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Old 06-10-2025, 03:28 AM   #32281
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Next up: Truth Lies Bleeding by Chris Dolley. Chris Dolley is an author who's written SF, Mystery, Humour and auto-biography. I've really liked his SF. This is a murder mystery/thriller. Looking good so far.
And good it was, although I felt the ending happened rather quickly.

Next up: 1638: The Sovereign State by Eric Flint et al. One of the most recent in the "Ring of Fire" series.
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Old 06-10-2025, 04:54 AM   #32282
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I started Familiaris by David Wroblweski, a prequel to Edgar Sawtelle. Enjoying it so far!
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Old 06-12-2025, 10:59 AM   #32283
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Next up: 1638: The Sovereign State by Eric Flint et al. One of the most recent in the "Ring of Fire" series.
Which was OK to good. I have some reservations about the aqualtor technology.

Next up: Defending Elysium by Brandon Sanderson.
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Old 06-14-2025, 05:12 AM   #32284
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Next up: Defending Elysium by Brandon Sanderson.
Excellent Novella on origin of the Cytoverse series universe.

Next was Murder on the Dance Floor by Shirley Ballas and Sheila McClure

OK, but I found one character's story arc entirely unconvincing.

Next up: Storm Furies by Wen Spencer. Another in her Tinker series.
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Old 06-15-2025, 12:55 AM   #32285
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"What Ever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" written by Alan Moore. It is the last story of the Pre-Crisis Superman. The story takes place 10 years after Superman died, and Lois Elliot (the former Lois Lane) relates how it happened.

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Just finished up Percival Everett by Virgil Russel by Percival Everett. I like Everett. His sentences and phrasing just seem to resonate with me regardless of what is actually being said (or what story is being told). But still... he may have been trying to be just a bit too clever with this story inside a story inside a story concept. That might just be me, though.
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Just finished up Percival Everett by Virgil Russel by Percival Everett. I like Everett. His sentences and phrasing just seem to resonate with me regardless of what is actually being said (or what story is being told). But still... he may have been trying to be just a bit too clever with this story inside a story inside a story concept. That might just be me, though.
Thank you for recommending it, even if you didn't.

Purchased and looking forward to reading it.

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Next up: Storm Furies by Wen Spencer. Another in her Tinker series.
I really needed to read the previous one again, but I'd just about caught up half way through. Good fun.

Next up: Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. This is an off-line book group pick.
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Old 06-19-2025, 11:58 PM   #32289
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Next up: Storm Furies by Wen Spencer. Another in her Tinker series.
I really needed to read the previous one again, but I'd just about caught up half way through. Good fun.
Yeah, I had to go back and re-read the previous one as well. They are good fun, but it's hard to keep up when they're so far apart. (Hopefully her muse is behaving better these days.)
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Which was OK to good. I have some reservations about the aqualtor technology.
You may want to check Fluidics or the Water integrator for a real word example.

In an attempt to remain vaguely on topic, my current read is 1635: The Weaver's Code in the 1632 and/or Ring of Fire series.

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Next up: Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. This is an off-line book group pick.
And I was surprised to find it to be SF with a viewpoint character of an android.

It was quite interesting, but I wasn't convinced by the technology, nor the characters' interactions with it. But the internal voice of the android was interesting, and I found it very readable. 4/5

Next up was Hot Moon by Alan Smale. From Book Bale. I was hesitant about this at first, but it turned out to be an alternate history of the space race, with lots of action. Fun, and an interesting idea. Also 4/5

Then I read Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause. Near future SF that is reminiscent, from the other side, of a book described in it, in that it is basically propaganda, but very readable propaganda. I have to give it 5/5, as I was kept awake last night finishing it.

Next up: A random bit from the TBR pile: Mrs Pargeter's Plot, by Simon Brett. A cosy mystery.
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Reading the novel, The End of the Story, by Lydia Davis. That is THE great Lydia Davis, arguably one of the greatest translators of the modern era.

Her novel concerns the obsession her character has for a student who is 12 years younger than she is (but not one of her students). The novel is rich and deep, thoughtful, and 'obsessive' concerning its subject(s).

Lydia Davis is a GREAT writer of short stories, flash fictions, and short-short fictions.

She is an incredible writer, and I'm only 1/3 into my reading. But be warned, this is Literary Fiction.
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Next up: A random bit from the TBR pile: Mrs Pargeter's Plot, by Simon Brett. A cosy mystery.
And it was the expected bit of light fun.

Next up: The Big Front Yard and other Stories by Clifford Simak. The second volume of his collected short stories.

Excellent so far.
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This month:

- (the second part of) "Judas Unchained" (2005), by Peter F. Hamilton.

- "Planet of the Apes" (1963), by Pierre Boulle. I don't know how much the movies and TV's series did get from its satirical meanings; I'd liked it, but honestly it gives a weird feeling in the guts (but that's was also its purpose imho).
*side note, while Planet of the Apes ispired movies and TV's series, "The Forbitten Planet" by Philip MacDonald (mentioned before) was written on the movie's script instead.

- "Irontown Blues" (2018), by John Varley.

- "The Fountains of Paradise" (1979), by Arthur C. Clarke.

As it was on the 70th Anniversary serie, and contains a short-short novel from the Urania Prize (they made it, years ago, to enhanche italian writtens on sci-fi):
- "The Final Circle of Paradise" (1965, Wikipedia says its title was also 'Predatory Things of the Century'), by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
* the short story incuded is from Antonella Mecenero.

As I don't recall if having read it or not, I'm on this: "The Book of Joan" (2017), by Lidia Yuknavitch

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The bookshelf in June is busting out all over:

SLAN by A.E. van Vogt (1940) ***
DRAGON'S ISLAND by Jack Williamson (1951) **
HOSPITAL STATION by James White (1962) ***
STAR SURGEON by James White (1963) **
WHAT WOULD WEDNESDAY DO by Pop Press (2023) *
MEET MR MULLINER by P.G. Wodehouse (1927) ***
STANLEY WEINBAUM RESSURECTED (2011) Greg Fowlkes editor ***
LADY MOLLY OF SCOTLAND YARD by Baroness Orczy (1910) *
HUROK OF THE STONE AGE by Lin Carter (1981) *
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