What are you reading in 2026?

[Reynard]

Well, I finally did it. I got the fist volume of Dungeon Crawler Carl on audio. I started it last night on the way home from work (about an hour and a half) and I am not sure yet whether it was a good decision.

I will say this: the voice work by the narrator is top notch.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It makes a neat duo with John Varley’s novella “Press Enter”. There’s an entering subgenre of stories about the Singularity coming early and unobtrusively, until an eruption happens. Wil McCarthy’s Bloom seems like a probable outcome for many such worlds - grey goo has consumed th inner solar system, with humanity surviving on moons far away enough from the sun. Not as cheery as John Varley’s Eight Worlds, but with a fascinating complication.

Never heard of Press Enter before, but it sounds interesting. Looks like it's pretty easy to find copies of its original appearance in Analog.