What are you reading in 2025?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I also think, “why are there high winds on Mars? There’s basically no atmosphere.” But it’s a great book and film.

Mars gets planet-wide sandstorms, which is what I think they were dramatizing.

 

[Autumnal]

Mars does have high-speed winds. the Martian got that part, among others, very right

The Fact and Fiction of Martian Dust Storms - NASA

For years, science fiction writers from Edgar Rice Burroughs to C. S. Lewis have imagined what it would be like for humans to walk on Mars. As mankind comes

www.nasa.gov

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished reading the Cyberfunk! anthology. Like most anthologies, a mixed bag, but the quality is generally good, and it opens very strongly. Published in 2021, one of the stories features a social media owner attempting a hostile coup of the US. Cyberpunk, ever the Cassandra of genres.

Now I'm reading Arachne, by Lisa Mason. As far as I know, not about spiders, thankfully.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Years ago, I got a $1 deal of Don Quixote on Audible. And then a few years later, Amazon said that since I'd already bought it on Audible, I could get the Kindle version for $1 as well. So I guess I'll be chipping away at it this year. It's a 36-hour audiobook, so it's not something I'll be binging, especially since I'm new to it and really want to get as much out of it as I can.

 

[prabe]

Years ago, I got a $1 deal of Don Quixote on Audible. And then a few years later, Amazon said that since I'd already bought it on Audible, I could get the Kindle version for $1 as well. So I guess I'll be chipping away at it this year. It's a 36-hour audiobook, so it's not something I'll be binging, especially since I'm new to it and really want to get as much out of it as I can.

Back when I worked in audiobooks, we ended up recording that novel in English and in Spanish at the same time (broadly) and in the same studio, on the same computer. There was always some concern among management that there was going to be some confusion because the file names were so similar, but I don't remember it being a problem.

 

[prabe]

I finished reading the Cyberfunk! anthology. Like most anthologies, a mixed bag, but the quality is generally good, and it opens very strongly. Published in 2021, one of the stories features a social media owner attempting a hostile coup of the US. Cyberpunk, ever the Cassandra of genres.

An upside of anthologies, in my experience, is that if a story turns out to be crap at least it's likely to be quick to get through.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Back when I worked in audiobooks, we ended up recording that novel in English and in Spanish at the same time (broadly) and in the same studio, on the same computer. There was always some concern among management that there was going to be some confusion because the file names were so similar, but I don't remember it being a problem.

Ningún problema hasta ahora.

 

[prabe]

Ningún problema hasta ahora.

Yeah. It turns out that you really don't need to have Spanish in order to engineer audiobook sessions recording in it. You just need to be able to pronounce it enough that the narrator knows where to pick up reading.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah. It turns out that you really don't need to have Spanish in order to engineer audiobook sessions recording in it. You just need to be able to pronounce it enough that the narrator knows where to pick up reading.

Can confirm: I have been faking it until I make it in Southern California since the late 1990s.

 

[prabe]

Can confirm: I have been faking it until I make it in Southern California since the late 1990s.

Yeah, I can see that. Most of the time when I was telling a narrator where to pick up, I'd just heard them say it. That helped.