melita's booklog - mostly

When I go to my company's conference, I make a point of stopping at Mysterious Galaxy, a SF/F/Mystery/Horror bookstore in northern San Diego. To help make up for online competition (I believe), they get loads of signed books, have signings all the time, and happily make recommendations. I usually try to not buy a few books that I would normally get online or locally around the time of a planned visit. They also will give you $10 (on next visit) per $100 spent.

My haul this year was:

Ian McDonald, The Dervish House - I have an ebook of this in the Hugo voter packet but it's easier to read in dead tree edition
Steven Gould, 7th Sigma - I've been waiting for a new book from him for a while
K.J. Parker, Blue and Gold - a mysterious British writer, this is a novella or maybe a novelette
James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes - space opera, pseudonym of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck
Liz Williams, The Iron Khan - new entry in the Inspector Chen / Zhu
N.K. Jemisin, Broken Kingdoms - sort of sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - a new copy to replace my thrashed (for me) copy
Megan Whalen Turner, Conspiracy of Kings - signed
Simon Pegg, Nerd Do Well - autobiography, signed, possibly a gift but it got damaged in transit. Rats.
Michael Robertson, The Baker Street Letters - offered when I asked for a British police procedural. It's not, but may be okay. What convinced me is that the client's father is a geological surveyor