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[thebitterguy]

So I went book shopping with Cynra on Saturday in order to validate our parking (If you buy $25 of books you save $8 on parking. To some people, that might not make sense), and I picked up a book of essays by Ray Bradbury and Blood and Iron by Elizabeth Bear.

Bear's name gets bandied (I love that word, btw. Bandied, bandied, bandied) about during discussions of new genre authors, so I thought I'd get something of hers. I consider this a noble action on my part since Hammered, one of her SF books (about a Canadian, even!) just didn't get my crank turning. I left it to read a cheesy TSR paperback, although I never finished F.R.E.E.Lancers either.

The strange bit was I had a great deal of difficulty figuring out which book to buy. The Promethean Age books seemed interesting (covering urban fantasy in modern and Elizabethan times) but I could not for the life of me figure out which one to buy first. When I was a kid, books in series had numbers on them! And they let us keep track of which one was which! And we LIKED it!

I also remembered that I'd gotten a short story compilation of hers when I was out East for Thanksgiving too. So I'll make my way to that when I finish this one.

Comments

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that about series books lately - the first few Dresden books were clearly labeled as to their relative positions in the series, but I think all the newer ones are just "A Book Of The Dresden Files" or something like that.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, each of them had "A Book of the Promethean Age" on the cover. Or possibly "A Novel of the Promethean Age". Which book to read first, though, that was absent.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

SERIES NAME COLON: The Individual Title?

[cinn48.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me, you were probably gonna spend the money anyway, might as well get free parking out of it!