What SF/F Book Are you Reading? .. Redux
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Guns of the South. Hands down.
Guns of the South is competently written, but it's rather marred by its nutty insistence that the South was going to abolish slavery, led by Robert E. Lee, no less.
When Lee invaded Pennsylvania he was kidnapping black people into slavery before the battle of Gettysburg!
When Lee invaded Pennsylvania he was kidnapping black people into slavery before the battle of Gettysburg!
I just finished Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees - a wonderful book. 
I recieved a Kindle Touch for Christmas and have been taking advantage of all the free ebooks available via Project Gutenberg and taking the opportunity to (re)read many of the classics. I recently reread HG Wells' The Time Machine and am in the process of rereading Mary Shelly's Frankenstein for the first time in 20+ years. I have to say I'm impressed with how well these works hold up after a century (or nearly two in the case of Frankenstein!)
^ I read each of those for the first time in 2011, and in each case it's been an almost bizarre omission on my part given that I've been a huge fan of both time travel stories and the Hulk, neither of which would essentially exist without Wells and Shelley respectively. Both are wonderful stories and both hold up exceedingly well. Frankenstein in particular remains a fascinating tale artfully told.
Recently finished "The Inverted World" by Christopher Priest. I really liked it (the idea of moving a city, the society arising within), except for the last few pages (the reveal of the twist ending the cover promises).
I quite liked that. Not so much for the story (which was ok), but for the world building. Really made you feel what it would be like to live in an overpopulated world
I quite liked that. Not so much for the story (which was ok), but for the world building. Really made you feel what it would be like to live in an overpopulated world
Never read the Priest but your brief description almost reminds me of Blish's Cities in Flight stories.
What? I already counted 7 billion last year. Guess, we have to do a recount: 1,2,3...
The Stand by Stephen King
Gods, there's an abridged version?
Yes, yes there is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand#The_Complete_.26_Uncut_Edition
Interestingly, King also changed the time it was set in for the re-release as well.