New in the Queue – December 31

Books received this Christmas:

Photo of listed books

  • Smithsonian Atlas of World Aviation, by Dana Bell. The type of book I would have pored over as a kid – exactly the type of book I still pore over today. Lots of fascinating maps, photos, and factoids about things that go. For instance: I learned about the flight of the Vin Fiz, Cal Roger’s arduous airborne 1911 journey across the U.S. – the first transcontinental flight. It took him 49 days (82 hours in the air, with 16 crashes along the way). Of particular local interest, his circuitous rail-route took him through NEPA and Binghamton.
  • Birds, an educational picture book by Miranda Krestovnikoff with beautiful relief cut illustrations by Angela Harding.
  • A boxed set of Six Novels in Woodcuts by Lynd Ward. These visual sagas are: God’s Man, Madman’s Drum, Wild Pilgrimage, Prelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words, and Vertigo. Lots of inspiration I look forward to looking at in detail.
  • Best American SF&F 2015, edited by Joe Hill & John Joseph Adams. I enjoy this series of anthologies; I drew a portrait series based on authors from a later edition.
  • Afterglow, a Grist collection of climate fiction. I dig the cover illustration’s color palette.

Lots of art & imagery mixed in with this batch of text!

Posted on Sunday, December 31st, 2023. Tags: .