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

[nana77]

I've discovered this one: "Fire and Ice", by Bill Willingham, and Leonardo Manco (Artist).

Spoiler:

Impressively beatiful: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/a-lo...d-ice-for-foc/
https://bleedingfool.com/comics/fran...ll-willingham/
A prequel to the animated, movie by Ralph Bakhi (1983).

The film, a collaboration between Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, was distributed by 20th Century-Fox. Based on characters co-created by Bakshi and Frazetta, it was made using the process of rotoscoping, in which scenes were shot in live-action and then traced onto animation cels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_a...)#Comic_series
The latest book (#5) has been released on September 2026.
There is a special add called "Teegra" with illustrations by Gabriele Di Caro, which I didn't bought.

Edit: it seems the #5 chapter isn't the latest, but that it will the next one release.
I've just started a graphic novel by Jordi Lafebre (which was on discont in its italian translation, @ 1,50$): "I'm a Lost Angel", the style seems so awesome, and the character soo madly good.

[DiapDealer]

Finished up Williams' Butcher's Crossing. It was well written and I thought the narrator did a fine job, but the story just wasn't one of my favorites. It got a little bit too "Scouring of the Shire"-ish there at the end.

[drofgnal]

I read a couple of Pam Jenoff books, a writer of mostly WWII historical fiction about women and their roles. I generally like her but the last two were horrilble. One was a DNF, the second I made it through, but probably should have been DNF. I found the protagonist extremely irritating.

I'm getting ready to start a Mark Sullivan book (writer of Beneath a Scarlett Sky) called All the Glimmering Stars, a story of two youths in 1990s Uganda. Looking forward to it.

[Renate]

What are we not reading?
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
I didn't dig the philosophical intro, then I didn't like the protagonist.
DNF on page 12.

[astrangerhere]

After nearly 6 weeks of the worst illness of my adult life, I am finally settled back into a routine.

Currently:

• Kobo - In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust - Moncrieff translation revised by Terence Kilmartin and Andreas Mayor. I have the Modern Library ebook of all six volumes in one and slid into it right at the end of my illness. I am absolutely loving it so far.
• Audio - A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. I recently got the Audible versions of all nine novels broken down into the movements. This is a re-read for me to pair with the above read and Simon Vance's narration is a dream.
• Hardcover - The 2024 edition of The Letters of Emily Dickinson edited by Christanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell
• Boox - Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. There is a nice edition on Standard Ebooks that I am reading along with my wife. I read it decades ago and she's never read it.

[bizzybody]

Book 2 of JN Chaney's "Flying Gas Can" offshoot series from his "Backyard Starship" series.

[nana77]

Just got over on "Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism"; a fantastic and positively book (imho).
It gives glimpes and references from SF movies, but the main and most part is about the historically sequence between what has been described as post-humanism, post-modernism, hyper-modernism, hyperreality; from the times where coding were a binary concept to object oriented languages, to AI behaviours; what does that means to live within, how possibly it can be a way to interact with as not just as a capitalist-sided data profit but having to deal within an humanist approach into it too.
Creative Coding, and similars; the book takes from others essays, compare them, gets throughout them base philosophy; Jean Baudrillard and N. Katherine Hayles on top of them.
As mentioned on the deal's forums, it's free on [transcript] publishing.