Currently reading
McGlue
Knife Fight and Other Struggles
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
The Good Lord Bird
Ancillary Justice
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More (New Edition)
Dissident Gardens
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Complete Novels
Year's Best SF 15
Done and a bit disappointed -- but I'm tough on anthologies, which are a bit too much like a game of post office, back in junior high: every trip into the closet arousing great anticipatory glee, all too many quickly flaming out (bad breath, too aggressive, not aggressive enough), and even the good ones only a couple scrambled moments of heaven. But damn if Peter Watts isn't a helluva kisser. (His story here is far and away the finest, and yet again I drum my fingers agitatedly on the table, waiting for his next novel. I'd also urge folks to track down his neat rewrite of John Carpenter's The Thing, "The Things"... found here in full-text or in podcast.)