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Daniel’s 2025 Year in Books
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Daniel Polansky
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A City Dreaming Out Now
Friends! Would you believe it or not, I have a new book out. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... It's called A City Dreaming, and it's a ramble through an impossible New York, courtesy of a fast talking lush who prefers quiet beer bars to world saving. It's strange, it's funny, you could do a lot worse. Take a look!
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Low Town (Low Town, #1)
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2011
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41 editions
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The Builders
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2015
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15 editions
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Tomorrow, the Killing (Low Town, #2)
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2012
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18 editions
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She Who Waits (Low Town, #3)
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2013
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12 editions
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Those Above (The Empty Throne, #1)
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2015
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A City Dreaming
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2016
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14 editions
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Those Below (The Empty Throne #2)
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2016
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The Seventh Perfection
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2020
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A Drink Before We Die
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2014
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2 editions
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Tomorrow's Children
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2024
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| A recently-widowed Indian immigrant and his daughter take shelter in the pain of their mother's loss/the arrival of puberty in vigorous games of squash. Spare but lovely, Maroo's writing is stripped of anything extraneous, ...more | |
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| A surreal, fantastical sound poem becomes...something else, I won't spoil it. Fabulous. More than fabulous, unique. How often do I write that in a review? Not a lot. It's barely the length of a novella and worth pushing yourself through to the ending ...more | |
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| A desperate Nigerian man-child awakes to find his skin turned white, makes his way across a vividly drawn Lagos, quickly adopts the indulgent selfishness of a colonizer/all peoples. In lesser hands this could easily be bungled into the usual humorles ...more | |
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| Revolutionary exterminators hunt hallucinogenic spewing dragons in a Belle Epoque herbaceous metropolis captivated by beauty and death. Shades of Mieville and Pratchett. It's actually enormously difficult to write a good high fantasy, I say that both ...more | |
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| Three generations of woman, bound by an unknowable series of coincidences, navigate the dissolution of Somalia. I can think of a lot of other books that fall within this general literary subgenre, but few that I enjoyed as much. The characters are de ...more | |
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| Marlowe investigates a pair of missing woman. What Chandler loses in narrative logic he makes up for by being one of America's foremost mid-century prose stylists. Excellent. ...more | |
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| A pair of high-functioning alcoholics investigate a murder. Needing a break from Proust, I read half a dozen classic noirs as a palette cleanser. This is probably my least favorite of Hammett's slim ouvre, I don't really care for Nick and Nora does n ...more | |
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| An apartheid rebel in the early 60s undergoes a stay in a penitentiary, based (presumably) on the author's own experiences. The plot is brisk and engaging, the writing clear and strong. These sorts of overtly political novels tend to seem a little na ...more | |
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| The corruption and destruction of a civil servant in post-independence Africa, caught between adopted models of behavior and the traditions and loyalties of his native culture. Achebe is one of the great interrogators of late-stage colonialism, and t ...more | |
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![The Crowd - Gustave le Bon [modern library classics] by Gustave Le Bon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1592206793l/54062407._SY75_.jpg "The Crowd - Gustave le Bon [modern library classics] by Gustave Le Bon")
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| 19th century proto-psychoanalysis of the behavior of mass man throughout the ages. This is a period of intellectual history where you could get away with a lot of sweeping general statements, which makes for an engaging if somewhat simplistic read. | |
“It’s a dangerous thing, pretense. A man ought to know who he is, even if he isn’t proud to be it.”
― Tomorrow, the Killing
― Tomorrow, the Killing
“I remember the lightning in the air, and the lovers bidding goodbye to each other in the streets, and I can tell you what I think. We went to war because going to war is fun, because there's something in the human breast that trills at the thought, although perhaps not the reality, of murdering its fellows in vast numbers. Fighting a war ain't fun - fighting a war is pretty miserable. But starting a war? Hell, starting a war is better than a night floating on daeva's honey.”
― Low Town
― Low Town
“The dangerous men were still asleep, their blades sheathed next to their beds. The really dangerous men had been up for hours, and their quills and ledgers were getting hard use.”
― Low Town
― Low Town
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| The Sword and Laser: What books would you recommend to someone scared of the Genre? | 79 | 422 | May 19, 2012 10:23AM | |
| Beyond Reality: Nominations for September 2012! | 19 | 46 | Jun 25, 2012 08:20AM | |
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Tracey the Lizard Queen
Dec 05, 2014 11:34AM
Thanks for accepting! Very excited for Those Above!
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Tabitha wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Tabitha wrote: "Flipping fantastic...I hope theres more in the works!"There is more in the works...glad you liked it!"
Wonderful to hear! I'm getting my brother in law who is dep..."
That's all great news...thanks!
Tabitha wrote: "Flipping fantastic...I hope theres more in the works!"There is more in the works...glad you liked it!
Tabitha wrote: "Daniel! I won - I won! I will be reading it as soon as it arrives. Glad you decided to join Goodreads! Now add more books mister so we can cyber stalk your shelves - that is what its all about!"Ha - I'll do my best! Hope you like the book!
When did Nikola Tesla become the person that really stoned people want to ramble about at parties?
Shellie (Layers of Thought) wrote: "Welcome to Goodreads Daniel!!!"Thanks! Happy to be here!
Welcome to Goodreads Daniel!!!
