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

[Skywalker]

That's not really a surprise to me. Penultimate books in a series go that way sometimes.

I'm a big fan of Butcher as well, I'm just cheap. And I don't really have any room for storing hardbacks nowadays, plus I just prefer reading paperbacks for some reason.

That, and if I buy part of a series in paperback, they must all be in paperback. I guess it must be some sort of OCD thing.

 

[Gov Kodos]

I started rereading Moorcock's "The Warhound and the World's Pain" which I have enjoyed greatly over the years.

 

[DanTheGrey]

Just finished reading "Before Dishonour", "Paul of Dune" and decided to re-read "Republic Commando - Order 66" because I wanted to take a more leisurely canter through it and wasn't in the mood to start up World War Z...

 

[Ruaidhri]

That, and if I buy part of a series in paperback, they must all be in paperback. I guess it must be some sort of OCD thing.

Oh, you're not alone there, brother.

 

[S. Gomez]

Hey, I know this is a long shot, but I figured I'd try it anyway. Has anyone ever downloaded Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things as an audiobook off iTunes? Or any short story collection? I'm thinking of getting it, but I prefer having each story on its own track; does iTunes do that or does it just give it all to you in large parts like it did with the novel I downloaded?

ETA: Never mind. Found out what the audiobooks can do.

 

[Demiurge]

Started on Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star, which started a tad slowly but is very imaginative and I'm sure will expand to a grand epic.

 

[Steve Roby]

I'm still in the world of Doctor Who. Having read About Time: An Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who Volume 1 1963-1966 by Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood (more factual and less opinionated than I'd expected), I'm now reading the second big tribute to the late Craig Hinton, a writer of Doctor Who novels and audios.

Earlier this year the novel Time's Champion, an unfinished Hinton novel completed by Chris McKeon, was published in a limited edition, nonprofit, for charity paperback edition. More recently, the anthology Shelf Life appeared. Edited by Adrian Middleton, Jay Eales, and David McIntee, the book has dozens of stories by pros and fans. Another limited edition charity publication, this is a very attractive 600+ page hardcover book. Though the quality of writing obviously varies a bit, I'm about halfway through and I've been enjoying it so far.

You can get a free 96-page preview pdf at the Shelf Life website. (Not sure how many copies are left; I believe 500 were printed.)

 

[Maestro]

Scarlet by Stephen Lawhead.

 

[DanTheGrey]

Started reading Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor. It's been good so far (only 75 pages in)

 

[Skywalker]

Started reading Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor. It's been good so far (only 75 pages in)

You spoil that, and I shall kill you a hundred times.

Speaking of Shadows of Mindor... ::changes his avatar ::

 

[Mysterion]

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

 

[DanTheGrey]

Started reading Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor. It's been good so far (only 75 pages in)

You spoil that, and I shall kill you a hundred times.

Speaking of Shadows of Mindor... ::changes his avatar ::

No danger of that. I'll only talk about it in the designated thread if/when it gets created. Simply stating that I'm reading it here, no further editorials..

 

[Neopeius]

Just finished Canticle for Leibowitz and Good Omens. Working on One in a thousand by J M'intosh.

Leibowitz was pretty awesome. Omens was occasionally amusing.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

Robert Charles Wilson's "Spin"

 

[Mistral]

Just finished the S.C.E. tp Wounds. I highly rec this book for any fans of SCE and the third story of the three is a great take on, well, an origin story. That's all I can say without spoiling but if you read ST novels read it. Trust me. You won't be let down.

 

[Klaus]

Just finished Fleet of Worlds and Juggler of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward Lerner... they give more background and context to the Known Space series and give us info about the depths of the Puppeteers' meddlings in human affairs.

FoW is about humans captured by Puppeteers long ago and raised as a subject race without knowing there are other "wild" humans out there, and I thought it was an excellent book.

JoW is very different, a wide-ranging retcon centering on ARM agent Sigmund Ausfaller's efforts to check Nessus' meddling and discover info about the Puppeteers in general... It covers a long time period beginning before FoW and ending after it. I liked it but it's a very different experience than the first one.

 

[Brian]

I finished the Orwell Animal Farm/1984 combo. Interesting. As I read "1984" I realized that I had never finished it before. As a teen, when I got to the part where Winston is reading "the book", I found it so boring and flipping forward it seemed to go on forever. So I decided to "wing it" in class with the portion I had read, lol.

I'm now reading, of all things, "Anything Goes", the autobiography of Torchwood's Captain Jack, John Barrowman. I happened to see his face on the cover, and thought "what the heck", he must have done enough for a publisher to greenlight the book, so I'll check it out. He's very funny.

 

[Mistral]

Starting Spindrift by Allen Steele. I'm a big fan of his work and this is one of 2 I've never read. Having read the Coyote novels, I'm curious to see where this one goes.

 

[Klagg]

Just finished "The Warrior" from Mean Streets. This is the latest Dresden Files short story. Like his other shorts, Jim Butcher gives depth to his universe in the enjoyable story. It looks like to happens just before Turn Coat, which is the novel due out in April.

It may be a while before I get into another SF/F book, between Bookkeeping for Nonprofits and The Green Collared Economy my nightstand is full.

 

[Mistral]

Finished Spindrift. Although set in Steele's Coyote universe it had very little to do with Coyote itself. I like him, but I'd have to call this a cheap knock-off of the first Rama novel. Not bad, but buy it used if you can-not really worth the 7.99 new price....