Christopher Golden’s TIN MEN<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — doesn’t come out till the end of June, but this is a bad-ass near-future war thriller worth checking out.\u00a0Terrorists and presidential assassinations and cool bleeding-edge\u00a0tech and\u00a0oh yeah\u00a0<\/em>soldiers controlling robot drone\u00a0bodies with their minds. I read it and I thought, “This reads like Terminator plus Saving Private Ryan,” and then I went back and saw that Scott Sigler said exactly that in his blurb. Thus proving that I am secretly Scott Sigler.<\/p>\n Speaking of Scott Sigler —<\/p>\n I am presently reading his own: ALIVE<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Which is so far taut as a choking rope and mysterious as the strange rash I have on my left buttock in the shape of Cousin Balki of Perfect Strangers. The book stars teenage protagonists but I don’t think is YA? Whatever, it’s great. Not out till July. I also, rather foolishly, haven’t read enough Sigler in my life, so this goes toward correcting it.<\/p>\n I’m also reading Adam Christopher’s MADE TO KILL<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — which is, what exactly? Robot pulp noir? I dunno what to call it, but I know I’m loving it so far. (Adam is, of course, my co-writer on\u00a0The Shield<\/strong>, which hey did you see Drew Johnson’s jumping on board<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the book and hey look at that art that I’ve posted at the bottom of the page because I’m totally shameless and isn’t it cool?)<\/p>\n Oh! Also, a couple quick administrative notes:<\/p>\n a) I’m gone from Wednesday this week to Monday of next week. Because of Phoenix ComicCon<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, which is awesome and you should go and I’ll see you there. But that means posting might be light.<\/p>\n b) I feel like some folks haven’t yet seen the winners<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of the STORY IN SEARCH TERMS contest — but hey, the winners are picked, and if you\u00a0are<\/em> a winner, contact me, will ya?<\/p>\n Anyway.<\/p>\n Your turn.<\/p>\n What did you just read?<\/p>\n And what are you reading now?<\/p>\n Time to share the book-love.<\/p>\n Or I guess the book-hate if you didn’t like it, but pssh, whatever.<\/p>\n * by the way, Atlanta Burns<\/strong> is on sale this week at Amazon<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — the Kindle is at $3.99, and the trade paperback has dropped to $7.50, should you be so inclined to check it out.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.comicbookresources.com\/imgsrv\/imglib\/0\/0\/1\/THE-SHIELD-DrewJohnson-ab7fe.jpg?resize=699%2C1069\")
<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"