[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 Club....

The Fantasy Book Club discussion is on a recently published and perhaps controversial book publication: The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan. (http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21897)

Mark

[Tidus]

One of the books I am going to read this month is 'Eye of the storm' by John Ringo.

[Tanaros]

The last book I read was Dinner at Deviant’s Palace by Tim Powers. Before that, I have only read one of his books, The Anubis Gates to be exact, and was really looking forward to reading another of his books. The Dinner has that Mad Max and The Boy and his Dog feel to it – Earth after nuclear or some other kind of global disaster. To me, that part felt a bit outdated but the atmosphere was pretty well established and it provided a good background for a very interesting plot. What started as an attempt to rescue a girl from the clutches of a vicious cult, turns into a duel of almost cosmic proportions. The book is a rewarding read, with certain comic aspects (hemogoblin and the fortuneteller were my favorite), but do not expect any twists similar to those in Anubis. All in all, very satisfying.
Then, I was in a mood for something different so I picked up Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. I needed some space. Looks good so far.

[chitman13]

I finished Journey Into Space by Toby Litt last night. I'm not really sure how I feel about the book - the story was okay, but it appeared to me that is was simply a literary book dressed in sci-fi clothes.

The story was about the situation on board the first generational colony ship sent out from Earth and focuses on that situation while looking at some characters from four generations, each a descendant of the previous one. It focuses so much on being descriptive that it failed to completely grab me - it felt like an examination of what would happen rather than a story of what would happen. A real shame :(

[Hobbit]

Yeah, that's pretty much how I read it, Mark:

This was OK, but sadly I enjoyed it a lot less than I hoped to.

It is clever, there's some nice takes on society and future societies, but overall it left me thinking that it was wanting to be more than it was.

I get the impression the writer would like to be Douglas Adams: but he's not.

Mark

[Seak]

I just finished Starship Troopers this weekend on Audiobook and it was great. It's already one of my favorite books. I loved the action, basic training, and even the philosophical points have me continually thinking. That's when you have a great book, when it changes how you think. Loved it.

[Seak]

I just found Dune in audiobook form at the library. I hope I'll be able to understand all the different terms. I tried to read this book one time, but got bogged down in all the terms that are used because I kept looking them up. I'm thinking I'll just let the narrative go and hope I can keep up.

[Colonel Worf]

I'm reading Paul of Dune. Half of it is set right after Dune, and the other half is a few years before. I'm enjoying it so far!

[Rob B]

Since I'm in the mood for good ol' fashion Space Opera and the book has been sitting on my To Read shelf for almost a year now, I figured I'd finally jump into Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/535073.Consider_Phlebas). Review to follow soon.

[ezchaos]

I just finished Old Man's War by John Scalzi. It was about what I figured: a quick, light, entertaining sf story. I enjoyed the classic sf feel to it.