Yes, yes, ha ha ha. Very funny title. Anyway, I just finished reading "The Buried Pyramid" by Jane Lindskold. This was the most recent free download from Tor. Being slightly suspicious after the "Spaceman Blues" fracas, I was hesitant to get started on what Tor tells me is "a marvelous ride through Ancient Egyptian myth, legend, and religion". However, I am always ready for a bit of Ancient Egypt, so I plunged in. In short, this book is acceptably wonderful.

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I say a "partial" review, because, frankly, I couldn't finish the damn thing. Brian Francis Slattery's "Spaceman Blues" is flat out weird, and I'm not talking about the 1923 magazine. The cover copy calls it a “literary retro-pulp science-fiction–mystery–superhero novel”, but I really couldn't find much that was retro, pulpy, science fiction related, or even superhero-y. There might be some literary stuff in there, though. I can normally read most anything, but in a very few cases, I find that my time is too valuable to spend it on trying to decipher a steaming pile of crap.

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