“Do Copenhagen the” – okay, that’s obviously the newest book by Hugo finalist Stix Hiscock
“2312 to Fire – Love Awhile” – a touching romance during the singularity
“Opera Is Suit, Will” – an episode of “Lost in Space” set inside the helmet of an abandoned spacesuit, which is used as an opera house by miniature aliens
“The Just Live?” – a hardhitting work of social justice SFF that will make puppies cry.
“The Robber, the Love” – a torid romance about a highwaqyman in the deep dark woods
“Get Undiscovered” – William Gibson and Cory Doctorow team up for a novel about the quest to be forgotten on the internet
“This Light Endymion Alchemist” – a literary steampunk novel
“The Territory of” – the cover was half torn off, so we don’t know the full title
“The Edge Thousand Mars” – a newly discovered Heinlein novel from the 1940s/50s
“Biographical Symmetry Train” – the latest story by Ted Chiang
“Redshirts Gambit Reprisal” – by now, John Scalzi’s attempts to fulfill that multi book Tor contract are getting a little ridiculous like the 27th sequel of Redshirts
“The Miles of” – Baen’s patented editing skills strike Lois McMaster Bujold’s latest Vorkosigan novel
“The Tale Left” – the back half of a fairytale retelling
“Sail Boy Semi-Precious” – a sweet gay romance set on a water world
“The Many-Colored” – more social justice SFF that will make puppies cry
“Home This Absent Purple” – a lost Lovecraft manuscript from the 1930s
“The Pi” – a hardboiled detective novel with math
“Rory Dam Emperor” – a YA novel about a boy named Rory Dam who becomes emperor
“Tower Princess, Lost Night” – a sexy Rapunzel retelling
“The Woman of Heaven” – the latest superversive SFF novel
“
//“This Light Endymion Alchemist” – a literary steampunk novel//
London 1818: At the public house known as the Alembic & the Iambic young poets dally with the transmutation of the elements by means of poetic metric structures. John Keats is making gold to fuel Lord Byron’s gambling habits but little does he know that he will soon be embroiled in a plan to manipulate the young Victor Hugo in raising Napoleon from the dead!
But in the sequel Ada Lovelace creates A cybernetic version of Roger Bacon’s oracular brass head using the death mask of John Keats. The brass Keats transforms himself back to flesh using a forbidden ode style and then lays waste to Rome
It went police procedural on me and gave me “All Met Officers”.
(As you know, Professor, the London Metropolitan Police Force is colloquially known as “The Met”, and its members are “Met Officers”. I tell you these facts as though you know nothing of them, in order to refresh your memory and to clue in readers who aren’t familiar with this bit of slang.)
Four Deepness (repeatedly! about half the time)
Glory Lifecycle Were Emerald
Cat Gravity Helen — the story of a Filer who can’t reach Mt. Tsundoku as she’s pinned down by a credential.
Troika House Selects — a small press anthology
Alien Sword Face — by a grouchy canine.
Child Man — about a grouchy canine and the (p)resident he loves
Alamagoosa Discover — a fan finds an old Hugo winner and wonders WTF. Alternately a small town in New Mexico which only takes Visa and Mastercard.
Call Yards By God End — what to do during Ragnarok
The And
I do like “The And” – I’ve seen it come up more than once (inevitably given the frequency of those words). Makes me think of The The. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The
The Price in Universe — a Golden Age romp
The Price in Universe — a modern examination of the soul with the same title as the Golden Age winner.
A the Found — either a Golden Age romp or a modern examination of the soul
The Have Time Software — a labor-saving app goes awry
Catch! — a futuristic baseball story
The Minds –pretty generic title, could be SF or F or H
Blued Moon Engines A — the sequel to Willis’ wacky romp, but on a mobile object instead of a space station
and The Minds about 10 more times so I quit.
Maybe it’s a theme anthology of stories all titled that by different authors who wrote with nothing but the title. That might be interesting.
“Ancillary Stripper Zeppelin!” is definitely the best title yet.
It’s the story of a Steampunk Las Vegas in the sky aboard a fleet of zeppelins to avoid local regulations and enjoy the freedom of the air. The title refers to the zeppelin which carries the ancillary strippers, the ones who aren’t quite perfect and pretty enough to be the main attraction. And now I actually want to write that story.
The exclamation mark is included, because it’s apparently taken from “Catch That Zeppelin!” by Fritz Leiber, winner of the 1976 Hugo for Best Short Story. The other components are obviously Ancillary Justice/Sword/Mercy and the unforgettable 2017 Hugo finalist Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex, by Stix Hiscock
Hothouse Gallery of… — it’s an anthology, where authors pick what the gallery contains. Neil Gaiman wins another Hugo for his story.
Frameshift Wheel Guide Sweet Asadi — about the perils of badly-translated instruction manuals.
The Cost — could be anything
The Humanity Blue The — I don’t know.
Obits Odyssey Time — Greek myths and death write-ups
Humans With Tyrannosaur — this is a REALLY GOOD title which could fit a lot of different stories. (There’s running and screaming)
Downbelow White — set on an ice planet where people live underground. Unless it’s a lost Heinlein story about some wanderer of that name and his adventures across space
Record Cinder Interpretation — don’t know which way the first word is pronounced; that makes a difference in what the story’s about
In Star Land and the — beats me
Echea of Owl Cat — that’s the heroine’s name. Illustrated with a “meowl”. Beloved by Filers.
Bones Mountain For Plucked — Wombat writes this. About one of her witches of a certain age.
Foundation’s of Plucked Sky — everyone complains about the apostrophe.
The In Our to — ??
Little Butcher — Cory Doctorow’s much less successful sequel
26 Ya, On Two — futuristic football; title is an audible that the quarterback calls.
One Boys’ High — YA novel about a boys’ school for aspiring wizards/superheroes/villains/shifters/whatever
Ponies World Thing — title is from a news headline about Bronies who are the main characters. With an apostrophe, it’s also the title of a fanfic where The Thing starts taking over in My Little Pony world. (This probably already exists)
The Dog Me — another uplifted animal story
Unicorn Old Sauropods — kind of a Jurassic Park riff, with added re-creations of mythical animals
I still want to read the anthologies of “The Minds”, “Hothouse Gallery Of…” and “Humans With Tyrannosaur”.
Also I want to consume all forms of media that “Ancillary Stripper Zeppelin!” appears in.
Camestros Felapton 
45 responses to “Ilium Now Drinking”
I keep refreshing and it keeps giving me “Buffalo Sweethips’ Hands”. I feel dirty.
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LOL
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I got The Undiscovered the.
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I got:
“A”
“The Theft Problem”
“Gideon Claw and Plague at” (that keeps returning as I refresh)
I quite like this little piece of Spreadsheet magic.
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That’s the second Gideon Ninth/Book of the New Sun mash-up I’ve seen.
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The crossover novel 2020 deserves.
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Spin Solstice Reservation Shaman and Press of Wolves are the best so far. Big of Prometheus sounds promising, too.
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Press of Wolves, sounds like a Dan Simmons book where he gets angry about how the media are mean to Trump so maybe they are vampireghostmonsters
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Spin Solstice Reservation Shaman sounds like the third book in Rebecca Roanhorse’s series.
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“Alien In Dinosaur A.” Wonder what Dinosaur B made of it?
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“Alien in Dinosaur A” announced the woman at the service desk. The clean-up crew rushed out.
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The Baffle’s Marble
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The sumptuous fantasy romance story known as “Julian Travelers of GrayLanders”
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“Do Copenhagen the” – okay, that’s obviously the newest book by Hugo finalist Stix Hiscock
“2312 to Fire – Love Awhile” – a touching romance during the singularity
“Opera Is Suit, Will” – an episode of “Lost in Space” set inside the helmet of an abandoned spacesuit, which is used as an opera house by miniature aliens
“The Just Live?” – a hardhitting work of social justice SFF that will make puppies cry.
“The Robber, the Love” – a torid romance about a highwaqyman in the deep dark woods
“Get Undiscovered” – William Gibson and Cory Doctorow team up for a novel about the quest to be forgotten on the internet
“This Light Endymion Alchemist” – a literary steampunk novel
“The Territory of” – the cover was half torn off, so we don’t know the full title
“The Edge Thousand Mars” – a newly discovered Heinlein novel from the 1940s/50s
“Biographical Symmetry Train” – the latest story by Ted Chiang
“Redshirts Gambit Reprisal” – by now, John Scalzi’s attempts to fulfill that multi book Tor contract are getting a little ridiculous like the 27th sequel of Redshirts
“The Miles of” – Baen’s patented editing skills strike Lois McMaster Bujold’s latest Vorkosigan novel
“The Tale Left” – the back half of a fairytale retelling
“Sail Boy Semi-Precious” – a sweet gay romance set on a water world
“The Many-Colored” – more social justice SFF that will make puppies cry
“Home This Absent Purple” – a lost Lovecraft manuscript from the 1930s
“The Pi” – a hardboiled detective novel with math
“Rory Dam Emperor” – a YA novel about a boy named Rory Dam who becomes emperor
“Tower Princess, Lost Night” – a sexy Rapunzel retelling
“The Woman of Heaven” – the latest superversive SFF novel
“
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//“This Light Endymion Alchemist” – a literary steampunk novel//
London 1818: At the public house known as the Alembic & the Iambic young poets dally with the transmutation of the elements by means of poetic metric structures. John Keats is making gold to fuel Lord Byron’s gambling habits but little does he know that he will soon be embroiled in a plan to manipulate the young Victor Hugo in raising Napoleon from the dead!
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I both really want to read this and need to kill it before it spawns any sequels.
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But in the sequel Ada Lovelace creates A cybernetic version of Roger Bacon’s oracular brass head using the death mask of John Keats. The brass Keats transforms himself back to flesh using a forbidden ode style and then lays waste to Rome
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Does the “Alembic & the Iambic” serve lambic?
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Cora Buhlert: “The Miles of” – Baen’s patented editing skills strike Lois McMaster Bujold’s latest Vorkosigan novel
touché! 😀
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I wish I could Like this once for every title.
‘2312 to Fire — Love Awhile” spawns an anime and an off-Broadway musical.
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(that was supposed to be a reply to Cora)
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2010: of Bellerophon
Heh. Clarke meets the son of Poseidon!
“Release the Obelisk!”
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It just offered me “How Forbidden the Phantom “
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I think “How Forbidden the Phantom” must be a story about how people try to evade bans in social media.
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It went police procedural on me and gave me “All Met Officers”.
(As you know, Professor, the London Metropolitan Police Force is colloquially known as “The Met”, and its members are “Met Officers”. I tell you these facts as though you know nothing of them, in order to refresh your memory and to clue in readers who aren’t familiar with this bit of slang.)
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And then the murders began
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Another selection:
The Dog Called
Nightfall Hammer Star Revolution
A Wind’s Morning, Sand
Beauty Habits
Beneath Silent Koboldtown
The poetic and enigmatic A Wind’s Morning, Sand is My favourite here
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Nice!
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“Nightfall Hammer Star Revolution” is clearly lost work of Soviet science fiction about a Communist revolution in space
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I feel it needs a colon “Nightfall Hammer:Star Revolution”
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Whaddya mean “lost”? I’m reasonably certain my Soviet penpal of the 80s sent me a badly-translated copy of that.
(not really — he sent lovely editions of classic works and I sent him all the random SF I could find particularly newer novels)
(but no Baen b/c it was still the Cold War FFS)
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“A Wind’s Morning, Sand” is the long-delayed sequel to “Of Mist, and Sand, and Grass”.
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Four Deepness (repeatedly! about half the time)
Glory Lifecycle Were Emerald
Cat Gravity Helen — the story of a Filer who can’t reach Mt. Tsundoku as she’s pinned down by a credential.
Troika House Selects — a small press anthology
Alien Sword Face — by a grouchy canine.
Child Man — about a grouchy canine and the (p)resident he loves
Alamagoosa Discover — a fan finds an old Hugo winner and wonders WTF. Alternately a small town in New Mexico which only takes Visa and Mastercard.
Call Yards By God End — what to do during Ragnarok
The And
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I do like “The And” – I’ve seen it come up more than once (inevitably given the frequency of those words). Makes me think of The The. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The
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It’s a story about a cover band.
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The Price in Universe — a Golden Age romp
The Price in Universe — a modern examination of the soul with the same title as the Golden Age winner.
A the Found — either a Golden Age romp or a modern examination of the soul
The Have Time Software — a labor-saving app goes awry
Catch! — a futuristic baseball story
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The first one that made me laugh:
Little,
So, it’s this was of those faux prestige sci fi books were we’re supposed to pronounce the punctuation, but slightly weird?
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It’s like Victor Borge’s “phonetic punctuation” bit.
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The Minds –pretty generic title, could be SF or F or H
Blued Moon Engines A — the sequel to Willis’ wacky romp, but on a mobile object instead of a space station
and The Minds about 10 more times so I quit.
Maybe it’s a theme anthology of stories all titled that by different authors who wrote with nothing but the title. That might be interesting.
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I saw “The Minds” just now but when I refreshed I got “Ancillary Stripper Zeppelin!” The exclamation mark was included.
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“Ancillary Stripper Zeppelin!” is definitely the best title yet.
It’s the story of a Steampunk Las Vegas in the sky aboard a fleet of zeppelins to avoid local regulations and enjoy the freedom of the air. The title refers to the zeppelin which carries the ancillary strippers, the ones who aren’t quite perfect and pretty enough to be the main attraction. And now I actually want to write that story.
The exclamation mark is included, because it’s apparently taken from “Catch That Zeppelin!” by Fritz Leiber, winner of the 1976 Hugo for Best Short Story. The other components are obviously Ancillary Justice/Sword/Mercy and the unforgettable 2017 Hugo finalist Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex, by Stix Hiscock
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“Ancillary Stripper Zeppelin!” is definitely the best.
The whales and other high rollers get the main zeppelin and strippers. The punters get the ancillary zeppelin. But they end up being the heroic ones.
The graphic novel of this has some very *interesting* costumes, and people enter masquerades as steampunk strippers. Phil Foglio loves it.
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Hothouse Gallery of… — it’s an anthology, where authors pick what the gallery contains. Neil Gaiman wins another Hugo for his story.
Frameshift Wheel Guide Sweet Asadi — about the perils of badly-translated instruction manuals.
The Cost — could be anything
The Humanity Blue The — I don’t know.
Obits Odyssey Time — Greek myths and death write-ups
Humans With Tyrannosaur — this is a REALLY GOOD title which could fit a lot of different stories. (There’s running and screaming)
Downbelow White — set on an ice planet where people live underground. Unless it’s a lost Heinlein story about some wanderer of that name and his adventures across space
Record Cinder Interpretation — don’t know which way the first word is pronounced; that makes a difference in what the story’s about
In Star Land and the — beats me
Echea of Owl Cat — that’s the heroine’s name. Illustrated with a “meowl”. Beloved by Filers.
Bones Mountain For Plucked — Wombat writes this. About one of her witches of a certain age.
Foundation’s of Plucked Sky — everyone complains about the apostrophe.
The In Our to — ??
Little Butcher — Cory Doctorow’s much less successful sequel
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26 Ya, On Two — futuristic football; title is an audible that the quarterback calls.
One Boys’ High — YA novel about a boys’ school for aspiring wizards/superheroes/villains/shifters/whatever
Ponies World Thing — title is from a news headline about Bronies who are the main characters. With an apostrophe, it’s also the title of a fanfic where The Thing starts taking over in My Little Pony world. (This probably already exists)
The Dog Me — another uplifted animal story
Unicorn Old Sauropods — kind of a Jurassic Park riff, with added re-creations of mythical animals
I still want to read the anthologies of “The Minds”, “Hothouse Gallery Of…” and “Humans With Tyrannosaur”.
Also I want to consume all forms of media that “Ancillary Stripper Zeppelin!” appears in.
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“Basilisk Handbag Lost”
Sounds tragic at so many levels.
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