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

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:21 pm

At Last!!

If you look back to the end of december, you'll see I was halfway through Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, but then hit a problem - Nowhere had 'To Green Angel Tower: SIEGE'. It was out of print. Now, finally, four months after placing an order, I recieved a letter from Waterstones informing me that it has arrived - Now I can at last read the last two books in the series.
You have no idea how tempting it was to read the synopsis in tGAT:STORM, but no, I waited, and it has finally come. *happy*

Post by **FizbansTalking_Hat** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:44 pm

Hey Murrin, Memory Sorrow & Thorn is a classic fantasy and one of my favorites. Binabek is the coolest character dwarf like hobbit around. Cheers and enjoy, I would say that the best place to find unprinted material is to chek out the local used obok stores, I know of at least 4 copies of that particualr series at the bookstore near my house.

Anywas, I'm reading 2 books at the moment. Lord Fouls's Bane and Hamilton's Night Dawn Trilogy - Book 2 Part 1 The Neutronium Alchemist

Cheers.

Post by **Roland of Gilead** » Thu May 06, 2004 9:33 pm

I'm reading Matthew Stover's Star Wars novel, Shatterpoint, featuring Jedi Mace Windu.

It's not bad, but nowhere near as good as his own works, like Heroes Die.

Post by **Dragonlily** » Wed May 12, 2004 6:01 am

CONQUEROR'S MOON by Julian May. Already evoking comparisons with ASOIAF.

Post by **Usagi** » Wed May 12, 2004 8:11 am

Currently reading The Illearth War, by Stephen R. Donaldson.

Not having a job sucks. But it gives me time to read!! lol

Post by **Roland of Gilead** » Wed May 12, 2004 2:49 pm

I liked Conqueror's Moon, Joy, and May is my favorite female author . . . but I don't think it compares to Song of Ice and Fire. Not yet, anyway.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed May 12, 2004 3:23 pm

I'm rereading Garden's of the Moon (already?) by Steven Erikson. Almost finished. I'll go pick up tGAT on Saturday.

Post by **danlo** » Wed May 12, 2004 3:32 pm

I finally got my copy of Lord of Lies, book 2 of David Zindell's The Ea Cycle, on Monday-so I have returned to "fantasy heaven"!

While you guys are waiting for the Runes of the Earth and A Feast for Crows you really should check out The Ea Cycle. If you live in the US you have to order it from Amazon.uk.

Post by **Furls Fire** » Wed May 12, 2004 4:36 pm

Cool danlo!! I want to read both of those series..Neverness and EA Cycle. Can you get them all on Amazon UK???

Russ got me Dune at the library. Soooo, hey Fist, give me a couple weeks or so and I'll be able to join you all at the Hangar for the dissection

Post by **danlo** » Wed May 12, 2004 4:48 pm

Yes you can. (The Sleeper must awaken!

)

Post by **Furls Fire** » Wed May 12, 2004 4:50 pm

nooooooo...let the sleepers sleep!!! It's the only time I can get on here!!!

Post by **FizbansTalking_Hat** » Wed May 12, 2004 4:57 pm

must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune"

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Mon May 17, 2004 5:05 pm

Still slowly reading my way through Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. One of the funniest books I have read in ages.

I am savoring every word, like taking sips of a fine wine.

It's a book about the Anti-Christ and the end of the world. But the Satanic Nuns of the Chattering Order (instead of taking vows of silence they take vows of spouting out endless streams of inane drivel

) accidentally lose the anti-Christ...the four Horsemen are their own little chapter of Hell's Angel bikers (War is a gorgeous leggy red head) -- and a book loving angel and a fast car loving demon decide that they like humans and the world so join forces to stop Armageddin. It's a complete hoot!

And, yes, I would so backup Danlo's recommendation of Zindell's Ea books...they were a very good read. The third books will be out next spring...the books currently available are :
The Lightstone Book One, The Ninth Kingdom
The Lightstone book Two, The Silver Sword
(they split the big hardcover in two when they printed the paperbacks)
The Lord of Lies

The Lightstone book/s deal with a heroic quest. The Lord of Lies deals with the aftermath of that quest...the third book will be called The Evening Star.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon May 17, 2004 5:31 pm

Right now I'm reading Runes of the Earth, heh.

I'm halfway through tGAT:SIEGE. Good stuff (as is the LCTC sample chapter).

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Mon May 17, 2004 6:07 pm

I am looking greatly forward to Erickson's Gardens of the Moon...about time it got here!

Supposedly another book I have heard a lot of praise for, The Darkness That Comes Before, which is the first book of the Prince of Nothing trilogy by Canadian writer R. Scott Baker will also have its US release this summer.

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Mon May 17, 2004 7:05 pm

I just completed Chapter 1 of the prologue for Runes of the Earth and...

In preparation for Dark Towr 6, amd Reading BLACK HOUSE.

Post by **Dragonlily** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:29 am

Just finished Julian May's CONQUEROR'S MOON, and have a tight hold on the reins to keep me from running off and rereading her first nine books -- yet again.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue May 18, 2004 9:54 am

Duchess, I read The Darkness That Comes Before, and it is a great book. Bakker really has some unique ideas in his story, and it's worth looking at when it coes out over there.
I'm waiting eagerly for The Warrior-Prophet, book two of Prince of Nothing, which has a paperback out in October, I think (I don't get hardbacks).I'm lucky in that the UK tends to get a lot of books earlier than the US.

Post by **Dragonlily** » Sat May 29, 2004 4:36 am

"..All night Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes."

Just finishing PRINCE CASPIAN, C.S. Lewis

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:32 am

I'm alternating between a reread of Deadhouse Gates and the occassional chapter of The Reality Dysfunction (I ignored the advice and went straight for this one). I'm noticing now that sci-fi is 30% story and 70% 'ooh look at all this fancy technology I made up'. Still, it's not too bad.

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