What are you reading in 2024?

[Thomas Shey]

Yup, that's my original copy. I even had a copy of the R. Talsorian Games "Dream Park" RPG, with most of the adventures, until I shipped it off to a friend in the Tacoma area.

I've got one of them off in the "maybe damaged/destroyed by roof leakage, maybe not" boxes.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I have finally finished this book, I found the ending to be dry and the latter half feeling rushed.
regardless I can finally kick this off the bucket list as the book where my name comes from.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

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I have finally finished this book, I found the ending to be dry and the latter half feeling rushed.
regardless I can finally kick this off the bucket list as the book where my name comes from.

Necroscope is a Cold War - horror classic. One that unfortunately feels all the more relevant again.

 

[Autumnal]

I finished Effinger's When Gravity Fails. What struck me was how diverse it was, especially for the 80s.

The inspiration for the book came from when George lived in New Orleans. Several of his friends who happened to be prostitutes were murdered and the people lice couldn’t be bothered to do much about it. I’m not sure if any of those particular murder victims were trans, but his social circle included trans as well as cis sex workers - it’s often one of the few kinds of work available to poor trans people. So the books reflects his own experience in a bunch of ways.

 

[Ryujin]

The inspiration for the book came from when George lived in New Orleans. Several of his friends who happened to be prostitutes were murdered and the people lice couldn’t be bothered to do much about it. I’m not sure if any of those particular murder victims were trans, but his social circle included trans as well as cis sex workers - it’s often one of the few kinds of work available to poor trans people. So the books reflects his own experience in a bunch of ways.

Cold War era New Orleans Police were far too busy lining their own pockets, to worry about actual citizens of any social standing.

 

[Richards]

People lice? Interesting typo/autocorrect.

I finished The Bone Yard and am now starting up the last in that series, this time without the word "bone" in the title: Without Mercy, by Jefferson Bass. It's another mystery about to be solved by a forensic bone specialist, but this time a killer he helped put behind bars in an earlier novel (unfortunately, one I don't have and haven't read) escapes from jail and is intent on revenge against him. I've enjoyed the others in the series so I'm sure I'll like this one as well, but I kind of wish I'd read the previous book with the now-escaped killer. Oh well, I'm sure he'll fill in the details for new readers. But after this I'll have to go off in a slightly different direction, as I'll be all out of "Body Farm" novels.

Johnathan

 

[Mind of tempest]

Necroscope is a Cold War - horror classic. One that unfortunately feels all the more relevant again.

I like its take a psychoportation, it might be more horrible if others heads.

 

[Clint_L]

Just read the The Far Reaches short story collection. It's pretty short, but there are six stories, each from big names in contemporary SF (Corey, Okorafor, Leckie, Scalzi, Roth, Roanhorse). It's a good afternoon read and free on Kindle Unlimited. I recommend!

 

[Clint_L]

Also, Dungeon Crawler Carl, which I was kind of "eh" about at first, turned into me reading all six books and now waiting eagerly for the seventh. Look, it's not amazingly deep writing or anything, but it's fun, action-packed, and the Kindle editions are cheap/free!

 

[Autumnal]

Just read the The Far Reaches short story collection. It's pretty short, but there are six stories, each from big names in contemporary SF (Corey, Okorafor, Leckie, Scalzi, Roth, Roanhorse). It's a good afternoon read and free on Kindle Unlimited. I recommend!

I particularly liked Scalzi’s “Slow Time Between Stars”, and think it’s one of his best stories to date.