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I've put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It's mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I'm going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading.
Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (July 2023)
At any rate, what are you currently reading or plan to read in August?
tower by bae myung-hoon, early days yet.
Last few I've read recently:
Just fulinished A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. Didn't enjoy as much as A Fire Upon the Deep, but it was still a good space opera. Some uncomfortable sex scenes though.
Just started the Vorkosigan Saga. It's okay. It's growing on me, but I don't think it's anything to write home about. I'll stick it out through the first book and see how it goes.
Just finished Translation State by Ann Leckie. Loved it for a while, got tired of it by the end. Felt it descended into whimsy
Just finished reading an older series: Nine Princes in Amber. Doesn't age as well as I'd like.
I'm reading the Wool omnibus from the library before I start watching Silo.
Just beginning The Mountain of Mars, book 8 of Glynn Stewart’s Starship’s Mage series.
Martha Wells Murder Bot series (All Systems Red is the title in the post picture) is fun as well as quick and easy to read.
I will say it's not my favorite type of scifi but her writing style paired with the fun stories sucked me in.
Currently listening to the audiobook of The City and the City by China Meiville (Maybe should have read this one instead of the audiobook)
Currently reading the current F&SF magazine issue
I’m coming up to the crescendo (hopefully) of Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson. I can’t say that I’ve loved it as much as some of his previous work but it’s got 150 pages left to change that.
Not enough Heinlein!
Not enough underaged incest orgies? Or not enough Ayn Rand shit-takes?
Yes because Asimov an actual factual sexual assaulter is much better. Heinlein and Rand are contemporaries the assertion one is making commentaries on the other is quizzical at best.
Just finished the Silo trilogy before jumping into the TV series. was good, on both counts
About to pick up Children of Time. I listened to the audiobook a while back but didnt feel like i really absorbed it all that much.