\nOctober was a fruitful month for me, with twelve books read in total.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe Zero Stone<\/a><\/cite> — Andre Norton \nOrdeal in Otherwhere<\/a><\/cite> — Andre Norton \nExiles of the Stars<\/a><\/cite> — Andre Norton \nBetween Giants<\/cite> — Prit Buttar \nStorm over Warlock<\/a><\/cite> — Andre Norton \nJudgement on Janus<\/a><\/cite> — Andre Norton \nVictory on Janus<\/a><\/cite> — Andre Norton \nAncillary Sword<\/a><\/cite> — Ann Leckie \nThe Stone Boatmen<\/cite> — Sarah Tolmie \nThe Lost Steersman<\/cite> — Rosemary Kirstein \nOrlando<\/cite> — Virginia Woolf
\nA great, fast paced space opera adventure story made somewhat weird by the conspicuous lack of female characters.\n<\/p>\n
\nThis instead had an actual female protagonist and was a good coming of age\/first contact story.\n<\/p>\n
\nSequel to a novel I haven’t read, but readable enough on its own.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe story of the Baltic states (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia) in World War II caught between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Not a happy story.\n<\/p>\n
\nWhat turned out to be the novel I should’ve read before Ordeal in Otherwhere<\/cite>. When the Throg attack the survey camp on Warlock, the sole survivor, Shann Lantee, has to keep himself alive as well as find some way to take revenge…\n<\/p>\n
\nA young man sells himself as indentured labourer on a forest world, then catches a mysterious illness that transforms him into one of the planet’s long died out natives. From there his troubles begin…\n<\/p>\n
\nAndre Norton goes Lovecraftian in the sequel\n<\/p>\n
\nHighly anticipated sequel to Ancillary Justice<\/a><\/cite> which didn’t disappoint.\n<\/p>\n
\nI think I found my number one pick for the Hugo Awards.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe third volume in the Steerswoman<\/cite> is as brilliant if not better than the first two novels.\n<\/p>\n
\nOrlando starts out a young noble man at the time of Elizabeth I, becomes a young noble woman while an ambassador from Charless II in Constantinople and merrily lives through the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries as such.\n<\/p>\n