What are you reading in 2023?

[HaroldTheHobbit]

Somehow I have neglected Robert W Chambers The King In Yellow. It’s amazing of course. Besides that, lots and lots, and lots, of Pathfinder 2e rule and setting books. And it’s about time for yet another lustfilled re-reading of EE Smiths Lensman series.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I just read "A Dead Djinn in Cairo" by P. Djèlí Clark and it was a delight. Steampunk (maybe? I can't keep up with all the *punk definitions) with magic and jinn returning to the Middle East in the late 19th century, turning an Egypt that was never ruled by the British into a world power and the hub of magical engineering. This novella is a murder mystery set in the early 20th century, with a djinn and an angel both turning up mysteriously dead.

I'll be picking up the rest of the series for sure.

Master of Djinn was great, full length novel takes place in same universe

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished Fredric Brown's What Mad Universe. Fun and meta, with its pulp editor hero. Its place in Appendix N is a bit unclear to me (though only the author is specified, so Gygax might have been thinking of a different work). If I had to guess, it shows how simple changes can create dramatically different worlds when followed to their logical conclusions.

Now I'm finally getting to Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Finished Nine Princes in Amber two nights ago. I liked it well enough towards the end, despite my earlier objections, but I'm not sure that there was enough there to make me want to read more books in the series. Maybe I'll pick them up again some day.

I had picked up Burn the Ice: The American Culinary Revolution and Its End by Kevin Alexander when it came out but not read it all the way through, so I'm finishing that up now.

 

[Reynard]

I am almost done listening to Children of Ruin, the sequel to Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Real Big Idea sci fi in the vein of Vinge. Good stiff and great for my Starfinder campaign.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

I am almost done listening to Children of Ruin, the sequel to Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Real Big Idea sci fi in the vein of Vinge. Good stiff and great for my Starfinder campaign.

Children of Time blew my mind. I didn't expect to like it so much, but it was wonderful.

 

[Hex08]

I went back to finish The Chronicles of the Black Company. I am just finishing up The Books of the South and am really enjoying it. Next, I am either going to read Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past or The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake. I would also like to read The Murderbot Diaries this year.

 

[dragoner]

Reading A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Started Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

 

[Nellisir]

Started Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

ive enjoyed that series.