What are you reading right now?

I'd probably reccomend you try Dream Dancer by Janet E Morris as it has some interesting science fiction concepts, it's pre-internet so it doesn't rely on standardized technology concepts and it has a supernatural aspect to it. might be a little hard to read if i recall, but it works for the setting of a girl in poverty being swept into a world she doesn't understand and i enjoyed it.

Books one and three of the trilogy are easy to find online, but I had to buy the second book to rip it to my server.

Saturn's Children is an enjoyable novel. A sex bot has to figure out how to survive in a world where humans (and sex) died out long ago and she gets wrapped up in a conspiracy. It's interplanetary transport tech is based on real-world established science and it's interesting seeing her take on it (she hates it)

I think i mentioned Ancillary justice by Anne Leckie, where a ship AI gets shoved into a human body and uses her thousands of years of knowledge to exact revenge on the one that destroyed her ship.
 
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fupaballs said:
Blood Meridian. Yes wendigoon introduced me to it. I'm glad he did.
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Not the easiest read but a very good one. Insane how brutal it gets in some parts. Makes you realise the Wild West wasn't just one big party.

Womble of Wimbledon said:
Started reading Wolf Hall. I've never read historical fiction before, enjoying so far.
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Brilliant book, again not an easy read. Both BM and WH are known for their unique take on prose, but you won't forget them in a hurry.
 
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Betonhaus said:
I'd probably reccomend you try Dream Dancer by Janet E Morris as it has some interesting science fiction concepts, it's pre-internet so it doesn't rely on standardized technology concepts and it has a supernatural aspect to it. might be a little hard to read if i recall, but it works for the setting of a girl in poverty being swept into a world she doesn't understand and i enjoyed it.

Books one and three of the trilogy are easy to find online, but I had to buy the second book to rip it to my server.

Saturn's Children is an enjoyable novel. A sex bot has to figure out how to survive in a world where humans (and sex) died out long ago and she gets wrapped up in a conspiracy. It's interplanetary transport tech is based on real-world established science and it's interesting seeing her take on it (she hates it)

I think i mentioned Ancillary justice by Anne Leckie, where a ship AI gets shoved into a human body and uses her thousands of years of knowledge to exact revenge on the one that destroyed her ship.
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I'll keep an eye out for it. Hopefully it's in this used bookstore or library bookstores.

An old SF Masterworks copy of I Am Legend arrived with the loose volume of LoA's American Sci-FI (1960-66). This sucker's got The High Crusade (Anderson), Way Station (Simak), Flowers for Algernon (Keyes), and This Immortal (Zelazny). I'll probably keep an eye out for these as loose copies because it's like 4-5 novels packed in each one, in the original versions.
There was a buy one get one free deal on an ebay shop. If I like I Am Legend well enough, I'll gift this copy to someone I know will like it and get me a hardcover edition when I find that. I accumulate and collect cheap used books that I enjoy. Another shop's offering Poul Anderson's Broken Sword and Simak's City in a BOGO deal and I'm like "yeah, sure".

I like ebooks, but I strongly prefer the physical copy in my hand when it comes to relaxing. I don't want to spend more than 20 bucks for a book and even then, a 20+ dollar book better be fucking massive.

Finished Elric of Melnibone, good book. I got the first volume of the omnibus for like 15 smackeroos and it's been fun. I'll probably pick up the rest over the next year or two.
 
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Alexander Thaut said:
Finished Elric of Melnibone, good book. I got the first volume of the omnibus for like 15 smackeroos and it's been fun. I'll probably pick up the rest over the next year or two.
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It's a pretty good series. The way the series ends is kind of a wet fart but at least it's a sudden wet fart and then it's done.

Related, I'm working my way through the Conan short stories and while they feel kind is disjointed at some times and the villain always seems to be yet another evil wizard with an aberration fetish they are still pretty good.
 
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Love at Six Thousand Degrees by Maki Kashimada. I had no idea what I was getting into, saw it on a list of Japanese book recommendations, the title sounded intriguing, but... it's just written in a weird way, confusing, sad, tragic and terrible. But I'm already halfway through, so I'll just finish the rest and see what I'll read next.
 
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I've acquired a batch of Frederick Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, and other mid-late 20th century sci-fi author works via some old guy dumping them. I looked up all of them and the most critically beloved ones of the batch I've found myself with are Brian Aldiss' Cities in Flight and Pohl's Man Plus. Haldeman's All my Sins Remembered seems fun too.

Picked up
  • Epoch, an anthology edited by Robert Silverberg and some other guy
  • Frederick Pohl's Jem, "The Early Pohl", and Man Plus
  • Alfred Bester's Computer Connection (Fun times, wanna grab his other big works)
  • The Best of Frederick Brown
  • The Last Defender of Camelot (Zelazny's fun)
  • The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat and The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues. Also got the Deathworld Trilogy Omnibus from a shop, seperately. Harry Harrison's a fun pulp-y writer.
  • The Complete Book of Swords- Saberhagen.
  • Galactic Empires Vol 1 Edited by Brian Aldiss. Also Cities in Flight and Frank Herbert's White Plague.
  • All my Sins Remembered- Haldeman (Haven't read Forever War yet)
  • A Hardcover of Theodore Sturgeon's "Is Alive and well" short story collection.
  • Ian Fleming's Man with the golden gun
  • Sword of Rhiannon- Leigh Brackett
  • The Moonstone and Pygmalion, classic books I don't have a physical copy of.
For mostly dimes and quarters from what I assume was an old guy. It was like 4 pm and he was winding down. Seems noone took a look at his books, so I wound up walking for a few blocks with this load. I don't know which ones are kino, but I did enjoy the bigs of Zelazny, Fleming, and Harrison I've read before. I passed up on picking up the old guy's wife's used books because I wasn't interested in picking up harlequin novels.
 
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This is Christopher M. Langan, a former bouncer from NYC now turned horse rancher that lives in Montana who made history being the smartest person in the world with an I.Q. that was estimated between 195 to 210.

Initially I was going to keep this to myself, but I figured his work, as niche as it is, should be shared by most on this site. (If anything, I’m surprised that there’s not a thread on him).

Either way, his books have dramatically changed my life in a sense that his writings speak to me on a level where it’s not about someone having a high or low I.Q. It’s more so of the fact that his works speak about a variety of topics that range from cosmology, quantum mechanics and logic — just to name a few.

If you’re interested, check out these books while you can:

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Alexander Thaut said:
  • The Last Defender of Camelot (Zelazny's fun)
  • The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat and The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues. Also got the Deathworld Trilogy Omnibus from a shop, seperately. Harry Harrison's a fun pulp-y writer.
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I haven't read those Stainless Steel Rat books since I was a tweenager but I loved them at the time, and of course Harrison's other works included the one that entered the public lexicon as "SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!"

Bill, the Galactic Hero is also great. It's a military parody. I think it was accused of being ripped off from some similar Russian novel, but I think the consensus is they were both just describing the same truths from experience.

It's possible he wrote a bad book (he wrote a LOT of books) but even his worst that I've read were okay, and even the okay ones were hilarious.
Baguette said:
I am reading a collection of stories by Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Really enjoying it.
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Harlan Ellison is currently having tea time with God and giving him advice, I hope.
 
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glass_houses said:
See you in 2035.
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One piece has 1,100 chapters and it takes about 5 minutes to read one chapter, so it would only take four days if you skip sleep and meals and any other activities
Now if you were to watch the anime, there's 1,105 episodes as of this coming Sunday and each episode is 24 minutes long, which would be 18.4 continuous days
 
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Re-reading The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian. It's a great boys' own adventure closely based on real events with a bonus first chapter of Jane Austin-inspired country life light comedy for people who are into that kind of thing.

Basically Star Trek if Kirk was married, Spock and McCoy were the same person and it was set in the early 19th Century.
 
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You really don't have to do that to yourself
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Its for a friend. I dont understand some of their favorite memes from the show. And ive been told its easier/faster to read than to watch the show.
 
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