Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:18 am**

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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:02 pm**

Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon

Posted: **Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:32 pm**

Rereading House of Chains

--A

Posted: **Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:51 pm**

China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station". (Yes, Duchess, the one with the guy and the giant bug getting it on.

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Posted: **Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:02 pm**

Rereading Cryptonomicon on a whim.

Posted: **Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:28 pm**

hue of bone wrote:Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon

Best science fiction book ever.

Posted: **Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:29 pm**

Loremaster wrote:
hue of bone wrote:Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon
Best science fiction book ever.

Just googled it, sounds excellent.

Posted: **Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:47 pm**

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?

Posted: **Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:56 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:14 pm**

As in Francis Fukuyama's "End of History and the Last Man?"

--A

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:18 am**

Midnight Tides by Erikson. I expect that will keep me occupied for the next few months!

Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:35 pm**

Just finished Jeff Somers' The Eternal Prison and it was a doozy! The best Avery Cates novel to date!

Check out the blog for the full review!

Patrick
www.fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com

Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:59 pm**

The Dresden Files and Tales from the Nightside.

Posted: **Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:52 pm**

I'm rereading Midnight Tides as well.

--A

Posted: **Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:08 pm**

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.

Posted: **Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:13 am**

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.

Posted: **Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:54 pm**

Rereading The Bonehunters.

--A

Posted: **Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:10 pm**

The Difference Engine by Sterling and Gibson. For my bookgroup on Saturday.

Posted: **Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:53 pm**

taraswizard wrote:The Difference Engine by Sterling and Gibson. For my bookgroup on Saturday.

That's a fantastic bookgroup!

Posted: **Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:05 pm**

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.

Kevin's Watch

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

Gibson and Sterling

Re: Gibson and Sterling

OFF TOPIC!! our bookgroup