Man vänjer sig.

1. Robert Asprin: Another Fine Myth
2. Robert Asprin: Myth Conceptions
3. Arto Paasilinna: Harens år
4. Carsten Palmær: Liten ordlista för nusvenskar
5. Jacqueline Carey: Kushiel's Dart



6. James H. Schmitz: Telzey Amberdon (this edition 2000)

Telzey Amberdon is 15 years old and starting to feel the minds of others — both humans and non-humans. As her telepathic power grows, it throws her into increasingly dangerous situations.

This is a collection of loosely-linked short stories published between 1962 and 1971 and edited by Eric Flint in 2000. They are entertaining, intelligently written and well-crafted, and for that I am prepared to forgive a thing or two. Telzey herself is slightly annoying as a character, because she isn't much of a person. She is described as a genius-level intelligence, brilliant law student, extremely powerful telepath already months after her power first manifested itself, the only daughter of influential parents, and "not at all bad-looking", and I just want to shake her and shout "Crissakes, girl, do you have any weaknesses? Doesn't this gift ever frighten you? Do you feel the lure of power over others? Do you even think about boys once in a while?"
What I like about characters like Buffy Summers, Cordelia Vorkosigan or Susan Ivanova, just to take a few examples, is that they are people — some of them are extraordinary people, to be sure, but still human and trying to work their way through extraordinary situations. By contrast Telzey is nearly a superheroine, and in the hands of a less competent storyteller than Schmitz she would have been a completely unbearable Mary Sue, but because he knows how to spin a good yarn she becomes tolerable and even a bit sympathetic. If I were a teenage girl I might like her more, though.