no taste.
- Rachel Neumeier, This Hour, Our Vigil
- Mind candy fantasy; A sequel to the Death's Lady books (in my
backlog), where good things happen to our favorite characters, without any
special drama. If I say it reads a bit like fanfic for Neumeier's own work,
that sounds like I'm damning it, but I actually enjoyed it, because, I wanted
good things to happen for those characters, who'd had drama enough and to
spare. Utterly pointless if you have not read the earlier books. §
- Doris Piserchia, A Billion Days of Earth
- Mind candy science fiction, from 1976. This is an especially weird member
of the Dying Earth genre. It's a billion days (= a few million
years) in the future, and the descendants of human beings are known as "gods",
while evolved (possibly uplifted) rats think of themselves as Homo
sapiens. One of those wakes Something which I think is an old
psycho-bio-weapon that preys on unconscious desires and assimilates its victims
into further bits of its silvery, amorphous self. Apocalypse ensues, as viewed
by an unusually level-headed rat-man, among others. It's
not pleasant, but it is skillful, and strange, and makes me interested
in Piserchia's other books. §
- (I picked this up on 26 July 2001, in a bookstore in Flagstaff which no longer exists...)
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