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message 2101: by Scott (new)

Scott MadProfessah wrote: "Ooooh “the library at mount char” is great !!"

Agreed, it was a nice surprise.


message 2103: by Maggie, space cruisin' for a bruisin' (new)

Maggie K | 1287 comments Mod
Ive been wanting to read The Library at Mount Char, too It seems I have been such an impulsive reader lately...lol


message 2104: by Phillip (new)

Phillip Murrell I'll finish Drift Wars later tonight. I've had a lot of fun with it.

The Drift Wars by Brett James


message 2105: by CD (new)

CD  | 112 comments Maggie wrote: "Ive been wanting to read The Library at Mount Char, too It seems I have been such an impulsive reader lately...lol"

Now I'm waiting to know if another Mount Char entry is coming. It was a good surprise when I found it in the Public Library.


message 2107: by Allan (new)

Allan Phillips Finished Tea with the Black Dragon & The Aeronaut's Windlass. Started reading Leiber's The Big Time & The Drowning Girl. Listening to Autonomous by Annalee Newitz on audio. Chindi will be my next start.


message 2109: by Phil (new)

Phil | 58 comments The Soldier Love Neal Asher, but will have to wait for the rest of this trilogy.


message 2110: by Allan (new)

Allan Phillips Scott, how did you like Fare Thee Well?


message 2112: by Phillip (new)

Phillip Murrell I'm about a third of the way through of Born (The Dire Saga, #1) by Andrew Seiple

I'm intrigued enough to finish, but I'm not sure it'll be a standout when I do.


message 2113: by Scott (new)

Scott | 130 comments Allan wrote: "Scott, how did you like Fare Thee Well?"

I liked it. It really paints Phil and his wife to look like asses. I kind of knew that anyhow. It gave a good account of what the remaining members went through after Jerry's death.


message 2114: by Allan (new)

Allan Phillips Well, I finished Autonomous and I'm working my way through The Big Time and The Drowning Girl. But I needed an action break last night, so I started Witch World. Then I needed a new audio read, so I started The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It felt like a good one for audio.


message 2116: by Phil (new)

Phil | 58 comments Finishing up the Revelation space trilogy by Alastair Reynolds. Loved this when it came out and a decade later it is just as good.


message 2118: by Bill (new)

Bill Lace | 8 comments Patrick wrote: "Finished Consuming Fire by Scalzi the other day (and eagerly awaiting the yet unnamed 3rd book in the series).

Just started reading Greg Hickey's Our Dried Voices (Thanks for the ..."


Recently also finished The Consuming Fire, and here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 2119: by MadProfessah (new)

MadProfessah (madprofesssah) | 76 comments @Phil nice to hear that REVELATION SPACE trilogy still stands up on a re-read.


message 2120: by Allan (new)

Allan Phillips Last posted two weeks ago, then had my reading drastically cut by family visiting and chaos at work. I finished The Ocean at the End of the Lane but had audio app issues. Not my fortnight. I did read McDevitt's A Talent for War as a prelude to reading Polaris, which I got with my brand new library card. Started Beggars in Spain on audio and God's War as e-book. Things have calmed so I should be able to pick up the pace.


message 2121: by Scott (new)

Scott The Children of Men for real life SF book club.


message 2122: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) I've been reading Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente. It's really fun - a steampunk space opera mystery.


message 2123: by Esther (new)

Esther (eshchory) | 82 comments I am reading and enjoying a scifi novel from netgalley Dalí. I was a little surprised by the amount of sex though I shouldn't have been considering the narrative centres around a third gender and the sex is more or less integral to the world building and plot.


message 2125: by Esther (last edited Mar 02, 2019 10:34PM) (new)

Esther (eshchory) | 82 comments Mary wrote: "The Terracotta Warriors: Exploring the Most Intriguing Puzzle in Chinese History by Edward Burman"

That looks interesting.
We visited Xian on our China trip. I had always wanted to go there. It was amazing and now I want to learn more.


message 2127: by Allan (new)

Allan Phillips Finished Polaris (Jack McDevitt) and Witch World (Andre Norton). About halfway through God's War and a quarter through Beggars in Spain. Started reading Fritz Leiber's classic Conjure Wife, a '43 Retro Hugo prospective nominee. I've had it on my shelf for a couple decades as something a little more to the horror side.


message 2129: by Scott (new)

Scott | 130 comments I finished Elevation and The Troop.

Now I'm reading House of Leaves. It's been a little difficult to figure out the writing style at the beginning.


message 2130: by Scott (new)

Scott I just finished Weird Fiction Review #8. Not sure what I want to read next.


message 2131: by Allan (new)

Allan Phillips Still working on Beggars in Spain audio, but finished God's War, Conjure Wife and Semiosis by Sue Burke (pretty good!). Started in on Gibson's short story collection Burning Chrome and Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. Then I'm going to try to catch up on The Academy with Chindi & Omega.


message 2132: by Kirsten (new)

Kirsten  (kmcripn) I just started FR A ME by A.K. Alliss. I struggle with cyberpunk, but I'm not that far into it, so I'll give it a while before giving up.


message 2133: by Patrick (new)

Patrick Mcnelis | 16 comments Just started The Last Colony by Scalzi. I've thoroughly enjoyed the Old Man's War series so far.


message 2134: by Phil (new)

Phil | 58 comments I have been working my way through the Sten series by Bunch and Cole, currently on Fleet of the Damned. Lots of fun! I read the first in the series years ago and did not know that it was the first in a series.


message 2137: by Allan (new)

Allan Phillips Finished Burning Chrome & Little Brother and will wrap up Beggars in Spain tonight. Little Brother in particular was really good; makes you think! 3/4 through McDevitt's Seeker, the 3rd in the Alex Benedict series (I still have to catch up on Chindi and Omega), and just started E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime, though I can't figure out why it was Nebula-nominated, doesn't feel like the right genre. The Three-Body Problem looks like a group Read coming up, and I'll need new Kindle and audio choices; Sterling's Schismatrix and Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust are queued up.


message 2138: by Scott (new)

Scott Finished Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright, now reading Odyssey by Jack McDevitt.


message 2140: by Patrick (new)

Patrick Mcnelis | 16 comments Just finished reading The Last Colony by John Scalzi, and Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds. Just got Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey and so my weekend is planned.


message 2141: by Phil (new)

Phil | 58 comments I have been working through the black company Chronicles of the Black Company grimdark fantasy to be sure, but fun.


message 2142: by MadProfessah (new)

MadProfessah (madprofesssah) | 76 comments I just got TIAMAT’S WRATH as well! I’m savoring it for awhile though.


message 2144: by Allan (new)

Allan Phillips Hey MadProf, tell me how Tiamat's Wrath is when you devour it. I wait till The Expanse books come out in paperback. But I am ready for the end of the series, it feels to me like they're near the point where they jump the shark.


message 2145: by Mike (new)

Mike Abrahams (drivelry) | 1 comments Have just finished the Winternight Trilogy, Russian fantasy trilogy. But so interestingly different with all the Russian cultural references in it, and so well written.


message 2146: by MadProfessah (new)

MadProfessah (madprofesssah) | 76 comments @allan I’m a James Corey fanboy so I doubt I will have bad things to say about an EXPANSE book.


message 2147: by Allan (new)

Allan Phillips Last two weeks: finished up Seeker, then 1955 Hugo winner They'd Rather Be Right, which I found in my local library. Knocked out Ragtime, which I've wanted to read for a long time, and Clarke's A Fall of Moondust on audio. In progress are Jim Butcher's Furies of Calderon, Trail of Lightning (2019 nominee), Harry Potter #2 and Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix. Rolling along pretty well on page count, around 80 per day, on pace for just over 100 books this year.


message 2148: by C. John (new)

C. John Kerry (cjkerry) | 404 comments Currently reading Smith’s Skylark Three. This is actually for a reading challenge. I needed a book from 1925 to 1930 and this one is on Goodreads’ list of books from 1930. Actually a reread but I have been wanting to get too this one for awhile.


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