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Aside from Project Hail Mary which I assume every /c/sciencefiction subscriber is going to read what have you been reading or plan to read?
Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (August 2023)
Just finished "The Gone World" by Tom Sweterlitsch.
A mix of SciFi, detective and coslic horror. Pretty good, I really liked the ending.
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, will probably pick up Ghost from the Grand Banks by Clarke soon.
I tried dungeon crawler carl because I saw it recommended so much. This has been the most fun series I've read in a long time. I'm up to book 6 which just came out. I'm listening to the audiobooks and the narrator is excellent. I originally thought there had to be multiple narrators, but nope. The premise sounds silly, and it is, but the execution is excellent and is great fun.
Currently reading Nemesis Games, part of The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey
In terms of sci-fi, I've got The War of the Worlds on list.
I'm reading Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin on recommendation by a colleague, Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett in my second run through of the Discworld series, and Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber, since I never got around to that one when I was DEEP into Star Wars books.
Cyberpunk! I read Let Slip the Beasts by Suzanne Berget yesterday. I recommend it. Not too long either.
Today I'm gonna find another cyberpunk book to read. Maybe Nexus by Ramez Naam that someone else recommended me.
Strange Highways by Dean Koontz, not exactly typical sci-fi but there are stories in the collection about time travel, aliens that take over human hosts like Body Snatchers, and genetically engineered super-intelligent rats that want to kill humanity. Koontz began his early career as a sci-fi writer and didn't find much success, until he steered into the horror genre later. It shines through fairly often in some of his stories, when the aliens or science experiment monsters show up.
Just picked up "version zero" by David Yoon
Just finished Lightbringer by Pierce Brown. Red Rising series is a must!
Currently reading Codex Alera 5 and loving every minute of it
I haven't read much science fiction these past few weeks...I mainly am doing a re-read of Night Watch by Sergi Lukyanenko, which is an urban fantasy set in Russia.
When the Ukraine war started, I was vastly disappointed that the author of this series supports Russia against Ukraine, so I didn't do a re-read for several years due to that.
But recently, I'm curious about his viewpoint of the world--so on the reread I've been looking closer, and I'm starting to understand his stances were there in his work all along, even accounting for the translation from Russian into English.
His series is about Light Others vs. Dark Others, and how they've come together to make a truce, and there's a lot of rather cynical acceptance of corruption and good deeds doing harm so it's better sometimes to do nothing which stands out to me now that I'm older and can digest the themes of the book better.
Craft-wise, he's a very good author, there are things that come through that go beyond language (the way characters talk to one another, the way scenes and plots are set up) so as a writer myself I'm taking note of the tricks I might snatch and use myself. But I've been very thoughtful about culture and ethics and morals and how everyone likes to think they're on the right side of things.
I'm about to start Leviathan Falls (final novel in The Expanse). Every bit of it has been phenomenal, and I can't imagine the last book will be any different.
Right now I’m reading the entire Dark Space series. All 6 books in collection available on Amazon kindle. I don’t recall if they have physical copies for purchase or not, but it is an attention grabbing series with a great storyline. This is not hardcore sci-if with a bunch of science and mathematics probablilities
Working my way through Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian Esselmont. Going to take a break from Malazan after this and dig into shorter stuff I've been meaning to get to.
Children of Time. I heard about it from Quinn's reviews and have been wanting to read it ever since.