tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:97768 nancylebov nancylebov 2025-11-24T22:26:19Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-19:97768:1120101 2025-11-24T22:26:19Z 2025-11-24T22:26:19Z public 1 Notes from the Best SF Books of 2025 panel at Philcon.<br /><br />A Tangle of Time (sequel to the Hexologists)<br /><br />Wearing the Lion (Wiswell, story about Hercules)<br /><br />Aftertaste (LaVelle) ghosts and cooking<br /><br />The Splinter Effect (I think it's the one where time travel makes it possible to go into the past, but not carry things forward-- if you want to protect an artifact, you have to hide it somewhere in its time and find it again in your time)<br /> <br />The Will of the Many (elite academy gets a student who won't get sucked into the hierarchy)<br /><br />The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association-- complications when a werewolf daughter goes to a dangerous magic school <br /><br />The Stardust Grail (finding a major alien artifact)<br /><br />Inventing the Renaissance (non-fiction by Ada Palmer-- the premise is that the Renaissance wasn't really a thing. From things she said, the glorious eras when the rich commission wonderful things aren't great times to live-- if the rich are competing that hard, power is shaky and the fighting affects the non-rich)<br /><br />What We Can Know (tracking down a poem after worldwide catastrophe)<br /><br />Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil (woman with limited life gets into magic)<br /><br />The Mars House (people on Mars are dealing with hazardously strong people from earth, how can they live together? I'll note that I could write the premise of this from memory, unlike many of the others where I used amazon)<br /><br />Those Beyond the Walls (dystopia, murder mystery)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nancylebov&ditemid=1120101" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments