Wintersmith
Tiffany Aching accidentally starts to transform into an anthropomorphic representation of Summer, due to her being unable to resist a good dance, meanwhile the Wintersmith is looking for his destined Mrs who happens to be.... uh oh! Wintersmith is the third title in an exuberant series crackling with energy and humour. It follows The Wee Free Men and Hat Full of Sky.
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- Redliners by David Drake. Burned out soldiers are sent to baby-sit a planetary colonization. Fortunately for the story it turns out to be a planet full of monsters. Baen Free Library.
Accelerando, Iron Sunrise, and Singularity Sky by Charles Stross. Singularity stories.
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. Supernatural meta-fiction with half the story in the footnotes. Reminiscent of the movie Donnie Darko.
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. Private eye gets retained by the White House to track down the other U.S. Constitution. To quote William Gibson, "Stop It. You're frightening me."
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg. Story of his teenage daughter's descent into manic psychosis.
A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett. Kids' stories, so they have wall-to-wall story, unlike some of his more situational adult books.
James H. Schmitz science fiction stories. Available from the Baen Free Library of digital books.
- my two favourite works of his are "night watch" and "going postal". it's honestly super impressive that they were written so long after he started to decline and were still so good.
I'm currently in the middle of a complete chronological reread of the discworld books, just finished "thud" and "wintersmith" back to back and while they were definitely weak in places it's amazing how much of his genius still shone through. feeling a little apprehensive about the later books though, I remember some of them being really bad, especially "snuff" :(
