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And now my wait begins.
Finished A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin.
Currently reading The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri. Next up will be A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R.R. Martin. To be continued... |
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Just started reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time. Even though he's probably best known for his ten-part "Shadows of the Apt" fantasy series, I've chosen to reward him for writing this great-big honking stand-alone generational scifi tale of uplift and exploration instead.
![]() Winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award, by the way. Last edited by DiapDealer; 09-20-2016 at 03:08 PM. |
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Now reading Defender by C. J. Cherryh.
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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It was OK. An interesting idea, and the characters were OK, but I was unconvinced by some events in the first half, and entirely sceptical of events in the second half.
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Next up: Enemies at Home by Lindsey Davis. The second in her Flavia Alba series, which follows Falco's adopted daughter's career. |
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Finished "The Far Side of the Stars", by David Drake. This is the third book in the "Lieutenant Leary" series. The Republic of Cinnabar is at peace and Leary at a loose end, and so together with his friend Adele Mundy, he agrees to captain an expedition into a little-known region of the galaxy for a wealthy aristocrat, in search of a long-lost treasure. All, however, does not go according to plan...
I wasn't too impressed with the first book in this series, but the second book was good, and this one (which I bought from Baen in 2003) is absolutely excellent. If the series continues going in this direction I look forward to reading the rest of it. Highly recommended SF. |
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Last week I finished The Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Great fantasy! I'm now waiting patiently for day three.
Over the weekend I read When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger. Excellent Middle Eastern cyberpunk I'm currently reading The Madonna and the Starship by James K. Morrow. A funny satire about 50s TV, space aliens, religion, and SF. |
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#24593 |
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I finished One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie on Sunday. Quite an enjoyable Poirot, with thrillerish tendencies. Specifically interesting to me, though, because it explicitly mentions the Case of the Augean Stables, which is one of the stories collected in The Labours of Hercules.
This book is from 1940, and Labours wasn't published until 1947. I had thought the stories were later - possibly even original to the collection - but now I realise I was misled by the fact that my otherwise-chronological Complete Stories collection includes the introduction to Labours before the 12 stories. Ultimately this just means I can get on and read the last few Poirot shorts now instead of waiting until I reach 1947, which is still quite a few books away. Anyway, after that I started on The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard, which is interesting so far. It's not one of the seven books I bought in a moment of weakness in the Gollancz sale at the weekend. It was in the sale, but I already owned it. |
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I've been re reading The Missing Dough by Chris Cavender. I'm going to finish it today. And I've just started re reading, for the second time, GoT5, A dance with dragons. Also up in the air, is The Deed of Paksenarrion, but that will take a while. I don't want to ditch Paks, because the writing seems good, but if nothing exciting happens in the next 2 chapters, then I'll DNF it.
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Sorry you're not enjoying it. It's one of my all-time favourites.
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Next up: The Dawn of Amber by John Gregory Betancourt An authorised prequel to Zelazny's Amber stories. |
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