[Hobbit]

Just in case you didn't know, this is where you tell us what you've been reading in SF this month. Good or bad, we want to know what and why.

Over in the Fantasy section this month's Fantasy book for discussion in June 2010 is Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air.

Feel free to join in the discussion HERE (http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=27145)!

Here in SF they're continuing to look at Blindsight by Peter Watts HERE (http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26746).

Mark

[livens]

Still reading Blindsight, again. Taking my time so Ill something halfway intelligible to say about it :)

At the same time I just finished reading Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. Its part of a trilogy and I made the mistake of reading the second book, Redemption Ark, first. I had read where alot of people had problems making it through the first book and therefor never attempted the rest. Now I see why. I didnt fel the book got properly engaging until page 190 or so. Until then the story kept going back and forth between two storylines. At frist these were seperated by huge amounts of time, one seemingly in the far past of the other. But that was just because of the time required for one party to travel to the other at some percentage of the speed of light.

As the book went on the two parts of the story eventually caught up to each other and thats when it finally started going somewhere. Up to that point i think Reynolds was limited as to what could happen. The 2 parts had to come together at some point, and had to mesh seemlessly once they did. So you got ALOT of character developement and history lessons along the way. But its well worth the work getting through those first 190 pages.

Now Im rereading through Redemtion Ark, I had forgotton some of the details. I just hope he comes through with Absolution Gap and makes the time you have to invest worth it with a good ending.

[beniowa]

Last night I finished Stealing Light by Gary Gibson. It was decent, light space opera. The first half was a little clunky with uneven plot and characterization, but fortunately it gets stronger in the second half. I kept thinking that it was similar Revelation Space, though less well written. I haven't decided yet if I'll continue with the rest of the trilogy.

Next up is Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett.

[the gozzfather]

I just started Hyperion by Dan Simmons this afternoon and I've already 150 pages into it. Its very well written and the world building is excellent. I've found that space operas where unraveling the mysteries of alien artifacts play an important part tend to be real page turners. I also raced through Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga.

[Michael V. R.]

Little over halfway through C. S. Friedman's In Conquest Born. There is A LOT going on in this novel, quite a bit to keep track of. It started off a bit slow, but things are picking up, starting to come togeather. Can't wait to see what happens!

[deez sniderz]

I've enjoyed my last three books - Sclazi's Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades, and Stoss' Saturn's Children. I'm about 3/4 the way through Greg Egan's Quarantine and it's also very good. It was hard to step away from the space opera, but it's been very rewarding.

[Rob B]

I started The Passage (http://enterthepassage.com/) by Justin Cronin last night. So far, very good. Very strong narrative pull in this book, I have a feeling it will keep me up late into the night reading.

[Ash]

Just Finished the Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Great writer, but Im not entirely sure I enjoyed it. Makes you realise just how lucky we are that those smart chaps invented antibiotics!!

About to start John Meaney's Absorbtion.

Off topic I'm devouring the Fables comics at the moment. Absolute blast :D:D

[qiuhd]

Just finished Dragon's Egg, love it, very interesting micro creatures, I always think micro intelligent creatures have a better chance to survive. Are there more sf about micro intelligent creatures?

BTW, those humans did not care about star fleet protocols at all, they beamed down an entire encyclopedia did not even bother calling command center. hehe, just a joke.

[Gizmo]

About 130 pages through Starship Troopers.

Very impressive so far.