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Just finished my interlibrary loan
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelmhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just started The Ghosts of Gol
. Also reading a mystery The Iced Princes
while my wife has it out from the library.
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by Allen Steele. I'd class this as hard SF, not space opera. It sounds very plausible. There's a heckuva lot of references to classic SF and authors, mostly in the first quarter of the book.
Still reading Red-Rose Chain by Seanan McGuire
Almost done so I want to be able to finish it in one sitting.Also reading The Brimstone Deception by Lisa Shearin
And Swords And Scoundrels by Julia Knight
Marcel wrote: "Does Ringworld count? If so, I'm reading that, at the moment."Not sure if it is Space Opera or not but given what others have listed here why not. And for the record I am not criticizing what anyone has listed. A good book is a good book.
I finished reading my Kindle Unlimited selection
The Frozen Sky by Jeff Carlson last night.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just started listening to For Honour We Stang by H Paul Honsinger.
Almost finished reading The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks.
Just finished Fluency (which was awesome; I posted a review) and I am going to try one of the other March selections next.
Just finished Vulcan's Fury
. Not sure what category of "opera" it belongs in as it's not space. Based on Rome, but the geology, plants, animals, and a lot of the peoples are not Earth type. I liked it. Also finished a few short stories from the Deacon series by Joseph Lallos, which is fantasy, but definitely operatic.
Am in the middle of reading Terran Gambit
. After that I have a couple that I promised to review that I need to read and my free book for the month for my kindle so that I can get my next one on April 1. I went with Gateway
and don't remember why.
I am reading Stardoc by S. L. Vielhl now (on my Kindle) and listening to Room by Emma Donaghue (on my phone via Audible).
I am reading Stardoc by S. L. Vielhl now (on my Kindle) and listening to Room by Emma Donaghue (on my phone via Audible).
Hey - cool interview I did a few weeks ago. You guys might find it interesting. https://authorsinterviews.wordpress.c...
Currently bogged down in Helliconia Spring which I need to finish for my letter H in the A to Z Challenge. Thoroughly enjoyed Judith Tarr's Forgotten Suns, though - should suit space opera lovers! It even has opera :)
I am forever looking for the next Honor Harrington. I'm reading Joel Shepherds's Crossover-A Cassandra Kresnov Novel. I'm about half done. It is very good. I hope I eventually deem it excellent- like Honor.
Gaines wrote: "Nice, actual opera!"Seems to me there is a Star Trek novel that was written under the influence of Gilbert & Sullivan.
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Edit: finished. Yes it had some battles, both spaceship ones and face to face ones. Very good book. Ending wraps things up nicely while leaving the possibility of a sequel.
John wrote: "Gaines wrote: "Nice, actual opera!"Seems to me there is a Star Trek novel that was written under the influence of Gilbert & Sullivan."
Ha!
Jim wrote: "Just a few pages into Polity Agent by Neal Asher. I'm pretty much immersed in the Agent Cormac series, so I'm enjoying this. I have to admit that Asher manages to loa..."i enjoyed those as well as all of his other books.
Frank wrote: "I just finished the first three books of Scalzi's Old Man's War series."i enjoyed all of those.
Gaines wrote: "I'm reading American Gods at the moment (which, I'm fairly certain, is NOT space opera, but which is quite an excellent book so far!), but before that, I read [book:The Dosadi Exper..."some of herbert;s stuff is strange. there's a lot of reading between the lines required.
Jon wrote: "I just came across Wreaths of Empire 
. I apologize if it is in the bookshelves, which I tried to search.Here is the blurb: Naval Intelligenc..."
looks good, i read it tonight.
thanks
Grazzit wrote: "Just finishing 
a great debut novel. Just great, but make sure you read to at least chapter 4 to 5 before you decide. by 15 you will be up all night reading."i'll try that one tomorrow.
thanks
Leonie wrote: "I've just finished Peter F. Hamilton's The Commonwealth Saga. Wow."be sure to read all of his other stuff.
Just finished The Martian and had a hard time deciding what to read next. Thought about this 20-tonne book I have by Peter F. Hamilton, called The Dreaming Void, but I hesitated, in part because I don't really want the weight to break my wrists while reading in bed at night, and in part because I think I'd rather start with some of his earlier works (as I've never read him before). Then my eyes wandered around the shelf and I came across The God of Small Things, which is something I've wanted to read for years, so now I am. There ya go, nice boring story about my reading decisions :-pLauro wrote: "Can i define "READING" as Listening to audiobooks?"
Sure you can. It's not exactly the same thing of course, but it's storytelling nonetheless :-) Before the written word, it's all we had. Enjoy!
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Of course, you can. As far as I'm concerned that is reading. It's consuming a book, whether visually or aurally doesn't matter. I thought that was a particularly good example of an audiobook, too. Warm baritone voice, relaxed easy-going narration.
I have a dreaming void. Tiny print paperback. It's gonna take a whileBrad_cash@hotmail.com
Just finished reading
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge. One of the best book I've read this year!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just been enjoying the Dresden Files - still great on the reread. Also just finished my first audiobook: The Legend of Drizzt: The Collected Stories by R.A. Salvatore and I gotta admit, it was entertaining but very uneven and considering the title, there's so little of Drizzt actually in there that I felt... cheated?
Also just started Brain Droppings and it is already cracking me up - I swear there are few people in history quite as unique and brilliant in their awareness, candour and perspective on things as George. His stand up was such a big part of helpin me crystalise my way of looking at the world when I was struggling with it.
Onto
right now. It's a really good book.
Looking through one of my boxes of magazines and saw a couple of issues of Richard Geis' Science Fiction Review and grabbed one to read (#15 to be exact).
Just made my way through four sci fi books for a review group - and not one of the books I read ventured off Earth. Some good writing in there - particularly by an author named Rafael, in his book The Huntsman - but I'm definitely getting an itch for something spaceborne! I think Honor Harrington is about to join my to-read list.
I've just finished Brian Dorsey's Gateway and I'm moving on to the second in the series, Saint, Saint.For those of you who haven't read them, E.G. Manetti's twelve systems series books, beginning with The Cartel: The Apprentice Volume 1
are an excellent take on a future society in which the children of criminals must pay for the sins of their parents. The protagonist is a woman with a lot of agency, guts and intelligence.
Leo writes: I think Honor Harrington is about to join my to-read list.I advise that Honor Harrington is a series best read in order, starting with On Basilisk Station.
Jon wrote: "Leo writes: I think Honor Harrington is about to join my to-read list.I advise that Honor Harrington is a series best read in order, starting with On Basilisk Station."
Thanks, Jon, got it loaded up and ready to go soon - just finished reviewing The Cartel, actually, well written but my oh my, you'd best be a reader who enjoys frequent sex scenes for that one :)
Dear Ms. Moderator (and fellow fans), Brian Dorsey's follow-on Gateway series books are all well written (and appear to all be on KU as of this writing.) The two Draxius are a nice study in leadership for Lt. Emily Martin, a top of her class warrior who doesn't quite get how to motivate and lead less gifted warriors. Since only moderators may add books to the bookshelf, you might consider adding them.
Dear Ms. Moderator (and fellow fans), Brian Dorsey's follow-on Gateway series books are all well written (and appear to all be on KU as of this writing.) The two Draxius are a nice study in leadership for Lt. Emily Martin, a top of her class warrior who doesn't quite get how to motivate and lead less gifted warriors. Since only moderators may add books to the bookshelf, you might consider adding them.
John wrote: "All in Color for a Dime which has a chapter on Fiction House's Planet Comics. Some of the stuff in that comic would probably qualify as Space Opera"Of course Edmond Hamilton in addition to being one of the great space opera writers also wrote for DC Comics.
Currently re-reading the second book in The Chronicles of Ebenezum
A Multitude of Monsters by Craig Shaw Gardner First read the series back when it was first released in paperback. I plan to dig into the boxes stored my spare room this weekend to find some slam bang space opera, I know I have at least one book by Edmond Hamilton which has a cover by Jim Steranko.
I also have the E. E. Smith's Lensman series somewhere.
One of several sci-fi authors who ended up doing some comic work. Of course Otto Binder is well known for Captain Marvel but Alfred Bester also did some comic work (he created Solomon Grundy). Hamilton wrote a lot of the Legions of Super-Heroes stories in the sixties.
Just finished reading A New Dawnand now I am reading Star Wars Dark Disciple. Making my way through the Disney Star Wars Universe
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When I finish these (two or three more days?) I will dive into Hero by Belinda Crawford for this month's group reading fun.
After that I might read the other two March SOF group reads: Fluency: All Ages Edition (Confluence)by Jennifer Foehner Wells and Stardoc by S.L. Viehl.
I have downloaded all three of these group read books on the Kindle but I'm wondering if any of them are particularly awesome in audiobook form? Any suggestions about that? I like to keep one audiobook going all the time.
Thanks,
Amelia