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Finally finished Forge of Darkness. Gonna take a non-fiction break before starting Fall of Light.

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Fall of Light. Here we go again. :D

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I finally started Robert Jackson Bennett's City of Blades.
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Still plugging my way through Morning Star, the 3rd book in Red Rising.

Hope to re-read The Gap after this.

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Nova by Samuel Delany. I'm 70% through it. Good stuff. 8)
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Still on bloody Fall of Light. It's almost like I'm avoiding it.

Which isn't to say it's bad...but it sure is dense.

Like Forge of Darkness, I suspect this is only going to get properly appreciated on the 2nd or 3rd read. :D

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The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin (after just having reread The Passage and The Twelve).

I'm liking it so far, nearly half way through. Some people sneer at Cronin, but I think he's a decent writer. His characters are a little thin, but his world building is solid, his dialogue is believable, and he has a good sense of pacing.

I don't know if it qualifies as SF but it's future dystopia, so close enough.

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Finished Nova and thought it was pretty good.

Started almost immediately on Repulse, an alt-history sci-fi thing by Chris James. I read a little bit of it before the author published it and thought it was good. 8)
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Chaos and Order !!!! it is quite good :D
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StevieG wrote:Chaos and Order !!!! it is quite good :D
Ooh, I love that one! :D

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StevieG wrote:Chaos and Order !!!! it is quite good :D
So I've heard... :D

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Taken a quick break from Fall Of Light (which is just not grabbing me) to re-read The Long Walk.

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Bitterwood - James Maxey

I highly recommend this series!!!

An epic tale of war between dragons and mankind! When the mysterious dragon slayer Bitterwood murders the son of the Dragon-King, the dragons respond with a campaign of genocide against their human slaves. Amid the chaos of war, a band of rebel humans risk everything to fight for freedom, and an end to the Dragon Age.

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Avatar wrote:Taken a quick break from Fall Of Light (which is just not grabbing me) to re-read The Long Walk.
Oh, nice. One of my favorite King books, and my favorite Bachman Book (if you don't count Misery).
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Yeah, my favourite as well, although actually, I liked them all except Roadwork I think.

(Misery wasn't a Bachman book though...Thinner maybe?)

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Finally making progress in Fall of Light. :D Thing is, it's not bad, but it's not engaging enough to make me read it to the exclusion of doing anything else.

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Well, finally clawed my way through Book 2 of Erikson's Kharkenas trilogy, Fall Of Light.

I can't believe it took me about 3.5 months to read Forge of Darkness and the 2nd one.

And they're not bad books.

)To be fair, those 3.5 months include 120-odd hours of The Witcher 3, 90+ hours of Fallout 4 and 40+ hours of Jade Empire. :D)

But they're heavy going, especially one almost on top of the other.

Anyway, onto William Gibson's The Peripheral.

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Just finished Jeff Vandermeer's Annihiliation.

It was alright, didn't fully convince me.
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The Darkness That Comes Before, book one of Bakker's Prince of Nothing trilogy, which I'm reading in preparation for the latest book of the second trilogy.

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The Warrior-Prophet, book 2 of the Prince of Nothing.

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