I just bought...

[Archren]

I got "The Risen Empire" by Scott Westerfield at Barnes & Noble this morning for the book club. However, I'm working my way through "Redemption Ark" by Alastair Reynolds right now, so who knows when I'll get to it.

 

[Mugwump]

I'd love to say I've bought another huge parcel of SF goodness, but I'm overrun with the unread books I've already got.

Time to start reading instead of buying.

 

[intensityxx]

I'd love to say I've bought another huge parcel of SF goodness, but I'm overrun with the unread books I've already got.
Time to start reading instead of buying.

Newsflash:
Intensityxx has enough unread books.

Yah. Riiiiiiight...

 

[Rob B]

I just ordered The Risen Empire & The Killing of Worlds, as well as the latest issue of Black Gatehttp://www.blackgate.com from Clarkesworld Books.

As I blogged two weeks ago, the Barnes and Noble in my town had The Killing of Worlds, book 2, but not The Risen Empire book 1.

 

[ArthurFrayn]

low tide

Still buying but in a controlled groove:

Appleseed -John Clute (I like Clute as a critic- let's see what he turns out)
Ice - Anna Kavan
Vacuum Flowers-Michael Swanwick (I loved Stations of the Tide, so I'm looking forward to this)

A couple of Charles Scheffield titles(never really heard of him till I read about him here):
My Brother's Keeper (a heeedeously garish/ugahlee cover on this one)
Cold as Ice

I LOVE THE LIBRARY BOOKSTORE.

At one point in my life, a home away from home.

 

[FicusFan]

I am now reading The Risen Empire for the SF book group. I quickly browsed through the amazon reviews - I usually don't look at them carefully until I have finished a book. I want to keep an open mind until I form my own opinion. From what I have seen the book is another example of a hack job by TOR.

There were lots of complaints of how the book doesn't end, it just stops. It doesn't stand on its own, or tell a complete story unless you read the 2nd book.

TOR has started forcing some books to be published in 2 or more books, even though it is one story (John Wright's The Golden Age , and the last book of Peter Watts Starfish trilogy, which came out it 2 parts). So if you are reading book one you may want to be sure to get book 2, The Killing of Worlds . The sad thing is that most don't know what TOR is doing and they are blaming the author.

I also just got from Amazon used partners

NeoAddix by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, PB

It is the first book of the loose series he wrote before the Arabesque trilogy. I spent a fortune, but it is out of print and I have been looking for about 7 months. It was the only used copy in English, that I could find.

 

[FicusFan]

I went and picked up The Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld, because the first book is mostly set up to what will happen with the story, and you have to read the 2nd book to get any satisfaction with the tale.

Edit:

I also hit Borders and found an April book out early:

Buried Deep by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, PB
4th book in the Retrieval Artist series

 

[NoneShallPass]

I finally bought a copy of one of the first real SF books I ever read. By real, I mean not a novelization of a movie or some Star Wars EU thing. It is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Man I love that book. I think I own Speaker for the Dead. I forget what books I own. I havent gotten around to reading it yet. I also want to get Ender Shadow. that book is pretty fantastic as well.

 

[intensityxx]

Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension, Rudy Rucker

Frek and the Elixir, Rudy Rucker

Dreamsnake, Vonda Mcintyre

The Terminal Experiment, Robert J. Sawyer

Hammered, Elizabeth Bear

Inventing Memory, Anne Harris

Cagebird, Karin Lowachee

At the Edge of the West, Kage Baker, UK version of Mendoza in Hollywood

The Female Man, Joanna Russ, I remember searching for this way back in the 70's

The Chronoliths, Robert Charles Wilson

 

[Archren]

"Quarantine" by Greg Egan, at a permanent flea market in Oxford, Maine where all paperbacks are $1.00.

 

[Rob B]

Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith by that Stover guy
Tale of the Thunderbolt: Book Three of the Vampire Earth by E.E. Knight

 

[FicusFan]

I picked up tonight:

Dark Planet by Charles W. Sasser, PB

 

[intensityxx]

All prompted by this forum:

The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

On Wings of Song, Thomas Disch

Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card

Jennifer Government, Max Barry

 

[Priestvyrce]

All prompted by this forum:

The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

This was the second Le Guin novel that I read that solidfied my love of this author. It is one of those still novels, where it seems that nothing really happens, but when it is over, you find how much has changed. Beautiful prose and an interesting study of different societies.

 

[Archren]

Please let me know if you like "Jennifer Government," intensity. It's been on my reading list for a long time, but I'm still a little unsure if I'll like it. Thanks!

 

[FicusFan]

I just got back from SF&F discussion group tonight and while there I scored

Olympos by Dan Simmons, ARC

Whooo hooo. I am so happy. As soon as I finish my fantasy book I will jump right in. The HC is going to be published in July, and it is 688 pages long.

Intensity there is a SF book group thread about The Dispossessed , wander in and comment when you finish.

I would rather have root canal than read ULG, but I hope you enjoy it.

 

[intensityxx]

I just noticed that a post I made yesterday disappeared into the ether - must be because I'm 50 now and am losing my mind:

Godplayers, Damien Broderick

Robert Charles Wilson:
Darwinia
Bios
Mysterium
A Bridge Of Years
Gypsies

not sf:
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon

 

[Kamakhya]

Please let me know if you like "Jennifer Government," intensity. It's been on my reading list for a long time, but I'm still a little unsure if I'll like it. Thanks!

It is a rather short read. It is full of humor about corporate aristocracy. It is a lot of fun for anti-corporate liberals, but a bit harsh for free-trade republicans. Sorry to get into politics here, but this book is very political at its heart. It is a paradoy of what free-trade corporate centered society would look like if allowed complete control, with Government being just a dinosaur of the past. It is fun, exciting, and even has some charachter development to boot!

I really enjoyed it, but to each his/her own.

 

[emohawk]

Some books I've gotten over the last few weeks (months?) that I'd never gotten around to posting:

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks
Friday by Robert Heinlein
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
The Walking Shadow by Brian Stableford
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

 

[Archren]

Thanks Kamakhya. I'm looking forward to getting it.