I'm reading this on my lunch breaks:
I’m enjoying it. First book I’ve read by this author, but he also wrote True Grit. It’s about a guy who founds a group like the Masons, devoted to the ostensible lost wisdom of Atlantis.
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Futuristic earth scientists are secretly studying life on a medieval planet, disguised as local nobility. One of these scientists struggles to remain aloof while the king and his minister enact a progrom against those intellectuals who history would otherwise remember as the geniuses of their era.
When a coup against the government brings even more violence and brutality, this scientist is pushed to his limit.
This novel also spawned two pretty good film adaptations.
Ken Follet - The Evening and the Morning
Just finished 580 pages of steamship and railway business dickering.
Now on to something where the vampires are less metaphoric.
I love the bit where he wants to use his massive steam ship to just run over the ironclads.
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The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin is one, but I've also been chewing through the Murderbot series
The Muderbot show has been pretty good. I think the cut aways to the SciFi slop he watches is some of the best material, but it's fun all around.
The Broken Earth trilogy just didn't hook me, though. I think if I hadn't ingested so much high fantasy over a lifetime, it could have been good. But at a base level, it just felt like something I'd already read. Same with The Poppy War.
At some point, I think I just want to read the histories, rather than the Fantasy Inspired By the histories.
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I'm most of the way through contact harvest,
Passport to Magonia by Jaques Vallée, crazy alien junk.
Sci Fi book week for me
I have this one on my wish list on LibroFM. How is it?
Shares a lot with Dungeon Crawler Carl but takes itself a little more seriously. I’m on book 5 or 14.
I love ddc. Ill put it on my read list, thanks 👍
I enjoyed White Noise so much I decided to read another.
You’re under arrest?
I put down Kingdoms of Death by Christopher Ruocchio to read Project Hail Mary before the movie comes out. Both good books. I'm enjoying Hail Mary a lot more though. I powered through the first 150 pages in 2 days. It took me like 2 months to do that with Kingdoms of Death.
Fun stuff. I feel like I'm getting drunk just reading it.
"The wager I actually really enjoyed it, currently in South America, but sadly I don't have time to go visit it
My uncle wrote this
The War of Art
Polybius by Collin Armstrong, the urban legend arcade machine in a 80s California town
Almost as many upvotes as comments. Well done.