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[MadProfessah]

about to start reading the RECORD OF A SPACEBORN FEW after finishing A CONJURING OF LIGHT.

[Audrey]

I just finished Ready Player One. That book was a lot of fun to read.

[Ed]

Just finished Vanguard, the first installment of The Genesis Fleet series by Jack Campbell.

[Duane]

I'm reading Perry Rhodan Silberband 22: Schrecken der Hohlwelt: volume 2 of the cycle "Die Meister der Insel" https://www.amazon.com/Perry-Rhodan-S...

[Bookish]

I've just started Starship Grifters after an interesting detour by way of Judas.

[Audrey]

I just started Agents of Mars

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I finished my reread of the full April series by Mackey Chandler. Not the four Family Law books because I’ve reread those too recently, but that’s still a ten novel marathon. So now I’m back to trying to find something that holds my attention and not having much luck.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Found a new book to read! Girl on Fire by M.C.A. Hogarth. This is in her Pelted Universe but is either a standalone book or start of a new series. I’m more than half finished. The start was meh but it got more interesting as it went along. Teenage equivalent girl from a technologically backward planet gets a chance to “go see the aliens”. Enrolls in a vocational college in a very technologically advanced and multi species civilization. Coming of age stuff mixed in with figuring how she can get some of what she learns back to improve her home planet.

I think this main character is a minor character in Family, in the Dreamhealers series, but if so this new book is backstory.

[L J]

The only thing I am sitting down to read is Space Opera: Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews. Space battle yet to come if the pirates aren't completely defeated and demoralized by what is taking place on the planet.
I am doing a variety of audio books including Suzanne Brockmann, Georgette Heyer, Lynsay Sands, and Nalini Singh. After 3 weeks working on the Friends of the Library book sale with some of the days being over 10 hours long I am so far behind on house and yard work audio is the way to go.

[Richard]

Currently reading Endymion Rising (Hyperion Cantos #4) by Dan Simmons. I thought Hyperion (#1) was a veritable masterpiece. I really loved #3 and will feel sorry to finish #4 and the series, but that may reflect my own subjective taste than literary merit. Carrion Comfort was also great if you don’t mind a deviation from our genre for a bit (it’s horror I believe, but well conceived and written).

[Oscar]

Right now I'm going through Ball Lightning by Liu Cixin. Hyperion is on my to-read list.

[MadProfessah]

I just picked up “Ball Lightning “ at the library.

[Lizzie]

After reading Dragon's Code by Anne McCaffrey's daughter, written about characters that were very familiar, and feeling angry at how Gigi had changed these iconic figures from nicknames to personalities, I buried myself in rereading my 20 plus Pern books. It gave me a new appreciation for the ones written by Anne's son, whom before the butcher job by Gigi, I hadn't given enough credit to.

[Kate]

I’m rereading The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams. Partially because I just binge watched the Dirk Gently series on Hulu and really enjoyed it.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I’m still having a hard time finding any new books that hold my attention. After rereading a lot of fantasy, I’m currently rereading Empaths by S.H. Jucha and will most likely follow it by its two sequels. This is space opera, with a colony world, mining ships, space station. If memory serves the aliens show up in book two.

[Audrey]

I just finished Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, which is not fiction, but was very interesting.

[Audrey]

I just started Darkness Beyond by Glynn Stewart. Definitely Space Opera.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Finished rereading Empaths by S.H. Jucha. Read a new SF book The Way Things Seem by Mackey Chandler. Beginning of it seemed not SF at all, first sort of mainstream, then it seemed fantasy. By about the middle it was definitely SF but on the weird side and definitely not Space Opera. I’m looking forward to the sequel.

Now I’m rereading the sequel to Empaths, Messinants. Aliens. Politics. Heck, even alien politics. I’d forgotten how poor a job of world building was done on the aliens in this book, but it’s still readable.

[Patrick]

I just started Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds. First time through.

[Trike]

Today I finished Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis, which was interesting and crazy. 4 stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I also just finished the 4th Murderbot installment, Exit Strategy, a rollicking adventure, also 4 stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I’ve now equaled my record number of books from last year at 103... except not really, as only 21 of them are “real books”, i.e. full-length novels and non-fiction tomes. The rest are novellas, art books and graphic novels. But that was the plan all along, so I’m good with it.

[L J]

Trike wrote: "Today I finished [book:Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metrop..."

Even for those not interested in NBA basketball this is good read. It's not just about sports and a place. It's about people. In case anyone finds it unbelievable: I was living east of OKC when OKC was annexing land. Towns desperately annexed surrounding land to keep OKC from taking it and that is still causing problems. We endured the sonic boom tests and everyone I knew gave up trying to keep chickens. I was working in downtown OKC when the buildings were being torn down. The company I worked for and companies where friends of mine worked left OKC and did not return. I could go on with more examples but they all go to show this is a book about people, a very interesting book about people.

[Trike]

Thanks LJ; as you say, it’s a fascinating character study of outlaws and misguided folks living alongside genuine heroes and brilliant citizens who wanted the best for the city.

If it were the background of an SF world, no one would believe it. It’s that bananas.

As I mention in my review, I visited OKC in 1984 and I have no memory of the place at all. Just a complete blank. This seems to have been at the height of the ill-advised “urban renewal” plan when they were just knocking down almost every building older than a couple decades to make room for megabuildings which were never built.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I finished my reread of the three books starting with Empaths by S.H. Jucha. Odds are eventually there will be a fourth one.

Seeing nothing interesting in recent releases, I’m now rereading The Silver Ships by the same author. That series is up to ten or eleven books now, so it should last me a while, assuming it holds my interest of course.

[Ally]

I read 2 collections of short stories by Clifford D. Simak (as I read them in French, I'm not mentioning the titles)
I really like this author and strongly suggest to everyone to read him, especially his short stories. It's very well written.
If you need action forget it !

[Betsy]

Simak's Way Station is one of my favorites. Not really space opera, but really good sci-fi.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I enjoyed rereading Way Station a year or two ago as well.

Edit. Hmmm my read date on Goodreads shows 2011 so it’s been longer than just a couple of years. But I still recall parts of the story.

[Trike]

Teresa wrote: "I enjoyed rereading Way Station a year or two ago as well.

Edit. Hmmm my read date on Goodreads shows 2011 so it’s been longer than just a couple of years. But I still recall parts of the story."

It’s okay, Teresa, we all get to that age where saying “the other day” could mean last Tuesday or 1985. :p

[C. John]

Trike wrote: "Teresa wrote: "I enjoyed rereading Way Station a year or two ago as well.

Edit. Hmmm my read date on Goodreads shows 2011 so it’s been longer than just a couple of years. But I still recall parts ..."

Some of my former co-workers would have argued that in my case the year might have been 985.

[L J]

I often find that books or series I feel I read year or 2 ago I actually read much longer ago. Maybe the better the book the clearer my recollection is.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I’ve been rereading the series that starts with The Silver Ships. It had eleven books when I started this reread. I just found out about the 12th one which was published several days ago: Artifice by S.H. Jucha.

Now do I continue with the rereads and then read the new one, or jump straight to the new one???

[Oldklingon]

I am currently reading Vengeance newest book in a great series. I am also listening to The Silver Ships, just got started, good so far.

[Betsy]

Just finished Honor's Knight, second in Rachel Bach's Paradox trilogy, and I really enjoyed it. It surprised me and I love that in a book. Now I've started the third book, Heaven's Queen.

[Trike]

I read the second installment of Scalzi's Interdependency series. As with all Scalzi, it's a lightweight, fun Space Opera. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Leonie]

I've just finished Skyward by Brandon Sanderson and really enjoyed it.

[L J]

In case anyone is reading online draft copy of Sweep of the Blade by Ilona Andrews the Epilogue posted Dec 1 so it is complete. It will be online for a short time then pulled for rewrite/editing before being released as book. I consider it both Space Opera and Science Fiction Romance. The Andrews are very good at describing battle scenes and that is something I appreciate. Some other authors don't keep track of where ships are or the positions of hand to hand combatants.

[TJ]

Just wanted to drop in and say I am about to begin reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. I read Revenger (from the same author) quite a while ago and really, really enjoyed it so I am looking forward to this!

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

I finished rereading book 5 of The Silver Ships series before the temptation was too strong and I jumped to reading the new one Artifice. I notice that Goodreads has this new book credited to a different author with the same name - very strange and will make it harder for fans to notice the new book.

[Betsy]

Teresa wrote: "I finished rereading book 5 of The Silver Ships series before the temptation was too strong and I jumped to reading the new one Artifice. I notice that Goodreads has..."

Fixed. I think.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Thanks Betsy. At least it’s showing as by the same author. Not listed in the series but this gives fans a better chance of finding it.

[Betsy]

Teresa wrote: "Thanks Betsy. At least it’s showing as by the same author. Not listed in the series but this gives fans a better chance of finding it."

Okay, got it in the series. Thanks for reminding me.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Perfect! Thanks sooooo much Betsy!

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

Artifice was good. The series still isn’t finished???

Now I’m reading The Magnificent Wilf by Gordon R. Dickson. I’m not sure whether I’ve read this before but if I have it’s been decades. It’s got a weird sense of humor to it, as well as an interstellar organization of dozens of species of aliens, who are trying to determine whether humans should be allowed to join.

[L J]

Teresa wrote: "Artifice was good. The series still isn’t finished???

Now I’m reading The Magnificent Wilf by Gordon R. Dickson. I’m not sure whether I’ve read this...It’s got a weird sense of humor to it..."

One reason I still enjoy reading or re-reading Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Silverberg, Randall Garrett and other SF writers of the time is the odd humorous bits that are in so much of what they wrote.

[C. John]

The very titles of some of Randall Garrett’s Lord D’Arcy series show an obvious sense of humour. My favourite title is possibly “The Muddle of the Woad”.

[L J]

C. John wrote: "The very titles of some of Randall Garrett’s Lord D’Arcy series show an obvious sense of humour. My favourite title is possibly “The Muddle of the Woad”."

Lord Darcy is a favorite re-read especially Too Many Magicians where it's fun trying to figure out all the borrowed characters. I was so involved in the story I missed Archie and Wolfe until the office description.
I think it says a lot about them that when Garrett and Silverberg wrote together they used the name Gordon Aghill. Gordon was Garrett's first name.

[Patrick]

Just finished Starship Titanic by Terry Jones

Just started a foray into the catalog of John Scalzi, reading The Collapsing Empire

I'd read Old Man's War a while ago, but never went back to Scalzi for some reason. Figured I'd try a different series.

[Teresa, Plan B is in Effect]

The Magnificent Wilf wasn’t holding my attention, but I haven’t given up on it yet. I got distracted by a new book released in a fantasy series I like, and now I’m reading the latest in the series that starts with Auberon: St. Legier by Blaze Ward. This one has hopes of getting four stars from me - we’ll see. I’m at 34% right now so there’s lots of pages for getting better or worse or losing my interest entirely.

[Phillip]

I'm reading Some of the stories are pretty "meh," but the one about Captain Antilles and the original red droid were quite amusing.

[Thorbjørn]

im reading Send in the Hero by timothy ellis. It's the third book in The Hunter Legacy Series. It's a fun and easy read, that's really good.

[Ally]

I've just finished the new Peter F Hamilton Book Salvation. I love it, it's pure Hamilton, with stories within stories... Can't wait the next one. He is still using his favorite way of transportation : portals ! I have to admit it's quite handy to explore new planets !