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

[Menolly]

Patricia Briggs, Moon Called.

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Pratchett's Thief of Time which will, I hope, end my brief Pratchett binge.

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[Spiral Jacobs]

Iain M Banks, Surface Detail

[ussusimiel]

Just started Wool by Hugh Howey for the KW Book Club (all welcome!). Seems good so far.

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[I'm Murrin]

Finished Yellow Blue Tibia. It's an odd one; I wasn't sure about it in the first half. It went some strange places but all came together in the end.

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Iain M Banks, Surface Detail

I just re-read that the other day. It's a good one.

As for me, I was mistaken. Looks like Pratchett is not done with me. Busy on Going Postal, which means I have to read the sequel after that.

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[Shaun das Schaf]

Shift Omnibus (books 6-8 of the Silo Saga, prequel to Wool), by Hugh Howey.

Wool turned out to be a bit of a page turner (or whatever the kindle 2.30am equivalent is!) Howey isn't a brilliant writer or philosopher, but he certainly spins a compelling 'yarn'.

[I'm Murrin]

I've started reading The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes.

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Finished Making Money and reading Unseen Academicals.

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[sindatur]

Finished The Mirror of her Dreams, now listening to A Man Rides Through

[Wildling]

I was listening to the MYTH books by Robert Asprin but stopped because the narrator of books 4 and on is terrifyingly bad.

The next one I start will be Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age by Steve Knopper.

[aliantha]

Patricia Briggs, Moon Called.

Her stuff is pretty good. Altho was ticked that in her next-to-last book, her monster was not exactly indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, and she didn't have a compelling reason for it to be there.

Shaun, let me know what you think of the post-Wool books. Someone else recommended them to me.

[Menolly]

Patricia Briggs, Moon Called.

Her stuff is pretty good. Altho was ticked that in her next-to-last book, her monster was not exactly indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, and she didn't have a compelling reason for it to be there.

I have the next three in the Mercy Thompson series, with the rest available to me once I return these. But my source doesn't have the Alpha and Omega books. Shall I try to find them at the library? And would it be better to try to read them in some sort of intermingled order? Or are they not really tied together?

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Re-reading Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.

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[Cambo]

I'm reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I like the Canterbury Tales in Space concept, and I just finished the first "tale," the one with the priest. That ending was brutal .

Picked up a bunch of other sci-fi and fantasy books at a sale, including A Canticle for Leibowitz, a couple of Marion Zimmer Bradley novels, both of which I have heard good things about. Also the first couple of books from a sci fi series called Chung Kuo, from the looks of it a kind of alternate future where the ancient Chinese Empire came to dominate the world. Anyone know anything about these? I've heard exactly nothing about them. It's a seven book series, and a big commitment with so many other series on my to read list. There's the rest of the Black Company, a Covenant re-read before The Last Dark comes out....just like to know if it's a commitment worth making.

[Vraith]

I'm reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I like the Canterbury Tales in Space concept, and I just finished the first "tale," the one with the priest. That ending was brutal .

Picked up a bunch of other sci-fi and fantasy books at a sale, including A Canticle for Leibowitz, a couple of Marion Zimmer Bradley novels, both of which I have heard good things about. Also the first couple of books from a sci fi series called Chung Kuo, from the looks of it a kind of alternate future where the ancient Chinese Empire came to dominate the world. Anyone know anything about these? I've heard exactly nothing about them. It's a seven book series, and a big commitment with so many other series on my to read list. There's the rest of the Black Company, a Covenant re-read before The Last Dark comes out....just like to know if it's a commitment worth making.

Hyperion and the books that follow it are good, Canticle is still great IMO even if a bit dated.
I only know OF the series you mention...cuz someone here or another board mentioned it recently, so I wiki'd it. You should go look there...looks like even a bigger chore than you think.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Kuo_(novel_series)

[Cambo]

Vraith: I'd definitely read the 7 book series first and they'd have to be really something exceptional to get me onto the 20 book ( ) re-release.

[ussusimiel]

Finished Wool by Hugh Howey today. An enjoyable read. We'll be discussing it in the book club so I won't preempt that.

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Read Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch this weekend, now busy on Whispers Underground.

And I see a new one is going to be published soon, so I have that to look forward to.

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[I'm Murrin]

Reading Embassytown by China Miéville.