New books! Including new Zelazny!

[yendi]

So, as mentioned previously, my copy of the new Charles de Lint novel, The Mystery of Grace, arrived yesterday.

So did four other books (ordered thanks to an Amazon gift certificate and the current four-for-three promotion):

Two of them, Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (by Carrie Vaughn) and Dead Reign (by T.A. Pratt) are the next-to-most-recent books in the only two urban fantasy series I'm really reading nowadays (both added to the sale, presumably, as a way to market the latest book in each series).

A third - CSI: New York: Four Walls (by kradical) was bought because of my usual policy of only buying licensed properties if I like both the author and the license (and although I certainly don't love CSI: NY, I like the character well enough to trust that I'll enjoy it).

But the final one is the one I'm most excited about: The Dead Man's Brother. By Roger Zelazny.

Yes. A new Zelazny book. A real one, not a bit of glorified fanfic passed off using some licensing chicanery like those Amber "prequels." It's a crime novel that he wrote in the early '70s. The manuscript was lost for years, and (as far as I know), and reads like pure mid-'70s Zelazny. Damned straight it was the first of the books I started to read.

Comments

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I followed your advice the other day and read Blood Engines. I really enjoyed that - I already know there's more Marla Mason in my future.

[yendi]

Excellent! It really is a nifty series (and Pratt's short fiction, published under the name of "Tim Pratt," is also worth hunting down).

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Speaking of books, are you familiar with Mario Acevedo's Felix Gomez series? And if not, do you want to be? I got the first four books at ALA and when I saw titles like The Nymphos of Rockville Flats and Jailbait Zombie I immediately thought of you :) Hardboiled PI noir - with vampires. Quite a fun series. I can send them home with 'song when I see her on Saturday if you want.

[yendi]

haikujaguar gave me the first one for $Winterholiday, and it's very high on my to-read pile. I'm sure we wouldn't mind borrowing the sequels, though! :-)

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Ok - I'll give 'song nos 2 & 3 on Saturday. And #4, assuming I get it finished by then - I'm alternating between that one and Palimpsest right now, which is an interesting combination, let me tell you :)