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

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 3:58 pm

Wow. I'm almost finished The Reality Dysfunction (at long last), I just read the scene with the Blackhawk in Tranquillity, and it has to be one of the best scenes I've read in a long time. I'm a very visual reader, and the style of this book works really well for me (although I still don't get what the habitats look like inside). I look forward to The Neutronium Alchemist, but first (either later today or tomorrow) I'm going to start Ring.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:52 pm

duchess of malfi wrote:That is pretty amazing, Princess. Wonder if that is even legal to sell?

I have to save up my money for Elohimfest, or I might bid for it myself. If you get it, please don't give us any spoilers!

I never considered that it might be wrong to sell this book. I hope that Mr. Donaldson won't look down on me for bidding on it. I will not post anything even remotely spoiler-like (it would only make me more likely to do chapter reads). Neither will getting this stop me from buying a 1st edition hardback.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:54 pm

danlo wrote:I thought I knew NJ inside out-but never heard of Long Valley-Somebody needs to tell SRD about this!

Let me know what he says, please. If this book is a fake, or if it's wrong to bid on it, then I need to know asap.

Post by **danlo** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 5:51 pm

Two seperate emails were sent to SRD this morning and he forwarded the information to his publishers--it is a violation to sell ARC copies--the item should be removed shortly. I wouldn't worry about SRD looking down on you--the bidding public is essentially innocent, anyway. Besides, like you, I didn't even know (and I doubt many know) ARCs were even in existence, until webdruid told me a little a bit about the publishing biz 3 months ago..

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Mon Jun 14, 2004 10:12 pm

Princess, you can hardly be blamed for bidding on something in an auction, especially when you didn't know the seller was doing something wrong.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:05 pm

Woo, I'm ahead of schedule. I finished Ring (it's less than 300 pages) - very good stuff. i'm going to have to find Spiral now, with that ending (probably won't be out in the same edition for a few months, since Ring had only just come out)...

Anyway, this means I'll be starting The Mirror Of Her Dreams later tonight instead of tomorrow - it's another short(ish) one, but exams are coming up, so I estimate saturday for The Neutronium Alchemist.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:33 pm

Don't forget to come up for air, Murrin.

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:49 pm

Garden of the Moon by Steven Erickson. Excellent. But, I don't wanna have to wait till like February to get the next (already written) novel.

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:08 pm

I just got Silence in Solitude (86) by Melissa Scott and it looks really good: magic within SciFi with a very strong female protagonist-won the Campbell award, btw...but here's the problem: it's the sequel to Five-Twelfths of Heaven. So now, while I'm deciding whether or not to 86 The Road to Underfall (see Mark Jefferies thread), I have to seach for the 1st book and catch up on Dissecting TOT.

Life is rough

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:38 pm

I'm reading Dave Duncan's The Gilded Chain, the first of his King's Blades series. Not the first I've read, however, I unfortunately read Paragon Lost out of order.

Excellent so far, at any rate.

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:08 pm

(and who might ye be?

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Post by **Fire Daughter** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:16 pm

The Wounded Land. Sigh

My Mom was right, it's breaking my heart

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:28 pm

It is heartbreaking what is happening to the Land under the Sunbane...but keep reading. Joy will come before the end.

I am reading Fast Forward, a novel by a very good Canadian science fiction writer named Robert Sawyer. I picked up one of his novels a few months ago called Hominids (won last year's Hugo), and liked it so much I have been reading everything I can find by him since. This novel won the Nebula...its a stand alone science fiction novel set in the near future. A science experiment has unexpected consequences, when the minds of all humans are sent twenty years forward in time for a few moments. Untold numbers of people die in the ensuing chaos (jet crashes, car crashes, etc.) and the world will be transformed by that brief glimpse of the future...

Post by **Roland of Gilead** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:37 pm

The mystery guest was me, Roland of Gilead. My computer at work got updated overnight and played havoc with a lot of my forums. I think I'm back in business now.

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 4:02 pm

I, after having burned through DT6: SoS, have returned to reading Lord Foul's Bane. God... Covenant is a basta*d.

Post by **Byrn** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:52 pm

The Forever King. It's about the Return of Arthur.

Post by **[Syl]** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 12:28 am

I didn't get a chance to go to the library before I left for sea, so I had to grab a couple of books I'd already read from my collection.

The first, which I just finished, was The Waterborn by J. Gregory Keyes. Good, if not quite as good as I remembered it. Perhaps it was the second book, The Black God, which earned my praise. Anyway, it's kind of the typical fantasy story with a Native American mythology bent to it. Cross that with, eh, Conrad's Heart of Darkness and that's about what you get.

The second is Wolfe's new book, The Knight. I can't say enough about this book, but I can say that I've never reread a book so soon. There's just so much I feel I probably didn't pick up on.

Post by **Dragonlily** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:46 am

danlo wrote:I just got Silence in Solitude (86) by Melissa Scott and it looks really good: magic within SciFi with a very strong female protagonist-won the Campbell award, btw...but here's the problem: it's the sequel to Five-Twelfths or Heaven. So now, while I'm deciding whether or not to 86 The Road to Underfall (see Mark Jefferies thread), I have to seach for the 1st book and catch up on Dissecting TOT. Life is rough

Danlo, if SILENCE IN SOLITUDE gets you to read FIVE TWELFTHS OF HEAVEN, it will have done its greatest service. FIVE TWELFTHS is where I discovered Scott's knack for writing virtual realities.

<Replaying several wonderful Scott books in my head>

Post by **danlo** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:37 am

Maybe I'll give a go-I don't like to read books out of sequence, but maybe...(p.s. taraswizard started a thread on Scott at the Hangar and that perked my interest

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Post by **Dragonlily** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:55 am

If you do read it out of sequence, you might underestimate the trilogy. Anyway, FIVE TWELFTHS is my favorite of the three.

other favorites by Scott:
DREAMING METAL
BURNING BRIGHT
NIGHT SKY MINE

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

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