Looking To Read Some New Books

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I just finished the most recent Garret, P.I. book by Glen Cook: "Cruel Zinc Melodies". It's not the best in the series, but not the worst, either. If you don't know what it is, it's a hardboiled mystery series set in a fantasy universe. There are homages to Hammet, Chandler, Stout, Parker, Spillane, and other mystery writers. I think "Cold Copper Tears" is the best; it's a fantasy version of "The Big Sleep".

I'm reading "War Games", a collection of stories by Christopher Anvil. Not a name to conjure with any more, he was quite popular in the 1960s. So far, the stories have been entertaining and enjoyable. Nothing that strikes me as "great", but no losers.

General info: read anything and everything by Eric Frank Russel.