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Jul 13, 2019 07:24AM
Religions of India in Practice by Donald S. Lopez Jr.
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I have just finished All You Need Is Kill. The writing style was much gentler than most military scifi I've read and not quite what I was expecting from the title but definitely a 4.5 stars.
After I finished Jade City & Star Maker, I knocked out The Wasp Factory pretty quick - gruesome but short. Making a trip to the library, I found The Calculating Stars, this year's Nebula winner; pretty good read, not super sci-fi, more like a cross between The Right Stuff and Hidden Figures. Now, once again, I find myself in the middle of several books: Downbelow Station; Seveneves; Dreamsongs Vol. 1 (GRRM anthology); Make Room! Make Room! (Kindle); & The Dark Forest (audio). I've got a buddy read of Dying Inside to start as well.
My local library system has an Andult Reading Challenge for the summer. One of the things to read is a book that was an award winner. Since Randall Garretts Lord Darcy series won a Sidewise award one of those books should suffice.
I just finished A MEMORY OF EMPIRE by Arkady Martine after also reading THE CA
Finished Downbelow Station - great classic space opera - and Make Room! Make Room! (From which Soylent Green sprang), and Silverberg's classic Dying Inside. Working to finish Seveneves and Storm of Locusts, the sequel to last year's nominee Trail of Lightning.
Just finished up Fall, or Dodge in Hell last night. It isn’t my favorite by Neal Stephenson but it was an interesting journey. Despite the meandering storyline in the latter chapters, I give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ because it ends nicely and the quality of both the ideas and the writing helps overcome the slogging pace at times. Next up for me: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald
Just began reading Recursion. The author's previous work Dark Matter I read about two and half years ago.
Just started Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany. Great so far. Lovely writing.With heavy elements of linguistics and alien invasion, this is already an obvious inspiration for / predecessor to Ted Chiang's short story from Stories of Your Life and Others that was later made into the movie Arrival.
just finished Fury by Henry Kuttner and now starting Emphyrio by Jack Vance
I have just finished a really good book. It is not strictly speaking right for this group because it is not 'science-fiction' it is a factual story of the canine cosmonauts of the early USSR space programme. But it was really interesting and I thought sci-fi readers might be intrigued by it;
by Olesya Turkinareview; https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The topic's "What are you currently reading?" not "What SF are you currently reading?"0:)
Velocity Weapon and Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France.My fiction and non-fiction selections of the week.
Mary wrote: "The topic's "What are you currently reading?" not "What SF are you currently reading?"0:)"
Very true!
I've been trying to keep up with the posts but haven't posted myself in awhile. I have read House of Leaves, Man in the Empty Suit, The Hunting Party, Rose Madder, Monster Hunter Siege The Monkey's Paw, and The Screaming Skull. Now I'm reading The Institute.
I just finished 
by Philip K. Dick againMan that is a good book! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Re-reading Neuromancer, plus old classic The Long Tomorrow and The Radium Girls by Kate Moore, a recounting of the horrific injuries suffered by the girls who painted clock & watch faces with radium-based paint before there was full understanding of its dangers, and the negligence of the companies that employed them.
The Long Tomorrow is familiar but I can't recall who wrote it.
I recall when Ballantine Books was doing it's Best of series Ms. Brackett did the introduction for the Edmond Hamilton volume while he reciprocated with hers. Seemed quite appropriate.
An unusual story for her. Not so much the post-apocalyptic setting as the tone of the journey.
The Long Tomorrow was ok but just petered out at the end. Definitely a 50's nuclear fear story, so depends on your taste for that. Now reading A Fire Upon The Deep, The Faded Sun: Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh, The Dying Earth by Jack Vance.
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds. The first of the two is virtually a horror story!
All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. A fairly quick read. It's interesting the ways the movie "The Edge of Tomorrow" diverges from this source material but is still relatively faithful to the book overall.
Joseph wrote: "All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. A fairly quick read. It's interesting the ways the movie "The Edge of Tomorrow" diverges from this source material but is..."I really liked the book and the movie was good too, though it seemed like they dumbed the explanation down so that people would understand it.
I really enjoyed the book, not seen the film yet but it’s on the list, bumped a bit higher after reading this!
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