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I haven’t been doing as much reading as I’d like to these days, for various reasons. But I did read, although I barely made a dent in my pile of books - and I probably never will make more than a dent for as long as I live, thanks to my tendency to keep on buying books. For example, I recently acquired all 4 volumes of Pamela Sargent’s ”Women of Wonder”.

Like I said, I did read. I quite liked Daniel Abraham’s ”Balfour and Meriwether in ‘The Adventure of the Emperor’s Vengeance’” in PostScript #19, an anthology edited by Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers. This steampunk tale set in Victorian England about something that was unearthed in Egypt by the French appears to be the first in a series of tales about B&M. If it’s not, it’d be a shame. In that same book, I especially enjoyed MK Hobson’s ”The Warlock and the Man of the Word”, a western tale about a murder in a Colorado mining town, but not just any kind of murder.

The building had three floors. The saloon was on the ground level, and above it were two floors of small rooms where the girls worked. It was in the room on the east corner of the top floor that the demon prince Methe Pyrtrogo was shot dead.