SF/F Books: Chapter Two - What Are You Reading?

[Red Ranger]

I like to read SF anthologies. Currently, I'm smack dab in the middle of reading:

-Year's Best SF 15, a compilation of short stories from 2009, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer; and

-The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century, a collection of short stories and novellas edited by Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg, which includes the classic Ray Bradbury tale, A Sound of Thunder.

 

[Mistral]

Finished both 1635 novels. The Tangled Web was -meh. Eastern Front brought a twist to the series that I just didn't see coming. Haven't decided if I like it or not...

 

[BrotherBenny]

I got a number of books for my Kindle at Christmas, so i'm ow reading Zero Sum Game, and it is most definitely an interesting read so far.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

I read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum on my Kindle.

 

[Mistral]

Finished Time Travelers Never Die by Jack McDevitt.
It was a good romp. I'd call it light reading, but fun.

Next: Antares Victory by michael McCollum.

 

[psikeyhackr]

The Proteus Operation
by James P Hogan

http://sfbook.com/index.php?q=the-proteus-operation.htm

Hogan's stuff is harder than most SF these days but that is how I prefer it.

psik

 

[Mistral]

The Proteus Operation
by James P Hogan

http://sfbook.com/index.php?q=the-proteus-operation.htm

Hogan's stuff is harder than most SF these days but that is how I prefer it.

psik

One of his better novels. The last one I read was utterly forgettable. Some time-travel thingy, also, IIRC. Not in the same league as this one.

If you like "harder" scifi, try Jack McDevitt, Michael Z Williamson or maybe Allen Steele.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Finished World War Z recently. Very good book. I highly recommend it if The Walking Dead has piqued your interest in zombie fiction. I'm looking forward to the 2012 movie. I think this could actually translate pretty well. I hear they tapped Brad Pitt, I wonder if he's playing the infantryman who got a couple of chapters in the book? I could see that.

I'm also reading some Lovecraft for the first time recently. I purchased the American Library anthology "H.P. Lovecraft: Tales" which has most of his stuff in one volume. It's mostly very good, considering the period it was written in. He sometimes gets a little too flowery with his prose, and his obsession with architecture wears a bit thin at times (particularly in "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" which I could not finish for this reason). So far I'm up to "The Whisperer in Darkness" and just about to start "At The Mountains of Madness". Ia, Ia, Cthulu Ftagn! My favorite so far were The Music of Eric Zahn, The Color out of Space and The Call of Cthulu.

 

[label]

Finished : The Bride Collector by Dekker (definitely his best since Thr3e)
Starting : The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein.
After that: Duma Key by King.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Started on The Algebraist by Iain Banks

 

[Admiral_Young]

Reading "American Vampire" Volume One by Scott Snyder.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I'm reading the new Nightside book A Hard Day's Knight after that I have Rivers of London to read.

 

[TJinLOCA]

I recently read the zombie novel "Feed" by Mira Grant (which is fantasy writer Seanan McGuire's pen name), and really liked it. Excellent story, great characters! I liked it so much that my husband bought me the first of her urban fantasy series ("Rosemary and Rue") for Christmas, so that's next on my list - as soon as I slog my way through Thomas Hardy's "Return of the Native". SLOOoOow going. (I try to alternate "serious" books with my recreational SF/fantasy reading.)

 

[RandyS]

The Proteus Operation
by James P Hogan

http://sfbook.com/index.php?q=the-proteus-operation.htm

Hogan's stuff is harder than most SF these days but that is how I prefer it.

psik

Hey, me too. I just started it last night. Good read so far, huh? Next on my reading list is his novel Paths to Otherwhere, featuring my favorite kind of Sci-Fi story: travel to parrallel universes.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Finished A Hard Day's Knight last night. Probably get on to Rivers of London today.

 

[Mistral]

The Proteus Operation
by James P Hogan

http://sfbook.com/index.php?q=the-proteus-operation.htm

Hogan's stuff is harder than most SF these days but that is how I prefer it.

psik

Hey, me too. I just started it last night. Good read so far, huh? Next on my reading list is his novel Paths to Otherwhere, featuring my favorite kind of Sci-Fi story: travel to parrallel universes.

That's the one that failed to impress me!

 

[label]

So, does anyone use the "Shelfari.com" website or the "I'm Reading" plug in to facebook? Seems like a better way to connect with your fellow reader?

btw, for anyone who's on shelfari here's mine:
http://www.shelfari.com/briancflynn

 

[Mistral]

So, does anyone use the "Shelfari.com" website or the "I'm Reading" plug in to facebook? Seems like a better way to connect with your fellow reader?

btw, for anyone who's on shelfari here's mine:
http://www.shelfari.com/briancflynn

I'm on LibraryThing.

 

[label]

So, does anyone use the "Shelfari.com" website or the "I'm Reading" plug in to facebook? Seems like a better way to connect with your fellow reader?

btw, for anyone who's on shelfari here's mine:
http://www.shelfari.com/briancflynn

I'm on LibraryThing.

That looks like a pretty cool site too. I need to find just one to update and belong too. Shelfari looks like it has many of the exact same features as library thing and it's always free, but it doesn't have some of the connectivity to the local libraries as LibraryThing.com and I don't think it has quite as many members.

 

[RandyS]

The Proteus Operation
by James P Hogan

http://sfbook.com/index.php?q=the-proteus-operation.htm

Hogan's stuff is harder than most SF these days but that is how I prefer it.

psik

Hey, me too. I just started it last night. Good read so far, huh? Next on my reading list is his novel Paths to Otherwhere, featuring my favorite kind of Sci-Fi story: travel to parrallel universes.

That's the one that failed to impress me!

Which one? Proteus Operation or Paths to Otherwhere?