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

[Steve Roby]

I loved it, but it's hard to describe. It's a collection of novellas and odds and ends set in the very strange city of Ambergris. Ambergris feels like it should be a real city somewhere, but as the stuff about its history reveals, that somewhere isn't here and now. There are bookstores and bars and poets and office workers and mysterious cults and possibly alien beings. One of the best books I've read in ages.

 

[Scout101]

Just started getting into the Ringworld books, by Larry Niven. Tore through the first two books, and now starting on Ringworld Throne.

Very enjoyable books so far...

 

[Ariadne]

Scout101 said:
Just started getting into the Ringworld books, by Larry Niven. Tore through the first two books, and now starting on Ringworld Throne.

Very enjoyable books so far...

Me too, I'm reading the first book.

 

[Superman]

I'm reading--and loving--Anderson's The Last Days of Krypton.

Exceptional stuff. It's bringing a new sense to my life experience with Superman and his mythos.

\S/

 

[TedShatner10]

DUUUUUUUNE

 

[Bishbot]

"Confessor" by Terry Goodkind. It hasn't been very good so far. If I hadn't loved the first five books so much I wouldn't still be reading the "Sword of Truth" series, I'm pretty glad this is the last one. Its not painful to read, but nothing like as good as the first few were. Unfortunately it does mean the slightly mediocre offerings now outnumber the great ones.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi. Next up afterwards is either the third book in that 'verse, or The Last Days of Krypton, which I picked up but haven't tackled. Also, I just got The Black Lizard's Big Book of Pulp featuring the noir fiction from the defunct Black Mask pulp magazine.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Tmorrow I'm starting Star Trek Before Dishonor.

 

[DBR]

Finished The Spiderwick Chronicles today. It was cute; quick read, too.

 

[S. Gomez]

I started Philip K. Dicks' Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? today (the cover is a tie-in with the movie, and gives the actual title only in parentheses). I have to try and finish it tomorrow so that I can speed through the last four Bond books before getting to Pride And Prejudice for school...

 

[Kegek]

^
I saw that version of the book once. I hated that. My version has a nice cover showing a painting made just for the novel and in the SF Masterworks series.

 

[S. Gomez]

I hate it as well. It was the only edition the library had.

 

[DanTheGrey]

Finished "Rule of Two", the second Darth Bane novel last week, and am very much enjoying Republic Commando: True Colours.

After that is Turtledove's "Opening Atlantis"

 

[Venardhi]

I'm currently reading The Call of the Wild but since that isn't quite fantasy/sci-fi the last fantasy I read was The Lies of Locke Lamora from Scott Lynch and The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker. After that I decompressed with I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell which is a collection of 'real' stories from the life of Tucker Max. and I am America (And So Can You!) written by America himself: Steven T. Colbert.

 

[Broccoli]

Currently reading Soon, I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. I'm only 3 chapters in, but so far, its really clever and amusing.

S. Gomez said:
In the meantime, jane Eyre will get her fair time, long promised but never fulfilled, and then it's back to sci-fi with a story anthology and then Gaiman's Anansi Boys.

Anansi Boys while interesting, is different than what I thought it was going to be (and I had previously read American Gods). Then again, I wasn't sure what to expect.

 

[PointyHairedJedi]

I've just finished a classic bit of British SF - The Outward Urge, by John Wyndham. My 1962 Penguin paperback of this is possibly my most treasured book, along with Men, Martians and Machines by contemporary Eric Frank Russell.

 

[Scout101]

Finsihed with Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, and Ringworld Throne. Good stuff. Will keep an eye out for the last one next time I'm at the bookstore, but it's off to Star Trek with Forged In Fire next...

 

[PointyHairedJedi]

More oldies - The Time Machine by, of course, H.G. Wells, which is part of an anthology of Wells stories that I own (not all SF, though).

 

[Kegek]

PointyHairedJedi said:
More oldies - The Time Machine by, of course, H.G. Wells, which is part of an anthology of Wells stories that I own (not all SF, though).

I don't suppose that anthology includes Ann Veronica?

 

[Skywalker]

Summer Knight by Jim Butcher. It's been a while since I last read a Dresden Files book (mainly because I don't want to blow through the whole series and end up stuck waiting months for the next one), I'd almost forgotten how fun they were. :thumbsup: