June 17-19 Book Porn

Here are the books that I bought or received as review copies the past few days. Top left is Adam Roberts' 2005 non-fiction, The History of Science Fiction. I plan on writing a review of it in the next week or so, time (and hopefully, job) permitting. Next to it is the hardcover version of Naomi Novik's fifth Temeraire novel, Victory of Eagles, that I received in the mail (same for the other three books after this). I already have the ARC, so I might look into giving it away after I resume working. Next to it are three paperbacks, the first two being Brandon Sanderson's first two Mistborn novels (with new covers). Since I have the hardcovers, I'll be mailing these to a friend of mine who lives outside the US. Next to them is an original paperback anthology from DAW books, The Dimension Next Door.

I bought the bottom left book on a recommendation in the Comments to a previous post, Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness's Independent People. Next to it is one more review copy, this one for Sherwood Smith's King's Shield (featuring a rather odd cover that is begging for Jim Hines to give it the LOLBooks treatment). Finally, I went ahead and bought a copy of Salman Rushdie's latest book, The Enchantress of Florence.

Should be more books in the coming days, as I'm expecting the arrival of the Spanish-language hardcover edition of Roberto Bolaño's massive 2666 (set to appear in English translation in November, apparently with a large marketing campaign. Not bad for a posthumous release, huh?), as well as some books from Solaris Books that Mark Newton is mailing me. Looking forward to these pending arrivals.