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

A place for anything *not* Donaldson.

Moderator: I'm Murrin

Post Reply
User avatar
Shaun das Schaf
The Gap Into Spam
Posts: 1193
Joined: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:33 am
Location: Wollongong, Australia

Post by Shaun das Schaf »

lucimay wrote:they don't take em to the popo shaun. they just drop em in a mailbox! :D
the postal service will deliver found wallets to the id inside!
That is SO cool! And I'm assuming popo is short for police station or something.

On topic, ah... um.. I'm still reading Deadhouse Gates
Top
User avatar
Orlion
The Gap Into Spam
Posts: 6666
Joined: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:30 am
Location: Getting there...
Been thanked: 1 time

Post by Orlion »

Avatar wrote:Reaper's Gale. And I got Stonewielder yesterday. Hooray.

(Uh, where in the timeline does Orb, Sceptre, Throne fit in? I just ordered it. Can't wait. :D)

--A
It's the story of the aftermath of Toll the Hounds.
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville

I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!

"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Top
User avatar
Avatar
Immanentizing The Eschaton
Posts: 62038
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:17 am
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Has thanked: 25 times
Been thanked: 32 times
Contact:
Contact Avatar

Post by Avatar »

Thank you Orlion. Damn. I don't think I'm going to get it in time. Maybe...I've got RG and TtH to go, then Stoneweilder...maybe I can drag them out a bit. Won't get Orb for 3 weeks...

--A
Top
User avatar
Shaun das Schaf
The Gap Into Spam
Posts: 1193
Joined: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:33 am
Location: Wollongong, Australia

Post by Shaun das Schaf »

Given what you mentioned in an earlier thread about binge-reading, I don't like your chances! :lol: But good luck anyway Av.
Top
User avatar
Fist and Faith
Magister Vitae
Posts: 25459
Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:14 pm
Has thanked: 9 times
Been thanked: 57 times

Post by Fist and Faith »

I'd be surprised if it mattered where OST fit in. Same with Stonewielder.

Just ordered OST from uk. :D


Hey, Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy has been rerealsed. Looks pretty. Worth reading? I see some comments about it having a very disappointing ending. I tried the first book several years ago, but didn't get too far. Sci-fi isn't my thing nearly as much as fantasy.
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon

Image
Top
User avatar
aliantha
blueberries on steroids
Posts: 17865
Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2002 7:50 pm
Location: NOT opening up a restaurant in Santa Fe

Post by aliantha »

I tried to buy "Orb Sceptre Throne" for the Kindle (I've got a Kindle app on my phone), but Amazon.uk won't sell it to anyone in the States. Damn. :(
Image
Image

EZ Board Survivor

"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)

https://www.hearth-myth.com/
Top
User avatar
Fist and Faith
Magister Vitae
Posts: 25459
Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:14 pm
Has thanked: 9 times
Been thanked: 57 times

Post by Fist and Faith »

You've ordered from uk before. Not this time?
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon

Image
Top
User avatar
aliantha
blueberries on steroids
Posts: 17865
Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2002 7:50 pm
Location: NOT opening up a restaurant in Santa Fe

Post by aliantha »

I've ordered dead-tree copies before. Those, they will ship overseas. The e-book contract must be different. I am bummed. Ah well, if I wait 'til May, I can get the Nook version and not have to read a whole Erikson doorstop volume on my phone. :lol:
Image
Image

EZ Board Survivor

"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)

https://www.hearth-myth.com/
Top
User avatar
Fist and Faith
Magister Vitae
Posts: 25459
Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:14 pm
Has thanked: 9 times
Been thanked: 57 times

Post by Fist and Faith »

Yeah, I meant dead-tree. Why not this time? No biggie, just curious.:D
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon

Image
Top
User avatar
Spiral Jacobs
Giantfriend
Posts: 444
Joined: Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:03 pm
Has thanked: 1 time
Been thanked: 3 times

Post by Spiral Jacobs »

Fist and Faith wrote:Hey, Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy has been rerealsed. Looks pretty. Worth reading? I see some comments about it having a very disappointing ending. I tried the first book several years ago, but didn't get too far. Sci-fi isn't my thing nearly as much as fantasy.
TBH, I didn't like the ending too much. The first two books are good and build up a huge amount of expectation. Important Spoilers follow!
Spoiler
The ending is a big deus ex machina (which is already sort of suggested by the title). I kept waiting for the big turnaround and a resolution, but realised early in book 3 that it wasn't going to happen, purely based on book-thickness. But if you read the books with 'they can never win, how will the main protagonists survive' in mind, it'll be OK ;-)
Top
User avatar
aliantha
blueberries on steroids
Posts: 17865
Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2002 7:50 pm
Location: NOT opening up a restaurant in Santa Fe

Post by aliantha »

Fist and Faith wrote:Yeah, I meant dead-tree. Why not this time? No biggie, just curious.:D
Tired of hauling around doorstops. :lol: Also, I got a new backpack for commuting that doesn't really have room for a huge book and my lunch, too.
Image
Image

EZ Board Survivor

"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)

https://www.hearth-myth.com/
Top
User avatar
lucimay
Lord
Posts: 15045
Joined: Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:17 pm
Location: Mott Wood, Genebakis
Contact:
Contact lucimay

Post by lucimay »

Shaun das Schaf wrote:
lucimay wrote:they don't take em to the popo shaun. they just drop em in a mailbox! :D
the postal service will deliver found wallets to the id inside!
That is SO cool! And I'm assuming popo is short for police station or something.

On topic, ah... um.. I'm still reading Deadhouse Gates

from urban dictionary...
POPO

A Police officer. especially the ones that rides on bikes.

Orgin: California late 80's

police officers that patrols certain beaches on bikes wore a vest that said PO in huge blockletters on each of their chest. which means Police Officer. they usually ride around in group of two's.

when you see them coming by. you see the word "PO" "PO" when they stand next to each other.


i always thought it sounded sorta hillbilly-ish so i adopted saying it.

as in... "hey gomer, ain't that the popo up atcher trailer ahaulin away your old lady?"
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies


i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio


a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Top
User avatar
Linna Heartbooger
Are you not a sine qua non for a redemption?
Posts: 3896
Joined: Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:17 pm
Been thanked: 1 time

Post by Linna Heartbooger »

Finished "Dragonsinger"!

Now I'm going to start on:
"Scholar" in L.E. Modesitt's Imager series, and
"With The Lightnings" by David Drake (the one I mentioned in Gen. Lit Disc)

Anyone else around here love reading Modesitt?
A lot of his characters do some form of spec ops...
He's really into exploring the unintended and painful consequences (political, economic, etc.) of power dynamics/imbalances.
I think he's pretty brilliant; lots of the things he's always trying to say just weren't clear to me until I'd read like half a dozen of his books or something.
(I think there's a number of people around here who would really like him!)
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor

"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
Top
User avatar
Avatar
Immanentizing The Eschaton
Posts: 62038
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:17 am
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Has thanked: 25 times
Been thanked: 32 times
Contact:
Contact Avatar

Post by Avatar »

Fist and Faith wrote:I'd be surprised if it mattered where OST fit in. Same with Stonewielder.

Just ordered OST from uk. :D
Well, if Stonewielder is before DoD, and OST is after TtH...

But yeah, can probably do OST after TCG.

Hey, Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy has been rerealsed. Looks pretty. Worth reading? I see some comments about it having a very disappointing ending. I tried the first book several years ago, but didn't get too far. Sci-fi isn't my thing nearly as much as fantasy.
Like Spiral Jacobs said, it's a great story with a really weak ending. I don't think his spoiler is too bad...you can read it without finding out exactly what happens. He does however explain the mechanism of the ending. If fact, it gets a bit fantasy-ish, come to think of it.

I'd still read it again...the coolest spaceships since Iain M Banks.

(I've got the first one actually.)

--A
Top
User avatar
Shaun das Schaf
The Gap Into Spam
Posts: 1193
Joined: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:33 am
Location: Wollongong, Australia

Post by Shaun das Schaf »

lucimay wrote:from urban dictionary...
POPO

A Police officer. especially the ones that rides on bikes.

Orgin: California late 80's

police officers that patrols certain beaches on bikes wore a vest that said PO in huge blockletters on each of their chest. which means Police Officer. they usually ride around in group of two's.

when you see them coming by. you see the word "PO" "PO" when they stand next to each other.


i always thought it sounded sorta hillbilly-ish so i adopted saying it.

as in... "hey gomer, ain't that the popo up atcher trailer ahaulin away your old lady?"
:lol: Thanks for the derivation and entertaining example!

On thread, you'll never guess what I'm reading. :D
Top
User avatar
wayfriend
.
Posts: 20957
Joined: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:34 am
Has thanked: 2 times
Been thanked: 6 times

Post by wayfriend »

Fist and Faith wrote:Hey, Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy has been rerealsed. Looks pretty. Worth reading?
I thought it was well above average. A nice space opera with lots of characters and lots of subplots and pretty good worlds-building. If you liked the Hyperion serieses, you'd probably like it. And don't worry about the ending ... it doesn't come until the end. :wink:
Linna Heartlistener wrote:Anyone else around here love reading Modesitt?
I read a number of the Recluce series ... sort of liked it, but not enough to follow through. He's an interesting talent, reminds me of Gene Wolf, in the way he dumps you in situations and then fills you in afterward what happened. Definitely intelligent and articulate, but the Recluce series seemed to be missing a compelling over-arching story.
.
Top
User avatar
Linna Heartbooger
Are you not a sine qua non for a redemption?
Posts: 3896
Joined: Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:17 pm
Been thanked: 1 time

Post by Linna Heartbooger »

wayfriend wrote:
Linna Heartlistener wrote:Anyone else around here love reading Modesitt?
I read a number of the Recluce series ... sort of liked it, but not enough to follow through. He's an interesting talent, reminds me of Gene Wolf, in the way he dumps you in situations and then fills you in afterward what happened. Definitely intelligent and articulate, but the Recluce series seemed to be missing a compelling over-arching story.
Hmm, interesting point.
It sounds like his particular worldview is atheistic, and I think that he would assume there wouldn't have to be as deep of a historical timeline, goal, or escatology, to world events.

Is that what you were thinking of wf, or did you mean something else?

Intelligent and articulate? YES. He is SUCH a nerd, and every few years I realize I'm only beginnning to understand what on earth he's talking about on a deeper level.
Like, this year I discovered that a big component of his "magic system" is (probably) based on the people's ability with the kinesthetic sense.
Having never trained in combat myself, I didn't consciously know that there was a kinesthetic sense, growing up.
(I should go bump the Modesitt thread and move some of this over there.)
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor

"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
Top
User avatar
wayfriend
.
Posts: 20957
Joined: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:34 am
Has thanked: 2 times
Been thanked: 6 times

Post by wayfriend »

Linna Heartlistener wrote:Hmm, interesting point.
It sounds like his particular worldview is atheistic, and I think that he would assume there wouldn't have to be as deep of a historical timeline, goal, or escatology, to world events.

Is that what you were thinking of wf, or did you mean something else?
Something else. There seemed to be no direction to the series. No "We need to get the ring to Mt Doom" or anything like that, that ties things together. [/quote]
.
Top
User avatar
danlo
Lord
Posts: 20838
Joined: Wed Mar 06, 2002 8:29 pm
Location: Albuquerque NM
Been thanked: 1 time
Contact:
Contact danlo

Post by danlo »

Sir Lancelot: We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril.
Sir Galahad: I don't think I was.
Sir Lancelot: Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril.
Sir Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Sir Lancelot: No, it's too perilous.
Sir Galahad: Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.
Sir Lancelot: No, we've got to find the Holy Grail. Come on.
Sir Galahad: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
Sir Lancelot: No. It's unhealthy.
Sir Galahad: I bet you're gay.
Sir Lancelot: Am not.
fall far and well Pilots!
Top
User avatar
Avatar
Immanentizing The Eschaton
Posts: 62038
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:17 am
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Has thanked: 25 times
Been thanked: 32 times
Contact:
Contact Avatar

Post by Avatar »

Esslemont, Stonewielder.

--A
Top
Post Reply

Return to “General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion”