What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?

Fist and Faith · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:45 pm Post subject:

I wash my hands of it!!

Laughing

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Absolam · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:19 pm Post subject:

Effaeldm · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:03 pm Post subject:

Hard to say about on par or not, I think the thoughts on that seriously depend on the reader.

I find "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" and "A Study in Emerald" both wonderful, but I've seen people praise one and berate the other. I can see myself they're very different and love them mostly for different things, though there is something in common, of course, first of all an unusual look on things.
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ussusimiel · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:06 pm Post subject:

I'm re-reading the books I have in David Weber's Safehold series. I'd recommend 'Off Armageddon's Reef' (the first in the series) but I'm not so sure about the rest. It's as if he wants to combine sci-fi + heroic + romance and it grates a bit. His heroes and heroines just seem a bit too perfect. I'm not looking for 'grimdark' but jeez does it have to be all square-jawed, morally perfect geniuses Mad

He also, annoyingly, raises science and technology to the level of religion and somehow manages to relate this to a God. One hero wades through the blood and severed limbs of a multitude of enemies of progress without a twinge of conscience and yet somehow, at the same time, manages to maintain a totally improbable unquestioning belief in God *shrug*

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Avatar · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:46 am Post subject:

Frostheart · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:15 am Post subject:

Absolam · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject:

Thanks to everyone on the feedback RE: Gaiman. I must say I was not nearly as impressed with the second half of Neverwhere (finished it last night) as I was with the first half. After all the build up I felt he took several cheap paths to wrapping the story up. Oh well, still a good read. I was encouraged enough to try another and appreciate the feedback here on possible options.
-Absolam

Avatar · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:52 am Post subject:

As usual when I don't have anything to read, I've defaulted to Pratchett. Going Postal.

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Cambo · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:06 am Post subject:

Mockingjay- the last book in the Hunger Games trilogy. I've been unable to put them down, read the first two in three days.
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SoulBiter · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:03 pm Post subject:

Just finished the three books myself. I enjoyed them thoroughly.
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ussusimiel · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 6:37 pm Post subject:

Just finished a re-read of Wheelers by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.

A good standalone sci-fi novel of first-contact (which I have a preference for). It's a bit of a romp, in some ways, and does contain a couple of implausible coincidences (only noticed them on the re-read though). Relatively low-tech with a bit of rough-and-tumble bootstrapping (which is always fun).

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Spiral Jacobs · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:31 am Post subject:

Listening to The Prefect By Alistair Reynolds, narrated by John Lee. I'm convinced that many years from now, everyone will be speaking with a slight Irish accent.

aliantha · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:24 pm Post subject:

I'm sunk, then. Can't do an Irish accent without it sounding like the leprechaun from the Lucky Charms commercial....

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sgt.null · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:55 am Post subject:

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start it in the am.
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Avatar · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:47 am Post subject:

Hey, tell me what it's like. I read his blog and some columns by him...pretty funny.

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sgt.null · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:07 am Post subject:

I'm Murrin · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:45 am Post subject:

I read it all a long while back when it was still posted free online. Can't remember all that much, other than it being very weird and a bit dark.
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Linna Heartlistener · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:55 am Post subject:

Right now, I'm reading an alternative-uniiverse history - "1634: the Galileo Affair."
(not sure quite what you call this style of sci-fi; I think that's it.)

These authors clearly like history and were CLEARLY having waaaay too much fun 'playing' with the world they envisioned... they've come up with some HILARIOUS situations... if anyone wants to know what the basic premise of this series is, ask away. Big Grin

aliantha · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:18 pm Post subject:

I have a friend who's into that 1634 series, Linna, and I've read a couple of the books. They're not bad. Smile

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