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Old 07-05-2015, 01:42 AM   #22501
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Finished Dog Warrior, after first re-reading #3 in the series, Bitter Waters. Then got totally sidetracked by a new (to me) series, the Charlie Fox series from Zoe Sharp. The first book in the series is: Killer Instinct, and it's a very promising first novel indeed. Part of an omnibus edition: A Triple Shot of Charlie Fox for the quite reasonable price of $7.99. I really liked the first book, though it had a few rough spots. For a first novel? Very promising indeed. I'm going to give the second one, Riot Act a try next.
Finished Riot Act, the second Charlie Fox book from Zoe Sharp. And much as I liked the first, I liked the second even more, so I went right on to #3, Hard Knocks. Excellent, and getting better. We see Charlie growing into her role and coming to grips with how she got there, and in a way that feels right, at least to this readerly eye.

The next omnibus is available on KU, and I'll be starting on that next I think. The first book the next omnibus is First Drop, which is actually #4 in the series, but the first one that got picked up in the US.
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Old 07-05-2015, 09:48 AM   #22502
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I just finished #1 of the Aster Wood series (middle grade fantasy) by J. B. Cantwell for my neighborhood's summer reading book club. It's a bit too old for my son, but not his older friends.

As far as fantasy goes, it felt fresh and very enjoyable. Enough is different that it's not the same-old fantasy arc set in a dragons-n-swords world. Instead, he jumps locales quite often, giving us a taste of many cool atmospheres without being bogged down by extensive geography descriptions.
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Old 07-05-2015, 01:40 PM   #22503
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Moving on: Outskirter's Secret by Rosemary Kirstein. The second in her Steerswoman series.
Which was as good, perhaps better, than the first.

Now for some shorter humorous works: Chicks and Balances, edited by Esther Friesner. The latest collection in the "Chicks in Chainmail" series from Baen.
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Old 07-06-2015, 03:44 AM   #22504
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Reading The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill, the first in the Simon Serrailler series. It's a crime novel about the disappearance of a number of people from a quiet cathedral town in England, though much of the focus is on the lives of the characters, rather than the crimes themselves.

It's unusual in that it is known as the Serrailler series, yet Simon has barely made an appearance in the book, most of the story being told from the perspective of either his sister or one of his work colleagues, a female Detective. Good stuff though, and I will definitely be reading more in the series.
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Old 07-06-2015, 12:09 PM   #22505
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Which was as good, perhaps better, than the first.

Now for some shorter humorous works: Chicks and Balances, edited by Esther Friesner. The latest collection in the "Chicks in Chainmail" series from Baen.
I have the original Chicks in Chanmail in paperback somewhere... holy cow, I picked that up something like nineteen years ago!

I have finished 1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford; very interesting, though he might be stretching a bit on some of his speculation.

Now reading The Stone of Darkness, the third Dragonslayer book by Resa Nelson.
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Old 07-06-2015, 01:27 PM   #22506
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Just finished "Agent of Vega and Other Stories" by James H. Schmitz, originally bought from Baen in 2001. A collection of all the SF stories of Schmitz that aren't set in his "Hub Federation" universe. An excellent collection: my particular favourite was a story called "Gone Fishing". Highly recommended!
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Old 07-06-2015, 04:58 PM   #22507
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Just finished Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell based on a reco from Apache and it was a great read. I learned much more about this battle than I ever knew.
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Old 07-06-2015, 05:33 PM   #22508
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Just finished Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell based on a reco from Apache and it was a great read. I learned much more about this battle than I ever knew.
Great, glad to hear it. Feel free to jump in when we start discussing the book on the 20th. It's our MobileRead Book Club selection this month. I'm going to be playing catchup myself, since I have it in Audible format, but not as an ebook. (too expensive in North America.)
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Old 07-06-2015, 06:27 PM   #22509
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Now for some shorter humorous works: Chicks and Balances, edited by Esther Friesner. The latest collection in the "Chicks in Chainmail" series from Baen.
Fun series. You might also look for the Unidentified Funny Objects anthologies - three so far, and a fourth later this year.
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Old 07-07-2015, 05:02 AM   #22510
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Just finished "Cosm", by Gregory Benford. A particle physicist running an experiment in a particle accelerator unexpectedly creates a strange artefact which turns out to be a wormhole leading to a newly created universe. Excellent hard SF - I've not read a book of Benford's that I've not thoroughly enjoyed. Thoroughly recommended.
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Old 07-07-2015, 06:40 AM   #22511
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Just finished "Cosm", by Gregory Benford. A particle physicist running an experiment in a particle accelerator unexpectedly creates a strange artefact which turns out to be a wormhole leading to a newly created universe. Excellent hard SF - I've not read a book of Benford's that I've not thoroughly enjoyed. Thoroughly recommended.
Particle physicist running an experiment, creates gateway... destroys a city in Florida - except for one girl who somehow survives.

John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor's "Looking Glass" (AKA Voyage of the Space Bubble) series. Into the Looking Glass, Vorpal Blade, Manxome Foe, Claws that Catch, and I wish they'd get with it and do another book.

"I wish they'd get with it and do another book" isn't that the next title in every series?
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Just finished "Cosm", by Gregory Benford. A particle physicist running an experiment in a particle accelerator unexpectedly creates a strange artefact which turns out to be a wormhole leading to a newly created universe. Excellent hard SF - I've not read a book of Benford's that I've not thoroughly enjoyed. Thoroughly recommended.
Harry, is this available in English? I can only find it in German on the Kindle, Kobo or iBooks site.
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Harry, is this available in English? I can only find it in German on the Kindle, Kobo or iBooks site.
In the UK it's available under the "SF Gateway" Gollancz imprint, as are all Benford's books. Unfortunately, a lot of Gateway books aren't available in the US due to rights issues (the usual case of different US and UK publishers).

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In the UK it's available under the "SF Gateway" Gollancz imprint, as are all Benford's books. Unfortunately, a lot of Gateway books aren't available in the US due to rights issues (the usual case of different US and UK publishers).

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