What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
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I loved that series!!!!danlo wrote:7 chapters into The Wise Man's Fear (first book on Kindle and I'm already an addict)...loved Name of the Wind, took a little while for the story to click back in, but the 2nd book is, now, moving faster and faster.
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Also the Kindle has been great for me. I was an avid reader before, now its worse because I can get books cheaper and at the touch of a button.
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Finished a couple of Robert Silverberg standalone sci-fi novels: The Longest Way Home and Dying Inside (reread). Both are good, he seems to use sci-fi as a vehicle for philosophic speculations which suits my taste.
I also did a reread of Tobias Hill's The Cryptographer. Futuristic rather than pure sci-fi. Stylish. It would probably qualify as 'literary fiction' as well. (Where's lucimay to spank me for my abuse of the word 'literary'
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I also did a reread of Tobias Hill's The Cryptographer. Futuristic rather than pure sci-fi. Stylish. It would probably qualify as 'literary fiction' as well. (Where's lucimay to spank me for my abuse of the word 'literary'

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You may have managed to slip under her radar...ussusimiel wrote:(Where's lucimay to spank me for my abuse of the word 'literary')



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I've finished a reread of Dream Finder by Roger Taylor. Taylor is a good fantasy writer, but I don't ever hear much about him. I thought his Hawklan series was very good. Anyone else read him?
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Finally finished Midnight Tides. Don't know why it took me so long, I actually really liked it in the end. Erikson's politics seemed more overt in this book, which I enjoyed. And I always appreciate his sense of humanity. (But I should probably take this to another sub-forum!)
Currently reading... The Bonehunters. Actually I'm not quite sure what I'm reading. I just varnished a table (stupidly, in the house) and I believe I may be high. Who are you people again?
Currently reading... The Bonehunters. Actually I'm not quite sure what I'm reading. I just varnished a table (stupidly, in the house) and I believe I may be high. Who are you people again?

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I have one already Menolly. Can't you see it?Menolly wrote:I foresee SdS finally having a signature.Shaun das Schaf wrote:That explanation improves my personality so I'm going to run with it. Thanks CamboCambo wrote:We're the voices in your head, given digital form on a website that is an online extension of your subconscious
Crap, must have put it in the wrong dimension.
Here, have some varnish....

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Finished a reread of Katherine Kerr and Kate Daniel's Polar City Nightmare which is basically a well-written sci-fi detective thriller. I never been able to get into Kerr's Deverry Series though I think I've tried a couple of times.
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Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
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What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.