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"notes": "This was a chapbook from [Small Beer Press](http://smallbeerpress.com/books/2012/04/12/an-a%E2%80%93z-of-the-fantastic-city/). Somehow I didn't read it when it first arrived: now I rediscovered it, and (unsurprisingly for Hal Duncan) it's rather more than the title would suggest.",
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"notes": "I backed this one as a [Kickstarter project](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grahamkmcdonald/the-mandolin-a-history). The text is a rather odd mix of kinds of information (histories of companies and brand-names, technical titbits about construction techniques, information about contemporary luthiers, and a short run-through of various related European instruments), but the main attraction for me is the huge number of photographs. I fell in love with plenty of instruments, including the [Regal Octophone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octophone) -- luckily none of them are easy to come by.",
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"notes": "Excellent fantasy. You can read [the first chapter at Tor.com](http://www.tor.com/2015/08/25/excerpt-the-sorcerer-of-the-wildeeps-kai-ashante-wilson/).",
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"notes": "This is about the fifth time I've tried reading this from the beginning to the end. Didn't manage this time either.",
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"notes": "Reread. This is still as beautiful and unsettling as it was first time around.",
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"notes": "More of the Tim Powers schtick.",
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"notes": "Excellent (if very pessimistic) SF about the immanent obsolescence of humanity. After the novel come the notes, which show some of the real research he used for inspiration: some fascinating stuff in there too. [Free online](http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm).",
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"notes": "Fun spy stuff in a near-future Europe, and just as you start getting comfortable with that, it gets weird.",
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"notes": "The most Tim-Powers-schticky of Tim Powers schtick novels. A re-read prompted by the 'weird spy stuff' kick of the first two Fractured Europe books.",
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"notes": "I have to admit I first picked this up because her partner wrote [*Hild*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hild_(novel)), one of my stand-out reads of last year. Lots of my reading features characters that are exceptional in some particular field: a particularly talented wizard, a super-spy, and the like. This one is unusual, for me, in that the field in question is management. Yes, organising-people-into-productive-collectives type management. Even odder: this is not the only protagonist in my year's reading with an MBA super-skill.",
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"notes": "I love some of Hoban's work ([*Riddley Walker*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddley_Walker) in particular, and also [*How Tom Beat Captain Najork and his Hired Sportsmen*](http://www.russellhoban.org/title/how-tom-beat-captain-najork-and-his-hired-sportsmen) from my childhood), but this collection amplifies some of his quirks that rub me up the wrong way.",
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"notes": "Extraordinary, but almost too rich: it took me two months to finish. I particularly enjoyed the dialogue, full of unfinished sentences and non sequiturs.",
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"notes": "Angsty. Also very enjoyable, if you can stand the angst. This is the second read of 2016 to feature a super-skilled protagonist with a decidedly non-standard super-skill: this one, clearly genre-marked for fantasy with swords and horses (and colonialism: it's smart, self-aware fantasy, which might explain some of the angst) features a super-accountant.",
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"notes": "Ugh. That's the last time I follow Amazon's people-who-read-also-read recommendations. (In this case it came from *Baru Cormorant*: I imagine the linking factor is grimdark.) This reminds me of a fabulous essay about [*Ender's Game*](http://johnjosephkessel.wixsite.com/kessel-website/creating-the-innocent-killer) (a book which I devoured and re-read repeatedly in high school), which points out how Card manipulates the setting to provoke a particular moral judgement. In *Mount Char* we see God (not 'a god' as someone like Gaiman might write, but the bearded patriarch you imagine if you got your Bible study at second hand) abusing children, and we're told in the denouement that despite all His power, the abuse was the only solution he could find to the problem of ... arranging a successor when he took retirement. As in the case of *Ender's Game*, once you consciously appreciate how the author must have *chosen* to make this true in their subcreation, you start squinting sideways at said author and edging as subtly and quietly as you possibly can towards the door.",
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"notes": "This booklet comes with the DVD of [*The Lost Thing*](http://www.thelostthing.com/), and is an absolute delight.",
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"notes": "Cosy mystery. The donnish tone had me laughing out loud over the first couple of pages (which was unfortunate, as I was reading in bed and almost woke my wife).",
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"notes": "Rereading these because they are really very clever indeed.",
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