What I Read in 2026

I had intended to read more books in 2025 than in 2024, and I was on track todo that until I developed an eye problem (complicatioons from dry eye) that are making it difficult to read. Right now, I've started using the assisted reading features on my phone and tablets, as well as the text-to-speech reader on my Windows 11 PC. They're not ideal but I've been getting some reading done, though at a much slower pace than I like.

These were the books I managed to read in 2025.

• Failed State, Charles Brown
• Escape from Yokiland, Charles Stross
• Been So Long, Jorma Kaukonen
• Stealing Worlds, Karl Schroeder
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: 35th Edition (2017), Gardner Dozois
• A Conventional Boy, Charlie Stross
• Infinity Gate, M. R. Carey
• Echo of Worlds, M. R. Carey
• When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi
• The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler. This was my favourite book over everthing I read last year. 
• The Winds of Fate, S. M. Stirling
• Roots Reggae Traveler, Syd Perry. I did a bit of editing on this. It will be published soon. 
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol. 12 (2017), Jonathan Strahan
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol. 13 (2018), Jonathan Strahan

I am currently reading The Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Volume 4 edited by Neil Clarke containing stories from 1

18 and Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, a wonderful and entertaining history of the renaissance. Up next in the queue are the next Neil Clarke anthology and Ray Nayler's Tusks of Extinction.

My vision problems have forced me to cut back on my involvement with social media, but I have been trying to get back to reading more magazines using both Apple News+ and Libby. Both work well for me on the iPad Air with its bigger screen.