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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7241828" data-attributes="member: 20564">Just back from a trip overseas (and from my layover at Heathrow Airport I waved in the general direction of Morrus, assuming he was in the direction I was waving).Got a good amount of reading done on and around the trans-Atlantic flight.Read Charles Stross' "The Annihilation Score", the N-1th (depending on how you count) book in the Laundry Files.  A big surprise and change of pace, the POV character was Mo, Bob's wife.  Helps me understand her, though that particular book hit a personal marital hot button that had me annoyed at her for much the later half of the book.  The premise of the book, while making sense in context and treated well, was a bit sillier than others in the series and also had a sudden backstory that really should have been obvious in earlier books.  (The last scene of the previous book was the second scene of this book - no time passed).  Also the demystifying of the Senior Auditor into a regular, if powerful, person lessened the impact of that character from the other books.  For all that I enjoyed the book - Charlie Stross' style of writing agrees with me.Next up was the very first Wild Cards book, which I've never read any of.  Not what I was expecting, but in a good way.  Really focused on the people, not the powers.  This was the extended "let's take advantage that GoT was written by the editor" edition that had several additional short stories int he same beginning time period but written in 2010 instead of in the 80s.Next was Robert J. Sawyer's "Red Planet Blues", at an author suggestion from here.  Second SF / hardboiled detective noir genre-mashup I've read recently and a really entertaining one at that.  (The other was "Gun with Occasional Music".)  In some ways it was two related novellas in one, with a highly overlapping cast.  This was the first RJS I read and I'm ready to grab some more.On deck is "You" by Austin Grossman and the second Wild Cards book, "Aces High".</blockquote>

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