SF/F Books: Chapter Two - What Are You Reading?
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Recent SF reading: Paul Magrs's Doctor Who novel Verdigris (Third Doctor, Jo Grant, UNIT, and Iris Wildthyme): silly (intentionally) but fun; Michael Stackpole's first Star Wars X-Wing novel, Rogue Squadron, which didn't do much for me at all (I may try another, but I'm not particularly eager to do so); and I'm now reading Blue War, one of Jeffrey Thomas's Punktown novels. It's the first of his novels I've bought and I'm not very far into it, but I liked his short story in Jeff and Ann VanderMeer's The New Weird anthology, and I'm enjoying this one so far.
Finished World War Z finally. Also reading "Dead before Dark" which is the first Sookie Stackhouse novel and was the basis for True Blood. My wife has been just ploughing through the series. She never used to read much and I'm actually quite happy and impressed at how much she's reading now.
Finished Empire in Black and Gold and going to start A Singular Destiny on monday.
If you like fantasy that is sword and sorcery but not set in medieval-equivalent times then this is for you. It is industrial revolution-era swordplay with a little magical stuff thrown in but not in-your-face. I have brought the second book in the Shadows of the Apt trilogy and will read it when I get through the unread pile.
If you like fantasy that is sword and sorcery but not set in medieval-equivalent times then this is for you. It is industrial revolution-era swordplay with a little magical stuff thrown in but not in-your-face. I have brought the second book in the Shadows of the Apt trilogy and will read it when I get through the unread pile.
^Whoa. I didn't clue in until just now that it's coming out on Friday. 
Finished The Tales of Beedle The Bard (very cool, but altogether too short!) and I'm now reading Tales From The Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien--the shorter fantasy stories he wrote aside from Middle-earth (though it includes a collection of poetry featuring Tom Bombadil). I'm looking forward to reading "Farmer Giles of Ham" again; I can barely remember anything about it except that I liked it a lot.
Finished The Tales of Beedle The Bard (very cool, but altogether too short!) and I'm now reading Tales From The Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien--the shorter fantasy stories he wrote aside from Middle-earth (though it includes a collection of poetry featuring Tom Bombadil). I'm looking forward to reading "Farmer Giles of Ham" again; I can barely remember anything about it except that I liked it a lot.
I know what you mean. I read Princeps' Fury a couple of months back, I'll say be preprepared to hate the ending... or more the fact you'll have to wait till December to find out what's happening.
Yeah, he is.
However, would anynone try to make a movie out of this book it would certainly be "rated R" for strong violence.
I believe the movie rights to Altered Carbon were sold a few years ago, but it would be very challenging to film that without really gutting the plot.
It is an awesome book, too.
Just finished Keith Laumer's Zone Yellow. I love the Worlds of the Imperium trilogy but this was a weak follow-up. Everything was way too easy for the protagonist. He should have stopped with 3 books.
I'm now reading Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels. For you Richard Morgan fans-you might like this, too. Its a CIA story set in an alt hist universe where America travels the multiverse and has been committed to making other Americas democratic no matter what events played out in the particular histories they experienced. Fascinating. Hard to find in US, had to send away to a little book store in NY for it.
I'm now reading Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels. For you Richard Morgan fans-you might like this, too. Its a CIA story set in an alt hist universe where America travels the multiverse and has been committed to making other Americas democratic no matter what events played out in the particular histories they experienced. Fascinating. Hard to find in US, had to send away to a little book store in NY for it.
Paul of Dune came into the library today. I read the first couple of chapters and I am enjoying it so far.
I'm about to start Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss, or to give the full title as rendered on the title page, Edison's Conquest of Mars (A Sequel to The War of the Worlds): How the People of All the Earth, Fearful of a Second Invasion From Mars, Under the Inspiration and Leadership of Thomas A. Edison, The Great Inventor, Combined to Conquer the Warlike Planet. The War of the Worlds was serialized without authorization as Fighters from Mars in a couple American newspapers in 1897-8, and they changed the setting to match their locations of publication (New York and Boston). They then immediately followed this with a new novel telling of the human counterstrike, which was led by Thomas Edison and his fleet of electrical spaceships!
That actually sounds rather fun; let us know how you liked it.
Interestingly, it looks like the Gutenberg text used the version that appeared in the New York Journal as its source, since the Martians blast off from New York at the beginning. The hard-copy version I have (from Apogee Books) uses the Boston Post as its source.
It made me think of this, which I remember enjoying a lot as a kid, wish i still had my copy... 
http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmess-Worlds-Wade-Wellman/dp/0446769827
http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmess-Worlds-Wade-Wellman/dp/0446769827
^ Ah, I'm planning on tracking that down and reading it at some point, too.
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