It's Science Fiction & Fantasy Week on Goodreads!

Accidentally reading all SFF this week, even before knowing about Sci-Fi and Fantasy week. Books on the go: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien; Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente; Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal; and The Eternaut by Oesterheld and Lopez.

The Witchwood Crown (The Last King of Osten Ard, #1) Unabridged Audiobook

I'm currently reading Skyward by Brandon Sanderson and Spine of the Dragon by Kevin J Anderson!!

Just finished reading "Annihilation" by Jeff VanderMeer. Now on Authority! Happy reading Sci-Fi nerds!

Would love to get into some Sci-Fi can anyone recommend some good adult Shi-Fi books?

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Francis Penn
Would love to get into some Sci-Fi can anyone recommend some good adult Shi-Fi books?

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If you'd like a suggestion and someone hasn't already replied to your message, then, try any of these three novels I wrote: Deadly Encounters or Rise of the Sky Sailors or Lucifer's Henchmen I hope this helps!

Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth series

Not sure what I am going to read but I need to read an award winner for my library's reading challenge. Either one of the Lord Darcy books or a Hugo winner I have. Ray Cumming's Beyond the Stars is in my currently reading stack. Had to put it down to get some books due back at the library read and then this challenge started.

Looking for some new books! Have read 1984, Ready Player One, Dark Matter, A Thousand Pieces of You and a few others recently (all of which were great). Really into the multiverse, sci-fi, and just futuristic type books. This is the perfect time to find some if any one has recommendations.

Reading: Marie Lu's "Wildcard" after falling in love with "Warcross." And if you're looking for a new feminist fantasy novel, check out mine: Nomania

I'm currently reading Rebecca Roanhorse's Storm of Locusts novel and have All Systems Red by Martha Wells queued up!

The Butterfly Effect

EarthboundJust finished reading "Earthbound" by Marily Collier... Now I get to Narrate it! Great fun. Louis Lamour meets Arthur C. Clarke writing.
Next on my reading/listening is another great scifi -First of Their Kind First of Their Kind by C.D. Tavenor - I'm way excited about this one. Not too distant future the first fully self aware Synthetic Intelligence & the implications thereon. Hopefully I'll be done recording both of them by the end of the month. :)

If you love YA fantasy, check out the giveaway that starts here tomorrow (*8/17) for Below the Moon by Alexis Marie Chute!

I started "Kindred" and I'm amazed by it! :0)

Francis wrote: "Would love to get into some Sci-Fi can anyone recommend some good adult Shi-Fi books?"

Definitely check out Elizabeth Moon or Tanya Huff or Octavia Butler if you're looking for a well-established, classic author. If you're looking for something newer and more talked about in the now, you should check out Becky Chambers or Ann Leckie or John Scalzi.

I'm glad you're looking to get into sci-fi, definitely keep that curiosity up! And don't worry if one of the authors is not doing it for you, just move on to the next on the list. I can't guarantee you'll like all the authors I recommended, but there's a very good chance you'll like at least one, so keep at it til you figure out what you like.

And good luck!

I'm going through PKD's "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale" collection of shorts.

I'm looking for a fantasy about a woman who finds out she has powers, that glow purple. Along her travels she meets a Prince who's powers glow blue & at some point an enchantress gives her a stone so she doesn't fall pregnant. Read it YEARS ago, want to know the other books also

I highly recommend The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet!

This one got me in a Sci-Fi mood that just doesn't seem to go away, absolutely loved this one.

Smaug wrote: "James wrote: "Just wrapped up "The Fountains of Paradise" by Arthur C. Clarke, and now about to start in on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy of books. I'm also working my way, slowly but surely,..."

Dune is awesome I recommend getting the audiobook... i tried reading it but got bored. The audio kept me interested and was glad i finished it

Annette wrote: "The way of Kings (currently reading)
The Fifth Season ( starting this week)"

Wow, I'm doing the same thing... Nice!

Mia-Sché wrote: "I'm looking for a fantasy about a woman who finds out she has powers, that glow purple. Along her travels she meets a Prince who's powers glow blue & at some point an enchantress gives her a stone ..."

Tamora Pierce! That's her Alanna series! The first in the series is Alanna: The First Adventure. Tamora Pierce is the absolute best, her books are all about girls kicking butt and I love it! She's written so many, Alanna is just her first series, so if you reread that one, you should check out her other stuff. It's all just as good and some are even better.

Cool! I didn't realize it was sci-fi & fantasy week until now. I have actually been thinking of giving Patricia A. McKillip's works a try. Might begin with The Riddle-Master of Hed and go from there. :-)

I'm reading Gods of Jade and Shadow. I'm excited and into it so far!

Gordon wrote: "Finishing up Tau Zero (Poul Anderson), Werewolves of London (Brian Stableford), Heroes in the Wind (Robert E. Howard). Then on to Moon Over Soho (second Rivers of London book) and I've also got Arc..."

Aaronovitch is a hoot! He had me at "i am not a fictional character" in the first book. :-)

Highly recommend Armada and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Others that I love are the classics from Isaac Asimov, Aldous Huxley and manga works like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain.

Just started Hobbit!

Black Science by Rick Remender

The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

Challenger of the Unknown by Jack Kirby

DC SHOW CASE present Amethyst Princesses of Gemworld

Some comic book recommended.

'LISA BENNETT VISITS UTOPIA' is my contribution to the world of SCIENCE FICTION. It has a courageous heroine, a female astronaut who ventures where no man has ever set foot before. The original novel was in English, however, it was also translated into German and was recently re-published (in unlimited quantities) by the academic publisher GOLDENE RAKETE...(golden rocket) how fitting is that? They asked me to bring out a newly revised, much better version, since the first limited edition sold out completely!

I might just reread "A Storm of Flowers" though I might need to purchase at fresh copy on Amazon (A Storm of Flowers by Lorenzo Samuel).

...am always on the lookout for a bit of roman a clef & bildungsroman in SF, a la Heinlein or Dick or LeGuin... any suggestions not including PJ Farmer ???? ...am not averse to romance/titallation/genre but have found no one very able/compelling/re-readable in that regard ...

...am always on the lookout for a bit of roman a clef & bildungsroman in SF, a la Heinlein or Dick or LeGuin... any suggestions not including PJ Farmer ???? ...am not averse to romance/titallation/genre but have found no one very able/compelling/re-readable in that regard ...

Sidney wrote: "...am always on the lookout for a bit of roman a clef & bildungsroman in SF, a la Heinlein or Dick or LeGuin... any suggestions not inlcuding PJ Farmer ???? ...am not averse to romance/titallation/..."

Be curious to know why you aren't fond of Farmer.

Goodreads is overwhelmingly about a subgenre of the roman a clef - identity-fiction - posing as some other genre. Readers here are overwhelmingly searching for an identity, often identifying with another ethnicity or even a gender - even their own gender. Are these readers envious, naive, unimaginative, obese, ill-educated? Do they simply have too much time on their hands? ...or too many hands on their time, if you know what I mean...?

Smaug wrote: "James wrote: "Just wrapped up "The Fountains of Paradise" by Arthur C. Clarke, and now about to start in on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy of books. I'm also working my way, slowly but surely,..."


Is Dune really that slow?

Currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, which has elements bordering on sci-fi and fantasy!

I'm going to read The Midnight Folk by John Masefield. Looking forward to meeting some talking animals in the next week and enjoying the scent of an old and loved copy that is new to me :D

Bowl of Heaven by Larry Niven and Gregory Benford. I am super excited because I believe that Niven is a master of collaboration. Whether it is with Pournelle, Lerner, Barnes, or...the effort produces something far greater than either would have produced alone!

BookLuva28 wrote: "Cool! I didn't realize it was sci-fi & fantasy week until now. I have actually been thinking of giving Patricia A. McKillip's works a try. Might begin with The Riddle-Master of Hed and..."

I have read this series (long ago) but her book The Forgotten Beasts of Eld is one of my all-time favourite fantasy novels. I highly recommend it.

Denisse wrote: "I'm reading The Murderbot series. So far so good!!!!"

I've just finished book 3 and will be going straight on to 4. REally enjoying it.

I just finished reading the sci-fi mystery novel, “The Robots of Dawn”, by Isaac Asimov. Even though this novel was published in 1983, it could have been written today. Today’s technological advancement in robotics makes Asimov’s robots in this novel believable.

P.E. wrote: "Currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, which has elements bordering on sci-fi and fantasy!"

Magical realism is the term. Means the book has a very realistic setting, except for just one or two little, subtle things that say magic. It's a pretty popular genre for literary authors to dabble in. Some are known for it though, like Haruki Murakami or Sarah Addison Allen. (Marquez is also known for it, I believe most if not all of his books fit that genre). You should check them out, you might like them.

I'm reading "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell", it is about magic, which puts it into the fantasy category. I am not reading it specifically because of the sci-fi/fantasy week, as I started it long ago, it ways in at over 1000 pages and the plot runs at a snail's pace.
In the eighties I read a lot of sci-fi, my favourite was "The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham.

Thank god she stopped. This is the third(?) person I have come across doing this. If there are any aliens looking for someone to abduct we have a candidate for you.

Jim wrote: "I'm reading "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell", it is about magic, which puts it into the fantasy category. I am not reading it specifically because of the sci-fi/fantasy week, as I started it long ..."

Which one is the Chrysalids. I recall reading one of Wyndham's books, probably in high school, but not the title.

Currently reading A Court Of Thorns And Roses, hopefully I'll be able to finish it by the end of the week.

The 2nd book of my YA Dystopian Sci-fi series "Selfless" is available for pre-order now here: bit.ly/FindYourselfBySBreaker

Here's a quick blurb:
Laney Carter saved the multiverse. Only, she doesn't remember...

And now her alternate world selves have begun "The Bleed", wreaking havoc on her life.

Luckily, Noah Donovan is back to take her to his world again to get her memory back and to find a cure. And she needs one, fast.

A veiled organization called "The Alliance" doesn't want her in their world. Laney has been displaced, in clear violation of the laws of space-time.

Laney needs to fix her condition before "The Bleed" takes over completely. Or before "The Alliance" fixes her themselves. Permanently.

finishing After Atlas followed by Children of Time

I'm looking forward to reading all the great SFF stories in Rogue Skies!!!