[Hobbit]

This is where you tell us what you're reading in SF this month. Good or bad, please let us know what you thought.

Over to the Book Clubs....

The SF Book Club discussion is on The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe. (http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16145)

This month's Fantasy Book Club discussion is on The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. (http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16147) A very popular book of last year, that one!


Join in if you can!

Hobbit

[rloomis]

Just finished THE LOST FLEET : FEARLESS by Jack Campbell......good read...smooth and easy ...just like THE LOST FLEET : DAUNTLESS....military SF i enjoyed alot.....who else besides me thinks the guy on the cover of FEARLESS looks like a younger William Defoe???

Just started GLORY ROAD by Heinlein....this will be my first Heinlein book and can't wait to finally read him....

[Hobbit]

OOH, Glory Road.

Not sure you'll see Heinlein at his best there, rloomis. It is Heinlein's take on a traditional fantasy: it received mixed reviews at its time of publication.

My copy has a horrendous cover with a bright pink background:

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6172/heinlein1an9.th.jpg (http://img249.imageshack.us/my.php?image=heinlein1an9.jpg)

(Click on the picture for a bigger version. The picture is a little blurry to avoid the full horror!)

Makes you wonder how I managed to buy it in the first place. Can you imagine handing that over to a cashier to buy at a bookstore?

Scarred for life. :)

Hobbit

[Martian]

Just finished THE LOST FLEET : FEARLESS by Jack Campbell......good read...smooth and easy ...just like THE LOST FLEET : DAUNTLESS....military SF i enjoyed alot.....who else besides me thinks the guy on the cover of FEARLESS looks like a younger William Defoe???

Just started GLORY ROAD by Heinlein....this will be my first Heinlein book and can't wait to finally read him....

I'm currently reading The Lost Fleet:Dauntless. I'm almost through with it and have The Lost Fleet:Fearless ready to go when I finish. It's a pretty good book.

As for a Heinlein book, I strongly recomend Starship Troopers.

[rloomis]

Read the first 10 or so pages of GLORY ROAD and struggled ....wasn't in the mood to continue...so i started CATALYST by Nina K. Hoffman...only thru the first 25 pages but i'm liking it so far..different perspective regarding fist contact with aliens....As far as Heinlein goes ...i'll probaly read STARSHIP TROOPERS at some point in the near future...
anyone else read CATALYST??? any comments welcome...

[rnershigh]

Reading Earth by David Brin and I'm about 200 pages to the ending..so close.:D I was not expecting the conclusion everyone came up with who sent the singularity to the core of Earth.

Next on my reading list is Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. (still haven't gotten around to the 2nd book in the lost fleet series)

[Beleg]

Finished,

Connie Willis's Passage
Stainlaw Lem's Fiasco

Reading,

Stainlaw Lem's Eden
Sherri S. Tepper's Singer from the Sea
Philip K. Dick's Galactic Pot-healer
John Wyndham's Trouble With Lichen

[Ropie]

Finished,

Connie Willis's Passage
Stainlaw Lem's Fiasco


Beleg, what did you think of these two?

[s271]

Stainlaw Lem's Fiasco
Beleg, what did you think of these two?

I have read that one. Very pessimistic. There is some suspension of disbelief - Earth explorers behavior unbelievably stupid in some crucial moments. The idea and settings are very interesting, as usual for Lem.

[rnershigh]

Okay, finished Earth and now I'm reading 1984. Never did start Footfall, oh well. This time I'm going to try to finish a book before starting a new one. :p