Qing up the next read

We have come once again, dear readers, to the stage of selecting the next book of one's A to Z of Unread SciFi and Fantasy Authors endeavour.

This time the letter that one's bookshelf shows a dearth of is "Q". It may well be that the genre shows a dearth as well but none the less we shall press on.


The Rules
Titles should be in the sci-fi and fantasy realms, or speculative fiction if you prefer.

The Author's Surname should begin with the letter Q and they should be one who's wares one has not sampled before.

Here is my Author list of already read Qs from the time span of The Tales:

Not a sausage from this small field.

Bonus points if the book is available in the work catalogue - which doesn't look likely.

Even more bonus points, and probably the win by default, if you place your recommendation into one's hands.

So better get to it Internet, and recommend away.
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17 of the Beast

Last Friday - the thirteenth - was the occasion of the seventeenth birthday of The Tiger.

Now in her equivalent of 84 servant years The Tiger has started to show signs of her graceful age.

She has become a little hard of hearing, which allows One to sometimes sneak through the room without being accosted for more canned food.

She is moving a little more gingerly - seemingly having to save up her leaping energy for only once every hour or two.

She is forever hungry (although see below) and has taken to scavenging around busy kitchen feet like a hyena - despite the regular crushing of her fluffunimous tail.

She seems to have lost all her different demanding screeches in favour of only the "give me canned food now!" demonic yowl. This leads to the situation where she thinks, "I say I would really love to curl up on a lap right now" and then screeches at us "give me canned food now!" then looks askance at the canned food provided in response and proceeds to screech at us "give me canned food now!". This goes on until One sits down in disgust whereupon one of the saved-up leaps is rapidly used and one is trapped under a sleeping kitty for hours.

She is having a little trouble squatting in the litter and so we have had to artificially raise the wall heights around the edge to reduce the frequency of "flooding".

She has decided that rules about what surfaces she can stroll across and what vessels she can eat or drink from are no longer in need of even passing deference.

Still,  all in all, she's definitely worth having around the house because we all know pets have an effect on your stress levels.
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Going Digital

So one has finally completed ones catch up reading of the last of one's printed Judge Dredd comics. The frantic catch up reading proceeded at around 1.2 weeks per week for the past several years - demolishing Pirate Dave's rash prediction of  only 1 week per week in the process.

I shall now be moving into the world of digital comics and commence catching up on the 7 years of digital to-read pile (folder?) that has accumulated whilst one has been catching up.

I anticipate I can get my catch up speed really moving now and may even reach as high as 1.3 weeks per week.
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Gettysburg aka Hairysburg

One watched this filmic rendition of the historic Civil War battle  over a number of days last week. It was a recommendation from The Maple Maverick who later confessed that he hadn't been able to make it past the second day.

Speaking of which I consider it a brave decision by the creators to have the film last about as long as the actual battle.
Of course they did try to distract from this by filling the screen with the most amazing array of facial hair variations, including Tom Berenger in the fakest beard ever.

The film used many of the actual locations and thousands of eager re-enactors, many of whom proved to be eager over-actors.

Overall it is an interesting film with some information to be learned and visuals that will amaze you.

In short: come for the History and stay for the beards!
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