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Finished Song of Susannah, and am busy on The Dark Tower

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chapter 5 Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson.
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Finished Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb a week or so ago.

Just finished Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. I dont normally read SF, but my wife twisted my arm, and I'm glad she did. A powerful, moving, tragic story, that had me in tears more than once. Unashamedly the best SF novel I've ever read. Highly recommended! :)
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duke wrote:Just finished Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. I dont normally read SF, but my wife twisted my arm, and I'm glad she did. A powerful, moving, tragic story, that had me in tears more than once. Unashamedly the best SF novel I've ever read. Highly recommended! :)
I've only read the short story version published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, from my Daddy's collection. I think I read that one at 12 years old, after reading Fahrenheit 451 and a whole bunch of Asimov's robot series, followed by A Canticle for Leibowitz, which is my favorite stand-alone science fiction novel...

All of those stories touched me deeply, and has influenced my choice of reading material through my teens and onwards.
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duke wrote: Just finished Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. I dont normally read SF, but my wife twisted my arm, and I'm glad she did. A powerful, moving, tragic story, that had me in tears more than once. Unashamedly the best SF novel I've ever read. Highly recommended! :)
It's in my top five favourite science-fiction list. An outstanding book.
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Finished Perretti's Hangman's Curse yesterday. Started The Shakespeare Stealer by Blackwood.
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Reading Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe (again!) and Mistress of Mistresses by ER Eddison.
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"The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi.
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Looks like I'm embarking on a re-read of the Gap series by some guy... :lol:

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Just finished "The Other Lands", book two of the Acacia trilogy.

Very, very diverting!
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Just finished audio re-read of Dune, I only read it in translation years ago. Excellent stuff.
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You can always hit the Watch's sister site, Ahira's Hangar if you feel like talking about it. We have a forum dedicated to it, and an ongoing dissection. :D

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Thanks Avatar, I'll be sure to have a look there.

Now listening to the audio book version of I Am Legend by Matheson.
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Avatar wrote:Looks like I'm embarking on a re-read of the Gap series by some guy... :lol:

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I don't know if anybody here has heard of or read any Fredric Brown.

He is or was a rather ingenious writer of short stories and novels. I read his Martians Go Home in my early teens and recently decided to pick up an anthology of his short stories.

Much of it seems like Twilight Zone fare and I know one of his short stories - Arena - formed the basis of a Star Trek episode by the same name. FB was paid for its use.

So far, as I make my way through the anthology, I would say that shock endings, surprise twists, and solipsism are the rule. Only the second story's ending was predictable to me. But I figure if his work was used as the basis for some 1960s television then it would be more predictable then it would have been back in the 1950s.
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Finished Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erickson, and have started Bauchelain and Korbal Broach by the same author.
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