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[mark, personal space invader]

it does!

[[deleted user]]

I loved Blindsight so I picked up Starfish and Maelstrom by Peter Watts. At page 75 and I absolutely love what I've read so far!

[Richard]

Beezlebug wrote: "Banner wrote: "Beezlebug wrote: "Finished Caliban's War. Easily one of the best books this year. I'm hoping they decide to extend it beyond a trilogy (the next book would be the last)"

I'm glad to..."

Thanks for the link Beezlebug. Didn't know it existed, have just now downloaded it for £1.49. Bargain!

[Beezlebug (Rob)]

Richard wrote: "Beezlebug wrote: "Banner wrote: "Beezlebug wrote: "Finished Caliban's War. Easily one of the best books this year. I'm hoping they decide to extend it beyond a trilogy (the next book would be the l..."

Glad to help! I picked it up too. Little shorter than I would have liked but it was an interesting back story.

[Rachel]

I'm reading Dandelion Wine right now.

[Megan]

I'm reading a collection of Alfred Bester short stories right now, and really digging it.

[Banner]

Mathieu wrote: "

I loved Blindsight so I picked up Starfish and Maelstrom by Peter Watts. At page 75 and I absolutely love what I've read so far!"

Matthieu, I am on my last 100 pages of Blindsight. It is a challenging read. Does Starfish take place in the same universe? How would you compare the books, so far?

[Jenny]

I finished The Man in the High Castle and I didn't enjoy it. I've realized that I like Philip K. Dick short stories much more than his novels so I'll stick to those for now. I also started listening to I Am Legend on audio.

[Maggie, space cruisin' for a bruisin']

Right now I am reading To Your Scattered Bodies Go. Finding it a little preachy, but not too far in yet.....

[J. Allen]

Rachel wrote: "I'm reading Dandelion Wine right now."

I'm nearly done with Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing-- I would love to re-discover his classic works now that he has passed, and I can see in these essays how he came to some of his greatest moments in his work. Naturally, he makes it look effortless, but we all know differently. . . . !

[Dylan]

Just finished the first section of Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson. I'm intrigued but not impressed; the premise is interesting but it reads like a standard techno-thriller. Not sure if that's Wilson's normal style, but I've heard better things about his other books.

[Scott]

I'm reading A Wind Named Amnesia / Invader Summer.

[Marjorie]

I just finished up the eARC of Lois McMaster Bujold's forthcoming new Vorkosigan release, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance and you can read my review here.

So right now, I'm actually re-reading my own new release, When Minds Collide, because people whose judgment I trust have been urging me to add just a little bit more to the end. Despite over 200 downloads in its first 6 days (it's a free book so lots of downloads, duh) I'm actually considering changing it as I read it through from a week's "distance" after release.

I've read it about 50 times in the last 30 days. I wrote it in a week. It'll take me 3 hours to write another 5000 words and another 1 hour to edit it so it's not like I couldn't easily enough but....

I hate to change something after I release it into the wild. I have to confess, though, reading it "like a reader" instead of like an author or editor or publicist or promoter has kind of left me feeling it deserves 4 stars for lack of a satisfactory ending which means I should add a bit more to the end.

Would love more "second" opinions. I'm not just soliciting reads and reviews for my new book (which I would love but did you not see it's free? I don't make any money off it)

I'm really torn about this decision and would like some inputs. This group's members were SOOOOOOOooo helpful last winter while I was developing the cover art for the series. I would value your collective inputs again. The story is available all over the web but you can actually read it "inline" right here on the Goodreads site's book page. It's in either PDF or ePub because that's what Goodreads offers me to offer you.

Odd as it sounds, it was really when I read Lois's new book and saw her work had "dropped" down to a 3-star level for whatever reason that I realized, "My gawwwd, if it can happen to her, it can happen to me!" and figured I should take another look after so many complaints about it not being long enough. So full circle moment....maybe :)

-Friday
@phoenicianbooks

[Beezlebug (Rob)]

Finished The Shadowed Sun and Heaven's War. Both were okay but nothing spectacular.

[Dylan]

Finished Blind Lake, and found it disappointing on the whole. Might read Fairyland by Paul McAuley next.

[[deleted user]]

Banner wrote: "Mathieu wrote: "

I loved Blindsight so I picked up Starfish and Maelstrom by Peter Watts. At page 75 and I absolutely love what I've read so far!"

Matthieu, I am on my last 10..."

Hey Banner, I'm halfway through Starfish because my exams have been taking most of my reading time but really Starfish reads a lot like Blindsight. It is somewhat less challenging to understand the science, but the general mood is similar to Blindsight. The cast is a bunch of outcasts and that reminds me a bit of Siri. If you like Blindsight I'm sure you'll also enjoy it. I can't wait to finish it, I like where it's going.

It does share the same universe but takes place some 30 years before Blindsight if I'm correct.

[Kevin]

Charon's Claw

[Scott]

I started Firebird, the latest Alex Benedict novel from Jack McDevitt.

[Scott]

I finished The Lies of Locke Lamora. I enjoyed the book but for some reason it just took me forever to finish it.

Now I'm reading Seed. Enjoying it so far.

[Jenny]

I finished I Am Legend. I wasn't a big fan in the beginning because the lead character seemed to mention how hard it is to resist his "urges" way too much. After listening to the first part over a series of several days I listened to the rest all at once on a road trip home from vacation. I thought the story got a lot better after part 1. The ending was really cool and smart.

I'm now listening to Earth Unaware, Card's newest book in the Ender Universe that takes place during the First Formic War. I have to admit it hasn't grasped me yet but hopefully it will with time.

[Maggie, space cruisin' for a bruisin']

just about done with To Your Scattered Bodies Go, and about to start Frankenstein

[mark, personal space invader]

i love Frankenstein!

[mark, personal space invader]

and not to be repetitious, but: i love Consider Phlebas! great book. i really like the Culture series in general (wat least hat i've read so far).

[Jenny]

I'm reading Sandman Slim and it is a fun read.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Got a few going...and several library books came in all at once. BUT I'm doing a reread of one of my all time favorites that I read first back in '67. Glory Road

[Don]

I caved in and started A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. I had wanted to wait until at least the next book was published but my daughter enjoyed book three more for not having seen the tv series first and I think she is right.

[Maggie, space cruisin' for a bruisin']

I love the Culture novels, too. They are imagination to the nth degree, which is what attracts me to sci-fi in the first place....


Now I am think about having a Culture series read, and need to go sit somewhere and be quiet before my head explodes...lol

[Beezlebug (Rob)]

Maggie wrote: "I love the Culture novels, too. They are imagination to the nth degree, which is what attracts me to sci-fi in the first place....


Now I am think about having a Culture series read, and need to ..."

In case anyone's missed it, the new Culture novel The Hydrogen Sonata comes out in Oct.

[Dylan]

I just started the Culture this year and I loved the first two, although my expectations had been set a bit high for The Player of Games.

Currently reading Kraken, and for whatever reason it's the first of Mieville's books that's kept my interest past 100 pages.

[Zac]

I'm tearing through for the first time - just over half way through and enjoying the HELL out of it!

After this I'm either going back and reading Richard K Morgan's follow ups to Altered Carbon of maybe some more Dan Simmons.

[Barry]

I've recently finished Blood Siren Book One by Michael Formichelli. In the book he creates a convincing and richly-described all-too-real possible future where corrupt human politics looms large across the known galaxy. The book gets off to an excellent start with an action-packed, non-clichéd scene where Nero, an augmented ‘Abyssian’ agent, attempting to save a family, makes a fatal mistake that will haunt him throughout the rest of the book (and I presume the series). Meanwhile, at the opposite end of a hierarchical class system, a young and inexperienced Cylus, one of the influential Barons, is desperate to find out who killed his family (and how), and is persuaded by his formidable lover Sophie to take a dangerous path to do so. The plot brings neatly together these two very different characters via a murder investigation that occurs about a third of the way through the book, and from this point onwards the book doesn’t let you go.

Michael Formichelli’s main strength is his descriptive powers, both in terms of the future landscape, e.g. the sky castles and the general opulence of this Barony-led future, and the principal characters, all of whom feel distinct, from the two protagonists already mentioned, to the seductive and manipulative Sophie – not sure yet whose side she is really on – and the decidedly (and convincingly-portrayed) psychopathic Zalor. However, he also writes very sharp action scenes which will ring in the reader’s minds afterwards – more of these in book 2, please!

I did find the first third of the book – after the terrific opening scene – to be a little slow, but this was building up the characters and the political context, its duplicity reminding me of the Dune series, and once the suicide/murder of one of the Barons (a powerful scene in itself) occurs, the book races along.

As advertised, this is Book One, so it does not resolve at the end, and I am now eagerly awaiting Book 2, which hopefully will be on Amazon’s ‘shelves’ very shortly.

[Scott]

I finished Seed last week. I really enjoyed it.

Then I started The Black Dahlia. I like the beginning but I didn't get much read over the weekend.

[Scott]

I just finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and liked it a lot.

[Dylan]

Taking a break from Kraken to read The Pride of Chanur.

[mark, personal space invader]

Scott wrote: "I finished Seed last week. I really enjoyed it...

i'm finishing up with that one, probably tonight. so far, very mixed feelings.

[Ruth]

Just started "The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller.

[Beezlebug (Rob)]

Finished several books since my last update:

The Shadowed Sun
The Winds of Dune
The Third Claw of God
vN
In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks
Weird Space: The Devil's Nebula
Harmony
Chimera
The Last Werewolf

[Andrea]

I'm reading the last book in Janny Wurts' Alliance of Light and Shadow series--a horrible, horrible piece of work, but I just HAVE to find out how it ends! Maybe after this I'll finish the WoT series…

[Andrea]

Dylan wrote: "Taking a break from Kraken to read The Pride of Chanur."
I haven't read that, but I enjoy Cherryh's work. Cyteen, Downbelow Station, Invader...maybe a couple others, too. She's a bit strange, but in a good way!

[mark, personal space invader]

Andrea wrote: "I'm reading the last book in Janny Wurts' Alliance of Light and Shadow series--a horrible, horrible piece of work, but I just HAVE to find out how it ends..."

i'm surprised to hear! i've only heard good things about that series. now i'm just really curious... if you don't mind, can you mention why you didn't care for the series?

[Dylan]

Andrea wrote: "I haven't read that, but I enjoy Cherryh's work. Cyteen, Downbelow Station, Invader...maybe a couple others, too. She's a bit strange, but in a good way!"

I finished it a couple days ago. I'm not sure if it's typical of Cherryh's work since it's the first of hers I read, but I liked its style. She didn't waste much time with exposition, she just integrated the world-building into the story and the dialogue and expected you to keep up, which is a lot more fun and evocative if done well. It reminded me of Larry Niven (with softer science) in that way - also in that they both took the utterly cheesy idea of cat-people aliens and built serious, fascinating cultures with it. I'll definitely read more of Cherryh's work.

[Scott]

Just started my first Bova - Leviathans of Jupiter.

[mark, personal space invader]

i finished up City a few days ago. wonderful! i'm not sure what scifi novel i'll be reading next. may take a break and read another genre or two.

[Jo Ann]

Pushing myself to get through Brave New World.

[Banner]

Mark I can't seem to break away from sci-fi. There are several mysteries I'm wanting to read, but I seem obsessed with my sci-fi.

[Maggie, space cruisin' for a bruisin']

I have been totally loving reading Stories of Your Life and Others for our book read....very inspiring!

[Kevin]

I'm reading The Order War right now, then maybe a reread of Left Hand of Darkness.

[Robert]

I've just started The Simulacra. I really haven't read enough Philip K. Dick, especially his earlier books.

[mark, personal space invader]

Banner wrote: "Mark I can't seem to break away from sci-fi. There are several mysteries I'm wanting to read, but I seem obsessed with my sci-fi."

i have two crime/mystery novels that i need to read, both sequels to books that i've read well over a year ago and really enjoyed. Dark Hollow and Mystery. maybe i'll finally get to them this month.

[Sérgio]

I'm delving into the mysterious world of Soviet SF and reading Half A Life by Kir Bulychev.

I thought the first story was very well-written but a bit too melodramatic for me.