I just bought...

[Clarkesworld]

Just tossed a copy of The Meq by Steve Cash on my TBR pile.

-Neil

 

[FicusFan]

I got a book for my RL SF book group:

Protector by Larry Niven, PB

 

[Kleronomas]

Just bought on the weekend secondhand:

The Star Fraction - Ken Macleod
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Stranger in a Strange LAnd - Heinlein
Book of Days - Gene Wolfe
Masters of the Maze - Avram Davidson
The Omnibus of Science Fiction - Edited by Groff Conklin (Short stories from between 1913 and 1952).

I seem to be building up to a sci-fi reading period after reading mostly fantasy (aside from Vance) over the last year or two.

 

[Colonel Worf]

I took home Masque World by Alexei Panshin and One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz today. And, the last time I helped with inventory at the bookstore I took home Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke, Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons, and something else... just goes to show you how much stuff I really have sitting on my shelf that's never even been attempted to be read.

 

[Monty Mike]

Just bought on the weekend secondhand:

The Star Fraction - Ken Macleod
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Stranger in a Strange LAnd - Heinlein
Book of Days - Gene Wolfe
Masters of the Maze - Avram Davidson
The Omnibus of Science Fiction - Edited by Groff Conklin (Short stories from between 1913 and 1952).

I seem to be building up to a sci-fi reading period after reading mostly fantasy (aside from Vance) over the last year or two.

Have you read any of Macleod's other work?

 

[emohawk]

I took home Masque World by Alexei Panshin and One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz today. And, the last time I helped with inventory at the bookstore I took home Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke, Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons, and something else... just goes to show you how much stuff I really have sitting on my shelf that's never even been attempted to be read.

Carrion Comfort is an excellent epic dark fantasy/horror novel (and I'm not a horror fan). I haven't read Masque World but Panshin's Rite of Passage is fantastic and it's a crime it's been out of print for so long.

 

[emohawk]

The rest of my amazon order finally arrived containing:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester by Alfred Bester
Phases of the Moon: Stories from Six Decades by Robert Silverberg (paperback, so I don't ruin my signed limited edition first edition hardcover)
The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

 

[UberDarkLord]

The Golden Age by John C. Wright. Sounds very interesting.

 

[Kleronomas]

Have you read any of Macleod's other work?

G'day monty_mike. No I haven't, but I have a copy of The Stone Canal. How do rate these two works? Which would be best to begin with?

 

[Monty Mike]

G'day monty_mike. No I haven't, but I have a copy of The Stone Canal. How do rate these two works? Which would be best to begin with?

The series are as follows:

The Fall Revolution
- the star fraction
- the cassini division
- the stone canal
- the sky road

Engines of Light
- cosmonaut keep
- dark light
- engine city

Others
- The Human Front
- Newton's Wake

I've read the Engines of light series (loved it) and have reviewed the first two at the main site, but i'm still reading the star fraction. I've also read The Human Front (done review on site).

 

[intensityxx]

I found a US used book seller who was selling some Gollancz books in new condition, so I bought a few, having forgotten which classics I read a long time ago:

Mindplayers, Pat Cadigan

The Embedding, Ian Watson

Floating Worlds, Cecelia Holland

Dark Universe, Daniel F. Galouye; Ursula K.Le Guin

Son of Man, Robert Silverberg

Also got this one, not sure how to classify it, but he's a scifi writer (sometimes?):

Lust : or No Harm Done - Geoff Ryman

 

[FicusFan]

Also got this one, not sure how to classify it, but he's a scifi writer (sometimes?):

Lust : or No Harm Done - Geoff Ryman

Yes he is. I would say it is SF because the main character has the power to make those he imagines appear. It follows certain rules, takes place in the real world, and he is a scientist who experiments with it - so it works for me. It was an interesting read.

 

[FicusFan]

I picked up some SF at the store tonight:

Triplanetary by E.E. "Doc" Smith, PB

First of the Lensman Saga . I have my dad's PBs from the 60s - but they are pretty beat up, so I thought I would pick up new versions. It looks like ibooks is putting them out in PB again.

Deathstalker Return by Simon R. Green, PB

Geodesica by Sean Williams with Shane Dix, PB

Human Resource by Pierce Askegren, PB

 

[Archren]

Minor spending spree w/ a $50 gift certificate from work:

"Redemption Ark" Alastair Reynolds
"Family Trade" Charles Stross
"Natural History" Justina Robson
"Year of Our War" Swanson
"Fire Watch" Connie Willis

Also on the fantasy side for my hubby: "Assassin's Apprentice" by Robin Hobb.

Had to put back "Crossing the Line" by Karen Traviss and "Pandora's Star" by Peter Hamilton.

 

[emohawk]

Bought yesterday:

China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
The Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld (part 2 of Succession)

 

[Rob B]

The Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld (part 2 of Succession)

I guess it is safe to assume you enjoyed the firs part of Succession? How did stand up against the good things you've heard about it?

 

[DragonReader]

The most recent Sci-Fi book I bought was "Dancerss in the Afterglow" by Jack L. Chalker. I think it is out of print now, but I found it in a used book stire a few weeks ago.

 

[emohawk]

I guess it is safe to assume you enjoyed the firs part of Succession? How did stand up against the good things you've heard about it?

Actually haven't read it yet. I heard it was largely one novel split into two so I was waiting for the MMP release of the second half before starting it. It's a fair way down my "unread pile" (because I've been tackling it alphabetically by author) by I may jump it up.

 

[Mugwump]

The Complete Critical Assembly by David Langford. I'm really looking forward to once again sifting through his old White Dwarf reviews. The man is a true fan of SF, with acid wit and a genuinely engaging turn of phrase. His slaggings of Battlefield Earth, late Asimov, Piers Anthony and just about everything from Stephen Donaldson are the stuff of legend.

The Book of The New Sun: part II, books 3 & 4: see the thread for this month's reading.

Fury by Henry Kuttner and Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye: heard good things about both of these.

 

[intensityxx]

Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
Beaker's Dozen, Nancy Kress
The Aliens Of Earth, Nancy Kress
(that should be a good start, Soon Lee )

Broken Crescent, S. Andrew Swann
Expendable, James Alan Gardner

Has anyone read Broken Crescent?