So what are you reading? Part VI

[Cicero]

Anne died?

It was confirmed yesterday afternoon. Anne McCaffrey died of a stroke in her home, Dragonhold Underhill, November 21, 2011. Todd let Random House tell the world after notifying close family and friends.

There's confirmation across the net now.

A sad day for science fiction and fantasy.

I'm very sorry to hear that. I read a dozen or more of her Pern novels in middle school; my friends read even more.

Indeed a sad day for science fiction.

 

[S. Gomez]

Picked up God's Secretaries: The Making of The King James Bible by Adam Nicolson from the library today, and read the first two chapters. He's a good writer, though I've seen better in the popular history line.

 

[Kertrats47]

Finished Excelsior: Forged in Fire a couple of days ago, here is my review. Finally reading David Mack's Rise Like Lions!

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

Flood by Stephen Baxter and some of the Fallen series by Thomas E. Sniegoski. I love reading. I'm packing up books right now and have 30-40 boxes full. I figure I have about 2/3 or 3/4 of my total book population packed.

 

[JD]

I've decided to start focusing on just one book at a time, and right now I'm finishing up Spock's World. I'm working my way through the Surak chapter right now, it's the part of the book I was most looking forward to reading and it hasn't disappointed.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished Star Trek: Crew the other day. I'm still reading Against the Tide of Years.

 

[Fer]

The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson

One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory…sixteen years hence.

As more pillars arrive all over the world, all apparently from our own near future, a strange loop of causality keeps drawing Scott into the central mystery—and a final battle with the future.

I loved this book! I thought it was a great concept. Looking forward to hearing what you think of it.

Finished Offworld. Not great, but okay. Thoroughly enjoying Indistinguishable from Magic now.

 

[WarsTrek1993]

Just finished Rough Beasts of Empire, now, even though I read this a couple months ago, I'm rereading Sorrows of Empire before getting Rise Like Lions.

 

[Starbreaker]

I loved this book! I thought it was a great concept. Looking forward to hearing what you think of it.

I'm struggling to finish The Chronoliths, but I should be finished tomorrow. It's definitely different.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Someone gave me Night of the Living Trekkies. Way too much zombie and not enough Trek for my taste, but kind of fun. And one line that I absolutely love: "I'm a Trekkie. We don't do despair."

 

[Greg Cox]

I'm reading the new "Richard Castle" novel, Heat Rises, but keep getting distracted by copy assignments from Tor and Night Shade . . . .

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'm currently reading Peter David's new Fable novel, Blood Ties.

If you liked his Sir Apropos of Nothing novels, then you'll enjoy this. It's in the same snarky comedic vein. And even if you haven't played Fable III (like me), you'll be able to read this without any great difficulty as PAD explains all the necessary things. There are places where I'd swear that PAD is mocking the conventions of the action-rpg, with its looting and its side quests.

If I have one quibble, it's that the characters in the book make awkward references to the player-character of Fable III to avoid naming him, but I can't fault PAD for that; the player-characters of the Fable games have never been named in game.

Blood Ties, a fun and funny book. If you like comic fantasy, you'd like this.

 

[j3067]

Just finished The Forever War by Joe Hadleman. It was an awesome book that I should have read much sooner. I'm reading Star Wars The Old Republic: Revan right now (quite a quality shift). I'm on the fence about what to read after that. I might go on to try GRRM's Wildcard series.

 

[MNM]

I have just finished reading the latest Horus Heresy book, "Outcast Dead", one of the better books of the series! Now I am moving on to "Keeping it Real" the first in the "Quantum Gravity" series. Unless I see "Rise Like Lions" in the shops first.

 

[Fer]

I'm currently reading Peter David's new Fable novel, Blood Ties.

If you liked his Sir Apropos of Nothing novels, then you'll enjoy this. It's in the same snarky comedic vein. And even if you haven't played Fable III (like me), you'll be able to read this without any great difficulty as PAD explains all the necessary things. There are places where I'd swear that PAD is mocking the conventions of the action-rpg, with its looting and its side quests.

If I have one quibble, it's that the characters in the book make awkward references to the player-character of Fable III to avoid naming him, but I can't fault PAD for that; the player-characters of the Fable games have never been named in game.

Blood Ties, a fun and funny book. If you like comic fantasy, you'd like this.

Thanks for the heads up. I was going to give this one a pass since I'm not into fantasy or gaming, but I did enjoy PAD's Sir Apropos of Nothing books, so based on your comments I'll pick it up after all.

 

[Fer]

I loved this book! I thought it was a great concept. Looking forward to hearing what you think of it.

I'm struggling to finish The Chronoliths, but I should be finished tomorrow. It's definitely different.

Struggling because you're just not enjoying it, or because it gets so dark? I generally find time travel stories to be fun reads all the way through, but this one did take some turns I didn't expect.

Spoiler: General tone and circumstances of the second half of Chronoliths.

With the world economy crumbling due to the spread of the Chronoliths, I found the second half of the book to be very depressing, which will usually turn me off of a story. But at the same time it was a fascinating view on society-- how the fear of something happening could be just as dangerous (or even more dangerous) than the actual event itself happening.

But despite all that (or maybe even because of it in the end) the story did still wow me.

 

[indianatrekker26]

i started Safehold Book 1: Off Armaggedon Reef by David Weber. Only about 60 pages in, but really enjoying it. He hits you with alot of info on the state of this universe right off the bat.

 

[Snaploud]

I finished Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Rise Like Lions and Playbook 2012: The Right Fights Back (Politico Inside Election 2012). Rise Like Lions was certainly a fun read. Though, it took some time for the book to really hit its stride.

 

[nickyboy]

Reading A Dance with Dragons. It is awesome

 

[Kertrats47]

Finished Rise Like Lions. What a ride! David Mack did it again! (Review here) Now I'm reading Diane Duane's third Rihannsu book, Swordhunt.