What are you reading this year 2020?

[Ralif Redhammer]

Dennis Wheatley's novels are definitely rooted in British Orientalism, and all the negative things that came with it. It's this weird blend of mysticism and jingoism.

The Devil Rides Out (1934) Dennis Wheatley...The novel is both racist and ableist. Almost all the Satanists are either non-white, have a disability (such as a cleft lip, albinisim, or a missing arm), or both. Voodoo is held to be evil.

I ended up giving up on Triplanetary. When they cut to a pages-long description of a new alien planet and lifeform in the middle of raging space battle, that was the final straw for me.

Now I'm back to my Dying Earth re-read, with the Eyes of the Overworld. Oh, that reprobate Cugel the Clever!

 

[atanakar]

Now I'm back to my Dying Earth re-read, with the Eyes of the Overworld. Oh, that reprobate Cugel the Clever!

Classics.

Have you read Big Planet? A short read that I really enjoyed.

Big Planet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Just finished Have Spacesuit will Travel by Robert Heinlein. It's a fun YA novel of a youth who yearns to go to space, but when he finally does, it ain't what he expected - not by a long shot! I found the casual sexism off-putting to some degree; but otherwise it's a light, quick fun read.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I have not...yet. Vance was so prolific that while I'd say I'm reasonably well-read with his works, there's still a metaphorical (but maybe literal) ton I've not gotten to.

Have you read Big Planet? A short read that I really enjoyed.

Big Planet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Eyes of the Overworld is done. Such fun. Cugel is terrible, and yet I find myself wondering how he was going to get out of the scrapes he got himself into (but also hoping that he wouldn't).

Now I'm over to Nehwon with Swords and Ice Magic. As I recall, it's the last decent read before The Knight and Knave of Swords.

 

[Richards]

I just started Resistance by J. M. Dillard, a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel that picks up immediately after the events of the last ST:TNG movie, with Riker and Troi having been reassigned to the USS Titan and Picard feeling some weird twinges left over from his time as Locutus. (Apparently this is going to be a Borg-threat novel.) It's going along okay so far, with the right "feel" for the characters - a definite must for me when it comes to Star Trek books (or any book using established characters; I hate it when the author can't get the tone right).

Johnathan

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I recently finished Dragon's Egg and Starquake. They're very well written books.

 

[dragoner]

Finished Triton by Samuel R Delaney, and found a trade paperback of the sfwa "Science Fiction Hall of Fame" published in 1970, seems interesting enough.

 

[Zaukrie]

Just started a re-read of the Black Company.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Finished Triton by Samuel R Delaney, and found a trade paperback of the sfwa "Science Fiction Hall of Fame" published in 1970, seems interesting enough.

I read Triton probably in early 80's as a teenager. Didn't really grok it. Maybe time for a re-read. Was it as disjointed as I remember?