[Hobbit]

OK - new month - again!

Summer's now gone at Hobbit Towers, autumn's here and the nights are really drawing in. Though it shouldn't really matter out in the cold, dark depths of space, of course, what else to do but read more new books?

This is the thread where you tell us what SF you've been reading this month, and whether it was worth it or not.

Some good stuff about this month - Peter Hamilton's Judas Unchained is out (here in the UK, anyway), as is Alastair Reynolds' latest, Pushing Ice... should keep you busy!

But what else? Spread the word!

(Oh, and this month's book under the microscope in the SF Book Club is Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. Worth a talk about. LINK HERE. (http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?p=279235) ).

Hobbit - currently trying to clear the decks.....

[clong]

Starting Jack Vance's collection Future Tense

[Soon Lee]

Just started Peter F. Hamilton's PANDORA'S STAR

[Monty Mike]

I've decided to pick up where I left off with Ringworld, mainly so that I can discuss it in the book club. Hopefully I can keep myself motivated and have it finished sometime tomorrow, just now I'm on chapter 7 of 24.

Very, very interesting.

[FicusFan]

I still have the rest of Stand on Zanzibar to read. Not sure if I will finish it. I am about 300 pages in and it is about 684. I like the story part, but it is cluttered up with lots of stuff that is just noise.

[Randy M.]

_The Feesters in the Lake_ by Bob Leman, story collection.

Not sure whether to call these horror tinged with s.f., or s.f. immersed in horror. Whatever you call them, they are enjoyable reading.


Randy M.

[ezchaos]

T0oday, I started Dawn by Octavia Butler. So far its very original and it's sucking me in.

[Ouroboros]

Picked up a copy of EE Knight's 'Way of the Wolf' ... partially because our illustrious leader Hobbit kept mentioning it a while back.

Fun, undemanding and reasonably adult pulp post-apocalyptic adventure.

Looking forward to getting hold of the rest of the serious.

I did see the 'Judas Unchained' hardback, but I think I'm going to wait for this one to come out in paperback.

Thinking of doing a big buy on amazon of the rest of the John Ringo books I don't own.

[Hobbit]

Picked up a copy of EE Knight's 'Way of the Wolf' ... partially because our illustrious leader Hobbit kept mentioning it a while back.

Thank you, Ouro... but I suspect it was the illustrious Fitz / Rob B who was mentioning it, because I know he really liked it. One of those that was better than it sounded at first.

And you've seen Judas Unchained in the shops..... :eek: I did see the proof copy at WorldCon and it was about the size of a couple of housebricks....I'm just hoping it's good. The rumblings suggest that it is, so fingers crossed!

I'm off to a book signing soon for it soon, so will get my copy then.


I like the story part, but it is cluttered up with lots of stuff that is just noise. Ah, the sixties..... you see, the noise was the point, Ficus - by putting the noise in, you get a better picture of the wider world the books are based in. One of those books where all the seemingly unrelated parts combine to make a more impressive melange by the end. Or being the sixties perhaps they didn't all make sense at the end. :D

The technique has been used by others - Joe Haldeman used it in his book Mindbridge, for example, and Philip Jose Farmer in his story Riders of the Purple Wage (see Dangerous Visions) perhaps now coming back into fashion. But at the time of Zanzibar it was something fairly new and radical, man. :)


Hobbit

[FicusFan]

Ah, the sixties..... you see, the noise was the point, Ficus - by putting the noise in, you get a better picture of the wider world the books are based in. One of those books where all the seemingly unrelated parts combine to make a more impressive melange by the end. Or being the sixties perhaps they didn't all make sense at the end. :D

The technique has been used by others - Joe Haldeman used it in his book Mindbridge, for example, and Philip Jose Farmer in his story Riders of the Purple Wage (see Dangerous Visions) perhaps now coming back into fashion. But at the time of Zanzibar it was something fairly new and radical, man. :)


Hobbit

Yes I know Hobbit, but it doesn't travel well, so it is now noise.

Even if you read it when it was relevant it goes for breadth rather than depth. You have a lot of different stuff, but it is all headlines and sound-bites and has no meat.