Lacking Natural Simplicity

Night Life, by Caitlin Kittredge, copyright 2008; St. Martin's Paperbacks/St. Martin's Books, March 2008. “A Nocturne City Novel”. A supernatural action/romance featuring a packless werewolf female police detective.

The Sharpest Edge, by S.M. Stirling and Shirley Meier, copyright 1968; Signet/New American Library, March 1986. Post-apocalyptic fantasy, 30 centuries or so after some unspecified cataclysm.

Witch Blood, by Will Shetterly, copyright 1986; Ace/The Berkley Publishing Group, March 1986. Interesting non-European setting fantasy.

Issola, by Steven Brust, copyright 2001; Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, July 2001. I've got the first edition of this, in hardback, but I have the rest of the series in paperback. When I looked at the prices for the paperback version of this in March 2007 at Amazon they were all above 30$US, which is absurd.

Orca, by Steven Brust, copyright 1996; Ace Books/the Berkley Publishing Group, March 1996, 5th printing. Interesting to find out more about Kiera. The interstitial letters and meetings between Cawti and Kiera are interesting, as is the back and forth between Kiera and Vlad's viewpoints, and it's typical that we'd find out about Vlad Norathar practically off-stage.

Dragon, by Steven Brust, copyright 1998; Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, first mass market edition November 1999. Vlad in an army? Unthinkable!

Teckla, by Steven Brust, copyright 1987; Ace/The Berkley Publishing Group, January 1987. Revolutions. Things get complicated for Vlad and Cawti.

Taltos, by Steven Brust, copyright 1988; Ace/The Berkley Publishing Group, March 1988. Taltos meets Morrolan, Sethra Lavode, Aliera, Spellbreaker, visits Verra on the Paths of the Dead, and starts working for the Jhereg, although not necessarily in that order.

Phoenix, by Steven Brust, copyright 1990; Ace/The Berkley Publishing Group, November 1990. Vlad meets Aibynn, starts and ends a war, finds out about Phoenix stones, and leaves the Jhereg organization.

Athyra, by Steven Brust, copyright 1993; Ace/the Berkley Publishing Group, April 1993. No 1st person Vlad in this one; still good.

Jhereg, by Steven Brust, copyright 1983; Ace/The Berkley Publishing Group, April 1983; my copy is the 4th printing, July 1984. The 1st book in Brust's series about Vlad Taltos, Jhereg crimelord and assassin. Reading these books again after 20 years is like talking with an old friend, just like rereading Dumas's Musketeer novels, which is amusing, considing the connection between the Vlad Taltos books and Brust's Khaavren Romances books, which are explicitly modeled on Dumas's Musketeer books.

Yendi, by Steven Brust, copyright 1984; Ace Books/The Berkley Publishing Group, July 1984.

On the Oceans of Eternity, by S.M. Stirling, copyright 2000; Roc/New American Library/Penguin Puntam Inc./Pengiun Books Ltd, April 2000. The 3rd and so far final book in the Nantucket series.

Against the Tide of Years, by S.M. Stirling, copyright 1999; Roc/Penguin Putnam Inc./The Penguin Group; May, 1999. The 2nd of the Nantucket series.

Island in the Sea of time, by S.M. Stirling, copyright 1998; Roc/Penguin Putnam Inc/The Penguin Group, March 1998. This is the first of Stirlings Nantucket series, and is apparently connected to his Emberverse series.

Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them, by Rolfe Cobleigh; first published 1909 by Orange Judd Company; forward copyright 1996 by James R. Babb; The Lyons Press, 1996.

Imaro, by Charles Saunders, copyright 2006; Nightshade Books, 2005. An interesting sword and sorcery novel set in a fantasy version of Africa.