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Head cold, more reading than writing (oops!)

Couple of great graphic novel series – oooh, pictures – awesome for reading when brain seems to be mostly non-functional.

Fables by Bill Willingham is about the lives of fairy tale characters exiled into a reasonably modern New York. Interesting stories, and fun trying to identify the background characters.

Courtney Crumrin by Ted Naifeh chronicles the adventures of a young (pre-teen) witch/necromancer in an area full of Night Things. I found it more charming than scary, and still really enjoyed it, but then again, I'm weird that way.

Not a graphic novel, The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner, reminded me somewhat of Tanya Huff's The Fire Stone. Interestingly inscrutable characters, and an enjoyable resolution to the whole thing.

The New Space Opera edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan is an excelent overview of a dozen or so writers very few of whom I like, and none of whose writing I enjoyed enough to want to remember who they were. Except perhaps Steven Baxter... Sigh.