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

Post by **Lady Revel** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:28 pm

Deadhouse Gates....I'm amazed I broke away from it long enought to make this post!

Post by **Loredoctor** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:43 am

Tau Zero by Poul Anderson.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:51 am

So that's where you've been...

I'm busy reading Feist's Sepent War series again, (picked up one of the Krondor interludes over the weekend and got sucked back in) and wonder of wonders, the GF is reading LFB.

Can't wait to see if she likes or hates it.

--A

Post by **Krilly** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:59 pm

The Last Gunslinger

Been meaning to start reading The Dark Tower series.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:30 am

I'm just starting Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818 text) by Mary Shelley.

Post by **Batsutousai** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:43 pm

Reading The Illearth War right now. ^.^"

Post by **Ainulindale** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:08 pm

Seven Touches of Music by Zoran Zivkovic

Post by **danlo** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:36 am

Almost done with Look to Windward (that's quick for me!) this book is hilarious (and intense).

What next? A Feast for Crows, Prince of Nothing or Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norell. Hmmm....

Website · Post by **The Somberlain** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:38 am

I'm re-reading my Iain M Banks books (and just started on Look To Windward, in fact).

Use Of Weapons and Inversions both benefitted lots from a re-read.

Post by **danlo** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:59 pm

I think Use of Weapons will be my next Banks

Post by **dANdeLION** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:35 pm

Lady Revel wrote:Deadhouse Gates....I'm amazed I broke away from it long enought to make this post!

heh, me too!

Website · Post by **The Somberlain** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:20 pm

danlo wrote:I think Use of Weapons will be my next Banks

Yes!
It's probably my favourite of all his SF ones, and of his "non-genre" ones, I think only The Crow Road is better.

Post by **gyrehead** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:32 pm

Finally cracked the cover of Brian Ruckley's Winterbirth after being distracted by a few other books that more recently came my way.

Post by **Nav** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:43 am

Use of Weapons was probably the most intense of the 'M' books. I'm readind Inversions at the moment and I'm also halfway through The Neutronium Alchemist. Not sure quite where Hamilton is going with Alkad Mzu:

Spoiler

Are we supposed to relate to her in some way? At the moment I hate her for killing Udat.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:59 am

Use of Weapons is probably one of my favourite Culture books, a close second to Player of Games.

I'm busy with Rise of a Merchant Prince, while the GF has just started The Illearth War.

--A

Post by **taraswizard** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:08 pm

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Post by **Roland of Gilead** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:16 pm

The Lies of Locke Lamora lives up the hype. A superb fantasy adventure tale, with lots of suspense, plot twists out the wazoo, and an ambivalent protagonist that you can't help but root for, as the odds pile up against him and his friends, as they are caught in the middle of a criminal underworld power struggle.

The best novel I've read so far this year. Scott Lynch is the real deal.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:49 pm

I'm four chapters into Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves. This book is a f***ing masterpiece. Wow.
(spoilers are very minor)

Spoiler

I love the way, right from the beginning, he plays the two narrators against each other. Zampano's scholarly tone lends a certain air of credibility to the story, but Johnny Truant serves to constantly undermine both Zampano and his own story. He reveals in the introduction that the film doesn't exist. In his first digression, he throws away the reader's sense of comfort, his trust in the text, when he admits that he added a single word to the manuscript: in that moment you begin to question the work; you realise that you can't ever know just how much he might have changed.
He reveals early on his remarkable ability for bullshitting, creating these incredible stories on the fly - and then serves up a series of stories you can't help but question because of this very admission.

Where Zampano's manuscript alone would have been compelling, Johnny Truant constantly intrudes on the text, reminding you of your doubts, pulling you out of the narrative of The Navidson Record. I've barely begun the book, and I am already amazed at how it has been crafted.

[Erm... Okay, so most of you probably won't be able to make sense of that without knowing what the book is about, so here's the blurb for the book:]

Johnny Truant, wild and troubled sometime employee in an L.A. tattoo parlour, finds a notebook kept by Zampanò, a reclusive old man found dead in a cluttered apartment. Herein is the heavily annotated story of the Navidson Record.

Will Navidson, a photojournalist, and his family move into a new house. What happens next is recorded on videotapes and in interviews. Now the Navidsons are household names. Zampanò, writing on loose sheets, stained napkins, crammed notebooks, has compiled what must be the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane. But Johnny Truant has never heard of the Navidson Record. Nor has anyone else he knows. And the more he reads about Will Navidson's house, the more frightened he becomes. Paranoia besets him. The worst part is that he can't just dismiss the notebook as the ramblings of a crazy old man. He's starting to notice things changing around him...

Immensely imaginative. Impossible to put down. Impossible to forget. House of Leaves is thrilling, terrifying and unlike anything you have ever read before.

Post by **Matthias** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:55 pm

Anyone heard of the Mith Chronicles by M.B Wright?? he's apparently a fairly new author and i'm reading his first book right now, the Mith Chronicles. It's okay. check it out.

Post by **duke** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:38 pm

Rather than wait and let The Broken God sink in a little, I've decided to continue, and have jumped into 'The Wild' by Zindell. Normally once I've finished a novel I like to change things up and read a different author. But I've found over the last couple of years that once I start a series, it is easier to keep the train of narrative going in my mind and keep reading until the series is done.

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