Just starting Winterbirth by Brian Ruckely - forthcoming new, epic styled fantasy effort.

Finished Bloodlines by Karen Traviss (second book in The Legacy of the Force) - looks like a winner of a series, very excited about this storylne.

Thank for the heads up! I expect nothing less from Traviss. Although I don't always agree with her conclusions in the matter of some opinion, her reasoning is always still sensible and understandable - I'm a big fan of her non-SW fiction as well.

I'm also going on to Bloodlines (just go it today) by Karen Traviss (Legacy of the Force part II) which is the probably the first Stars Wars books I have anticipated reading in a decade.

I agree with Erikson, and have to recommend R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing Trilogy - required epic fantasy reading.

Two stories into Richard Bowes' latest, a collection entitled Streetcar Dreams and other Midnight Fancies and loving it, this is a nice follow-up (not a sequel) for Bowes, after last year's From the Files of the Time Rangers . Bowes just magnifies reality to see the fantastic and has the most authen...

I just teread Bakker's The Thousandfold Thought - yep still brilliant.

To anyone interested in reading this book, just go into it with an open mind and don't listen to all the crap that's being said. What exactly makes what other people say 'crap' - and what you say more relevant? Because I have been busy with some other projects (both related to FBS and not) my readi...

If A Feast for Crows win it will be as big as a joke as when Rowling robbed Martin some years ago (and I'm not one of the peopel who thought aFfCthe book was awful). I'm voting the novel category ike this (still haevn't read Spin yet): Accelerando by Charles Stross Learning the World by Ken MacLeod ...

Seven Touches of Music by Zoran Zivkovic

Personally I can't wait for the new Latro book this year!

I'm reading a few things, but just got the new Rabid Transit , Long Voyages, Great Lies a chapbook frim Velocity Press that I'm real enjoying featuring work from F. Brett Cox, Heather Shaw, Geoffrey H. Goodwin, Alice Kim, Meghan McCarron, and David Schwartz - this is edited by a talented bunch - aka...

As I knew the moment I started it (damn almost a year ago) - I just thought Vellum was brilliant.

So what do I walk out of the library with, it's Touched by Venom by Janine Cross.

Ha! Venom Cock! If anybody wants a brief run-down with applicable links I summarized it (in some form) at my blog last year. Check it out. *just scroll down to 'Venom Cock'.

This book looks so freakin' good that I'm planning to break my cardinal rule - "Never buy a first edition hardcover by an unknown author." I've been burned many a time, most recently with Robert Newcomb's first novel several years ago. But The Lies of Locke Lamora just looks like a can't ...

What is the setting of this book? Do you mean timeline or physical? Physically in a couple of places, Correlia (sp), and sme moment in Coruscant - as well as a previously uncharted (to my knowledge Sith stronghold. Here is my cut/paste when asked a similar question at FBS: n the text (I can't remem...

I read this a couple of weeks ago, and this book kicks all kinds of ass. This is the first book in a forthcoming multi-author sequence (I think it comes out like tomorow). Trust me Starwars fans, a rare quality read in the setting here, really looking forward to the next book ( Bloodlines by Karen t...

Real green!

Starting Justina Robson's Keeping It Real (first book in Quantum Gravity sequence) - I read a preview of this book a couple of months ago, and loved it so looking forward to reading it). I'm also seriously thinking about doing the unthinkable and reading Terry Brook's new Armageddon's Children (whic...

Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks
Part 3 and 4 of Osamu Tezuka's Buddah graphic novels
Scar Night by Allan Campbell

I am reading a preview of an upcoming urban fantasy by Alan Campbell called Scar Night , which is damn good stuff so far. This is due out in July and is volume one of the Deepgate Codex. I also read a damn good Star Wars novel (coming out at the end of the month) called Star Wars: Legacy of the Forc...