Last week I asked for some author suggestions

[zengar]

Before I got to looking them up I found that I had finally made it to the front of the request queue for Elizabeth Bear's Promethean Age novels, so I read those first. Today I searched the catalog and shelves and turned up ... just two books by Jay lake and two by Tobias Buckell. Okay, they did have portions of both the Jane Lindskold series and the Sasha Miller/Andre Norton series, but in both cases the beginnings were among the missing. There were works by a Steve Perry, but I don't think it was same one. Everything they had was shared world stuff, Star Wars novels and the like, and from the descriptions (I know, I know, but it's all I had to go by) there wasn't a lick of creativity going into these. Ernest Hogan and Jack Campbell simply weren't there, although in one case the catalog indicated it should be.

Oh well, at least this puts me four books ahead of where I was, and I may at some point in the future be able to get my hands on a Patricia Briggs novel that isn't late in a series so that I can find out whether I even care about the long list of books that are lost, damaged, on hold, or simply missing.

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[quilzas.livejournal.com]

The Steve Perry books I was thinking of were...

97th Step
Matadora
Black Steel
The Man Who Never Missed
Brother Death

And there are some more whose names escape me. They're part of a series. Pretty nifty reads if you ask me.

[xengar.livejournal.com]

Okay, I recognize some of those titles. The library definitely didn't have them.