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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)
Children of Time. I heard about it from Quinn's reviews and have been wanting to read it ever since.
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.
I am currently reading A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher. I love her other work so I am excited to read this and the first few chapters read easily for me which is nice.
On a more SciFi note I just finished Artifact Space by Miles Cameron and it was decent. The protagonist is kinda annoying with the "I'm an idiot" thing but is pretty much good at everything they do. The author also goes into a lot of details on stuff that doesn't feel important to the story so it kinda felt like a slog to get through some of the earlier parts.
Reading Venemous Lumpsucker because it was in the news recently as winning an award. It's very funny, a satire on Corporate Business and climate change. It actually reminds me of when I read Stark by Ben Elton as a young teen in many ways - it's more inventive but there's a similar vibe (the world is helpless in the hands of corporate greed because corporate people just don't know what else to do).
2/3 of the way through and it's definitely easy to read and funny
I'm on the third book in the Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers. It's excellent 👌
Yesterday, finished Stephen Markley's The Deluge, a great read and a tremendous effort - highly recommend it.
The Deluge is a speculative fiction novel that focuses on the sociopolitical, economic, and ecological development of a series of catastrophic personal and global events stretching from the late 2010s with the narrative concluding around the late 2030s.
It's a longer novel, around 800 pages, if you prefer something more compact Markley's previous novel Ohio is terrific as well.
I've been trying to get through A Memory Called Empire for like 2 years now. I keep hearing how good it is l, but I'm maybe halfway through and I feel like the story has been slow going, and the poetry thing is weird too. It is very well written though. Maybe someone has something encouraging to say about it
I listened to And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones and found it entertaining enough to start the second book in the series right after. It's not really scifi, I mean, time travel could easily be tagged fantasy as well. I don't know if I'll finish the series though. It's missing something that I can't quite put my finger on. Somewhat shallow and the secondary characters are paper thin. Fine reading to pass the time (or spend 12 hours on a train...) but nothing I'll be thinking about once I'm done. I've been struggling to get through the first few chapters of Perdido Street Station for a while, I may give it another go this weekend.
I'm halfway through Gaiman's American Gods and then I'm going to complete my journey though The Culture with The Hydrogen Sonata.
Brin's Uplift War series.
The black fleet trilogy. Normally "space opera" isn't my preferred genre but these books are pretty great.
Last month I picked up a grab bag at a used bookstore store in my old home town. I plan to grab one at random until I get through them all. So I don't know what I'm reading this month but I know it's something from this bag.
I've finished "Dance if the Hag" and "Pennterra" so far. Just started "northern stars" today.
I just read neuromancer again. As you can tell from my handle, I love the book
Just bought this book, it's next on my list.
It is a product of its time, so keep that in context.
The audio book is hysterical. The voices just crack me up.
We Hear Voices by Evie Green- Sucks the book came out in 2020 at the heart of covid but so far it is a damn fine story interesting to see how it goes.
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.
The Fifth Head of Cerebus and Nightside of the Long Sun. Gotta get that Wolfe out.