Read: “Merlin’s Gun” (Alastair Reynolds): Have I read this before? Anyway, relativistic wars, ancient artifacts with misleading labelling, the dead hand of the past stirring the brains of the present.

Read: Quantum of Nightmares (Charles Stross): Follows immediately on from Dead Lies Dreaming, with the same crew of billionaires and supervillains trying to make their way in Nyarlathotep’s England, while cultists engage in supermarket-based horror. I certainly don’t not like it, but I will be glad to get back to Bob and/or Maureen in the next book (hopefully).

Read: “The Tower At The Edge Of The World” (Victoria Goddard): Apparently a prequel to the famousThe Hands of the Emperor. Ayse said reading this made her more inclined to read THotE. A young man lives in mysterious, ritual solitude without worldly knowledge, which he doesn’t let stop him.

Read: Mao vol 2 (Rumiko Takahashi): More demons, more time travel, more mysteries around the main character’s traumatic past.

Words: FAIL.