Trying to jump start this community a bit and thought sharing what we are all reading would be fun.
Recently I just finished “All These Worlds” by Dennis E. Taylor (book 3 of the bobiverse) which I enjoyed. Pulpy but that’s fine by me.
I’ve been listening to the murderbot diaries on my commute because they were in the humble bundle recently and enjoyed those a well. Just finished “Rogue Protocol” by Martha Wells there.
Taking a short breather from prose and read “The Apocalypse War” arc of Judge Dredd. Comics still count as print sci-fi right? Been working through those chronologically alongside Strontium Dog.
I’ve kinda stalled on “The Dark Forest” by Liu Cixin. Just not working for me the way “The Three-Body Problem” did. Which to be honest I thought was marginal overall but when it worked it was great. Maybe just in a tough patch?
Kinda my last two weeks but who’s counting. Have some long travel coming up and have some good novels picked out but that’d be spoilers for next week.
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. I’m about a third of the way through it, and it reads like a somewhat cozy magical realist take on 1984.
Looks interesting! And this is going to sound odd but the synopsis reminds me of Disney’s Atlantis where somehow all of the Atlanteans forgot how to read…
I’ve reprised Darth Plagueis by James Luceno, a little SW fantasy to lighten the mood. After that, I don’t know if I feel like attempting Echopraxia by Peter Watts or if I’ll just go with a different saga
I’ve been reading Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. What a ride! I’ve never read Consider Phlebas before, and only a couple of the other books in the Culture series. But after finishing The Expanse recently, I’ve decided it’s time to read the entire Culture series from the beginning. My Kindle says I’m 40% in(250 pages), and I love it! It’s quite a different beast, coming from The Expanse, but every bit as intense, in its own way. I remember reading (on Reddit) that it’s a good idea to start with the second or third book because Consider Phlebas is kinda slow in comparison. If that’s the case, those book are going to be wild!
I have been really loving Matt Ruff’s books this year. I started with 88 Names. Then I read Lovecraft Country - then I moved onto it’s sequel The Destroyer of Worlds. Loved all of them, so now I moved on to Bad Monkeys.
I’ve got Lovecraft Country and Bad Monkeys in my to-read stack 🙂
