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

[Starbreaker]

I'm reading Duma Key by Stephen King. I just got Singularity Sky by Charles Stross in the mail today and should receive Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds within the week.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton

 

[Starbreaker]

The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton

I have the complete series, and I have tried to get into the novel 4 or 5 times and can't seem to make it past a chapter or two. I felt like I already needed a Reality Dysfunction for Dummies within the first page.

I was shocked to look through here and see some short stories I had read a year and a half ago that I still remember vividly, yet couldn't tell you anything memorable about the last book I read.

 

[Teelie]

Finished Zoe's Tale. It was a good alternate point of view on the story from The Last Colony. Now reading A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison. I've read all the previous books and so far it isn't bad, although the characters (especially the lead) sometimes take incredibly stupid risks and don't seem to always think ahead or smartly about what they're doing. But that much is consistent so I can only assume it's intentional.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Finished reading G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra and meh. I normally like Max Collins books but he had a difficult job trying to make this readable. It was tough getting into it and when I finally did ended up regretting buying it. I still have the receipt so it is back to the bookstore tomorrow. There were some nice homages to the cartoon that made me smile and laugh but wow...after reading the book I can understand why people are dreading this book. It's a prequel and the end is pretty cool and I hope that it does well enough that we will get a decent sequel.

I just started The Strain and it's quite interesting, opens up with a 21st century homage to Bram Stoker's Dracula and carries on from there. I really hope that Del Toro tackles this as a future film project.

 

[pookha]

emma bull territory and shadowbridge by frost.

 

[S. Gomez]

Sorry if this is too big a bump even for this beloved thread.

So this morning I took an expedition to the library and picked up a couple more books than I had originally planned--three of them are Ray Bradbury. Now And Forever is a collection of two novellas recently published, the others are Death Is A Lonely Business and Dandelion Wine, which I'll have to read to find out how much they fit into the category of fantasy. I've loved everything I've read of Bradbury's, so I don't mind either way.

I also finally picked up Edgar Rice Burrough's A Princess of Mars which I'm very much looking forward to reading. I'll give my thoughts on all of the books when I'm done.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Just read Angel:After the Fall Vol.4 today. Loved the After The Fall series all in all.
I'm also reading Terry Pratchett's Mort.

 

[Joy]

Over the last year or so, my only way to access the Internet was an hour on the computers at the library. Therefore, I did a LOT of reading.

I read the first two & a half books of the Inheritance Trilogy. Utter horse shite, but only read it so I could join in the dissing on the NaNoWriMo forum (I *had* seen the movie, which basically made it quite easy to predict the majority of the second book...).

My best foray into the SF/F genre over this past year was Kage Baker's AMAZING Company novels (plus supplemental short story anthologies). I had actually picked up her "The Anvil of the World" novel first, and I loved it so much I went looking for more of her stuff and discovered the awesome world of the Company. She has easily become a favorite author.

I also checked a few short story collections, one being stuff of Ray Bradbury's. Didn't make it through all of them, but the ones I read I remember liking.

One of these days I'm gonna get myself to sit down and read the Discworld series. I found a visual reading guide that outlines a suggested order of reading the books, so I'll take that to the library and get cracking.

Joy

 

[Brian]

I'm revisiting Splinter of the Mind's Eye for the first time in 30 years. (Hence, the new avatar.) I found it in a box during my last visit to Mom's house.

 

[pookha]

i now have some of the hugo nominees (mostly thanks to the library ) and will start working through them.

also will start on the second part of the series that shadow bridges starts out with .
and part way through the titan series orion's hounds.

 

[S. Gomez]

My best foray into the SF/F genre over this past year was Kage Baker's AMAZING Company novels (plus supplemental short story anthologies). I had actually picked up her "The Anvil of the World" novel first, and I loved it so much I went looking for more of her stuff and discovered the awesome world of the Company. She has easily become a favorite author.

Looked it up on Wikipedia. Great, now I've got yet *another* series of books I want to check out.

 

[Joy]

Oh, yes, and they'll keep you VERY busy. There's a very good number of them. I've read all the main series and I *believe* all the short story collections, but looking at her site, I see there's at least one other book (a recent release) that is connected to the series.

I think that's one of the things I'm liking about Baker. She's very prolific, so there's always *something* interesting to read from her. Since the Company novels span CENTURIES (heck, even MILLENNIA), and she's just created a whole new universe with her Anvil of the World & House of the Stag novels, there's all sorts of things she can still do and keep us busy reading for years to come.

Now, if only JK Rowling would get something new published... I'm really curious to see how she is outside of Harry Potter.

Joy

 

[Skywalker]

Just finished Conan Volume 7: Cimmeria.

For any Conan fans out there who haven't heard of this series, check it out. It's an ongoing comic from Dark Horse, and it's one of my favorite comics going right now. The writers (first Kurt Busiek, now Timothy Truman) just get Conan, and the art is fantastic.

The first TPB is Conan Volume 1: The Frost Giant's Daughter and Other Stories. Enjoy.

 

[Steve Roby]

I've been reading those as single issue comics rather than trade paperbacks. I loved the Marvel Conan comics Roy Thomas wrote back in the late '70s, but I find them hard to get through now, because they're so overwritten. I think the current ones will hold up better.

 

[S. Gomez]

Burroughs' A Princess of Mars. Not even halfway through and I'm loving it so far. It's just exactly the kind of mad, escapist fun I need a taste of right now.

 

[Maestro]

I am still slogging through The Stand. Now less than 200 pages to go. I was very saddened when Dayna Jurgens died. She had spunk, even if she wasn't in the book for very long.

 

[Skywalker]

So, now I seem to be on kind of a Conan kick. Currently making my way through The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (holy alliteration, Batman!), the first in a three-volume set collecting Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories in the order that he wrote them. I'd actually purchased all three back when they first released, but never got around to them for some reason.

So far I've read The Phoenix on the Sword, The Frost-Giant's Daughter, and The God in the Bowl. Good stuff so far.

 

[Mistral]

My best foray into the SF/F genre over this past year was Kage Baker's AMAZING Company novels (plus supplemental short story anthologies). I had actually picked up her "The Anvil of the World" novel first, and I loved it so much I went looking for more of her stuff and discovered the awesome world of the Company. She has easily become a favorite author.

Looked it up on Wikipedia. Great, now I've got yet *another* series of books I want to check out.

I stumbled upon Kage Baker when I worked at Borders. The "Company" books are amazing.you are so lucky to read them for the first time. New one due this year. FYI

 

[Maestro]

And 38 days and 1153 pages later, I have finished The Stand. Tom Cullen's, "He gives me Kung-Fu in the face of my enemies," is one of the best damn lines I've ever read.

I am off to espionage land with Len Deighton's Ipcress File.