April novel-reading

[garran]

I got kind of distracted from books toward the end of the month.

C. J. Cherryh, The Faded Sun: Shon'jir
C. J. Cherryh, The Faded Sun: Kutath
Sarah Monette, The Virtu
Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives
Ian McDonald, Sacrifice of Fools
Linda Nagata, Memory

Sacrifice of Fools was written in 1996, and set, if I recall correctly, in 2001; one of the little future-projection worldbuilding details is that there is now a King Charles on the British throne. Especially since the death of the last Pope, I've been a little more aware of my pleasure in the stability of Elizabeth's still being Queen; there has been no other face on Canadian coins for well more than twice my lifetime. (One of the neat things about having a living person on one's currency is that the portrait of the Queen ages, depending when the coin was issued. It's so hard to imagine someone else on our money that I've occasionally supposed aloud that once she is dead we will just have her continue to age, a zombie Queen Elizabeth slowly decomposing until, long after most people have forgotten why, every coin is stamped with a grinning, regal skull.)

School starts Monday. I don't quite feel ready.

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I wish the people in charge of the world would do stuff that weird and awesome. On the other hand, I guess most folks would find it disrespectful and macabre...