What are you reading in 2023?

[Clint_L]

The Rivers of London books are very good -- I find them vastly better written than Sandman Slim or the Dresden Files -- but they become incredibly serialized without warning when what I was hoping for were cool British magical detective stuff, not a comic book without pictures.

Some of them literally are comic books. With pictures! I quite enjoy the entire series, though in a similar vein Charles Stross's Laundry series edges them out for me.

My favourite ongoing series right now is Martha Wells' Murderbot series.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Finished Glen Cook's Shadow's Linger. The language is spartan, but big and bold, evocative. People's names become archetypes, shortcuts to our imaginations.

Now I'm reading R.E. Howard's (and De Camp and Carter) Conan of Cimmeria.

 

[trappedslider]

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

 

[Clint_L]

Finished Glen Cook's Shadow's Linger. The language is spartan, but big and bold, evocative. People's names become archetypes, shortcuts to our imaginations.

Now I'm reading R.E. Howard's (and De Camp and Carter) Conan of Cimmeria.

I haven't read those since I was a kid. I loved them, but don't want to re-read them because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I haven't read those since I was a kid. I loved them, but don't want to re-read them because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

If you're speaking of the Conan books, there are definitely things that jump out at modern readers, not always in a great way.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I haven't read those since I was a kid. I loved them, but don't want to re-read them because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

Yeah, what @Whizbang Dustyboots said. R.E. Howard wrote some powerful, bloody, and beautiful prose, but also some really reprehensible stuff.

 

[overgeeked]

Yeah, what @Whizbang Dustyboots said. R.E. Howard wrote some powerful, bloody, and beautiful prose, but also some really reprehensible stuff.

While he’s nowhere near as bad as H. P. Lovecraft, he’s way worse than a lot of apologists claim. I’d read a little of his stuff when I was younger and comics based in his works, but it really took me aback when I dove into his stuff and saw the drum beat of racism and sexism in his fiction.

 

[dragoner]

Finished Leinster's Invaders From Space, ok, pulpy sci-fi from the early 60's, the original paperback is kind of neat, has red edges. Now it's Asimov Presents Gehenna Station. I am running low on cheesy sci-fi, need to go hit the bookstore.

 

[Ryujin]

Finished Leinster's Invaders From Space, ok, pulpy sci-fi from the early 60's, the original paperback is kind of neat, has red edges. Now it's Asimov Presents Gehenna Station. I am running low on cheesy sci-fi, need to go hit the bookstore.

If you have never read the "Lensmen" series by EE "Doc" Smith, then now might be a good time.

 

[dragoner]

If you have never read the "Lensmen" series by EE "Doc" Smith, then now might be a good time.

I read them a long time ago, though the details escape me. It was similar to reading Snow Crash again, I totally remember reading it back then though huge chunks I had simply forgot. I kind of want to look for Diamond Age by Stephenson.