Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[Graham44]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

How about a talking shark? You know, a situation comedy with a little bit of Flipper combined with Mister Ed and the film Goldfinger ("No, [fill in a name], I expect you to die, " the shark said.) The gory scenes would be quite hilarious.

Of course, a new guest star would be needed every week.

You could get over introducing a new guest star every week by combining; Flipper, Mister Ed, Goldfinger and Quantum leap To get a time traveling talking shark that jumps through time devouring famous historical characters!!

[nana77]

A project inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hieroglyph.
It had two precends (2019, 2022 within a partecipation of Bruce Sperling too).
After one year and half of work, the one published now takes both the novels (shorts) and the interviews; I'd liked it because it gives a glimpse on how research works, how long it takes to a project to develop (and its perhalps maybes), how choosing directions counts, as several works starts by looking at a prospective, going there in 5/10/15 years of work, study (and monies off course).
I'd liked also the fact that the authors wasn't tied into the optimist, but did some inherent speculations as sci-fi musts...
Certainly a book that rises 1000 questions, but liked it.
Now finally free to get back into the classics , Fritz Leiber, "Ghater, Darkness!" (1950).
It seems fantastic.

Edit, thought I'd made a mistake, deleted two songs by Godfinger, nothing important. Sorry for the mess.

[fantasyISbetter]

So many authors love to hear themselves "talk" and go on for page after page with irrelevant boring detail or blather or angst. I give up on those too.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Graham44

You could get over introducing a new guest star every week by combining; Flipper, Mister Ed, Goldfinger and Quantum leap To get a time traveling talking shark that jumps through time devouring famous historical characters!!

I bow[-wow] to your genius, oh mighty one!

[nana77]

Fritz Leiber "Gather, Darkness!" (1950)
Really, really fantastic.

Finished "Red Planet Blues" by Robert J. Sawyer (2013), very nice also.
It was at first (its firsts 10 chapters) a novel called "Identity Theft", that as the publisher mentions on the back-ending greetings, won the UPC spanish prize of "Ciencia Ficción", which also is the more rich into the sci-fi, within its 6000 euros.
A provisional title would have been "The Great Martian Fossil Rush", then changed as for the editor's choices/suggestions.
There is a part onto the 3/4 where the scene is accompanied by mentioning this song:

Spoiler:

Now reading "You Sexy Thing" by Cat Rambo (2021), which starts on a kitchen/cooking behaviour, and has a reminder of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Seems also a nice, well written reading.

Ps: sorry again, instead of quoting I did edited the last messages, deleting a part thought.
Omg .

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by nana77

Finished "Red Planet Blues" by Robert J. Sawyer, very nice also.

It was at first (its firsts 10 chapters) a novel called "Identity Theft", that as the publisher mentions on the back-ending greetings, won the UPC spanish prize of "Ciencia Ficción", which also is the more rich into the sci-fi, within its 6000 euros.

You do know Robert is a member here at MobileReads

[Dazrin]

I just finished Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch, Peter Grant book 10. It was published just last month; fortunately, I was early in the wait list from my library.

This was also my 1,200th completed book since I received my Kindle and it pushed me over 350,000 pages read. Nice little mini-milestone.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

This was also my 1,200th completed book since I received my Kindle and it pushed me over 350,000 pages read. Nice little mini-milestone.

Congrats! A milestone, indeed!

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

I just finished Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch, Peter Grant book 10.

How's he holding up? Lies Sleeping seemed like a decent enough jumping-off point for me, so I took it. I'd love to see Aaronovitch do something completely different some time.

[Dazrin]

I liked this one better than the last couple. It went to a new area and introduced new things to the lore, so that was part of it. Abigail and Peter were nearly 50/50 in this one too.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

I liked this one better than the last couple. It went to a new area and introduced new things to the lore, so that was part of it. Abigail and Peter were nearly 50/50 in this one too.

Thanks! I had fun with that first 7 book arc (without novellas), but I was already starting to struggle to keep going if I'm being honest. I've always thought about jumping back in, but it's already way past the number of books I typically give a series these days.

[DNSB]

Currently, for the next hour or so, reading The Best of Henry Kuttner. Nice to meet up with some old friends including some of the stories written under the Lewis Padgett pseudonym. Not quite sure if those stories belong in the collection since I seem to remember that pseudonym was used for collaborations between Henry Kuttner and his spouse, C. L. Moore.

[nana77]

Originally Posted by nana77

Now reading "You Sexy Thing" by Cat Rambo (2021), which starts on a kitchen/cooking behaviour, and has a reminder of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Seems also a nice, well written reading.

Very special, liked it a lot.

Waiting the next Urania's releases, took some from a digital pile in the drawer (so to reorganize a Calibre playlist also).
Joe Haldeman, "The Forever War" (1974)

It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1975 and the Hugo and Locus awards in 1976.

Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold (1988).

Both supernices, it doesn't needs to be said.
Now reading "Supermind" by A.E. van Voght (1977).

(it seems that it took less time, by those years, to release a translation... - I'd might be wrong)

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Jojo by Johannes Radebe. Autobiography of one of the professional dancers on Strictly Come Dancing. A recent purchase.

A decent ghost-written autobiography.

Then I read Forfeit by Dick Francis, his 7th novel from 1968. The expected fun horse-racing based thriller, with a reminder of the horrors of polio.

Next was A Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths, the 5th in her Dr Ruth Galloway series, and also a short in that series, Ruth's First Christmas Tree. Both also up to scratch.

So Much Blood by Simon Brett was next, the second in his Charles Paris series, written in 1975 and set in Edinburgh at the Fringe. A fun mystery, and also an interesting contemporary historical look at 1970s Edinburgh.

An accidental re-read of Dishonesty is the Second-best Policy by David Mitchell followed. A collection of newspaper articles. Clearly forgettable, as I'd forgotten I'd read them before, but I liked them better this time around.

I started and abandoned half way through Union of Renegades by Tracy Falbe, a fantasy I picked up back in 2008. Trite and unconvincing, I should have abandoned it earlier.

Now reading The Chinese Gold Murders by Robert Van Gulik. The 4th in his Judge Dee series, but first by internal chronology.

[John F]

Reading the Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros and really enjoying it. I almost never skim while reading, but I'm skimming a lot with this series.