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I tend to wander around Baen, trying stuff from the free library then buying up whatever looks good when I feel so inclined. Actually, I do more or less the same at Fictionwise. Plus I have one of the 20GB "library" torrents from the darknet that I'm slowly cleaning up and converting.
What I've read recently is mostly Fictionwise stuff: Gregory Benford "Beyond Inifinity"and "Eater" are both reasonable, Reynolds, Alastair-Galactic North is good, Crystal Rain - Buckell, Tobias is excellent is a touch soft science fiction-ish (less so that 1632/1633 but in a vaguely similar vein). The 2008 Hugo bundle is excellent value if it's still available, John Scalzi is shipping that and his "The Last Colony" is another night-eating book that I read in 3-4 hours of my "one hour" reading slot each night. But "Brasyl" made up for that, couldn't get into it so only read the first few chapters before giving up. Rollback OTOH is also excellent, although I did manage to read that over three nights so perhaps not quite as good as "Last Colony".
Hmm, last night I bought a bunch of books but Baen use really bad filenames so it's somewhat tricky to list authors. I bought the remaining Eric Flint 16xx series books at least, plus a pile of Pournelle, Bear and some Hugo winners compilations.
Last edited by moz; 06-19-2008 at 05:12 AM.
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