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Space Station 20th: Commercial Cargo and Crew

ISS - 20 Years on the International Space Station patch.

June 2, 2020 The successful flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo 2 mission, launching American astronauts on American rockets from American soil for the first time since 2011, was the culmination of a years-long effort led and supported by several US Presidents and NASA Administrators to provide replacements for the cargo and crew transportation capabilities to the International Space Station (ISS) previously provided by the Space Shuttle. The novel approach of the government procuring services provided by private companies opened a new chapter in human space exploration. Launch America Nearly nine years after Space Shuttle Atlantis roared off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, American astronauts Douglas G. Hurley and Robert L. Behnken made history when, aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule they christened Endeavour, they launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the very same pad. Nineteen hours later, in a flawless automated maneuver, they became the first crew to dock at ISS aboard a commercial spacecraft. As part of the test flight objectives, they performed manual flying tests of the spacecraft prior to docking at the Harmony module of ISS. Both Hurley and Behnken had visited the station on previous Shuttle missions, but for Hurley this was a different sort of homecoming – he served as Pilot on that last flight of Atlantis and piloted the Orbiter away from the very same docking port at which he arrived nine years later aboard Endeavour. Shortly after docking the crews opened the hatches and Hurley and Behnken joined Expedition 63 crewmembers Christopher J. Cassidy, Anatoli A. Ivanishin and Ivan V. Vagner as ISS’ newest residents. Their ground-breaking mission continues.

Above: Hurley (left) and Behnken say good-bye to their families as they prepare to depart for the launch pad. Bellow: Launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour on the Demo 2 mission.

Above: Expedition 63 crewmember Vagner photographed Endeavour’s launch from ISS. Bellow: Behnken (left) and Hurley aboard the newly-christened Endeavour shortly after reaching orbit.

Above: SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour docked at ISS during Demo 2 mission. Bellow: Expedition 63 crew (front, left to right) Behnken and Hurley; (back, left to right) Ivanishin, Cassidy and Vagner.

Preamble In an address at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2004, President George W. Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE). In addition to proposing a return to the Moon, the VSE saw the retirement of the Space Shuttle by 2010 after completing the assembly of ISS. The VSE encouraged NASA to acquire commercial cargo services to ISS as soon as practical, and Congress supported the activity in the 2005 NASA Authorization Act. In response, NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin established the Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO) in November 2005, inaugurating a new business model for the space agency that instead of traditional procurement contracts with private enterprise to deliver hardware and services to NASA now relied on the companies investing their own capital to develop the needed spacecraft and rockets and NASA to purchase the transportation services from them. The C3PO devised a two-phase process to develop cargo resupply service to ISS – the Commercial Orbital Transportation System (COTS) program for commercial entities to develop and demonstrate reliable commercial services followed by the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program to actually deliver cargo to ISS. President Barack H. Obama’s space policies encouraged public-private partnerships and NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden greatly expanded the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program’s fledgling efforts for commercial crew transportation services.

Above: President Bush announcing the Vision for Space Exploration in 2004. Bellow: President Obama (left) tours SpaceX launch facilities with Elon Musk in 2010.

Commercial Cargo Services

Timeline of Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) activities.

On Aug. 18, 2006, NASA announced that Space Exploration Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based Rocketplane Kistler (RpK) had won the first round of the COTS competition and signed Space Act Agreements (SAAs) with the two companies. In October 2007, NASA terminated the agreement with RpK since the company hadn’t raised enough capital and following a second round of competitions selected and signed an SAA with Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital) of Dulles, Virginia, on Feb. 19, 2008. SpaceX developed its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule capable not only of supplying pressurized cargo to ISS but also delivering unpressurized external payloads and hardware to the station and also returning internal equipment and especially scientific samples back to Earth. Both the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon capsule relied on reusability to reduce operating costs. Italian aerospace company Thales Alenia Space built Orbital’s Cygnus cargo vehicle, relying on its experience building the Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules and the European Space Agency’s Columbus research module for ISS. Orbital developed the two-stage Antares rocket to launch the Cygnus spacecraft. On Dec. 23, 2008, NASA announced the award of the first CRS contracts to SpaceX for 12 resupply missions to ISS and to Orbital for 8 missions, to which in 2015 NASA added 8 more Dragon and 3 more Cygnus missions. On Jan. 14, 2016, a second CRS-2 contract not only guaranteed at least six more SpaceX and Orbital missions but added a third contractor, Sparks, Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corporation to provide at least six flights of a cargo version of their Dream Chaser reusable space plane.

Above: Falcon 9 first launch in 2010. Midddle: Dragon capsule approaching ISS during the Demo 2 flight. Bellow: Dragon capsule being grappled by Canadarm2 before berthing to ISS.

Above: Expedition 31 crew poses inside the Dragon cargo capsule during the Demo 2 flight. Middle: The ISS Canadarm2 about to release the Dragon capsule at the end of the Demo2 flight. Bellow: Dragon capsule in the Pacific Ocean at the conclusion of the Demo 2 mission.

SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 carrying a boilerplate Dragon capsule from Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) on June 4, 2010. The successful mission, not intended to approach ISS or be recovered, demonstrated the capability of the new Falcon 9 rocket. The first mission under the COTS program called Demo Flight 1 took off on Dec. 8, 2010. Once again the Falcon 9 performed as expected and the Dragon capsule made two orbits around the Earth, demonstrating its communications and maneuvering capabilities. SpaceX recovered the capsule in the Pacific Ocean after a flight of 3 hours and 20 minutes. Two more demonstration flights had been planned, but NASA decided to combine their objectives into a single mission flown as Demo Flight 2, launching on May 22, 2012. Four days later, the capsule rendezvoused with ISS, where Expedition 31 crewmember Donald R. Pettit grappled it with the Canadarm2 robotic arm, calling to the ground, “Looks like we got us a dragon by the tail,” before maneuvering it to its berth at the station’s Harmony module’s nadir port. The first commercial cargo transportation vehicle had arrived at ISS. Later that day, he and ISS Commander Oleg G. Kononenko opened the hatch and entered the capsule, with Pettit noting that it “smelled like a brand new car.” The onboard crew spent the next six days unloading the 1,157 pounds of cargo that Dragon had delivered and on May 31 released it from ISS. Dragon made a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, returning 1,466 pounds of experiment samples and used hardware. The mission completed the required COTS certification for the Dragon cargo vehicle.

Above: First launch of an Antares rocket in 2013. Middle: Cygnus Demo spacecraft grappled by Canadarm2 prior to berthing on ISS. Bellow: Expedition 37 crewmember Karen L. Nyberg photographed inside the Cygnus spacecraft during its Demo mission to ISS.

Orbital launched the first test flight of its Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia on April 21, 2013, with a test payload to simulate the mass of a Cygnus spacecraft. The mission’s objectives did not include approaching ISS and the mass simulator burned up on reentry on May 10. Orbital carried out a single COTS demonstration mission, designated Cygnus Demo 1, launching on Sep. 18, 2013. The company began a tradition of naming their spacecraft after deceased astronauts or other aerospace notables, christening this first one the G. David Low after the former astronaut and Orbital employee who died in 2008. Orbital executive and Low’s fellow Class of 1984 astronaut Frank L. Culbertson said during a preflight press conference, “We were very proud to name [it] the G. David Low.” Eleven days after its launch, Expedition 37 crewmember Luca S. Parmitano grappled the spacecraft with Canadarm2 and berthed it to Harmony. The crew unloaded the 1,543 pounds of supplies that it brought to ISS and on Oct. 22 unberthed it from ISS, loaded with 2,850 pounds of cargo for disposal. The next day, Cygnus fired its engine to begin the fiery reentry over the Pacific Ocean. Orbital became the second commercial company to complete the COTS certification for its cargo vehicle.

Above: The first Enhanced Cygnus arriving at ISS in 2015; compare against

the smaller Cygnus in the Demo 1 photo above. Middle: The IDA-2 during removal from the SpaceX transport vehicle in 2016. Bellow: First launch of a Falcon 9 from Launch Pad 39A in 2017.

SpaceX launched its first operational Dragon cargo resupply mission on Oct. 8, 2012, while the first operational Cygnus spacecraft took off on Jan. 9, 2014. To date, 20 Dragons have carried pressurized and unpressurized cargo to ISS and returned scientific samples and hardware to Earth at the end of their missions, while 13 Cygnus spacecraft have lofted logistics to the space station. The record is not without setbacks as each program suffered a launch failure that resulted in loss of the spacecraft and its cargo. While both companies recovered quickly from the failures, the accidents highlighted the wisdom of the decision to use two separate and independent systems to launch cargo to ISS. Over the years, both SpaceX and Orbital have implemented improvements in their spacecraft and launch vehicles to increase safety, performance and reliability. For added flexibility, SpaceX leased Launch Pad 39A from NASA at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and began using it to launch Falcon 9 rockets beginning with the SpaceX-10 mission in 2017. Always a part of SpaceX’s business model to reduce costs, the company began to refly its Dragon capsules in 2017, and has flown three of its capsules three times to ISS. Beginning in late 2015, Orbital introduced an Enhanced Cygnus with a 50% increase in internal volume to carry more cargo. In addition to upgrading its spacecraft and rocket, Orbital underwent some corporate restructuring over the years, first merging with Alliant Technologies in 2015 to become Orbital ATK. In 2018 Northrup Grumman acquired Orbital ATK to form Northrup Grumman Innovation Systems. Upgrades to ISS itself, such as opening up a second berthing port on the Unity module in 2015 allowed two cargo vehicles to be docked at the same time. SpaceX vehicles brought two International Docking Adaptors (IDAs) that once installed on ISS enabled future commercial cargo and crew vehicles to dock directly to ISS rather than being grappled and berthed by crewmembers operating the Canadarm2. Commercial Crew Services Following retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA needed a system not only for cargo transportation to and from ISS but also to ferry crews to the station and returning them to Earth. Until a US-based system could be deployed, NASA relied on purchasing crew seats from Russia on Soyuz spacecraft. The NASA Authorization Act of 2010 expanded existing CCDev activities with a new competition to develop the spacecraft needed to ferry crews to ISS. NASA awarded contract to four companies – Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, to develop a capsule; SpaceX to upgrade their Dragon cargo vehicle to carry humans and to human-rate their Falcon 9 rocket; Sierra Nevada to develop the Dream Chaser winged lifting-body vehicle; and The Boeing Corporation’s Defense, Space and Security Division of Arlington, Virginia, to develop the CST-100 Starliner capsule. SpaceX, Sierra Nevada and Boeing received funding in August 2012 to support development of the spacecraft. In September 2014, during the final phase of the competition, NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX to develop the Crew Dragon and Starliner vehicles for crew transportation. As noted above, Sierra Nevada decided to develop a cargo-only version of its Dream Chaser.

The first group of Commercial Crew astronauts – (left to right) Williams, Cassada, Boe, Mann, Ferguson, Hurley, Behnken, Hopkins and Glover – pose in front of mockups of the Boeing Starliner (left) and SpaceX Crew Dragon capsules at JSC.

In a ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug. 8, 2018, NASA Administrator James F. “Jim” Bridenstine introduced the first contingent of eight NASA and one Boeing astronaut who would fly the inaugural missions under the Commercial Crew Program. NASA assigned Douglas G. Hurley and Robert L. Behnken to fly the first Crew Dragon demonstration flight and Victor J. Glover and Michael S. Hopkins to its first operational mission. For the Starliner’s Crew Flight Test (CFT) demonstration flight, NASA selected Nicole A. Mann and Eric A. Boe and Boeing assigned its astronaut Christopher J. Ferguson, a retired NASA astronaut. Sunita L. Williams and Josh A. Cassada were selected for Starliner’s first operational mission. In January 2019, E. Michael Fincke replaced Boe on the Boeing CFT mission crew. In March 2020, NASA announced the addition of NASA astronaut Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi to the first SpaceX operational flight crew.

Above: Launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo 1 mission. Middle: Crew Dragon approaches ISS during the Demo 1 mission. Bellow: St. Jacques taking a selfie inside the Crew Dragon while it was docked to ISS.

Above: View inside the Crew Dragon during the Demo 1 mission with Ripley in the far left seat. Middle: Crew Dragon departing ISS. Bellow: Crew Dragon floating to the Atlantic Ocean under its four main parachutes about to conclude the Demo 1 mission.

Following years of development and testing, SpaceX and Boeing prepared their spacecraft for uncrewed orbital test flights. SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39A, formerly used to launch Saturn V rockets during the Apollo Program and dozens of Space Shuttle missions, on March 2, 2019. During the Demo 1 mission, the unpiloted spacecraft completed an automated docking with ISS at the Harmony module’s forward facing port one day after launch. Although unpiloted, the Crew Dragon carried a fully suited anthropometric manikin named Ripley, after Sigourney Weaver’s character in the Alien film franchise. After six days at the space station, during which Expedition 58 crewmembers unloaded the 400 pounds of cargo it had brought to ISS, the Crew Dragon capsule undocked automatically. After it left the station, Expedition 58 crewmember Anne C. McClain said, “We want to take a moment to recognize this milestone accomplishment. Fifty years after humans landed on the Moon for the first time, America has driven a golden spike on the trail to new space exploration feats through the work of our commercial partner SpaceX and all the talented and dedicated flight controllers at NASA and our international partners.” The Crew Dragon capsule made an automated reentry, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast, clearing the way for the first crewed mission. The capsule also returned 330 pounds of cargo, including valuable science experiment samples.

Above The Boeing Starliner sitting atop its Atlas V rocket before launch. Middle: Launch of the Atlas V carrying the Boeing Starliner on its Orbital Test Flight. Bellow: Starliner capsule with airbags still inflated after landing at White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico.

Boeing’s Starliner, christened Calypso after the mission, launched from CCAFS Launch Complex 41 on an Atlas V rocket on Dec. 20, 2019, on its uncrewed Orbital Test Flight (OFT). While no astronauts rode aboard, the capsule carried an anthropometric manikin, wearing a pressure suit, nicknamed Rosie the Rocketeer, channeling Rosie the Riveter of World War II poster fame. About 31 minutes into the flight, an error with the Mission Elapsed Timer caused the spacecraft to enter an orbit from which it could not rendezvous with ISS. The planned eight-day mission was cut short to two days, with Starliner making a parachute- and airbag-assisted touchdown at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. Following postflight analysis, Boeing announced in April 2020 that it will refly the mission to achieve the required objectives to clear the Starliner for its first crewed test mission. The OFT reflight is currently planned for October 2020, and if all goes well Ferguson, Fincke and Mann will fly the CFT mission in April 2021.

Above: Astronauts for the SpaceX Crew 1 mission (left to right) Walker, Glover, Hopkins and Noguchi during training at JSC in March 2020. Bellow: The crew of the Boeing Starliner Crew Test Flight (left to right) Fincke, Ferguson and Mann.

What’s next? The past eight years have seen the coming of age for commercial cargo services to ISS and the beginning of crew transportation which will become regular in the very near future. The SpaceX-20 mission in March 2020 was the last of the original Dragon capsule design. Beginning with the next mission in October 2020, SpaceX will introduce the Cargo Dragon 2 version based on the Crew Dragon capsule design. Like the crewed version, Cargo Dragon 2 will also dock directly with ISS instead of being grappled and berthed. NASA has contracted with SpaceX and Northrup Grumman for at least six Cargo Dragon 2 and Cygnus flights through 2024. Sierra Nevada is continuing to prepare its reusable Dream Chaser Cargo System lifting body vehicle to begin providing transportation to and from ISS in late 2021.

Above: Illustration of Cargo Dragon 2. Bellow: Illustration of Dream Chaser Cargo System. Credits: SpaceX, Sierra Nevada.

In 2019, in its continuing efforts to stimulate a low Earth orbit economy, NASA announced the opportunity for private astronauts to carry out missions of up to 30 days aboard ISS, using either Crew Dragon or Starliner for transportation. Houston-based Axiom Space has signed an agreement with SpaceX to fly one professionally-trained astronaut hired by Axiom and three paying private citizens on an eight-day flight to ISS in late 2021. Although details are still in work, NASA is in discussions with actor Tom Cruise to film a movie aboard ISS. Related articles: Space Station 20th: Music on ISS https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2020/05/space-station-20th-music-on-iss.html Space Station 20th – Space Flight Participants https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2020/05/space-station-20th-space-flight.html Space Station 20th: Six Months Until Expedition 1 https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2020/04/space-station-20th-six-months-until.html Space Station 20th – Women and the Space Station https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2020/03/space-station-20th-women-and-space.html Space Station 20th: Long-duration Missions https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2020/03/space-station-20th-long-duration.html NASA Counts Down to Twenty Years of Continuous Human Presence on International Space Station https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2019/11/nasa-counts-down-to-twenty-years-of.html 20 memorable moments from the International Space Station https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2018/11/20-memorable-moments-from-international.html Related links: Commercial Crew: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html Images, Text, Credits: NASA/Kelli Mars/JSC/John Uri/SpaceX/Boeing/Sierra Nevada/ULA.

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third quarter of 2019 in books

58. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann 59. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf 60. The Best Bad Things, Katrina Carrasco [I loved this one: stylistically sharp noir western with fantastic complicated queerness] 61. The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Sara Collins 62. The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire, Deborah Baker 63. Kindred, Octavia Butler [I know everyone knows this already, but just fantastically smart] 64. Upstream, Mary Oliver 65. American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings, Zitkála-Šá 66. The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 67. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Andrea Lawlor [this was completely wonderful, niche in all the best ways] 68. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong 69. nîtisânak, Lindsay Nixon [really excellent, in style and in content] 70. Savage Conversations, LeAnne Howe 71. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin 72. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley 73. Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons, Marilyn Hacker 74. Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin 75. Willa & Hesper, Amy Feltman 76. Life of David Hockney: A Novel, Catherine Cusset (trans. Teresa Fagin) 77. Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer 78. The History of Sexuality, Volume One, Michel Foucault (trans. Robert Hurley) 79. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours, Bernard Bailyn 80. The Hours, Michael Cunningham [you know when you pick up a book expecting to like it in a reasonable sort of way and end up sobbing over it? yeah. yeah.] 81. New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America, Susanah Shaw Romney 82. Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, James Sweet 83. Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu [the new Carmen Maria Marchado edition; her introduction was genius and footnotes increasingly tedious] 84. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh 85. Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite (trans. Richard McDougall) 86. Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo 87. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, Julius Scott [really great] 88. Midsummer, Racheline Maltese and Erin McRae [reads a lot like RM’s fic, which is to say often super frustrating and often super delightful] 89. Cotillion, Georgette Heyer [first Heyer; I had a marvelous time] 90. Twelfth Night, Racheline Maltese and Erin McRae 91. Exposed, Jean-Philippe Blondel (trans. Alison Anderson) 92. Amberlough, Lara Elena Donnelly 93. The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge

#books tag #was going to evangelize about a selection of these in the tags but really i just need to make a separate recs post

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Another year gone, another readinglist done!

W. Michael Gear Outpost

W. Michael Gear Abandoned

Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber

Sue Burke Semiosis

Rob Dircks Don't Touch the Blue Stuff!

Laurie Forest the iron flower

Joseph Nassise urban Enemies: a collection

Ezekiel Boone The Mansion

Richtel, Matt Dead on Arrival

Wilkie Martin Inspector Hobbes and the Blood

Wilkie Martin Inspector Hobbes and The Curse

Wilkie Martin Inspector Hobbes & The Gold Digger

Wilkie Martin Inspector Hobbes and The Bones

A. American Home Coming

Adam J. Wright Lost Soul

Adam J. Wright Buried Memory

Adam J. Wright Dark Magic

Adam J. Wright Dead Ground

Adam J. Wright Shadow Land

Robert Bevan Critical Failures VI

Darynda Jones Grave on the Right

Darynda Jones Grave on the Left

Darynda Jones Third Grave Dead Ahead

Darynda Jones Grave Beneath My Feet

Darynda Jones Grave Past the Light

Darynda Jones Grave on the Edge

Darynda Jones Grave and No Body

Darynda Jones Grave After Dark

Darynda Jones Brighter Than the Sun

Darynda Jones Dirt on Ninth Grave

Darynda Jones The Curse of Tenth Grave

Darynda Jones Eleventh Grave in Moonlight

Dan Simmons The Terror

Warren Fahy Fragment

Tim McBain The Scattered and the Dead

Scott Thomas Kill Creek

Kurt Anderson Resurrection Pass

Larry Correia Son of the Black Sword

Larry Correia House of Assassins

Chuck Wendig Blackbird

Chuck Wendig Mockingbird

Chuck Wendig The Cormerant

Chuck Wendig Thunderbird

Karen Thompson Walker The Dreamers

Hank Green An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

C.T. Phipps The Tournament of Supervillainy 5

Peter Clines 14

Peter Clines The Fold

Peter Clines Dead Moon

Sean Schubert Infection

Sean Schubert Containment

Sean Schubert Mitigation

Sean Schubert Resolution

James Marshall Smith Hybrid

Mark Tufo Demon Wars

Alan Dean Foster Interlopers

Anthony Melchiorri The Tide

Anthony Melchiorri Breakwater

Anthony Melchiorri Salvage

Anthony Melchiorri Deadrise

Anthony Melchiorri Iron Wind

Anthony Melchiorri Dead Ashore

Anthony Melchiorri Ghost Fleet

Anthony Melchiorri Devil to Pay

Scott Medbury Heel Week

Scott Medbury On The Run

Scott Medbury Cold Comfort

Scott Medbury Rude Shock

Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman Good omens

Barry J. Hutchison The Sidekicks Initiative

Catherynne M. Valente The Refrigerator Monologues

Ike Hamill Super Apex

J.H. Moncrieff Monsters in Our Wake

John Connolly The Underbury Witches

Jonathan Maberry Dead of Night

Lydia Kang Quackery

Tomi Adeyemi Children of Blood and Bone

Thomas Morris The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth

John A.Keel The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings

Ted Dekker ADAM

Richard K. Morgan Altered Carbon

Ransom Riggs A Map of Days

Kevin Hearne Death & Honey

Benjamin Wallace Boom box 1

Benjamin Wallace Boom box 2

Benjamin Wallace Boom box 3

Benjamin Wallace Revenge of the Apocalypse

Victor LaValle The Changeling

Rick Chesler Sawfish

Nathan Barnes The Reaper Virus

Michael brent Collings The Deep

Bill Heavey If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat

Bill Heavey It's Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It

Bill Heavey Should the Tent Be Burning Like That

Jenny Lawson Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Mark Tufo The Spirit Clearing

Ambrose Ibsen Asylum

Ambrose Ibsen Forest

Ambrose Ibsen The Occupant

Stephen King The Man in the Black Suit

Sam Sykes The City Stained Red

Peter Meredith The Queen Unthroned

Peter Meredith The Queen Enslaved

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Extinction Red Line

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Extinction Horizon

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Extinction Edge

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Extinction Age

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Extinction Evolution

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Extinction End

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Extinction Aftermath

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Extinction Lost

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Extinction War

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Missions from the Extinction Cycle

Drew Hayes Super Powereds Year 4

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Patrick F McManus Kerplunk! Stories

Mark Wayne McGinnis The Simpleton

Mark Wayne McGinnis The Simpleton Quest

John Connolly A Book of Bones

Drew Hayes Corpies

Nathan Ballingrud Wounds

Michael Todd Torn Asunder

Michael Todd Killing Is My Business

Michael Todd And Business Is Good

Marty Ross The Darkwater Bride

Richard Porter Top Gear Epic Failures 50 Great Motoring Cock-Ups

Parker Peevyhouse The Echo Room

P. K. Hawkins Shark Infested Waters

M. R. James The Conception of Terror Tales

Broad Reach Publishing I, Zombie

Bobby Hall Supermarket

Terry Pratchett Night Watch

Patrick F McManus Never Sniff a Gift Fish

Michael Talbot The Bog

Michael Edelson Seed

Matthew Scott Hansen The Shadowkiller

Jonathan Maberry Ghost Road Blues

Jonathan Maberry Dead Man's Song

Jonathan Maberry Bad Moon Rising

Jonathan Maberry Property Condemned

Jonathan Maberry Darkness on the Edge of Town

Chris Angus Flypaper

Dean Koontz The Night Window

John P. Logsdon Platoon F Big Ass Bundle

Robert Tomoguchi The Scribbled Victims

Richard MacLean Smith Unexplained

Mark Edwards The Retreat

Dennis E. Taylor Outland

Bobby Adair Freedom's Siege

Bobby Adair Freedom's Fire

Bobby Adair Freedom's Fury

Bobby Adair Freedom's Fray

Bobby Adair Freedom's Fist

Bobby Adair Freedom's Fall

Bobby Adair Freedom's Fate

William Gibson Alien III

Terry Brooks Running with the Demon

Steven Campbell Hard Luck Hank

Neal Stephenson Reamde

Neal Stephenson Fall, or Dodge in Hell

J.F. Holmes Irregular Scout Team One

Michael Stephen Fuchs Odyssey

Kameron Hurley The Light Brigade

TTC History of Ancient Egypt

Justin Cronin The Passage

Justin Cronin The Twelve

Justin Cronin The City of Mirrors

J.N. Chaney Orion Colony

J.N. Chaney Orion Uncharted

J.N. Chaney Orion Awakened

Christopher Dowell The Adventures of Badass Mike

Barry J. Hutchison Sentienced to Death

Adam Savage Every Tool's a Hammer

Rob Dircks Gigi Make Paradox

Eric Rickstad What Remains of Her

Robert Bevan 6d6

L. L. Akers Fight like a Man

L. L. Akers Shoot Like a Girl

L. L. Akers Run Like the Wind

Jonathan Mayberry Broken Lands

Alexander C. Kane Andrea Vernon and the Superhero-Industrial Complex

A.R. Shaw The China Pandemic

A.R. Shaw The Cascade Preppers

A.R. Shaw The Last Infidels mp3

A.R. Shaw The Malefic Nation

A.R. Shaw The Bitter Earth

Jim C. Hines Terminal Uprising

Mark Tufo Dog Days of War

Rick Gualtieri Get Bent!

Brian Keene Darkness on the Edge of Town

Christopher Moore Practical Demonkeeping

Christopher Moore The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

Christopher Moore The Stupidest Angel

Chuck Wendig Wanderers

John Connolly Conquest

John Connolly Empire

John Connolly Dominion

C. J. Tudor The Taking of Annie Thorne

Wellington, David The Last Astronaut

S. Bennett A Womans Journey with the Worlds Worst Behaved Dog

Levi Black Red Right Hand

Levi Black Black Goat Blues

Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer The Arctic Incident

Eoin Colfer The Eternity Code

Eoin Colfer The Opal Deception

Eoin Colfer The Lost Colony

Eoin Colfer The Time Paradox

Eoin Colfer The Atlantis Complex

Eoin Colfer The Last Guardian

Ambrose Ibsen Transmission

Daniel Green End Time

Daniel Green The Breaking

Daniel Green The Rising

Patrick F McManus The Bear in the Attic

Mark Tufo Encounters

Mark Tufo Reckoning

Mark Tufo Conquest

Mark Tufo From the Ashes

Mark Tufo Into the Fire

Mark Tufo Victory's Defeat

Mark Tufo Defeat's Victory

Brett Battles Mine

Caitlin Starling the luminous dead

Craig A. Falconer Not Alone

Craig A. Falconer Second Contact

Craig A. Falconer The Final Call

Gardner Dozois Down These Strange Streets

Greig Beck Primordia

Kevin Hearne Kill the Farm Boy

Kevin Hearne No Country for Old Gnomes

Kathleen Meyer How to Shit in the Woods

Joe Hill NOS4A2

Drew Hayes The Case of the Damaged Detective

Simon Haynes Robot vs Dragons

Nora Roberts Blood Brothers

Nora Roberts The Hollows

Nora Roberts The Pagan Stone

Peter F. Hamilton The Reality Dysfunction

Paul Tremblay The Cabin at the End of the World

Gerry Griffiths Down from Beast Mountain

Eoin Colfer The Reluctant Assassin

Eoin Colfer The Hangman's Revolution

Eoin Colfer The Forever Man

C A Fletcher A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

N.C. Reed Odd Billy Todd

Stephen King The Shining

Stephen King Doctor Sleep

Richard J. Dewhurst The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America

Laird Barron The Croning

Keith C. Blackmore The Troll Hunter

J.L. McPherson The Gorge

Erin Bowman Contagion

Erin Bowman Immunity

Stephen King The Institute

Douglas Adams Starship Titanic

Lee Murray Into the Mist

Lee Mountford The Mark

Keith C. Blackmore White Sands, Red Steel

Joe Hill The Fireman

Barry J. Hutchison The Hunt for Reduk Topa

Greig Beck Return to the Lost World

Greig Beck The Lost World

Ted Dekker Obsessed

James D. Prescott Extinction Code

James D. Prescott Extinction Countdown

James D. Prescott Extinction Crisis

James D. Prescott Missions from the Extinction Cycle 2

Dean Koontz Strange Highways

Mira Grant Rolling in the Deep

Mira Grant Into the Drowning Deep

Luke Romyn Ash

Thomas Olde Heuvelt Hex

Jeremiah Knight Hunger

Jeremiah Knight Feast

T. Kingfisher The Twisted Ones

Patrick F McManus The Horse in My Garage

Jeff Strand Wolf Hunt

Jeff Strand Wolf Hunt 2

Annie Wilder Trucker Ghost Stories

Kathryn Croft The Girl with No Past

Larry Correia Monster Hunter International

Larry Correia Vendetta

Larry Correia Alpha

Larry Correia Legion

Larry Correia Nemesis

Larry Correia Siege

Larry Correia Guardian

Nicholas Sansbury Smith Extinction Inferno

Jack Townsend Tales from the Gas Station

Dean R Koontz Phantoms

Scott Sigler Blood Is Red

Stephen Chbosky Imaginary Friend

Larry Correia Grunge

Larry Correia Sinners

Larry Correia Saints

Larry Correia The Monster Hunter Files

Dean Koontz Innocence

Hugh Howey Half Way Home

Shaun Hamill A Cosmology of Monsters

Cameron Milan Zombie Slayer!!

Charles Soule The Oracle Year

Christopher Moore Practical Demonkeeping

Christopher Moore The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

Christopher Moore The Stupidest Ange

Iain Rob Wright Sea Sick

Iain Rob Wright Ravage

Iain Rob Wright Savage

Keith C. Blackmore 131 Days

Keith C. Blackmore House of Pain

Keith C. Blackmore Spikes and Edges

Keith C. Blackmore About the Blood

Keith C. Blackmore To Thunderous Applause

Kevin Hearne The Princess Beard

Adrian Tchaikovsky Walking to Aldebaran

Cixin Liu Supernova Era

Dave Pedneau Night, Winter, and Death

Dean Koontz Nameless

Jack Hunt As We Fall

Jack Hunt As We Break

Katherine Arden Small Spaces

Katherine Arden Dead Voices

Larry Correia #1 in Customer Service

Myke Cole The Armored Saint

Myke Cole The Sacred Throne

Myke Cole The Killing Light

C. T. Phipps The Future of Supervillainy

Charlie Huston The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death

T.W. Piperbrook St. Matthews

T.W. Piperbrook Onset

T.W. Piperbrook Crossroads

T.W. Piperbrook Wasteland

Paul Tremblay Disappearance at Devil’s Rock

Ferrett Steinmetz The Sol Majestic

Grady Hendrix Horrorstör

Mark Tufo The Perfect Betrayal

William Goldman The Princess Bride

Joseph John The Eighth Day

Stephen King Gwendy's Button Box

Richard Chizmar Gwendy's Magic Feather

Ronald Malfi Snow

Robert Bevan Critical Failures VII

Mark Tufo Winter's Rising

Mark Tufo Cedar's Conflict

Mark Tufo The Edge of Deceit

Michael McBride Unidentified

Scott Sigler Infected

Scott Sigler Contagious

Prescott, James D The Genesis Conspiracy

Michael Crichton Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton The Andromeda Evolution

Melanie Golding Little Darlings

Iain Rob Wright Escape!

Ambrose Ibsen Midnight in a Perfect World

Scott Baron Bad Luck Charlie

Scott Baron Space Pirate Charlie

Scott Baron The Dragon Mage

#reading #readinglist #books #audiobooks #list

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WisCon 43 panel Favorite Queer Depictions In Fiction write-up:

Whether it's a coming-of-age coming out story, a love story about queer characters, a drama or comedy centering the lives of a queer found family, or any old story that just includes a queer character or three without making a big thing about it—we all have out favorite queer stories. Whether it's books, TV shows, movies, video games, or something else, this is the panel to share the ones we love, and why we love them!

Moderator: Kate JohnsTon. Panelists: Cat Meier, Charles Payseur, Sarah Waites, Alberto Yáñez

Disclaimers: These are only the notes I was personally able to jot down on paper during the panel. I absolutely did not get everything, and may even have some things wrong. Corrections by panelists or other audience members always welcome. I name the mod and panelists because they are publicly listed, but will remove names if asked. I do not name audience members unless specifically asked by them to be named. If I mix up a pronoun or name spelling or anything else, please tell me and I’ll fix it!

Notes:

I missed some of the panelist intro info, but Alberto identified himself as “queer AF” and Cat added “yes, I am also very queer.”

Kate asked the panelists to discuss what brought them to queer fiction, citing Mercedes Lackey as her intro point. She added “we existed and didn’t die in the first book.”

Sarah brought up Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner. When she read it, she wasn’t consciously queer yet. Once she realized that she was, she began to read a lot more.

Alberto also mentioned Lackey, specifically Magic’s Pawn. He had gotten it as a library book and found someone had written in the front of it “this book is about f**gs” and he thought “well, alright then!” He also talked about the short story Things With Beards, a re-telling of The Thing through the lens of HIV/AIDS.

Cat mentioned Henry Fitzroy as her first queer character love. [ I didn’t catch the specific work/author but it involved the bastard son of Henry the 8th as a bisexual vampire - a quick search shows me this is probably Tanya Huff’s Blood and Smoke novels?]

Kate brought up that queer characters often don’t get a family and asked the panelists about queer characters that either have found families or that remained in their families of origin.

Cat talked about the novella Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma.

Alberto said that, as a Latino writer, he writes a lot about family “because some stereotypes are true.”

Sarah mentioned that Becky Chambers writes about found family quite a bit. Another example was a world where homophobia doesn’t exist in a Beauty and the Beast re-telling - In the Vanisher’s Palace.

Charles mentioned the found family in Jacqueline Koyanagi’s Ascension [also a fave of mine!], as well as Geometries of Belonging by Rose Lemberg. He also talked about Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed as a story that imagines different ways of thinking about family and queerness, as well as Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics by Jess Barber and Sara Saab about decoupling possessiveness in relationships.

Charles also said that he has written both kinds of stories - found family and family of origin, specifically mentioning a found family in his short story Undercurrents.

Kate talked about how the 60′s SF genre was a lot of men going into space without any women, but it was still supposed to be read as cishet. Now we’re at a point where we actually can send women without men into space and it tends to be read as queer.

She also asked about stories where it’s not just the same nuclear family and/or gender binary but just with same-sex couples slotted in.

Alberto mentioned Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite, which is about a whole world that is female in many different expressions without having to label them all.

Cat talked about being both queer and poly and feeling very seen by Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night more than any other book. Having an example of a poly community where all relationships are equally as important as one another.

Sarah brought up The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley where the male/female nuclear family structure is just not possible.

Charles again brought up Ascension as an example of family structures on space ships. Also Hurricane Heels by Isabel Yap, which has a magical girls trope - heavy on friendship but the importance of friendship is highlighted and some, but not all, in the friend group are queer.

Kate talked about James Tiptree’s Houston Houston Do You Read and some of Melissa Scott’s work.

Cat added that Melissa Scott has a wide variety of books with queer relationships in them showing a range of queer experiences. The newest - Finders - has queer poly.

Sarah talked about some of Scott’s fantasy series and the structure of the culture being that male/female relationships were for procreation but the expectation is that love is between same genders. [I didn’t catch the title of these books/the series]

Kate brought up bisexuality in fiction. She first noticed the lack of bisexual representation when she started dating a bi woman.

Charles said “all I write is bisexual - even if it’s not explicit.” Since it’s generally assumed for people to be either gay or straight if it’s not mentioned, he likes to write worlds where it’s assumed for the characters to be bi.

Charles also talked about bi rep in Rose Lemberg’s work - Birdverse, Splendid Goat Adventure, and A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power.

Alberto said he wants more queer characters where the drama isn’t about their queerness. In real life, acceptance can take awhile but he’s been there for a long time now and for reading and writing - he’d like for the drama to be focused elsewhere.

Cat talked about not knowing that bisexuality existed at 13 when she discovered Henry Fitzroy.

Kate talked about the importance of bi representation in creating understanding for others. “I’m a skier. I ski in the winter. It’s summer. I’m still a skier.”

Kate brought up Sarah Gailey’s River of Teeth. Also Tanya Huff’s work [missed the title] about omnisexual aliens who would screw a hole in a donut and everyone’s happy about it! Also for YA/teen reading - Foz Meadows.

Alberto mentioned Six of Crows and it’s sequel by Leigh Bardugo as having bisexuality and found family in it. [Gosh I need to get on to reading this series]

Cat brought up Peter Darling - a trans re-telling of Peter Pan with a Pan/Hook romance. [!!] Also The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue as well as The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee. The former has an ace character.

Sarah also rec’d the Guide to Petticoats and Piracy book. She is ace and the character in the book is ace and aro - society wants her to be one thing and she isn’t. Also the character gets called out on the “not like other girls” thing.

Sarah also mentioned Chameleon Moon, which has a F/F/F triad, as well as an ace man with anxiety. Sarah wants more ace characters who are not sociopaths or robots.

Kate brought up the TV show Lucifer which is “really really really bisexual” [lol]. Kate also likes that the show doesn’t explain how Lucifer, who is white, has a black brother and an Asian sister.

Someone [I only wrote “C”, so either Cat or Charles? unless that meant continued and was Kate?] talked about Tanya Huff’s work having so many queer families with a variety of experiences.

Charles said there are a lot of examples that are just sad and messy.

Kate talked about lots of queer and black fiction is depressing because - “have you looked at our lives?” She added that we need more positive examples of queer characters.

Alberto brought up Lara Elena Donnelly’s three books - Amberlough, Armistice, and Amnesty - which are about surviving fascism and rebellion. There’s crime, adventures, spies, etc. This is a strong recommendation.

Sarah added on to that by saying that this example of a dystopia is not about the queerness. Also talked about the Machineries of Empire series by Yoon Ha Lee [oh look! one of next year’s GoH’s!], which has no homophobia and almost all of the characters are queer. It also subverts the sociopathic ace trope - other characters think he is and he encourages that belief, but isn’t.

Charles mentioned a short story in Glittership Year Two [missed what it was], as well as The Root by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun which he said has a good depiction of queer families.

Kate posed the question of what there should be more queer characters in. She said video games and TV shows and that both should also be less male gaze-y.

Charles agreed with video games and said whether it’s a relationship game or not. He wants more background characters to be queer. He doesn’t want to have to headcanon it.

Sarah said “besides everything?” Big SFF movies, like the MCU - and that they should stop making such a big deal about adding super small scenes with queer characters.

Alberto said more TV - especially for stuff aimed at kids and their parents. A good example of this is She-Ra.

Kate said it should be written in the stories - not retconned like Rowling does or killing them off right away. More 3D queer characters. She added that, especially having been out for most of her life, the struggling with queerness/coming out stories are getting old for her.

Cat mentioned movies that are adaptations that have queer characters in the source material, such as the MCU - there are lots of queer characters in the comics but they don’t make it to the TV shows or movies.

Kate added that Deadpool keeps his pansexuality in the movies. Kate also wants more queer poc characters who are okay with who they are not evil aliens. This is a problem for white cishet Hollywood.

Charles talked about the issues still affecting us from the Hays Code era legacy. Queer characters are always sad and end up dead - this was once enforced but has now just trickled down.

Charles also said he enjoys cozy mysteries but the queer characters always die. There was one that he liked that was turned into a TV series and they finally had a queer character - the actor was leaving and the series could have given them a happily ever after but killed them off instead.

Sarah talked about the importance of diversity behind the scenes. It’s easier to get representation in a book because there is less gatekeeping, fewer hands in the pot. When everyone in the writer’s room of a show or movie are straight, it makes it harder.

Cat [I think? just wrote “C” again] mentioned The Wicked and the Divine - gods are reborn into people every 12 years - they’re all queer. [This was rec’d often this con - deffo need to read]

The audience got to throw out recs next. The ones I got down are: [I can’t find this in a search but it was something like Kaitlyn Sterling - Luminent... something? if anyone knows please chime in], Lifelode by Jo Walton, Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold about a planet of men, A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski about a world of women, A Big Ship at the End of the Universe by Alex White, The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley, “everything by Seanan McGuire” [agreed!!], and then apparently Magic: The Gathering has recently been doing some exploring of genderless species and also a trans warrior woman character.

The audience were still tossing out recs when I left, so I did not get them all, nor any possible closing remarks by the panelists.

#wiscon #wiscon 43 #queer representation #queer fiction #queerness #wc43

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READING DE NACHT READING 2017

my favourite books of the year

my overall favourite book of the year:

david keenan “this is memorial device” [faber & faber] (2017)

POST-CYBERPUNKSTOMPF:

01 nick harkaway "gnomon" (2017) 02 kim stanley robinson "new york 2140" (2017) 03 m john harrison "you should come with me" (2017) 04 gardner dozois (ed) "the year's best science fiction: thirty-fourth annual collection" (2017) 05 james morrow "the asylum of dr. caligari" (2017)

06 annalee newitz "autonomous" (2017) 07 cory doctorow "walkaway" (2017) 08 dave hutchinson "acadia" (2017) + dave hutchinson "slow companions" (2017) 09 ed finn (ed) visions, ventures, escape velocities: a collection of space futures" (2017) 10 bryan thomas schmidt (ed) "infinite stars" (2017)

11 allan kaster "the year's top hard science fiction stories" (2017) 12 nina allen "the rift" (2017) 13 charles stross "the delirium brief" (2017) 14 simon morden "at the speed of light" (2017) 15 ada palmer "seven surrenders" (2017) & "the will to battle" (2017)

16 yoon ha lee "raven stratagem" (2017) 17 john joseph adams (ed) "cosmic powers" (2017) 18 mur lafferty "six wakes" (2017) 19 taiyo fujii "orbital cloud" (2017) 20 andrew bannister "creation machine" (2016) + andrew bannister "iron gods" (2017)

21 gareth l powell "entropic angel & other stories" (2017) 22 ann leckie "provenance" (2017) 23 monica louzon (ed) "catalysts, explorers & secret keepers: women of sf" 24 ian mconald "wolf moon" (2017) 25 neal stephenson & nicole galland "the rise & fall of d.o.d.o." (2017)

26 adam roberts "the real-town murders" (2017) 27 tim pratt "the wrong stars" (2017) 28 jim c. hines "terminal alliance" (2017) 29 charles stross "the empire games" (2017) 30 james s.a. corey "persepolis rising" (2017) + james s.a. corey "strange dogs" (2017)

31 allen steele "avengers of the moon (captain future)" (2017) 32 neal asher "infinity engine [transformation III]" (2017) 33 jason m. hough "injection burn" (2017) + jason m. hough "escape velocity" (2017) 34 donna scott (ed) "best of british science fiction 2016"/una mccormack "star of the sea" (2016) 35 david marusek "upon this rock"/john scalzi "collapsing empire" (2017)

& a couple of re-readings: richard k. morgan "takeshi kovacs trilogy" in view of the coming netflix series and colin harvey "damage time" (2010) ... no further reason needed!

STOMPF KLASSIK:

01 matthew mcintosh "the mystery.doc" (2017)

02 sébastien roger "les désordres du monde. walter benjamin à port-bou" (2017) 03 laurent binet "hhhh" (2012) 04 + laurent binet "the 7th function of language" (2017) 05 jean echenoz "special envoy" (2017)

06 paul stanbridge "forbidden line" (2016) 07 ryu murakami "tokyo decadence (2016) 08 aifric campbell "the semantics of murder" (2008) 09 mark vernon "darker with the day" (2017) 10 magnus mills "the forensic records society" (2017)

GEDÄCHTNISSTOMPF:

01 mckenzie wark "general intellects: 25 thinkers for the 21st century" (2017) 02 claude lefort "wat is politiek?" (2016) 03 ger groot & sam ijsseling "dankbaar en aandachtig" (2013) 04 martin heidegger "beiträge zur philosophie (vom ereignis)" (2003) 05 hannah arendt "totalitarisme" (2014)

06 daniel birnbaum & kim west "life on sirius: the situationist international & the exhibition of art" (2016) 07 ger groot "de geest is uit de fles" (2017) 08 sean gaston "the impossible mourning of jacques derrida" (2006) 09 bas heijne "onbehagen: nieuw licht op de beschaafde mens" (2016) 10 giorgio colli "ecrits sur nietzsche" (2017)

11 frédéric neyrat "échapper à l'horreur" (2017) 12 slavoj zizek "against the double blackmail, refugees, terror & other troubles with the neighbours" (2017) 13 henning mankell "quicksand" (2016) 14 jacques rancière "en quel temps vivons-nous? conversations avec eric hazan" (2017) 15 alain badiou "je vous sais si nombreux... " (2017)

16 alain badou & jean-luc nancy "la tradition allemande dans la philosophie" (2017) 17 tom mccarthy "typewriters bombs jellyfish [essays]" (2017) 18 valeria luiselli "tell me how it ends: an essay in 40 questions" (2017) 19 fredric jameson "raymond chandler: the detections of totality" (2016) 20 umberto eco "chronicles of a liquid society" (2017)

POLARSTOMPF:

01 chris petit "pale horse riding" (2017) + chris petit "the butchers of berlin" (2016) + chris petit "the human pool" (2002) + chris petit "the psalm killer" (1996)

02 john le carré "a legacy of spies" (2017) 03 david hewson "sleep baby sleep" (2017) 04 mick herron "slow horses" (2010) + mick herron "dead lions" (2013) + mick herron "the list" (2015) + mick herron "real tigers" (2016) + mick herron "spook street" (2017) 05 jussi adler-olsen "the scarred woman" (2017)

06 jo nesbo "the thirst" (2017) 07 ben fergusson "the spring of kasper meier" (2014) 08 e.o. chirovici "the book of mirrors" (2017) 09 toni coppers "de zaak magritte" (2017) 10 james r. tuck "mama tried (crime fiction inspired by outlaw country music)" (2016)

YOUNGADULTSTOMPF:

01 philip pullman "la belle sauvage" (2017)

PLATTERSTOMPF:

01 cosey fanni tutti "art sex music" (2017) 02 david keenan "this is memorial device" (2017) 03 joanne demers "drone and apocalypse" (2015) 04 + joanne demers "listening through the noise" (2010) 05 robert barry "the music of the future" (2017)

06 richard cabut & andrew gallix (eds) "punk is dead: modernity killed every night" (2017) 07 butt gavin, kodwo eshun, & mark fisher (eds) "post punk then and now" (2016)" 08 sandra garrido "why are we attracted to sad music" (2016) 09 tomas serrien "klank: een filsofie van de muzikale ervaring" (2017) 10 marlies de munck "waarom chopin de regen niet wilde horen" (2017)

11 daniel warner "live wires" (2017) 12 will carruthers "playing the bass with three left hands" (2016) 13 steve hanley "the big midweek-life inside the fall (2016) 14 tex perkins "tex" (2017) 15 mark lanegan "i am the wolf" (2017)

17 simon reynolds "shock & awe" (2016) 18 andrew o'neill "a history of heavy metal" (2017) 19 bryan ray turcotte "the fucked up reader" (2007) 10 bob batchelor (ed) "literary cash" (2017) 20 simon webb "a 1970s teenager. from bell-bottoms to disco dancing" (2013)

both bell-bottoms and disco dancing can be had @ muntpunt !

POESISSTOMPF:

01 jonty tiplady "zam bonk dip" (2010) 02 murray lachlan young "how freakin' zeitgeist are you?" (2017)

BILDERSTOMPF:

01 peter-andré bloch "sils-maria - "l'île bienheureuse" pour nietzsche" (2017)

02 willem vanhuyse "atlas van de imaginaire verklaringen: het complete handboek vor de 'patafysicus'" (2017) 03 reinhard kleist "nick cave: mercy on me" (2017) 04 william gibson "archangel (a graphic novel)" (2017) 05 a. uderzo, didier conrad & jean-yves ferri "astérix et la transitalique" (2017)

WISSENSCHAFTSTOMPF:

01 thibault damour & mathieu burniat "mysteries of the quantum universe" (2017) 02 brian cox & jeff forshaw "universal: a journey through the cosmos" (2017)

HUMOURSTOMPF:

01 james acaster "james acaster's classic scrapes" (2017)

02 chris wade “the story of derek and clive” (2017)

CYCLOSTOMPF:

01 frederik bakelandt "grinta! de bergen: 10 legendarsche wielercols" (2017)

02 lucien van impe & filip osselaer "de dag dat ik de tour verloor" (2017) 03 jonas heyerick & jelle vermeersch "bahamontes #17-#20" (2017) 04 frank strack "the hardmen: legends of the cycling gods" (2017) 05 matthias m. r. declercq "de val" (2017)

… tsundoku !

may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!

the TBR pile grew with...

lászló krasznahorkai "the world goes on" (2017) samanta schweblin "fever dream" (2017)

peter mark, peter helman & penny snyder (eds) "the mountains in art history" (2017)

alvin lucier (ed) "eight lectures on experimental music" (2017) rhian e jones & eli davies "under my thumb: songs that hate women and the women who love them" (2017)

arne dahl "watching you" (2017) philip kerr "prussian blue" (2017) antti tuomainen "the man who died" (2017) jon michelet "the frozen women" (2017) nicolás obregón "blue light yokohama" (2017)

alex lamb "exodus" (2017) c robert cargill "sea of rust" (2017) chris brookmyre "places in the darkness" (2017) d nolan clark "forgotten worlds" & "forbidden suns" (2017) dan moren "the caledonian gambit" (2017) elizabeth moon "cold welcome" (2017) ferrett steinmetz "the uploaded" (2017) greg egan "dichronauts" (2017) ian whates "the ion raider" (2017) jaine fenn "the martian job" (2017) jamie sawyer "pariah" (2017)

jeff noon "a man of shadows" (2017) joe m mcdermott "the fortress at the end of time" (2017) joe zieja "communication failure" (2017) john kessel "the moon and the other" (2017) john meaney "destructor function" (2017) jonathan strahan (ed) "best sf &f of the year vol 11" & "infinity wars" (2017) kameron hurley "the stars are legion" (2017) kay kenyon "at the table of wolves" (2017) malka older "null states" (2017) marina j. lostetter "noumenon" (2017)

martha wells "all systems red" (2017) neil clark (ed) "galactic empires" & "more human than human" (2017) paul mcauley "austral" (2017) r.e. stearns "barbary station" (2017) robert kroese "last iota" (2017) sage walker "the man in a tree" (2017) stephen baxter "obelisk" (2017) + stephen baxter "the massacre of mankind" (2017) sulari gentill "crossing the lines" (2017) the justified ancients of mu mu “2023 a trilogy” (2017) wendy n. wagner "an oath of dogs" (2017)

#rewind 2017

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