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Summer Reading List 2021

May 27, 2021 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Projects, Reading Lists

Welcome to Nuketown’s 14th annual summer reading list! This year’s list welcomes back Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet series, returns to Iain Bank’s The Culture books, re-reads Richard Adam’s Watership Down and tries out some new series, including Elizabeth Bear’s White Space books and Martha[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: The Ancient Ones, Excession, Wise Man’s Fear

September 9, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

The trailing edge of this summer’s reading list included David Brin’s The Ancient Ones, Iain Bank’s Excession, and Patrick Rothfuss’s The Wise Man’s Fear. It also saw a considerable slow down in my reading pace due to the style of[…]

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Assembling Nuketown’s 2019 Summer Reading List

April 3, 2019 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

It’s spring, and while others are tending to their gardens I’m thinking about my summer reading list. I don’t have a goal in mind for my 12th annual summer reading list, but I expect it to be in the 12-15[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: Early Summer 2017

July 1, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

I got a respectable jump on my Summer Reading List for 2017 in late May and June, reading five books by June 30 (though I got in the last one, Revenger, with only a few hours to spare). It was[…]

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Summer Reading List 2017

June 15, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

Welcome to Nuketown’s 10th annual summer reading list! As with previous years, this year’s list is heavy on space opera and military science fiction, but includes a smattering of fantasy. It includes 17 novels, 1 novella, and 8 graphic novels.[…]

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Hellboy, all red with a full set of demonic horns that radiate golden light, sits against a black background.

Summer Reading List 2014

May 26, 2014 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

Summer is coming. It’s bringing with it alien worlds, starship battles, ancient mysteries, and sequels. Lots of sequels. No, I’m not talking about movies — I’m talking books, specifically my Summer Reading List for 2014.

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

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