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Recently finished The Lies of Locke Lamora, which is a great book, and have now started Kelly Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen.
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Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
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Rereading House of Chains

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China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station". (Yes, Duchess, the one with the guy and the giant bug getting it on. :lol: )
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Rereading Cryptonomicon on a whim.
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hue of bone wrote:Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Best science fiction book ever.
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Loremaster wrote:
hue of bone wrote:Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Best science fiction book ever.
Just googled it, sounds excellent.
But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.


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Loremaster wrote:
hue of bone wrote:Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Best science fiction book ever.
What are your thoughts about Starmaker by the same author?
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Star Maker is incredible, but I am more drawn to the vast (future) history of the human race. I find that Last and First Men has a certain resonance and sadness.
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As in Francis Fukuyama's "End of History and the Last Man?"

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Midnight Tides by Erikson. I expect that will keep me occupied for the next few months!
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Just finished Jeff Somers' The Eternal Prison and it was a doozy! The best Avery Cates novel to date!

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The Dresden Files and Tales from the Nightside.
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I'm rereading Midnight Tides as well. :D

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Just finished reading Stranger Things Happen, the short story collection by Kelly Link. Strange, funny, complex stories, which I enjoyed even if I sometimes felt like I didn't quite understand. Then again, I'm not sure they're meant to "understood" in the way I mean it, and enjoying them is more the point than anything else.
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Having started it in the Manhattan Barnes and Noble while visiting there with Xar and Fist, I have finally managed to get a hold of Todd McCaffrey's Dragonheart from the library. I had heard that McCaffrey stayed with subject matter he was familiar with, a plague threatening Pern during the Third Pass, and was afraid of a rehash of his previous Pern novels on his own, which were passable at best.

I'm not even up to page 100 yet, but so far, I am pleasantly surprised. Instead of the miners and Harpers, McCaffrey is concentrating on the weyrs and Weyrfolk, and it seems to fit him. I have a long way to go before making a judgment on the book, but at about 100 pages in, at least I'm not putting it aside in disgust more often than not, like I did as I worked my way through his previous two Pern attempts.
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Rereading The Bonehunters.

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Gibson and Sterling

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The Difference Engine by Sterling and Gibson. For my bookgroup on Saturday.
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taraswizard wrote:The Difference Engine by Sterling and Gibson. For my bookgroup on Saturday.
That's a fantastic bookgroup!
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OFF TOPIC!! our bookgroup

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During the two years or so our bookgroup has been around we've read the following: The Dispossessed, Cyberabad Days, Ammonite, The Sparrow, Houston, Houston do you read?, Fifth head of Cereburs, Little, Big, and more these title are just a sampling.
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