05-06-2013, 03:54 AM | #16471 |
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Just finished "Voyage" by Stephen Baxter, one of the best SF novels I've read in a very long time.
Like many of Baxter's novels, this is an "alternate history" novel, the premise of which is that Kennedy was crippled, but not killed, in 1963, and that following the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 he became the leading advocate for a NASA mission to Mars. The book tells the story of the successes and failures of the subsequent development programme, the politics and infighting, the lives and careers of the astronauts between 1969 and the planned Mars landing in 1986. An absolutely riveting read for anyone at all interested in manned spaceflight. Highly recommended. Baxter is, in my view, one of the best living "hard SF" authors around. Last edited by HarryT; 05-06-2013 at 04:04 AM. |
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Just finished City of Pearl, the first of the Wess'Har novels by Karen Traviss. It was recommended by someone here, and a very good recommendation it was. I devoured the book, and am trying to figure out how I can justify buying the rest of the series.
I admit, this started a bit slow, and was fairly confusing until I'd read enough for everything to sort out. The different alien races, the various characters, etc. But since that's what ultimately makes this book so compelling, I can live with that. And once you get into it, there's no putting it down. I think I dropped my Kindle at least 3 or 4 times last night as I tried to finish it in bed. |
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I have just finished Robert Silverberg's "Lord of Darkness". In his afterword, he called it historical fantasy, which seems a fair description. It is based on the scant history of an Elizabethan privateer, Andrew Battell, who was held as a prisoner-of-war in Angola for twenty years. Silverberg says that his purpose was to show what it might have been like for an English seaman to have spent twenty years in the West African jungle in the late Elizabethan era. It seems credible from that perspective.
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05-06-2013, 04:03 PM | #16475 | |
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05-07-2013, 08:49 AM | #16476 |
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I am currently reading Catching Fire on my Kindle.
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05-07-2013, 12:58 PM | #16477 |
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I just finished The Archive by Victoria Schwab and that is seriously the best book I've ever read. The characters, the world-building, the story and the writing-style ; it was all so beautiful. If you like mystery and/or dystopian: GO READ IT NOW!
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05-07-2013, 04:50 PM | #16478 |
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Just finishing The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine.
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05-07-2013, 06:30 PM | #16479 | |
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05-08-2013, 02:13 AM | #16482 |
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Started Coraline by Neil Gaiman last night.
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