Thought it’d be fun to share what everyone has been reading. I’ll try to include titles and authors to make finding more information on them easier as well as a brief synopsis and my thoughts.
I had a lot of travel this week and speed through “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Great read with very interesting ideas and payoff that had me hooked. Covers human uplifting of other species, their development, and interactions afterwards.
I’ve also been working on “Strontium Dog” from 2000 A.D. comics (hey, it’s sci-fi and it’s printed) and made it through most of Vol. 3. In short, the main character Johnny Alpha is a mutant who’s only available employment is as a bounty hunter. Very fun read in general, although part of the main beats in this volume are sad.
Started a new novel and continued working on my audiobook but I’ll save my thoughts on that for next week / when I finish them.
way of kings by Brandon Sanderson📖
I’m currently reading Snow Crash. I got to the part where YT and Raven meet for the first time. Things have got pretty weird… I’m really enjoying the whole Sumerian mythology stuff, though.
Coasting through Caliban’s War in the Expanse series, planning on diving into book 11 of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian next.
I started and finished the first two Murderbot books from Martha Wells (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition). Reading the ebooks I didn’t realize how short they were until I got to near the end. I guess they count as novellas? But it’s nice to have something fun and easily digestible now and then so I’ll start the third tonight.
Children of Time was very good. There is a sequel, no? But I never read it.
Made some progress on Malazan, book 9 (of 10). Still early, but we’re past the initial set up and now it’s clear everyone is heading off to the wastelands for some sort of showdown.
