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

[Mistral]

The cool thing about Heinlein's juvies is that they don't talk down to kids-which makes them easy reads for adults to enjoy. I'm with Steve-they are must reads.

 

[S. Gomez]

Of Heinlein, I've only read Have Spacesuit--Will Travel so far, but it was tons of fun. Another recommendation.

 

[Starbreaker]

I have an omnibus on my shelf I haven't read yet. I think it has Between Planets, Double Star, The Rolling Stones, and The Star Beast

 

[Brian]

I'm finally finishing up my revisitation of Narnia. I finished The Magician's Nephew today and started The Last Battle.

I think when I'm done, I'm going to hit Stranger in a Strange Land again. I started it once but never finished it.

 

[Scout101]

Just finished with "Dies the Fire", by S.M.Stirling, and starting in on the sequel, Protector's War.

 

[PointyHairedJedi]

I have an omnibus on my shelf I haven't read yet. I think it has Between Planets, Double Star, The Rolling Stones, and The Star Beast

I like The Rolling Stones so very much, though my copy is rather vintage - it's called Space Family Stone.

I've started on a second-hand anthology of SF dating from the 70's, which is imaginitively called The Best Science Fiction Stories.

 

[DigificWriter]

I just got into the Dune novels, and decided to read them in chronological order. I finished The Butlerian Jihad a couple days ago, and am currently reading The Machine Crusade. As a Dune newbie, so far I'm really enjoying the complexity of the 'Duniverse', and the narrative of the humans' war against Omnius and his thinking machines.

 

[Steve Roby]

I'm finally finishing up my revisitation of Narnia. I finished The Magician's Nephew today and started The Last Battle.

I'm going to reread Prince Caspian before the movie comes out, as I did with The Lion etc. It's been a good long time since I read Caspian, so I'm looking forward to it. Well, actually, I'm looking forward to rereading all of them with the exception of The Last Battle, which I never cared for.

I think when I'm done, I'm going to hit Stranger in a Strange Land again. I started it once but never finished it.

I read that when I was 14 or so, I think, and found it weird, unlike most other Heinlein I'd read, but still enjoyable. And then I made the horrible mistake of following that up with I Will Fear No Evil, one of Heinlein's all-time worst novels. (Of the ones I've read, anyway; some of his final books I could never bring myself to read.)

 

[Mistral]

Just finished with "Dies the Fire", by S.M.Stirling, and starting in on the sequel, Protector's War.

Then comes Meeting in Corvallis. Not bad books(I read them all) but his premise is far-fetched re the whole feudal thing.


I preferred the pre-quels(sidebyside series?) Island In the Sea of Time, etc

 

[S. Gomez]

I bought Dan Simmons' first Hyperion duology today. I'll get to it straight after Hamlet.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

I just finished Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. While I found much of the dialogue flat and on-the-nose, and it sometimes veers into comedic scenes that I found a little too broad, overall it's a powerful book with themes, plot and characters which linger in the mind.

 

[S. Gomez]

Starting Hyperion right... now.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Star Trek: The Buried Age

 

[Fencer]

The Blade itself by Joe Abercrombie

Before that it was Polaris and Seeker by Jack McDevitt

 

[Mistral]

The Blade itself by Joe Abercrombie

Before that it was Polaris and Seeker by Jack McDevitt

You know there are 3 books in the series, right? I can't recall the first book title but the 2 you read were sequels.

 

[Roland19]

Currently reading What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson. I like it so far. Its a bit different from the movie, but has the same feel that the movie had. Like that (and I like the movie. it was great).

Also reading Frank Miller's 300 (graphic novel). Really good! Possibly Frank Miller's best work!

Roland19
" And before those two, I read the Tick Omibus Vol. 2 and 3! SPOON! "

 

[Mistral]

Matheson is awesome. Most people don't realize just how many of his books have been made into movies. There is a reason Hollywood has kept tapping him for source material over the years.

 

[Steve Roby]

Matheson is awesome.

I remember going to my favourite used bookstore back in the early '80s (Back Pages in Halifax, NS, which I believe is still in business) and grabbing what I thought was I Am Legend. Got back to my room in res and realized I'd grabbed the very similar-looking Shock I, a collection of Matheson's short stories. (Berkley Books did a few of his books with very similar covers.) For a moment I was peeved that I'd grabbed the wrong book, but that passed pretty quickly. I read it and went back for I Am Legend the next day.

His crime fiction's worthwhile, too. See for example Noir: Three Novels of Suspense, a recent omnibus of three of his old crime thrillers.

 

[Mistral]

He also wrote Somewhere In Time and Duel. Both became movies later on. Duel was a Donald Sutherland flic that featured a rookie director named Steven Spielberg.....

 

[S. Gomez]

Donald Sutherland? I think you mean Dennis Weaver...