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Ever since dad's passing I'd been having a tough time reading previously-unread fiction. Mentioned this in

catsittingstill's lj. Re-reads have been okay, but I'd start something new, short story or novel, but not been able to get into it. Not that the problem stopped me from buying books, of course.

Fortunately, my break-through was with Octavia Butler's novel, FLEDGLING. I won't say anything more as it was an advance reading copy and the official publication is set for October. And Ms. Butler will be doing a short book tour, as noted in

octaviabutler. Yay!

I'm so happy to have just picked up the DAW anthology, IN THE SHADOW OF EVIL. It includes "Slow Poison" -- my favorite story from last year that I didn't read.

andpuff read it at the Boston Worldcon and it was a lot of fun. (Who Let The Dogs Out?) Great to have it in printed form.

Now I'm going to give CAST IN SHADOW another try.

msagara also has a story in the above anthology, btw.