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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 5598188" data-attributes="member: 3887">I recently finished Leviathan Wakes - which was a wonderfully deliberate throwback to the SF of my youth, ie the likes of Niven and Pournelle. It's mid-future intra-system space opera with a dash of detective noir and horror. The great thing is the book is all about people, not post-people or computer programs. Terrific fun.Daniel Abraham, who co-write Leviathan, and wrote all of The Dragon's Path, is my new go-to author for pure, compulsively readable storytelling.I also read the 1st book in Mark Charan Newton's Legends of the Red Sun series, Nights in Villjamur, It's Dying Earth science fantasy, complete with direct shout-outs to Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, even. It's moody, heavily reliant on tone, kinda obviously an early-career novel, but still very good. I found it compulsively readable too, but I'm guessing most people wouldn't. I'm somewhat of a sucker for that particular sub-genre, as well as for authors willing to mix up their language a little, do something other than flat transparent prose or faux-grandiose high fantasy diction. I just started the 2nd book, City of Ruin. So far, so good.After that I may take a break from SF/F and read Jenifer Egan's 1st novel, The Invisible Circus. Her latest book, A Visit From the Good Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer for fiction. I thought it was marvelous too, the best book I'd read since David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, aka, The Best Novel of the Aughts -- and soon to be a major motion picture from the Wachowski Brothers, and that Run, Lola, Run guy! (I kinda wish I was kidding about that).</blockquote>

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