What are you reading in 2025?

[Autumnal]

Now I'm reading Jack Womack's Ambient.

I’m a slavering fan of the Dryco series. Ambient is impressive by itself, but the series as a whole goes utterly amazing places, and keeps doing dazzling things with language. Random Acts Of Senseless Violence is heartbreaking, in particular.

And the bit with the refrigerator door in Ambient is gently hilarious.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I’m a slavering fan of the Dryco series. Ambient is impressive by itself, but the series as a whole goes utterly amazing places, and keeps doing dazzling things with language. Random Acts Of Senseless Violence is heartbreaking, in particular.

And the bit with the refrigerator door in Ambient is gently hilarious.

It was after reading Womack's afterword to Neuromancer that I thought "I have to read something by a guy that writes like this!" So far, I am digging it.

 

[the Jester]

Currently reading Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock. As usual, his work is pretty dense, though this one isn't as dense as, say, Cryptonomicon. It's a big fat book with a lot of moving parts. I'm loving it.

 

[LouisFort]

Started reading The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I've read just up to 30 pages, but I already like it a lot

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Started reading The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin.
I've read just up to 30 pages, but I already like it a lot

People bash it for being more contemplative than the earlier Earthsea books, and it definitely feels like she intended to end the series with this book, but I really like it. I think it stands up well in the death of magic fantasy subgenre.

And bonus, it helped inspire a new official Shadowdark class, which is another point in its favor.