What Are You Reading Now?

[John Galt]

[NAB]

I don't read sci-fi very often these days, but I did recently re-read Armor by John Steakley (since Galt just mentioned The Forever War). I was just digging in some old boxes for something to read and it was the first one I grabbed.

[WizardfromOz]

[John Galt]

[Spider]

[John Galt]

yeah my dad gave the book to me actually... i think it's sitting on a side table, waiting to be opened

[WizardfromOz]

[John Galt]

[Nico]

[John Galt]

ah, "a deepness in the sky" is actually the one that is best ever (hugo winner). the mount of different things going on in that book, from far flung empires that dissolve because of the distance to travel to the "focus" virus... really great stuff. "fire upon the deep" (hugo winner) is really good though too (they are related, and deepness in the sky is technically a prequel to the other but only one character is the same). his third book in that setting though... children of thought, or something like that... terrible. vinge also had some other books; he's very interested in the technological singularity. so see something like "rainbow's end" (hugo winner) or "the peace war" and "marooned in realtime" (both nominated for hugo) for non-space opera

as for dick, while i do like his stuff a lot, i just tend to gravitate towards space opera

in re reynolds, terminal world was okay, pushing ice, on the other hand, was great for a non-revelation space setting. he does better in space, not locked on a planet, that's true

peter hamilton was quite boring. i didn't make it very far and just got bored with one of his books. wasn't bad writing just... boring

and yes, i was repeating it, but 1) it was just so awful and 2) i'm not "one of the 50 greatest british authors since wwii". and i picked up his first because it was also first in culture series so i thought i could get into that, but i just... i'm not going to reread the only book i've thought was so horrible just to find more criticisms. i've tried to put it out of my mind