Reviewing The Mail: Week of May 30, 2020

Two books this week, both from the fine folks at Tachyon Publications and both in my hands in advance reader copy form. (I'd vaguely thought the Current Crisis would finally kill physical ARCs -- though I might have called them "bound galleys," to underline how old I am and how long it's been since I worked in trade publishing -- but, even if it's trying to, it hasn't managed yet.)

On the SF side, we have Sea Change by Nancy Kress, a short novel about biotechnology and the near future that begins with a woman being amused by a lost self-driving house in 2032. Intriguingly, it seems to be about an underground organization that is continuing research on GMOs after they were outlawed after a massive crisis the decade before. Sea Change is available in trade paperback (and several equivalent electronic formats) as of April 24th.

Over on the mystery end, there's Of Mice and Minestrone, a collection of short stories by Joe R. Lansdale about the early years of his most popular characters, Hap and Leonard. Inside are five stories, one of which appeared in Full Bleed 3 last year and the others of which appear to be originals, all of them with recipes included. There's also an introduction by bestselling crime writer Kathleen Kent and an afterword by Lansdale that explains the deal about the recipes. This one hit stores (physical and virtual) on May 14th.

In case I buried the lede above: both of these books are fully available out in the world already, in case you're interested in either or both of them. So go check 'em out.

Oh, and because the title of the Lansdale book reminds me of it, have a Fujiya & Miyagi song: