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Gets better. I read The Red Pavilion, a Judge Dee mystery, last night. I'm having trouble articulating exactly what I like about these books, but part of it is "RPG-ness" of them all. Each character is a distinct NPC, and nearly every book seems like it could be adapted into an RPG adventure...

Finished up Book 8 of the Expanse; it was very worthwhile rereading them all at once. Blue, I'm dying of envy. Read The Killing Moon, by NK Jemisen; reading its sequel, The Shadowed Sun right now. Not sure what's after that. Might stop pulling from the archives and go for something new and...

I'll have to look for the Time Traveler's Guide. Anything by NK Jemisen is a must-read for me. I was considering rereading that trilogy after I finish the Expanse.

The Count of Monte Cristo is totally balls. I haven't read much Agatha Christie, but next time I go to my ex-mother-in-law's I'll probably grab a bunch.

Finished up Book 7; rereading Book 8 of The Expanse. Ordinarily I don't reread books, or at least not until 5+ years have passed, so rereading a book I just read a few weeks ago is...different. However, I did read it really fast, and having just reread books 5-7 it's totally worthwhile. I...

:unsure: Um. I'm sorry, I guess? The book has been out for 9 years. There are seven sequels. There's a tv show on its fourth season. And...you think THAT'S a spoiler? Oh boy. Buckle up. :ROFLMAO::LOL::ROFLMAO::LOL: Edit: I edited my post above so no one accidentally finds out about the ...

I read Tiamat's Wrath, book 8 of The Expanse series, the other day. I'll admit that when I read Book 1 of the Expanse I thought "Eh. [creature-feature plural of that moment] in space. Jumping on the it-of-the-moment bandwagon screws up a decent read; solid, but light." I was wrong. It's still...

I just reread Brightness Reef, by David Brin. The first book in the second Uplift trilogy. I think I read these before I read the original trilogy, and I'd forgotten (or was uncertain in my recollection) that some characters continue between the two trilogies, so I'm leaning towards starting in...

And the books are pretty short. I think each 5-book cycle would be a single novel by todays standards. And the publisher would be pushing him for a third...

I never got past book two of WoT, but Neuromancer still holds up.

I haven't been reading much the past two months. Just an off-season. I gotta find something soon though; I'm headed to Maine for a few days, and there won't be much to do besides read. Thumbs up for the thread change. I was getting tired of searching out the new thread each month.

Just read City of Brass, by S.A. Chakraborty. It...did not live up to the hype. It's got good intentions and ideas, but the solid bones are buried in a steamy romance novel sauce of muscular djinni bodies, the ordinary human women (who aren't really ordinary) they're drawn to, and etc etc etc...

Time for a new brother. ;)

Definitely. I'm merging the results of both physical archeology and genetic research because a) I'm a strictly amateur enthusiast, and b) this is an internet message board about fantasy races. Thus my qualifying statement of "it depends how you classify human species". I'm particularly intrigued...

I dunno...maybe 5% of us ARE immortal.

You'll have to take it up with the scientists. It's an archaic term with no formal taxonomic status. When it is used, it specifically references European early modern humans (EEMH), and isn't applicable outside of Europe.

Cro magnon is an archaic name for us, homo sapien sapien. Not a different species. Neanderthals & Denisovans are our cousin, or sibling, species. Sub-Saharan africans lack Neanderthal AND Denisovan DNA admixture because both of those species were located outside of Africa; only populations that...

It's an interest of mine. The status of some are unclear, but I only included the ones that have a fair degree of confidence. Keep in mind there are more - possibly many more - that we won't ever know about. An isolated population that left no physical trace for us and didn't cross back into our...

Like I said, it depends on how you classify species. The quoted author said 2, so that's either Neandertals & us, or they're considering dolphins or chimps or something. Either way, it's more than two.

Well, if you boil it a little further, I think every large terrestrial carnivore currently in existence is a dog, cat, or bear...and has been for some time. Plus crocodilians and monitor lizards. And snakes. So....6. I mean, there's not a lot of variety in carnivores at that scale anyways...