This next installment of 2022's Reading Queue is a mixture of science fiction and fantasy. On the Sci-Fi side is Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora, John Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society, and David Weber's Out of the Dark. None of these were particularly great: Aurora stacks poorly compared to his other works, Scalzi's Old Man Series isleagues above the jittery narrative style than this pandemic-era work, and while David Weber's writing was flawless, the story in Out of the Dark just went weird places. It was originally a short story which was 'blown up' to novel size (it should've remained a short story). In the fantasy camp is Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold, George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream, and Michael Eames' Bloody Rose. All of these were great reads, though Top Tier is a tie between the grimdark Best Served Cold and Mississippi Steamboat Vampire Thriller Fevre Dream.
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