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Aside from Project Hail Mary which I assume every /c/sciencefiction subscriber is going to read what have you been reading or plan to read?

Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (August 2023)

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[–] ox0r@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago

Just finished "The Gone World" by Tom Sweterlitsch.

A mix of SciFi, detective and coslic horror. Pretty good, I really liked the ending.

[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm finishing The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson then moving on to Incandescence by Greg Egan.

[–] LeanFemurs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, will probably pick up Ghost from the Grand Banks by Clarke soon.

[–] ch4rlie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Children of time, every time

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Back when I had free time I was reading through the Dune series, currently about halfway into God Emporer of Dune.

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Cyberpunk! I read Let Slip the Beasts by Suzanne Berget yesterday. I recommend it. Not too long either.

Today I'm gonna find another cyberpunk book to read. Maybe Nexus by Ramez Naam that someone else recommended me.

[–] quams69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just finished House of leaves, great book but really uncomventional

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[–] ItsDedo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just picked up "version zero" by David Yoon

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just finished Quantum Radio by A.G. Riddle. Now working on Wool.

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[–] Efwis@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Right now I’m reading the entire Dark Space series. All 6 books in collection available on Amazon kindle. I don’t recall if they have physical copies for purchase or not, but it is an attention grabbing series with a great storyline. This is not hardcore sci-if with a bunch of science and mathematics probablilities

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Strange Highways by Dean Koontz, not exactly typical sci-fi but there are stories in the collection about time travel, aliens that take over human hosts like Body Snatchers, and genetically engineered super-intelligent rats that want to kill humanity. Koontz began his early career as a sci-fi writer and didn't find much success, until he steered into the horror genre later. It shines through fairly often in some of his stories, when the aliens or science experiment monsters show up.

[–] VenutianxSpring@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm working my way through "Way of Kings" right now. I haven't had much time for reading lately, so it's going slow, but the book is fantastic.

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Love the Stormlight Archive! The audiobooks are great and a new one is coming later next year.

The Mistborn series is also fantastic. The first trilogy is fantasy, but the Wax and Wayne series shows developing tech throughout, giving the books a fantasy steampunk feel.

I also just listened to Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians and it was silly fun, looking forward to the rest if the series.

Love me some Brandon Sanderson!

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[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Gateway by Frederick pohl. Always.

[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I haven't read much science fiction these past few weeks...I mainly am doing a re-read of Night Watch by Sergi Lukyanenko, which is an urban fantasy set in Russia.

When the Ukraine war started, I was vastly disappointed that the author of this series supports Russia against Ukraine, so I didn't do a re-read for several years due to that.

But recently, I'm curious about his viewpoint of the world--so on the reread I've been looking closer, and I'm starting to understand his stances were there in his work all along, even accounting for the translation from Russian into English.

His series is about Light Others vs. Dark Others, and how they've come together to make a truce, and there's a lot of rather cynical acceptance of corruption and good deeds doing harm so it's better sometimes to do nothing which stands out to me now that I'm older and can digest the themes of the book better.

Craft-wise, he's a very good author, there are things that come through that go beyond language (the way characters talk to one another, the way scenes and plots are set up) so as a writer myself I'm taking note of the tricks I might snatch and use myself. But I've been very thoughtful about culture and ethics and morals and how everyone likes to think they're on the right side of things.

[–] FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm about to start Leviathan Falls (final novel in The Expanse). Every bit of it has been phenomenal, and I can't imagine the last book will be any different.

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[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading Venemous Lumpsucker because it was in the news recently as winning an award. It's very funny, a satire on Corporate Business and climate change. It actually reminds me of when I read Stark by Ben Elton as a young teen in many ways - it's more inventive but there's a similar vibe (the world is helpless in the hands of corporate greed because corporate people just don't know what else to do).

2/3 of the way through and it's definitely easy to read and funny

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[–] Arn_Thor@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently reading Nemesis Games, part of The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey

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[–] bundes_sheep@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I just finished the Three Body Problem trilogy, which I loved. Now I'm trying to figure out what I want to read next.

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