My reading in the first half of the month was re-reading of large quantities of work by Cecilia Tan and P. Djèlí Clark, in preparation for Readercon panels. I didn’t make substantial notes on either panel, so I don’t have much to report here.

Fiction:
The Chicken Salad War by copperbadge is latest in the Shivadh series of romance novels; it doesn’t appear to be available in ebook yet. Simon LeFevre is chef to the royal family of Askazer-Shivadlakia and has been very lucky in romance if not in a...