That’s when I find out the answer the the most pressing question: What’s next? That’s expected to happen around the end of the month. The radiation and chemo have continued to influence my body so we’ve been waiting for it to run its course before I have my next screening exam. Mid-October takes me to the 90-day mark after treatments ended. I suspect the rate will drop as I become more engaged with writing than reading. The downside of reading more than a book a day, I suppose. I’m always on the lookout for good sf/f self-pubs, but finding new ones to recommend is getting harder. I also only read self-published works, so – more litRPG. See what you think.Īn aside: I’m always on the look out for a good series so I get drawn into litRPG. Thorn’s humanity – in spite of not being human – kept me turning pages and burning through the ten volume series.īut don’t take my word for it. The plot revolves around learning the nature of the game, revealing layers within layers as Thorn and his colleagues learn about the world and their places in it.Īs always, the characters drew me in. A simple tale of an uber-rich guy stuck in a total emersion tank to heal his unique-but-potentially-deadly physiological condition. Seth Ring’s Titan series hit all the right notes for me in litRPG this month. (By “new author,” I mean somebody I haven’t read before – they’re getting harder to find.)
I spent some time catching up on new releases and explored some new authors. I recommended M C Burnell’s The Spider’s Friend in my newsletter a couple of weeks ago. I don’t have enough clear brain space yet. Thanks to a friend, I’ve worked through some of the issues and I think I like where we’re going.
Too much flipping about trying to find the story, not enough story. I’ve been disquieted by the new Ishmael books – especially the first one.
The brain fog made for a lot of false starts and lost threads but I think I’m on the right path now. The endless grind of clinical oversight removed, days became cycles of feeding, sleeping, reading, and – occasionally – playing computer games. I spent much of last month healing and resting. That edge state where you’re neither here nor there.
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