Bok<p>### <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> and <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/stories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stories</span></a> for <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/FebruaryReads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FebruaryReads</span></a>.<br>~550 words | Tag to mute: <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/BokBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BokBooks</span></a></p><p>Eight novels:¹<br>●●●○○ Paradigms Lost - Ryk E. Spoor {Digital Knight}<br>●●●◐○ Null Set - S.L. Huang {Cas Russell 2} <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a><br>●●●◐○ Critical Point - S.L. Huang {Cas Russell 3}<br>●●●◐○ The Darwin Variant - Kenneth Johnson<br>●●○○○ Nudist Cruise - Hailey McPherson <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/GenFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenFic</span></a><br>●●●●○ The Crime at The Noah's Ark - Molly Thynne {Dr. Constantine 1} <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a><br>●●●○○ Three Miles Down - Harry Turtledove <br>●●○○○ Broken Portal in Rocky Mountain Park - Pamela B Eglinski {TimeTravel 2}</p><p>One novella:<br>●●●○○ The Can-Can Girl and the Mysterious Woman in Pink - Pamela B Eglinski {TimeTravel 1}</p><p>Zero novelettes.</p><p>Thirty-four stories:<br>●●●○○ Gallery - Rog Phillips<br>●●◐○○ Tower of Babble - Robert Abernathy<br>●●●○○ But a Kind of Ghost - John Wyndham<br>●●●◐○ The Black Ewe - Fritz Leiber Jr<br>●●●○○ Live in an Orbit and Love It! - Rog Phillips<br>●●●◐○ The Lost Bomb - Rog Phillips<br>●●●○○ Dumb Martian - John Wyndham<br>●●●●○ Planetstuck - Sam J. Miller <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a><br>●◐○○○ Executioner No. 43 - Rog Phillips<br>●●●○○ The Justified - Ann Leckie<br>●●●◐○ A Good Heretic - Becky Chambers<br>●●●○○ A Room in a House - August Derleth<br>●●●○○ Alien Space Tentacle Porn - Peter Cawdron<br>●●●○○ The Insect Requirement - B. V. Larson<br>●●●○○ The Radiant Shell - Paul Ernst <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/VintageSciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageSciFi</span></a><br>●●●○○ Prophecy, Inc - Rog Phillips<br>●●●○○ Contagion - Katherine MacLean<br>●●○○○ Punishment Without Crime - Ray Bradbury<br>●●○○○ The Frownzly Florgels - Fredric Brown<br>●●●◐○ Rat in the Skull - Rog Phillips<br>●●●○○ Day of the Hunters - Isaac Asimov<br>●●●●○ Phoney Meteor - John Wyndham <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a><br>●●●○○ Vessel - Samuel Peralta<br>●●○○○ Divine Right - Betsy Curtis<br>●●○○○ Hanging with Humans - Patrice Fitzgerald<br>●●◐○○ The Dreaming Trees - John Jakes<br>●●●○○ The Kholorian Conspiracy - Geoffrey Wakeling<br>●○○○○ Jaywalker - Ross Rocklynne<br>●●●●◐ The Mindworm - Cyril Kornbluth<br>●●●○○ Little Miss Ignorance - E. Everett Evans<br>●●●○○ Atom War - Rog Phillips<br>●●●○○ Flowering Evil - Margaret St. Clair<br>●●○○○ 318 - Autumn Kalquist<br>●○○○○ In the Twinkling of an Eye - Rog Phillips</p><p>2025-02: 34 ss | 00 nvt | 01 nva | 09 nov<br>2025-01: 26 ss | 05 nvt | 00 nva | 09 nov<br>2024-12: 31 ss | 03 nvt | 00 nva | 12 nov<br>2024-11: 39 ss | 05 nvt | 01 nva | 05 nov</p><p>***<br>An unusually high number of duds this month. The __Cas Russell__ trilogy didn't end as well as it began. I'll finish Eglinski's __TimeTravel__ trilogy, even though it's clear she's not a <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a> writer, and I could stop, given that the individual novels in this thematic trilogy are unconnected from each other.</p><p>I'll likely read more Molly Thynne, especially since I'd previously read _The Murder on the Enriqueta_ and she only has four more mysteries to her name. I'll skip her genfic novel.</p><p>Usually a grid of novel covers accompanies this, but the novels I read this month had boring covers. Describing a title with grey text on white with two bullets for decoration – or a picture of a beach at sunset, or an extreme closeup of an eyeball – seems pointless. So I'll skip that and just post the calendar.<br>***</p><p>[1] A reply to this post repeats brief descriptions of the novels. For descriptions of the shorter tales, see the weekly posts. Most non-novels this month come from single-author collections (Paul Ernst, Rog Phillips, John Wyndham²) or multi-author anthologies:</p><p>New Adventures in Space Opera - Jonathan Strahan, ed.<br>Legends of Science Fiction: 1950 - Christopher Broschell, ed.<br>The Alien Chronicles - David Gatewood, ed.</p><p>[2] Finished _More of the Essential John Wyndham_. I'll likely finish _The Essential Rog Phillips_ next month. Both edited by Christopher Broschell.</p>