Currently listening to We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor, really good SciFi where you can get caught up in the story.
+1 for Legion. I just finished it but I’m a bit bummed that my local library system doesn’t have any of the sequels, but I can’t not read them so I’ll be heading to a local bookshop to see if I can grab them all there this weekend.
Currently reading The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow.
Not bad so far, but not the most exciting either. It has some cool ideas and some edutainment on green new deal and modern monetary theory though 😅
Right now I’m reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I enjoy the author’s irreverence and like The Martian it’s a pretty fun, compelling read.
I’m presently reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte. Also occasionally listening to Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.
Oh whoa, that’s by Douglas Adams? I had no idea! I’ve seen it mentioned a lot but never enough to catch my interest till this. Thanks!
Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds which is the 2nd part of the series. Absolutely top-notch hard sci-fi space opera. After reading Revelation Space Mr. Reynolds already caught my attention and rocketed himself into my personal pantheon of the greats alongside Stanislaw Lem, Strugatsky brothers, Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven etc.
This is one of my favourite scifi series
I really like the overall world building of the Revelation Space universe. I’m currently reading Machine Vendetta which came out recently and is in somewhat of a prequel series for Revelation Space. Some of the Demarchist communities described in the Glitter Band are really wacky.
The various factions, planets, concepts, etc. are all great. It’s a great universe for short stories and there are some good anthologies.
However… I think I actually enjoyed Reynolds’ Revenger series a lot more in terms of the individual characters and their stories. If someone forced me to pick out only three books from Reynolds for you to read, it would be the three books in the Revenger trilogy.
I’d also recommend another series from him which starts with Blue Remembered Earth.
My brain doesn’t sit still so…
Online:
- rereading the Worm web serial by Wildbow
- reading Ward, also by Wildbow
- reading A Practical Guide to Evil (I think we’re on book 7?) with my wife
Offline:
- Wyrd Sister’s from Terry Pratchett’s disc world
- City Song by Oliver Blakemore
- Games Wizards play by Diane Duane
Each one takes turns in the forefront of my thoughts, a space they share with games and TV/movies, but I’m going through all of them slowly.
Oh yeah, and also just …too many webcomics.
Just finished book 10/10 in Tchaikovsky’s “Shadows of the Apt” series. I highly recommend it.
For me it was an interesting blend of the political/military games of Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and the intersection of magic and technology in Sanderson’s Cosmere.
Tchaikovsky’s most well known for Children of Time but although I like the third book in that series a lot the first two were a little meh for me. I liked the concepts and world building but the perspectives of octopi and spiders was kind of a drag for me. Somehow I liked the raven stuff though.
I would also recommend Tchaikovsky’s The Final Architecture series if you’re into the sci-fi more than the fantasy aspects.
Currently reading the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, and have been for a while at this point. It does a lot of stuff, even for its page count, but I really like the way the authors write their world and their magic. It truly feels like a completely different world that on a pretty fundamental level works in a different way, something which I feel like few fantasy series accomplish. Wonderful stuff.
I don’t keep track of stuff that’s currently getting written, but I’m curious about Jeff Vandermeer’s next book in the Southern Reach trilogy,