Kevin's Watch

Wizard & Glass.

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Wolves of the Calla

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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.

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!

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.

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.

Agreed.

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Finished Perretti's Hangman's Curse yesterday. Started The Shakespeare Stealer by Blackwood.

Reading Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe (again!) and Mistress of Mistresses by ER Eddison.

"The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi.

Looks like I'm embarking on a re-read of the Gap series by some guy...

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

Very, very diverting!

Forbidden Knowledge

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Just finished audio re-read of Dune, I only read it in translation years ago. Excellent stuff.

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.

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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.

Avatar wrote:Looks like I'm embarking on a re-read of the Gap series by some guy...

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David Letterman?

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.

Finished Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erickson, and have started Bauchelain and Korbal Broach by the same author.