Science Fiction

Everything by Martha Wells. I'm into fantasy more than sci-fi, but Murderbot Diaries got me started. Loved Witch King, and I'm now reading through the Ile-Rien series. I'd say her more recent work is her best but I'm enjoying the older stuff a lot.

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, will probably pick up Ghost from the Grand Banks by Clarke soon.

Yesterday, finished Stephen Markley's The Deluge, a great read and a tremendous effort - highly recommend it.

The Deluge is a speculative fiction novel that focuses on the sociopolitical, economic, and ecological development of a series of catastrophic personal and global events stretching from the late 2010s with the narrative concluding around the late 2030s.

It's a longer novel, around 800 pages, if you prefer something more compact Markley's previous novel Ohio is terrific as well.

We Hear Voices by Evie Green- Sucks the book came out in 2020 at the heart of covid but so far it is a damn fine story interesting to see how it goes.

I listened to And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones and found it entertaining enough to start the second book in the series right after. It's not really scifi, I mean, time travel could easily be tagged fantasy as well. I don't know if I'll finish the series though. It's missing something that I can't quite put my finger on. Somewhat shallow and the secondary characters are paper thin. Fine reading to pass the time (or spend 12 hours on a train...) but nothing I'll be thinking about once I'm done. I've been struggling to get through the first few chapters of Perdido Street Station for a while, I may give it another go this weekend.

I've been trying to get through A Memory Called Empire for like 2 years now. I keep hearing how good it is l, but I'm maybe halfway through and I feel like the story has been slow going, and the poetry thing is weird too. It is very well written though. Maybe someone has something encouraging to say about it

Last month I picked up a grab bag at a used bookstore store in my old home town. I plan to grab one at random until I get through them all. So I don't know what I'm reading this month but I know it's something from this bag.

I've finished "Dance if the Hag" and "Pennterra" so far. Just started "northern stars" today.

Brin's Uplift War series.

I am currently on Book 11 of the Expeditionary Force Series by Craig Alanson. I have really enjoyed it. It's a fun space adventure series. Light reading, interesting characters, very funny at times. Sometimes suspenseful but and very few bad things happen to the good guys. I don't know about the rest of you, but I already have too many bad/sad/dramatic things from my real life. This series is a great scifi escape!

August I read American Prometheus, Pageboy, and the Ministry for the Future. All were worth reading for one reason or another. Ministry was particularly relevant with ongoing climate change.

I started Someone Else's Shoes which is good so far. After that I have added some ideas from this thread to my queue. I kinda just pick something that sounds interesting and give it a shot, with only a few books each year that are actually planned.

I’ve been on a reread of the eragon series, which I haven’t read since they came out. So like 20ish years from book one

Book 5 is coming out in a few months.

Loved these books when I was younger. Still very much love it.

I'm on the third book in the Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers. It's excellent 👌

Now starting Oryx and Crake.

I'm halfway through Gaiman's American Gods and then I'm going to complete my journey though The Culture with The Hydrogen Sonata.