What are you reading in June 2015?

[Michele]

So, I just finished binge-reading (and listening - the audiobooks are well done) the entire Retrieval Artist series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch - https://www.goodreads.com/series/4224...

That's 14 books (I haven't read the several novellas yet) and the next one is due out on the 9th, so I'll be reading that one right away. I'm totally hooked on these!

I finished Queens Walk in the Dusk which was a strange little novel about Aeneas on his search for a new city after the fall of Troy and he meets up with Dido and they have a short romance. Interesting.

I'm about 1/2 way through Nefertiti's Heart which is kind of a sexy, steampunkish, mystery - fun, and the audio version is good too.

Next up either Three Parts Dead or City of Stairs probably. I get my next Audible credit on the 8th so I'll be getting Nemesis Games with that one. I think I need a fantasy in between.

[Kivrin]

I'm currently reading The Dragon and the Unicorn which I picked up at the annual old book sale. Really interesting take on the Arthur story. This particular book is about Uther and Ygrane but it goes far beyond a simple romance and explores the Christian and Celtic religions in a really unusual way. Thoroughly enjoying it.

I think I'll try an L.E. Modesitt book next (as receommended by someone here.) Again, picked it up at the old book sale so I'm hoping it's a good one--The Eternity Artifact

[Jim]

Kivrin wrote: "...I think I'll try an L.E. Modesitt book next (as receommended by someone here.) Again, picked it up at the old book sale so I'm hoping it's a good one--The Eternity Artifact "

I gave it 4 stars but didn't review it for some reason. That's odd for me. Hope you like it as well.

[Bobby]

I'm always reading comics, even if they are back issues, you can always bang out a 6 issue story in like an hour or two, read a new author RoChe Montoya, enjoyed her work and now i'm on to more comics, but i think i'm in the mood for another short story or maybe jump back on an older book, Go Set a Watchman is coming this month so i may read To Kill a Mockingbird, it has been a while, yep there it is i talked myself into it, that is my next book.

[[deleted user]]

For those interested in what's new in SF & F this month,...


SFSignal offers a Cover Gallery of June 2015 Releases

Tor.com offers:
June Fantasy releases.
June Science Fiction releases

[Michael]

I am taking a quick break from SF/F and reading Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West right now. After that, though I have Cibola Burn, The Man in the High Castle, Old Man's War, and Sand Omnibus on the stack. I just ordered Nemesis Games, so I may start with Cibola Burn to be able to read that soon.

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Michele wrote: "I get my next Audible credit on the 8th so I'll be getting Nemesis Games with that one. I think I need a fantasy in between. ..."

I just spent 6 weeks without an Audible credit. Though I never ran out of audiobooks, my annual plan re-upped yesterday, so I went on a celebratory shopping binge.

The good news on the Nemesis Games audiobook is that they've gone back to Jefferson Mays as the narrator. Hachette Audio's switch to Erik Davies' lethargic performance for Cibola Burn can now be forgotten.

[Michele]

Ha, I forgot I already used a credit to pre-order Nemesis Games until I got a message this morning and there it was! Woot, now I can use the credit for Uprooted.

Now I can't decide what to read next though.

[Amoeba]

I borrowed the video game The Witcher from my sister, started playing and realized it was based off some books. Sooooo I went out and got Blood of Elves and The Time of Contempt. Blood of Elves was excellent but I'm already annoyed with The Time of Contempt. It focuses heavily on the young girl who's the center of a prophecy and she's so.annoying. If I wanted a child's perspective I'd have read a YA novel, and if I wanted to listen to teenagers bitch I'd hang out at the mall. I also feel like the translation may have been a bit rushed.

So I may switch to a new book. I have a few kindle books I got for free or cheap that I could look at.

[Tz]

I just suffered through The Warded Man and am now working on The Grace of Kings which seems much more promising. I also just got Peter Clines new novel The Fold

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After I finish....


Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

I'm going to read Scalzi's latest Old Man's War story,

The End of All Things by John Scalzi

The latter is being released in a 4-part ebook serialization in June, with...


The Life of the Mind
To Stand or Fall
This Hollow Union
Can Long Endure

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Oh, yeah, I just finished reading Crown of Slaves, which is a David Weber/Eric Flint co-author set in the interstellar human universe of Honor Harrington. Though I've read a dozen of the Weber novels, I haven't visited the Honorverse in a few years, and I think this story jumps me ahead a bit in the timeline. Anyway, fewer fleet battle tactics and more individual heroics, plus more Flint lectures on government, and a convoluted set up that seem designed to fail.

I'm also reading Boundary Crossed as my KOLL for May. I previously read Olson's Dead Spots urban fantasy. I thought she was doing something new with this "boundary" series, but she's basically reused the same standard UF world (vampires, werewolves, & witches, oh my) but switched to different characters. Part of my brain says give up and move on.

[Michele]

I just had to read Nemesis Games since I had it pre-ordered from Audible (I forgot haha) and it was most excellent!

New Retrieval Artist book magically appeared on my Kindle woot! Masterminds is the last in her "Anniversary Day saga" of 8 books - the first books in the series stand alone, but these 8 are all one massive ongoing storyline.

I'd recommend them to everyone who likes The Expanse and murder mysteries and aliens. Book 1 is The Disappeared. The audio versions are good too, though only some of them are Whispersynced.

In audio I'm doing Heirs of Grace which, so far (Ch. 5) is a fun little book about a young woman who inherits a weird house from a mysterious old man. Supernatural fantasy wackiness is going to happen, I'm sensing. And some romance. It's a Kindle Unlimited and add audio for free.

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Michele wrote: "I just had to read Nemesis Games since I had it pre-ordered from Audible (I forgot haha) and it was most excellent!..."

Yeah, Nemesis Games was a great story! Once I started I couldn't stop.


Scalzi's last Old Man's War serial, The Life of the Mind showed up on my Kindle this morning, so as soon I finish the last novelette in this month Asimov's I'll be starting that.

Ii have the new Rusch on my to read, but not yet on my Kindle.

[Garyjn]

Enjoyed White Devils by Paul McAuley in May, so this month I'm going with his The Secret of Life.

[Bryce]

I devoured the three books in David Brin's Uplift trilogy. (Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War.) Working on The New Uplift trilogy. The first book being Brightness Reef. Having a bit of trouble getting into it though.

[Jaclyn]

Right now I'm actively reading two books, "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell (not SF/F, I know, but it's still a good read, and was lent/recommended to me by a friend so I had to give it a fair shake), and "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke. For some reason both are YA books, which is odd for me. I just finished "The Book of Three" from The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander yesterday, so I'll be picking up another book to replace that one very soon. I'm thinking either "Out of the Silent Planet" by C.S. Lewis, or "Fiasco" by Stanislaw Lem (both are books I've never read before, so I'm looking forward to them). Possibly going to start "Caves of Steel" (Asimov) soon as well, and I'm also still trying to talk myself into finishing "The Road" (Cormac McCarthy), but the whole no chapters thing bothers me...unless I'm reading Discworld novels, and then it's perfect.

[Dan]

Red Rising has been intense thus far...

[Christy]

Finished Station Eleven, which I liked a lot.
Started The Peripheral, which someone mentioned on GR, but so far (page 30) it makes no sense and hasn't really captured my attention. Don't know if I will finish.

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Christy wrote: "Started The Peripheral, which someone mentioned on GR, but so far (page 30) it makes no sense..."

That's pretty much normal for William Gibson.

[Kivrin]

Dan wrote: "Red Rising has been intense thus far..."

It just gets better!

[Sophie]

I've just started End of Days by Susan Ee. I've been waiting to get my hands on it for ages :)

[Ryan]

So far I've read The Abbey by Chris Culver and The Accident by C.L. Taylor. My next one will be The Dolls House by M.J. Arlidge

[Jim]

The Green Progression by L.E. Modesitt Jr., possibly the only book of his I haven't read before. It's fascinating & scary. Although fictional, the politics & science behind it are quite real.

[Michele]

I finished Heirs of Grace which was a fun urban fantasy, the style was very conversational, which was a bit weird at first, but it worked for me, and I did the audio Whispersync - the narrator was good.

Now I'm listening to The Dragon's Path, good so far, only 3 hours in.

And I just read Resident Evil #1 The Umbrella Conspiracy which was so much like playing the games it was funny. I could totally picture all the visuals from the games. The writing wasn't anything special, but not terrible. I will probably read a few more.

[[deleted user]]

Just finished Unicorn on a Roll. No that wasn't the sandwich I ate for lunch. It's a collection of Phoebe & Marigold comics, in the style of Calvin and Hobbes, but with a unicorn instead of a tiger.

[Leo]

Tore through Daniel O'Malley's "The Rook" and now I'm burning through "Prince of Fools" by Mark Lawrence. Great reads, both.

[Michael]

Just finished the first book of Max Gladstone's Craft series. Good stuff!

[[deleted user]]

just finished Spinrad's Journals of the Plague Years, now reading one of Ashley's histories of SF mags

[D.R.]

I read bookPerdido Street Station byChina Miéville. I enjoyed it, but it was very bizarre. The story was compelling but he has a strange imagination. Though China Mieville's stories are fantasy I've heard that they are subcategorised as 'New Weird' and I was wondering if anyone else new of anything else in this vein which I could take a look at?

[D.R.]

Sophie wrote: "I've just started End of Days by Susan Ee. I've been waiting to get my hands on it for ages :)"

I've read Angelfall and I'm hoping to read End of Days soon. Are you enjoying it?

[Raylion]

I just finished American Gods and then Study Trilogy Collection: Poison Study, Magic Study, Fire Study and now I am on to Orphans of Chaos

American Gods was 100 pages too long for what it was in my opinion... and the last book in the Study trilogy was not that good in my humble opinion. Or maybe the story did not move forward as quickly and smoothly as book 1 and book 2. Which I thought were great.

[Kivrin]

Raylion wrote: "I just finished American Gods and then Study Trilogy Collection: Poison Study, Magic Study, Fire Study and now I am on to Orphans of Chaos

American Gods w..."

I agree with you on Fire Study. I loved the first book, liked the second, but I never even finished the third. Thought I might revisit one day.

[Angela]

I'm currently reading Toby Buckell's Ragamuffin. It took a bit of getting into, since it's been a while since I read Crystal Rain, which comes before it, but I'm enjoying it a lot. I love his world/culturebuilding, both the different human societies and the aliens, who are very alien. Good stuff. :)

Angie

[Andreas]

Just finished Children of Time. I highly recommend this SF space opera. See my review.

[Michele]

I just finished Flex, which was good, not great. Really cool magic system, but a little too on-the-nose with it's social commentary. Overall though it was good.

Now I'm reading Reflections in the Nile a time-travel romance. I'm a sucker for ancient Egypt.

[Christy]

Just finished Nemesis Games by James SA Corey, most recent of the Expanse books. Good read, though wondering where it will go next. And so long to wait to find out.
Also looking forward to seeing the sci fi series on the books--may have to go back and reread to see how close they come to what I imagine.
Gave up altogether on The Peripheral. Life is too short and there are too many books to spend time on one that I just couldn't get into.

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Christy wrote: "Just finished Nemesis Games by James SA Corey, most recent of the Expanse books. Good read, though wondering where it will go next. And so long to wait to find out."

Yeah, unlike the previous 4 books, this one didn't provide a clean end; but I thought it was a terrific story.

[Christy]

G33z3r wrote "Yeah, unlike tthe previous 4 books, this one didn't provide a clean end"

Not a clean end, perhaps, but a good cliffhanger type of stopping point. I thought it was a terrific story, as well, and the chapters going back and forth between characters made it hard to put down.

[Latasha]

I have just started reading a novel from J.M Barber called "Gliders". Talk about a sci fi thriller. The gadgets used in the book are cool and the story line is action packed. Carlo and his crew really go through a mind twisting series of events. At one point I wasn't sure if anyone would survive. I thoroughly enjoyed this read. The only critique I would give it is the slow start but if you are patient it really can get intense. Check it out: I have just started reading a novel from J.M Barber called "Gliders". Talk about a sci fi thriller. The gadgets used in the book are cool and the story line is action packed. Carlo and his crew really go through a mind twisting series of events. At one point I wasnt sure if anyone would survive. I have just started reading a novel from J.M Barber called "Gliders". Talk about a sci fi thriller. The gadgets used in the book are cool and the story line is action packed. Carlo and his crew really go through a mind twisting series of events. At one point I wasn't sure if anyone would survive.

[Scott]

Hi everyone, this is my first post in this group (aside from saying 'hello' over in the introduce yourself thread).

I'm reading The Beast of Maug Maurai by Roberto Calas,
I thought I would give him a try after first reading a bit of his work on Authonomy a few years ago. I'm part way through and it's pretty good - look forward to reading more.

The Beast of Maug Maurai, The Culling