Books

A log of all the books I've read and my opinions on them.

Titles and names are listed as they were in the edition I read. So some titles and names are translated.

Key: Title – Author – Date finished; format – language read in – genre – source


Božský imperátor Duny – Frank Herbert (tr. Veronika Volhejnová) – 20.3.2024

physical – CZ – sci-fi – library

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The Northern Caves – nostalgebraist – 14.3.2024

online – EN – horror? – AO3

I don’t know what my policy was on web serials here, mostly because I tend to not finish them. The Northern Caves is a web serial by notable tumblr user and GPT early adopter nostalgebraist. I read about a half of his previous work Floornight some time ago. He also has another later work on AO3 that I might read at some point.

To compare TNC to one book I have read and one I haven't, it's basically An Unauthorised Fan Treatise meets House of Leaves.

The stroy starts off really interesting, with a group of mid 2000's forum dwellers trying to analyze the insane ramblings of a cult children's author and revealing his destructive cult-like philosophy. The ending is disappointing - all of the atmosphere building leads to offscreen ambiguous underwhelming events. And a final chapter that is a weak and redundant meta commentary on the story.

Delicious in Dungeon vol. 1 – Kui Ryoko (tr. #EverydayHeroes Scans) – 1.3.2024

online / manga – EN – fantasy – MangaDex

I don't know if I logged manga that I read on scan sites before. I am doing that now.

Dungeon Meshi was one of those mangas I would see people post occasionally and think I should read it sometime, but I didn't. Now it is all over everywhere because of the anime so I finally read it.

There is not much I can say about Dungeon Meshi that others have not said already: the dugeon worldbuilding is creative, the characters are funny, the food looks delicious.

The Stone Sky – N.K. Jemisin – 29.2.2024

physical – EN – fantasy / sci-fi – owned

I finally read the last book in a series I like!!! This should not be that difficult. Prague's Bargain Books actually deliver on the Bargain in their name for the first time as I bought this for 99 Kč.

What a deeply impacting ending this is. The relationships of Nassun and Essun and indeed the relationship between them that ends up so important at the end are so interesting. And we finally get to find out the origin of the stone eaters and see a bit earlier in the eternal cycle of violence and hate that is life on the (Not-So-)Evil Earth.

Sakamoto Days 1: Legendární zabiják – Júto Suzuki (tr. Anna Křivánková) – 20.2.2024

manga – CZ – comedy / action – library

I was with my mum at the library / café and borrowed this because it was the only manga they had the first volume of at that location and I wanted something to read. It was fun. Not sure if I'll read more volumes in the future.

Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth – Xiaolu Guo (tr. Rebecca Morris, Pamela Casey) – 26.1.2024

physical – EN – literary fiction – owned

I bought this for store credit a year ago kind of at random, because it was relatively cheap within the category of foreign literature and it seemed like a book a cool literature enjoyer type would read.

This books consists of well… 20 fragments of the life of Fenfang, a 21-year-old in Beijing trying to make her way as an actress, scriptwriter, and a single young woman in a society that’s not OK with that.

In the second fragment, a flashback to her arriving to Beijing at 17, Fenfang watches a mother and daughter get ran over in front of their house and then decides to take advantage of the free house and moves in. This does not set the tone for the rest of the novel, which follows much more mundane miseries.

I think as a westerner reading this, many people's instict is to think about what this says about China. The author is an emigrant. I think any story you write (or in this case rewrite) in exile in some way reflects why you left. And saying China is not a great country to live in for many people is not exactly an earth-shattering revelation.

I more viewed this as a being in your 20's coming-of-age story. I feel like the frustration of being a young woman in society hostile to your independence is really easy to connect to despite the wide difference in everything else.

Praktičtí lidé – Christian Morgenstern (tr. Jana Pokojová, Jan Janula) – 21.1.2024

physical – CZ – poetry – library

This is a collection of Morgenstern’s more wordplay-based poetry, also featuring the reocurring poetry characters of Misters Palmström and Korf (I wonder if someone ships them).

The translators admitted they changed a lot of stuff, but they have the license to that here, since the poems are so based on wordplay. Also I just think localization is cool and based.

The silly tone of the poems is strangely contrasted by horror-style illustrations by Karolína Žitná, which are actually really nice, but maybe not for this collection.

Na Zemi jsme na okamžik nádherní – Ocean Vuong (tr. Martin Světlík) – 16.1.2024

physical – CZ – literary fiction – library

When I read Night Sky With Exit Wounds I said I will pay for the next book I'll read by Vuong – I didn't, this is from the library.

I immidiately realised my mistake when I checked this out. Why are you reading the translated version, he is a poet, you are losing the language (ironically)! Luckily, it turns out the Czech translation is good. Maybe a further alienation of the language works with the theme of the alienation of language. The translated 50 Cent lyrics are funny as fuck though.

This book speaks about immigrant and family and poverty trauma in a really raw and powerful way. Aesthetically the way it engages with American-ness is reminiscent of Ethel-Cain vibes Tumblr. The language can be overwrought sometimes, though.

I tried googling what Czech Vietnamese people are saying about this (if you don't know there is a surprisingly large Vietnamese minority here). I could not find anything (maybe I just suck at searching), but I found this article about the lack of CZ Vietnamese authors that is interesting.

Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You – Scotto Moore – 8.1.2024

ebook – EN – horror/sci-fi – ???

I did not intend to have this be my first book of the year, but I found this in my large unread books and pdfs folder while going to read a different book (that hopefully you will see here soon) and this one is short and fast-paced.

I don’t know if I paid for this or if I pirated it. If I did not pay for it, sorry. The author may or may not be a person I follow on Tumblr? If he is then extra apologies. I may just have found this book through random selection on some other website though.

Set in a fantasy world where music reviewers with tumblr blogs are relevant, this long-titled book follows one such music critic who becomes obsessed with a mysterious song he finds online. Other songs and signs of the apocalypse follow.

This is very written by a certain type of guy, with the eldritch monstrosities, an array of semi-interchangable alt girls, and of course the focus on hyper-obscure indie music.

The premise is interesting and the story is fast-paced, but over all the plot goes to a pretty stupid place and in the end gives the reader nothing special.

Sandman: Předehra – Neil Gaiman (art J.H. Williams III, Dave Stewart) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 4.1.2024

comic – CZ – fantasy/sci-fi – library

This is the grand prequel to the Sandman series, showing what epic struggles caused Dream to be weak enough to be able to be captured by a Crowley wannabe.

The art especially is breath-taking in all aspects. Especially interesting for the story is the approach to the nonlinear sections. I also want to appreciate the surreal (heh) panel layouts and the wonderful designs of the alternate Sandmen. The art in general is so fucking beautiful.

Speaking of designs, Dream having flames on his cloak now is weird. He did not have those before, right?

I really loved the reveal with Desire here as this story adds more layers to her strained relationship with Dream. Also catboygirl Desire rules.

Also super weird to think of the Endless as having parents.

2023

Smrt: Vysoká cena za život – Neil Gaiman (art Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, Dave McKean) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 31.12.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

Smrt: Nejlepší čas tvého života – Neil Gaiman (art Chris Bachalo, Mark Buckingham, Mark Pennington) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 31.12.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

The last book I read in the year. Kind of fitting from a tarot symbolism angle. I checked these out from the library over a week before, but then I thought reading comics with Death in big letters on the cover would be disrespectful to the… dead people.

This is basically weaksauce Sandman, but I like Death (lol) and Hazel and Foxglove (who feature in both), so it's still good.

Ateliér špičatých klobouků 7 – Kamome Širahama (tr. Michala Kropáčková) – 30.12.2023

manga – CZ – fantasy – owned

Orugio x Qifrey is so real. I also love the interaction between Qifey and Coco in this volume and how it moves their relationship. Actually all of the Qifrey backstory we get here is so intriguing.

Ateliér špičatých klobouků 6 – Kamome Širahama (tr. Michala Kropáčková) – 29.12.2023

manga – CZ – fantasy – owned

Witch Hat Atelier is always so beautiful and magical. I really should just read all the volumes that are out right now, instead of asking for a few volumes once a year for Christmas.

Belarut is great. My favourite new guy.

Bunny – Mona Awad – 26.12.2023

e-book – EN – horror – pirated

Ivy league writing student Samantha hates a group of girls who call each other Bunny in her class, until she is invited to join them in their strange rituals.

This is one of those books that I heard about online and never particularly wanted to read. But then the same girl that mentioned Piranesi at that party said that this book felt really relatable to her college experience, which went against everything I heard about it before, so I got curious. I haven’t actually spoken to that girl since. I think she was either confused or she lives in a totally different reality than me, since there is literally no relatable element to my college experience in this book. Girl we are in the same major.

At first I was slightly turned off by the writing style, which felt sort of like it was trying too hard (oddly fitting for the setting). But it got better when the weird stuff came out full force. Or maybe I just got used to it.

Ava felt like such a stereotype of the goth BFF who never got any real depth. So her turning out to be a swan / imagined by Samantha was actually pretty cool. I halfway expected the Bunnies to also be animal-people.

The Bunnies relation to men was very strange. Not quite sure what it is trying to say about heterosexuality. Weird focus on Types of Guy in a way that is reminiscent of those old women’s magazines (well I guess they’re still around but who reads them). Man as an extension of woman? Men as status symbol in an almost inversion of upper-class gender politics? I don’t know what I’m trying to get at.

This briefly uses the word "gypsy" in an ignorant seeming way, if that bothers you.

Hon na Macbetha – Lukáš Pokorný (art Štěpánka Jislová, Lukáš Komárek ) – 18.12.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

Finally read a Czech comic.

The Fates (Klota, Lesis, and Morta) discover they have been trapped in the story of Macbeth.

This story cleverly plays with mythology and story in a way clearly inspired by Sandman (in a good way) (I am not Boss Baby Guy it’s mentioned on the back cover).

Morta is a very entertaining character.

The art is good when showing emotions, gross stuff or Lesis (de)constructing machinery.

I realised I have read two comics with the theme of fate being your choice in a row. Does this mean something?

Knihy Magie – Neil Gaiman (art John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess, Paul Johnson) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 18.12.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy, superhero – library

A young boy, Tim Hunter, is destined to become the most powerful mage in the world and cause some sort of event, so a group of trenchcoat-wearing magic guys decide to introduce him to the true extent of magic to help him make his choice.

This is a book (mostly its main character) is often compared to Harry Potter mostly through coincidental surface similarities in their appearance. Backwards-echo collective unconcious moment.

The art is really, really good and conveys the well… magic of all the impossible reaches of magic, as well as the humanity (or not) of all the people involved in it.

There were a lot of cameos, maybe too many, of random DC characters I have never heard about.

John Constantine is a really cool character and I should really read more stuff with him.

Sandman: Tryzna – Neil Gaiman (art Michael Zulli, Jon J. Muth, Charles Vess) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 1.12.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

This final volume is more of an epilogue. All the stories deal with endings. There is a wake and we see all the characters again as they pay their respects (although some feel kind of pointless). I liked Matthias the raven dealing with the new Dream.

A lady on the tram started talking to me about Sandman when I was reading this, but ironically enough it was just before the stop I had to get off.

Sandman: Blahovolné – Neil Gaiman (art Marc Hempel, Richard Case, D'Israeli, Teddy Christiansen, Glyn Dillon, Charles Vess, Dean Ormston, Kevin Nowlan) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 28.11.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

The Sandman series ends in an epic finale with most of the storylines from previous volumes returning. This definitely makes me want to reread the whole series.

A majority of the art is drawn by Marc Hempel and has a more simple and stylized style as opposed to a lot of the various art from the previous volumes. I personally liked this as it allows the characters to be more expressive and vague.

I feel like the Kindly Ones themselves are kind of… random as final "villains". But the end is still very cathartic. Dream and Death's conversation is very good.

Piranesi – Susanna Clarková (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 23.11.2023

physical – CZ – fantasy – library

This is one of the last books that I really registered the hype cycle for when I was still somewhat engaged with book internet. I was recently talking to a girl at a party about books and she really liked it, so I was reminded of wanting to read it at some point. They had it at a convenient library near me. And it turns out one of these hyped online books is actually pretty good.

Piranesi felt really quick to read especially compared to other books I am reading concurrently. And especially since it felt kind of vibes-based at the beginning.

Piranesi is the one of the only two living people in the House, an endless series of Halls and Hallways full of strange Statues and occassionally flooded. But then the Other one warns him of a new and dangerous person.

I liked the main character and his approach to his memory loss and developments is very endearing. This is good considering that the story is told through his diary.

I loved the descriptions of the House. I kind of wish we spent more time in the House and on Piranesi's survival in it. The House is a pretty unique setting and I felt oddly invested in his fishing and catalogue of allegorical statues.

Tango: Skutečný příběh jedné tučňáčí rodiny – Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell (art Henry Cole ) (tr. Markéta Navrátilová ) – 7.11.2023

picture book – CZ – children's – shop

I read these two while waiting at the shop at Mezipatra. That is about the only thing connecting them. And of course the gay.

Tango is about a pair of gay penguins at Central Park Zoo in New York who wanted to have a baby an were given an abandoned egg and fro that hatched Tango. Very sweet but it's a children's picture book so that there is only so much stuff you can gat from it. I guess I would have liked it as a child because there are pictures of a bunch of animals

Stein Lowell Dickinson: Nebyla jen Sapfó – Gertrude Stein, Amy Lowell, Emily Dickinson (tr. Sylva Ficová, Anna Štičková) – 7.11.2023

physical – CZ – poetry – shop

Stein Lowell Dickinson is a collection of selected lesbian love poems by some significant ish lesbian poets. I really liked it, the translations were all very good. I should read more Emily Dickinson poems. Also maybe the other two too. I am sad I did not have cash with me that day to buy this.

Sandman: Konec světů – Neil Gaiman (art Michael Allred, Gary Amaro, Mark Buckingham, Dick Giordano, Tony Harris, Steve Leialoha, Vince Locke, Shea Anton Pensa, Alec Stevens, Bryan Talbot, John Watkiss, Michael Zulli) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 7.11.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

This arc consists of short stories but this time with a pretty interesting frame narrative of travellers trapped by a storm in an interdimensional inn.

Of the stories themselves, I liked the story of the sailor, which further deals with immortals (Hob is back!) and also a crossdressing sailor. I also liked the unique style of the first story. And the 'Prez' story is pretty interesting. Apparently that is based on a whole character and comic.

Also I totally ship Charlene with the inn lady. There is a fanfiction cooking in my brain if we don't see them again.

Sandman: Krátké životy – Neil Gaiman (art Jill Thompson, Vince Locke) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 5.11.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

There are not many of them, all things considered: the truly old. Even on this planet, in this age, when people consider a mere hundred years, or a thousand, to be an unusual span. […] There are roughly seventy people walking the Earth, human to all appearances (and in a few cases, to all medical tests currently available), who were alive before the Earth had begun to congeal from gas and dust. How well do you know your neighbors? Your friends? Your lovers? Walk the streets of any city, and stare carefully at the people who pass you, and wonder, and know this: They are there too. The old ones

This arc is really good!

I really like Dream and Delirium's interactions here. And the other interactions between the Endless are amazing as well. Destruction and his whole leaving is so interesting and he is so endearing as a character.

All the very long lived beings meeting their end is so interesting… You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

Sandman: Báje a odlesky I – Neil Gaiman (art Bryan Talbot, Stan Woch, Dick Giordano, Shawn McManus, John Watkiss, Vince Locke, Duncan Eagleson, Kent Williams ) (tr. Viktor Janiš ) – 3.11.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

Sandman: Báje a odlesky II – Neil Gaiman (art Bryan Talbot, Mark Buckingham, Vince Locke, Jill Thompson, P. Craig Russell ) (tr. Viktor Janiš ) – 4.11.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

This was split into two parts in Czech but I am unsplitting it here because Sandman is taking up too much space here already.

Another short story collection. This one has two Orpheus related stories in it. The interpretation of the Orpheus myth in Sandman is really good. (Hadestown better but that has a different point.)

A lot of the other short stories were just kind of OK. The Hunt was a pretty good fairytale style story. I liked the prophecy/empire angle in August but on the whole it… didn't really work. The last comic, Ramadan was very stereotype-based on the contrast of "Arabian Nights Middle East" and "War-Torn Shithole Middle East".

Sandman: Hra o tebe – Neil Gaiman (art Shawn McManus, Colleen Doran, Bryan Talbot, George Pratt, Stan Woch, Dick Giordano ) (tr. Viktor Janiš ) – 2.11.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

This arc is kind of infamous among people dicussing Sandman because it has a prominent trans woman character and is… not straight up transphobic but definitely weird about it. I think it was not written with bad intention at all. But then again I am not the person who should speak about this. I actually liked this character, Wanda, the most of the new characters in this arc.

One of the main characters of this arc is Barbie from the Doll's House arc, who is a person I definitely did not expect to return. I like her a lot here.

Sandman: Údobí mlh – Neil Gaiman (art Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, P. Craig Russell, Matt Wagner, George Pratt, Dick Giordano) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 25.10.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

Dream realizes that it was kind of a dick move to send his girlfriend to Hell for millenia and goes to rescue her. It just so happens that Lucifer is leaving Hell and gives Dream the keys. Which quickly brings many different beings from across existence who have interests in what he does with Hell.

I love this arc there is so much fun stuff with the different intersecting mythologies and with Dream's character.

Sandman: Krajina snů – Neil Gaiman (art Kelley Jones, Charles Vess, Colleen Doran, Malcolm Jones III) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 25.10.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

I read this one in black & white. Actually why do we not get b&w editions of american comics here anymore? I know it used to be more of a thing. Well obviously colour is better anyway.

This one is a short story collection one. All four of them were pretty interesting. I know the third one, A Midsummer Night's Dream is very commonly called the best part of this series but I don't really see it. I guess because I don't connect with Shakespeare related stuff that much?

Sandman: Domeček pro panenky – Neil Gaiman (art Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli, Steve Parkhouse) (tr. Viktor Janiš) – 23.10.2023

comic – CZ – fantasy – library

I really got into the Sandman series recently. It's a series about dreams, stories and the stories we tell ourselves. It's a series about beings so much beyond humanity yet so human. Also despite having so many different artists, the art is consistently amazing. And so is the lettering – shout out to Todd Klein, who is the letterer for like all of Sandman.

I feel like there should be a joke about a) Gaiman being a Tumblr influencer and b) Dream the Minecraft Youtuber (because in case you are not aware the main characters name is Dream). So please imagine it.

Me getting into Sandman really started with me seeing this volume at the library and realizing that I read the first trade value some time ago. I only realized part way through that I at some point also read a majority of this volume. I actually remember I sneak-read it at a bookstore. I think I probably forgot to log it.

Having now read further arcs of this comic, I feel like this is actually one of the weaker ones. That still means it is pretty good. The different ways of portraying the dreams of various characters as messing with the comic format in different ways really stood out here. That continues throught the rest of the series but so many contrasting dreamers really makes it stand out. From arc specific stuff I liked the dark humour with the serial killer convention. And the Hob Gadling story, which is sort of out of place here but is definitely a great short story.

Brána Ivrelu – C.J.Cherryh – 14.10.2023

physical – CZ – fantasy (sword & sorcery) / sci-fantasy – owned

I don't usually read sword & sorcery style fantasy (although this has sci-fi elements) but I have been cursed by an evil sorcerer to buy the first two books of any shitty fantasy series I vaguely recognise if they are for 50Kč or less. This has literally happened 4+ times.

Vanye has been cast out after killing his half-brother who was heir to the noble house. Lost in the mountains, he finds the mysterious Morgain, a dark figure from legends. She claims him as her servant in the suicidal quest to destroy the gates, powerful artefacts that allow timespace travel (that were created by a long gone interstellar empire).

I hate the deformed Czech cover. (The other books don't look any better.)

Over all I am pretty neutral on this. It had some good worldbuilding and character moments, but I was never super invested in the plot. I really don't get why Vanye was so loyal to Morgain even at the end when it basically went against both his best interest and honor. Wait, was he supposed to be in love with her? (I might be stupid.)

Runaways – Brian K. Vaughan (pencils Adrian Alphona, inks David Newbold & Craig Yeung, colors Brian Reber) (tr. Changer the Elder (yes really)) – 19.9.2023

comic – CZ – superhero – owned

I keep reading summaries of comics online and then actually not reading the comic and being a fake fan. I bought these at ComicsPoint because they have a bunch of these "Nejmocnější hrdinové Marvelu" editions there. It's only the first 6 issues.

Runaways is a story about kids realizing their parents are supervillains and deciding to fight them. And that's it for this book since it is just the first 6 issues.

The dialogue is kind of a product of its time in the references. Chase is the worst. Molly is great. Nico is such a imaginary goth gf.

Anglické Listy – Karel Čapek – 10.9.2023

physical – CZ – travel – family

I picked this kind of randomly at the other house from my mum's old books. I wanted something very chill and unlike some other countries Čapek writes about I have actually been to England (on a bizarrely cathedral-centric school trip).

Karel Čapek was a (really important) Czech writer/ journalist. He wrote a series of short newspaper articles about countries he travelled to. The UK was one of them.

It is intersting to see his observation of between-wars England, especially of things that we consider kind of normal (traffic). There also a lot of drawings by him.

Just Kids: Jsou to jen děti – Patti Smith (tr. Jaroslav Riedel) – 9.9.2023

physical – CZ – biography – library

I would not normally read this. I literally only started reading this because I was at the lake with my sister and she just finished it and I did not have any book with me. And I am glad I read this because it was really good. One of the few books that I really could not put down recently.

This book tells the story of the unusual and very deep relationship between Patti Smith and Robert Maplethorpe and documents the early years of their careers. This happens on the background of the New York art scene of the early 70's, which was one of the places where just an insane amount of influential stuff was happening.

Maplethorpe was a really interesting and troubled person and his and Smith's relationship was so deep and impactful on both of their lives.

Now I got very into Patti Smith's music. Why did I not really notice it before. Patti Smith is so cool.

Kaziměsti – Martin Bečan – 7.9.2023

physical – CZ – fantasy – owned

Four college students in Prague take a tram to Nowhere, a parallel city full of strangeness. Unfortunately, a disease is consuming Nowhere. (Now that I am saying this in English the Neverwhere inspiration is obvious.)

I read half of this before exams and then kinda forgot about this for a bit and finished it now. Which is about the least optimal way to read a book. That being said I did not like this very much.

The fantasy of the alternate city parts had some really good and original ideas. The character names were very fun. I liked that it was college students in Prague (like me although I go to ČVUT).

I thought the characters of Lazar's friends were too shallow for the more character based finale to work.

There is also a random anti-Romani racism passage (Czechia amirite).

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach – Kelly Robson – 1.9.2023

audio – EN – sci-fi – Scribd

I love the setting of this, both the post-apocalyptic future and the past in Mesopotamia. The future feels so strange and yet so... mundanely depressing. And the past as well, plus Gilgamesh-core.

Kiki cutting her legs hit. The whole Min–Kiki relationship was very good.

Ateliér špičatých klobouků 5 – Kamome Širahama (tr. Michala Kropáčková) – 30.8.2023

manga – CZ – fantasy – owned

I am getting back into WHA. I love these girls. I have to catch up.

Na Větrné hůrce – Emily Brontëová (tr. Květa Marysková) – 22.8.2023

physical – CZ – classic / romance – family

Wuthering Heights rules! I get why this is a classic. I was feeling the emotions. I get what Kate Bush was singing about.

Zaslíbená Země Nezemě 7 – Kaiu Širai (art Posuka Demizu) (tr. Anna Křivánková) – ?.8.2023

manga – CZ – sci-fi – owned

I thought I owned this comic before and my ex-gf took it and never returned it. Or possibly I lost it while re-arranging my room. Turns out I never bought it. Sorry ex-gf. I think I just bought volume 8 when that came out and thought I forgot what happened last time. I need to get back into finishing Prommy because it is actually done now. I remember wanting to cosplay Mujica.

Spirála 1 – Džundži Itó (tr. Jan Horgoš, Jana Hrčková) – 1.8.2023

manga – CZ – horror – library

I lowkey thought I already read it but i can’t find it in my library records (in Prague we have a beautiful CSV of my library records).

Anyway I get why people like Junji Ito. Good horrifying/absurd stuff. Iconic visual of the spiral face girl. That guy twisting himself into a spiral was pretty gnarly.

The Paris Apartment – Lucy Foley – 21.7.2023

audio – EN – mystery thriller – Scribd

Pretty good. I have listened to The Guest List and The Hunting Party by Foley before and mostly enjoyed both.

The main early twist in this story (They're a family!) was conceptually kind of stupid but actually worked super well. The rest (The human trafficking...) were barely even twists. Except for Ben surviving which was contrived.

I liked the class conflict / evil rich angle of the whole story.

Also Heads Will Roll by The Yeah Yeahs features heavily in this and is a good song.

The Characters of Theophrastus – Theophrastus (tr. R.C. Jebb) – 14.7.2023

online – EN – ancient – eudaemonist.com

Another one of the things I had open on my phone and read sections between stuff. I read this because of a TvTropes rabbit hole. This lists types of guys Theophrastus has a problem with. Some of them kind of overlap but maybe I just don’t get it. Very interesting look into ancient Athenian culture.

Blacksad – Juan Díaz Canales (art Juanjo Guarnido) (tr. Richard Podaný) – 6.7.2023

comic – CZ – noir mystery – library

The art in this is insanely good. Except for the „attractive“ female characters. But the cities and the types of guy and the action and atmosphere is so good.

I did not realize this was going to be so race-based. Talking about race with furries is always kind of problematic. The metaphor just doesn’t work. That being said the racial tension stuff is handled well from my white European opinion.

Černá palice: Zvrat – Jeff Lemire (art Dean Ormston, David Rubín) (tr. Alexandra Niklíčková) – 4.7.2023

comic – CZ – superhero – library

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Černá palice: Vzdor osudu: část první – Jeff Lemire (art Dean Ormston) (tr. Alexandra Niklíčková) – 4.7.2023

comic – CZ – superhero – library

Two volumes of Black Hammer sequels. The second one was half of a 2 parter but I didn’t check out the 2nd half when I was at the library before going away from Prague and I keep forgetting about it.

The plot is pretty intriguing and I like many of the characters and how their lore is developing.

The Jargon File (4.4.7) – collective (ed. Eric Raymond) – 1.7.2023

online – EN – dictionary – catb.org

A dictionary of late 20th century / early 2000's hacker slang. May be of interest to some of you on here.

I don’t know how I found this. I think I was looking up the etymology of foo & bar. This is a very interesting look at old programmer/ computer / web culture.

This is the kind of thing that I have open on my phone and just look at randomly between doing stuff. A lot of the things in this are very silly and quaint. And then there is just stuff that people (programmers / linux types / posters / tumblr elders ) say in everyday life today.

Černá palice #01: Tajemství počátků – Jeff Lemire (art Dean Ormston, colors Dave Stewart) (tr. Martin Trojan) – 25?.6.2023

comic – CZ – superhero – library

After being defeated, a team of superheroes is mysteriously trapped on a farm in a small town and trying to pretend to be a normal family.

The superhero deconstruction thing is such a circlejerk. I am no longer enjoying stories based on it and I have got to stop reading them.

That being said I actually really liked parts of this. The mystery is intriguing. The characters are full and play off each other in interesting ways.

A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow: Vol. 1 – Makoto Hagino (tr. John Werry) – 13.5.2023

manga – EN – yuri – owned

Impulse buy.

This was really cute! Both the character dynamic and the salamanders.

OK it annoyed me a little, but that's because I am at a pretty low tolerance level for animanga tropes right now after not consuming any for a long-ish time.

Annabel Scheme – Robin Sloan – 1.5.2023

audio – EN – sff mystery – Scribd

Wow I really was not coding on Monday. Instead I listened to another short audiobook. I thought the cover looked cool.

This was a lot, what with the self-aware servers and ghost detectives and interdimensional music and Jesus RPG and demon Ebay.

I liked it. It was fun.

&& (I'm putting these together because thay are short novellas.)

Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate – Robin Sloan – 3.5.2023

online – EN – sff mystery – online

Maybe too much Annabel Scheme in a short period of time. This didn't hit as much for me. Some of the parallels and contrasts with the previous story were kind of cool. But over all it felt pretty pointless.

It relied a lot on San Francisco specifics. (I remember place names form October Daye, and there's like a 1 in 30 timeline where I'm writing this from California, but come on)

Desdemona and the Deep – C.S.E. Cooney – 1.5.2023

audio – EN – fantasy – Scribd

A heiress of a mining company finds out her father struck a bargain with the goblin king exchanging the lives of men for mineral wealth. She ventures to the world beneath the world beneath to retrieve the tithe back and gets changed in the process.

Actually this kind of parallels Storsong which also has a protagonist who is the heiress of an evil father and a historically inspired early 20th century setting.

The prose and whimsical story reminded me of Catherynne M. Valente at her best.

Desdemona is an interesting character with her clashing rich-girl entitlement and want for justice. Although her cunning that others repeatedly remark on is uhh just informed.

The ending in the Gentry realm was rushed with the solution somehow being a polyam marriage between three people who literally just met.

Whatever was going on between Des and the goblin Farklewhit was offputting.

Stormsong – C.L. Polk – 30.4.2023

audio – EN – fantasy – Scribd

The Witchmark sequel. It's a comparable amount of flawed. This one focuses on Miles’s sister Grace and as such it is more politics focused.

I wish the politics were more morally grey. It would be more fun to read. I get that's not the story Polk is trying to tell though. Instead there is a group of radical progressives with suspiciously modern politics. So the main political conflict is trying to push through their obviously morally correct reforms. Also this political group idolises a country that is basically the utopia reddit liberals imagine the EU is. At least the reveal with Robin paid off I guess.

I liked at least some of the political drama with Severin and the queen and the stuff with the Amaranthines. If I did questions at the beginning for this one like for Witchmark one of them would be “What if angels literally came down form heaven and the goverment still refused to listen to them?” I don't know what the other 2 would be though.

The romance storyline in this felt kind of annoying to me at first but I ended up enjoying it and I liked how it played into Grace's character arc.

Some of the twists were so obvious. I was mentally screaming “It’s the birds!!!” for so long.

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction – Alec Nevala-Lee – 21.4.2023

audio – EN – nonfiction biography – Scribd

I was reading John W. Campbell's Wikipedia page (while planning the Asimov robots project I mentioned before) and this book was cited a bunch, and it was on my audiobook app.

This is a biography of John W Campbell and of the 3 most significant authors associated with his ""Golden Age of Science Fiction"". They were all pretty weird and messed up people. Well one of them is L. Ron Hubbard. So there is a lot about early Scientology also.

Actually the early Scientology stuff (which Campbell was also heavily involved in, being the co-author of Dianetics) was so much more dramatic than what the other two authors were up to, it basically overtook the second half of the book. Not that I am complaining, it was very interesting.

On the Asimov front, there was a lot of insight into his relationship with Campbell. Although I obviously knew Campbell was a big influence on him, I didn't realise just how big. The early part about his involvement with early sci-fi fandom organisations was also interesting. The early fandom drama seems like something I'd like to look into more.

On the Heinlein front, I realised I had never actually read a full book by him. Shame!

I want to mention that the author discussed a lot of the massive flaws of these authors like Campbell's massive racism and Asimov's habitual sexual harassment. And also Doña Campbell and Leslyn Heinlein did so much uncredited work.

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf – 7.4.2023


physical – EN – classic – library

In high school I had a elective modern (not as in the movement, names are stupid) literature class and one of the books we read there was The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Which is a book heavily connected to Mrs Dalloway. I liked it, but I felt I was missing a significant thing by not having read Mrs Dalloway.

The sad thing is I feel like I am still missing something. I am not sure what. I think maybe I could just not properly connect to the stream of conciousness, because I didn't read this in one sitting? That's stupid. Or maybe it's just not having a group to disscuss it with?

I probably do actually need to reread this book at some point.

I, Robot – Isaac Asimov – 2.4.2023


audio – EN – sci-fi – Scribd

I reread this because I am most likely going to make a shrinepage. (I am not yet sure of the exact scope.)

I first read I, Robot when I was about 11. I was an asocial preteen convinced of her intelligence and I latched onto the character of Susan Calvin super hard. I have (jokingly) described myself as having kinned her in the past.

I have had a lot of different opinions on this book in the meantime. I am actually not sure what to say here.

I guess I can talk about an angle I thought more of during this reread. And that is race. The English version really made me notice the vocabulary used around robots that was slavery-associated. A lot of people interpret I, Robot as being about race relations in the USA, but I feel that interpreting it through that lens actually makes it make no sense. Most of the stories use robots as pieces in a logic puzzle rather than symathetic characters, and the assumption of the robots serving humanity is never really denied.

Here are some stories I actualy have new or relevant thoughts about:

  • Robbie – This is a story I feel like I have basically memorised because of its place at the beginning of the book. Also it's the only story that even comes close to passing the Bechdel test. (Not like that means anything. You can't make femslash out of no matter how hard you try.) I feel like the way Gloria's parents act about Robbie kind of parallels parents being mad about small kids being online too much. But those parents are right.
  • Liar! – When I was younger I disliked this story. I mean considering my projection on Susan Calvin it seems obvious why. Calvin's characterisation is way more emotional here than anywhere else. But over time I became more accepting of it, I guess… It's more like we are seeing a different side of her. The pressure and loneliness for women can be real. Not like Asimov knew anything about that.
  • Little Lost Robot – This is the closest I, Robot comes to the typical robot rebellion story. In that there is a robot actually knowingly acting against humans and considering himself superior. I like the mystery / logic puzzle in this story a lot. Although the three laws compliant robots were right about pushing those scientists out of those beams. Those scientists all have cancer now.
  • Escape! – I felt like this story was in a different Asimov short story collection than I, Robot. I don't know why, it just feels like it doesn't fit. The technology of the interstellar drive is a thing with a more massive impact that just appears here. And the tone with Powell and Donovan on the ship is weird.
  • Evidence – This is probably my favourite story in this collection. It has both an interesting exploration of the three laws aas they connect to humanity and a goo dtwist. Although it probably actually doesn't need the ominous dialogues between Byerly and his teacher.
  • The Evitable Conflict – I don't believe in technocracy. I guess that's my problem with this story. It is interesting how Asimov characterizes the different sectors of the Earth. It is interesting even what blocks he sees the Earth divided into. “Europe,” said Madame Szegeczowska, in her soft French, “is essentially an economic appendage of the Northern Region. We know it, and it doesn’t matter.”

Witchmark – C. L. Polk. – 24.3.2023


audio – EN – fantasy – Scribd

What if PTSD was caused by evil wizards? What if no British people could enter the Kingdom of Heaven no matter what? What if psychiatric abuse was a magic system? If this made you want to read this book, be warned that none of these concepts are explored in enough depth.

Another lgbt-sff-reclist-core audiobook. It was kind of good. Kind of.

The mystery was interesting when it was going on, but the wrap up felt weird. I wish it went further into some of its worldbuilding elements, because not doing so made the climax feel dissonant.

There was also a time limit set up at the beginning that then ended up not really paying off.

The romance was cute, but didn't completely steal the spotlight. The sibling relationship with Miles and Grace was nice with them uncertainly and then not so uncertainly reconnecting.

There were many twists, some of them pointless and inexplicable (like Robin being a witch).

I am listening to the sequel.

Hráč – Iain M. Banks (tr. Pavel Bakič) – 11.(12?.)3.2023


physical – CZ – sc-fi – library

I read this mostly because I saw some online people referencing the Culture series a lot.

This is not the first book in the Culture, but it is the most well known (and the referenced by one of Grimes’s worst songs). I just picked it up at random from the library.

At first I was very into the utopian worldbuilding of the Culture. All the games stuff seemed cool. I also liked how the dystopian Azad empire was a distorted form of our current society with its focus on ownership and possession.

It is interesting that Gurgeh is a basically the only guy in this free love genderfluid future who is strictly heterosexual and invested in being not gay.

As the plot progressed I became increasingly disengaged from it. OK, some of that had to do with the semester starting but I don't think that's the whole reason. I felt that the games of the tournament bacame a little monotonous and was confused by Gurgeh's psychology.

The climax was pretty cool though. The connection between Gurgeh and Nicosar really hit at the end.

Acceptance – Jeff VanderMeer – 5.3.2023


physical – EN – sci-fi / horror – library

I finally read this nearly a year and a half after I read Authority. Honestly, I probably should have reread the previous books, because I forgot some things about the plots. But I still remembered the main points and the characters and of course Area X.

I really like VanderMeer's writing so that was obviously good. This book got me unstuck from not reading a little.

I need to get better at looking up translations of animal species names, because 90% of when a kind of bird is mentioned I am just like ‘eh that's probably some sort of bird’.

It was sort of disappointing getting these half-answers to the various mysteries. I guess I like not knowing more…

An Unauthorised Fan Treatise – Lauren James – 26.2.2023


online – EN – mystery / thriller – gottiewrites.wordpress.com

An RPF shipper gets way too involved with the two actors she ships, as told through her blog / essay.

I loved the use of social media posts and the inherent ambiguity in them. The unreliable narrator of the whole thing really brings it all together. I loved trying to figure out what was really going on behind the scenes.

It really captures how creepy RPF can be in certain chapters. ( The fanfiction about Nathan not really being dead when his body was discovered… )

The epilogue really hit me, it was a great final twist. So did Rob actually kill him or was it Gottie?? We can't really know.

Red Dust – Yoss (tr. David Frye) – 17.2.2023


audio – EN – sci-fi – Scribd

I picked this at random in my audiobook app because the cover looked cool, and the description contained the words ‘positronic robot detective’ ( I guess you guys don't know my Asimov thing ).

It was fun and quick. The two main characters were endearing.

The funny parts landed most of the time. The pop culture references were mostly to stuff old enough for me to not consider it super cringe and generally work in context.

The worldbuilding was pretty nice as well for such a short and action focused story.

There were literally no female characters in this. I didn't even notice until I looked at reviews.

There was a significant Romani character. Who was crime boss with a weird disease. Lived on a cobbled together Romani ethnostate space station with hidden high tech. And he sacrifices himself at the end. And the space station got genocided. I can't decide if that's racist / just how racist that is. I guess he is ultimately a sympathetic charcter with traits though.

The Deep – Rivers Solomon – 13.2.2023


audio – EN – fantasy – Scribd

This is another one of those books that was everywhere at one moment, because I mean, it is black queer own voices and the audiobook is narrated by Daveed Diggs.

I liked this book. Its exploration of the themes of collective trauma and memory was really interesting.

I also liked the romance which really helped further the themes and the plot very well. Actually I am not sure if should tag this as romance, since it is so central to the plot.

There is an African language used for a couple of words and most notably names in this. It's really frustrating that I can not find what language that is. Please help.

I Was Born for This – Alice Oseman – 7.2.2023


audio – EN – YA contemporary – Scribd

I don't really read YA anymore, but Alice Oseman is an exception. This is the last of her novels I hadn't read. I am hestitant to start Heartstoppeer because it's too romance, but I will eventually.

The real representation in Alice Oseman novels is that of Tumblr users. This is a joke, but also serious because she is really good at capturing the culture of internet fandom.

This book is centered on friendship and fandom, which I appreciate.

I was never in capital F Fandom for a band. I mean I have a MCR tag on my blog, and I reblog gifs of Gerard Way when they come my way on the dash. And I used to read self-insert One Direction smut on Wattpad like 7 years ago (Jesus Christ). But I never was Participating in the Community.

I guess that's the difference between me and the main character. We both had a time in our lives where fandom was the only thing keeping us going. But at the end of it, Homestuck is still an extraordinary work of fiction, but a band member is not a person you really know and really love.

I hate that I can tell that Rowan would be the stereotypical top and Jimmy the stereotypical bottom in the in-universe fanfiction.

The plot was based on a stupid amount of contrived coincidences and characters acting irrational. But I mean that's how plots are, this one was just clumsier. And they're all mentally ill / teens so probably not the most rational.

I like that there are a lot of cool older people featured, I feel like that's rare in YA.

In the Vanishers’ Palace – Aliette de Bodard – 1.2.2023


audio – EN – sff romance – Scribd

This was on a bunch of rec lists for diverse F/F fantasy that I have seen over the years.

It is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast but it has enough of its own plot for me (retelling hater) to not be against that.

I enjoyed the worldbuilding and finding out more about the palace.

The dialogue in this book is written like it was originally in Vietnamese and then translated by an anime fansubber. I get that English has pitifully few ways to show different levels of familiality/status in speech but the literal translations of the forms of address still felt stupid. Also 'lil sis' just sounds wrong in a romantic context.

I felt disconnected from the main romance somewhat, but I am not sure why, since both the main charcters had motivations and traits.

Sbohem, má růžová zahrado. 1 – Dr. Pepperco (tr. Igor Cima) – 30.1.2023


manga – CZ – historical yuri – library

This was kind of surface level and full of clichés (although I get from the authors afterword that it is meant to be self indulgent). I still don't get why people are obsessed with maids, despite being adjacent to the anime community for so long.

I like that it mentioned the trial of Oscar Wilde as apart of homphobia of that era.

I just want more yuri manga to be translated in Czech…

The Schrödinger Girl – Laurel Brett – 22.1.2023


audio – EN – historical/scifi – Scribd

Yet another audiobook I picked sort of at random in the app. I misread the synopsis, because otherwise I would not pick something so heavily focused on the 60's.

The main plotline is the story people claim that all lit-fic is about. A divorced professor becomes obsessed with a young girl. Not really though. It is mainly about a man dealing with the changes of the 60's and rebuilding an adult romantic relationship with a former friend. And there is also a teenage girl who has multiple versions of her running around, who is more of a distant idea.

I wish there was more focus on Daphne (the titular Schrödinger Girl) as a character/person and not just as a symbol. I might even enjoy a version from original Daphne's perspective although then it would turn more YA.

Over all I just think I am not the target audience for this. It barely counts as sci-fi.

Also the lesson from all of this is: take LSD.

Půlnoční výprodej – Seanan McGuire (tr.Petra Kubašková) – 20.1.2023


physical – CZ – urban fantasy – owned

I am continuing the inCryptid series even though I said I won't. It's because I went to a fantasy bookstore and they had the sequels on sale for 50kč.

When you adjust your expectations, it's still fast paced and fun to read. And I like Sarah and her personality and struggle with her species, so I was happy there was so much of her in this book. I also like the cryptid interpretations of various mythological creatures, and I wish more new ones were introduced.

The climax was testing my suspension of disbelief that Verity is still going after all the torture.

The next books focus on different characters so I am curious how that will turn out.

Butterick's Practical Typography – Matthew Butterick – 16.1.2023


online – EN – nonfiction – practicaltypography.com

More online texts! This is a guide to typography. There are many parts focused on things that are very not relevant to me, as many parts are focused on office stuff and also problems that people who are relatively new to computer text editing (or ancient) have.

But it was pretty helpful for figuring what I want to do with this website typographically. There is a lot of stuff I was not thinking about before.

There are also parts in this book where I was like, that's you opinion, man. I still don't see the problem with some of these fonts.

Also maybe this is place for my take that is not very controversial on Neocities: I don't like it when websites are too minimalist. I like it where there is stuff on the screen.

Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots – Seanan McGuire – 3.1.2023


web series – EN – superhero – online

I guess I didn't mention fiction published online counts for this. That's mostly because I am awful at finishing reading it. But this web series has also been published as a collection physically, so you have no ammunition against me.

I found this because I was searching Seanan McGuire's website for info on how to donate directly to her because I feel bad if I'm gonna pirate more of the Toby Daye audiobooks. (I am not making an Audible account.)

The angle of superheros being like child stars in the worst way works very well. The backstory with the Junior Super Patriots and the childhood trauma gained from their whole fucked up system was very interesting.

The main character is similar to the protagonists of some of McGuire's other works with the snarky voice.

Many of the characters had interesting original superpowers and hero themes.

The story is structured weirdly and you can tell that this really was not meant to be one cohesive book but rather episodes with overarching arcs. The seasonal avatar stuff is kind of out of place and just there to set up future stories.

Tankerka Jedna – Alan Martin / Jamie Hewlett (tr. Luboš Pick, Zdeněk Kárník) – 2.1.2023


comic – CZ – post-apocalyptic – owned

The localisation of this is so good (yes I said it!). All of the references changed to be connected to Czech culture feel like what should be there, really true to the scene analogous to the one it was created from (in the opinion of a gen-Z-er at least (a gen-Z-er who has spent way too much time around my parents friends)).

The artstyle is very dynamic and full of personality. I looked for art of Tank Girl on tumblr to reblog after reading and so many other artists draw her without any personality just as a generic hot girl. Which makes me appreciate Hewlett's art a lot more.

The plot is sex drinking and random action. So not much there. But that's like the vibe.

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2023

  1. Sandman: Tryzna
  2. Sandman: Blahovolné
  3. Piranesi
  4. Tango && Stein Lowell Dickinson
  5. Sandman: Konec světů
  6. Sandman: Krátké životy
  7. Sandman: Báje a odlesky
  8. Sandman: Hra o tebe
  9. Sandman: Údobí mlh
  10. Sandman: Krajina snů
  11. Sandman: Domeček pro panenky
  12. Brána Ivrelu
  13. Runaways
  14. Anglické Listy
  15. Just Kids
  16. Kaziměsti
  17. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
  18. Ateliér špičatých klobouků 5
  19. Na Větrné hůrce
  20. Zaslíbená Země Nezemě 7
  21. Spirála 1
  22. The Paris Apartment
  23. The Characters
  24. Blacksad
  25. Černá palice #02 & #03
  26. The Jargon File
  27. Černá palice #01
  28. A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow
  29. Annabel Scheme
  30. Desdemona and the Deep
  31. Stormsong
  32. Astounding: John W. Campbell
  33. Mrs. Dalloway
  34. I, Robot
  35. Witchmark
  36. Hráč
  37. Acceptance
  38. An Un­autho­rized Fan Treatise
  39. Red Dust
  40. The Deep
  41. I Was Born For This
  42. In the Vani­shers’ Palace
  43. Sbohem, má růžová zahrado. 1
  44. Schrö­dinger Girl
  45. Půlnoční výprodej
  46. Butte­rick's Pra­cti­cal Typo­graphy
  47. Velve­teen vs. The Junior Super Patri­ots
  48. Tank­erka Jedna

2022

  1. Ateliér špičatých klobouků 4
  2. Ateliér špičatých klobouků 3
  3. Továrna na Abso­lutno
  4. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
  5. Ex.Mag #03
  6. Artificial flowers
  7. Ztracená, temná a znuděná
  8. Problém tří těles
  9. Rodinný ústav
  10. The Name of the Wind
  11. Sea of Tran­qui­lity
  12. Koperníkovy hvězdy
  13. Děti Duny
  14. The Winter Long
  15. Veniss Under­ground
  16. Umbrella Aca­demy: Hotel zapo­mnění
  17. Umbrella Aca­demy: Dallas
  18. Jatka č. 5
  19. Scott Pilgrim 1
  20. Brána z obe­lisků
  21. The 4.50 from Padding­ton
  22. The Sitta­ford Mystery
  23. Umbrella Aca­demy: Apo­ka­lyptická suita
  24. Můj odpo­čin­kový rok
  25. Norské dřevo
  26. Město a město
  27. Skleněný hotel
  28. The Fifth Season
  29. Are Prisons Obso­lete?
  30. Zapadající slunce
  31. Obecné dějiny ničení knih
  32. Faktomluva
  33. Axiom's End
  34. Emisar
  35. Národní třída
  36. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
  37. Radio Silence
  38. Spalovač mrtvol
  39. Má nejmilejší kniha
  40. Deník Avatára
  41. The Word for World is Forest
  42. Armagedon ve slevě
  43. Podivná knih­ovna
  44. Tři rakve
  45. Probudím se na Šibuji
  46. Stanice 11
  47. Roses and Rot
  48. Za sklem
  49. Rajské fontány
  50. Conversations with Friends
  51. Klara and the Sun
  52. Ve službách spravedlnosti
  53. Dogs of War

2021

  1. Three Act Tragedy
  2. Authority
  3. An Unkindness of Magicians
  4. Sil­marillion