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justifiedsinner |
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Uber User Posts: 794 | Felt the need for some fantasy while I recover from a bout of pneumonia so I started on N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy. Impressive debut. Have started on the second one. Also reading The Healer's War for the WoGFC and still wading through Stephenson's Confusion. | ||
charlesdee |
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Uber User Posts: 39 | For WofGFC I'm reading Falling Woman by Pat Murphy. And having just finished the Elric series I am diving into more Moorcock. | ||
francesashton |
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Regular Posts: 96 Location: Cheshire, England | My WoGF this month is Geist by Phillipa Ballantine which is looking pretty promising. I've still got Storm Constantine's Stalking Tender Prey on the go. Also picked up a load of free/cheap on the Kindle Daily Deals lately so that'll keep me going for a while. Oh and I finished Boneshaker by Cherie Priest just in June. Spent quite a while going through the lists on here to find more choices in the WoGF then got distracted by the Orbit database upload. It's all go! | ||
Tim_Eagon |
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Member Posts: 46 | I'm not participating in the WoGF challenge, but I'm currently reading C.L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry, which is a collection of five stories featuring the eponymous character; so far, excellent S&S with some very evocative alternate dimensions. After that, I'm not sure what I'm going to read next; I have quite the stack of unread books and the WWE database has done nothing but expand it! | ||
Scott Laz |
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Uber User Posts: 263 Location: Gunnison, Colorado | Just finished 2312 by KSR, Jack Vance's Son of the Tree, and a bunch of Vance's short fiction from the early '50s (Abercrombie Station, Telek, etc.). Most likely Pangborn's Mirror for Observers next, and I need to get caught up on the WoGF (I've also got Falling Woman on my list for that, along with Brackett's Long Tomorrow and Sargent's Shore of Women). | ||
charlesdee |
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Uber User Posts: 39 | Brackets Long Tomorrow is excellent. Are you reading the Library of America Great 50's Science Fiction volumes. I was glad to see it made the cut. | ||
Scott Laz |
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Uber User Posts: 263 Location: Gunnison, Colorado | @charlesdee: Yeah, I’m working my way through the Library of America books (I did this blog post on the set a few months back.) The Brackett, Matheson, Budrys, and Blish are the ones I’ve never read. Good to hear you recommend Long Tomorrow, and I look forward to see what you think of Falling Woman. | ||
rgatton |
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New User Posts: 4 | Reading Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro for the WoGF challenge. Having kind of a hard time getting into it, but hoping it gets better. | ||
DrNefario |
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Uber User Posts: 526 Location: UK | I've just finished Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, my third-to-last Hugo winner. I liked it. It didn't rock my world, but it was a solid bit of SF. I also finished another crime novel I was multi-tasking (A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow). I'm moving on to this month's WoGF selection, next. I was planning to read Linda Nagata's The Bohr Maker, but coming off Spin I feel I need something more different, and I've decided to go for Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord. (It also needed to be a book I can read on my new Nook SimpleTouch e-reader, since I haven't used it in anger yet. This ruled out all my Kindle books. The Nook is my third e-reader. Yes, that's probably at least one too many. ) | ||
pauljames |
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Veteran Posts: 106 Location: scotland | I am reading Shrine by James Herbert. After this I will be reading my first Philip K Dick novel A Scanner Darkly. I have also just purchased my next two books. Both of them horror. A novel Anno Dracula by Kim Newman and a short story collection by Clive Barker - The Books of Blood(Volume 1-3). Although I am trying to read more scifi and fantasy I find myself drawn to my horror favourites constantly. So far this year I have read 2 horror books 3 fantasy and 1 scifi. I have also read China Mieville's The City and The City but I do not know which if any genre this belongs to. | ||
Badseedgirl |
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Uber User Posts: 369 Location: Middle TN, USA | I have tried and tried to do a zombie month, but have not been all that successful. I plan to try again this month. I am more than caught up with my WOGF reading, and have made some good in-roads on my quest to finish the NPR SF/F list. On Deck this month: Zombie Fallout 2: A Plague on Your House - Mark Tufo(Done) Cities of The Dead: Stories from the Zombie Apocalypse - William Young (done) City Of The Dead - Brian Keene Zom-B - Darren Shan Dead Tossed Waves - Carrie Ryan and if it comes in from interlibrary loan: The Reapers are The Angels - Alden Bell I own Feed by Mira Grant, and I plan to read it at the end of the month for my WOGF | ||
francesashton |
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Regular Posts: 96 Location: Cheshire, England | Just finished two of my WoGF that I mentioned in my earlier post. Starting on Arif the Unseen and this is really, really good so far. Whizzing through it. | ||
ArchangelAlan |
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Member Posts: 18 | So far in June I've read Asimov's Foundation trilogy, PKD's "Martian Time-Slip," and I am presently finishing Zelazny's "This Immortal." | ||
dustydigger |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1008 Location: UK | I haven't been around to do much posting lately,tedious life and health problems in the way.An operation next week,a bit convalescence ,and hopefully Im get back in the swing of things next month.Anyway,here is apartial list of what I have been reading over the last two months.Maybe next month I can at least make a few comments on what I have read.Anyhoo,here's the list; William Goldman - The Princess Bride Peter S Beagle - The Last Unicorn Orson Scott card - Seventh Son Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games C J Cherryh - Intruder Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth plus a few enjoyable books from other genres - I am nothing if not eclectic!; John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men Margery Allingham - Police at the Funeral Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest Patricia Briggs - Frost Burned <u>Books in progress now;</u> China Mieville - Embassytown Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale Erskine Childers - Riddle of the Sands <u> next up</u> Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Empire Raymond Feist - Magician Poul Anderson - Tau Zero Some good stuff to fortify me through boring convalescence.See you all inJuly! | ||
mellyn |
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Member Posts: 6 | This month so far, I've read City of Illusions by Ursula K Le Guin and I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Oh, and I finally finished Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugresic. Really happy to be done with that one - good book in essence, I think, but completely not my type. :p I've just started Railsea by China Mieville... and at some point this month, I'll start my next WoGF selection which will likely be The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff. But I might still change my mind and start something else instead, lol. Not sure what else yet. We'll see how quickly I read! | ||
Tim_Eagon |
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Member Posts: 46 | I started reading Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon last night...I couldn't put it down and am already a third of the way through. I guess I should start thinking about what I'm going to read next! | ||
ArchangelAlan |
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Member Posts: 18 | I started the first Hyperion today. Most recently I finished This Immortal by Zelazny. So far as Zelazny goes, this in my opinion was one of his weaker books, slow and plodding and not particularly interesting until the last 80 or so pages. I am dumbfounded as to how this book tied with Dune for the Hugo in 1966. Dune is far and away a better book, and This Immortal doesn't come anywhere near being even in the same league as Dune. This is not to disparage Zelazny. Lord of Light is on my top 5 favorite sci fi books of all time list, certainly. But This Immortal? Not even on my top 100. | ||
Scott Laz |
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Uber User Posts: 263 Location: Gunnison, Colorado | Finished Pangborn's A Mirror for Observers. On to David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus (next in the historical fantasy tour), and the March 1953 issue of Galaxy. Also listening to the audiobook of James S. A. Corey's Caliban's War, greatly relieving the tedium of yard work. @dusty: I hope your recovery is quick! (I hated Card's Seventh Son, because it reminded me of the Utah History class I had to take in 7th grade!) | ||
DrNefario |
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Uber User Posts: 526 Location: UK | I finished Redemption in Indigo pretty quickly. It's short, and easy to read. I liked it, but it.'s not really sticking with me. I then moved on to Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm, which I've just finished and liked a lot. The first part was probably the weakest. I liked the way the changes in the culture of the community were shown. That leaves me with just one Hugo winner to read: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, which I will be starting imminently. I've also read a bit of crime to keep things varied. | ||
ArchangelAlan |
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Member Posts: 18 | Dr. Nefario, I wish I could read Lord of Light again for the first time. You are in for an adventure. | ||
Badseedgirl |
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Uber User Posts: 369 Location: Middle TN, USA | I had to take a break from the zombies because the library informed me I was next on the list For Charlaine Harris' "Dead Ever After". I just finished it and will post a review when it is on the web site (Please note Powers-That-Be That this is NOT a hint to add it. I know you have your hands full with the WOGF challenge, so whenever is fine!), so now it is back to the walking dead! | ||
DrNefario |
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Uber User Posts: 526 Location: UK | Finished Lord of Light, and completed the Hugo winners! Great book to finish on. | ||
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Admin Posts: 3944 Location: Dallas, Texas | DrNefario - 2013-06-25 7:53 AM Finished Lord of Light, and completed the Hugo winners! Great book to finish on. Congrats on finishing the Hugo Winners! That solid green bar looks mighty fine on the stats page. Do you have a new goal in mind? | ||
justifiedsinner |
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Uber User Posts: 794 | Actually for us non-sysadmin types the solid bar is blue. | ||
mellyn |
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Member Posts: 6 | But when comparing to someone else's, your own is blue and the other person's is green | ||
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