What are you reading in May?

kingpaul · May 8, 2003

Tiefling said:
Nor have I, though I like A Song of Ice and Fire well enough.

Hey! For not owning it, I was close.

Tyler Do'Urden · May 8, 2003

I've been reading Hans Moravec's books on AI and Robotics- Mind Children and Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind ... I highly recommend them to anyone interested in robotics, AI, computing- they're also getting me really excited about Matrix Reloaded!

I just put in an order on Amazon.com the other day- I ordered a whole heap of R.A. Salvatore that I hadn't read yet, as well as some nonfiction titles on Quantum computing, nanotechnology, and evolutionary psychology- it's going to be a fun month (once I get done with finals, anyway...)

Paul_Klein · May 9, 2003

I'm currently on a quest to read all of the post-Return of the Jedi Star Wars fiction in chronological order. I'm on book #7 (out of 51) in this quest - X-Wing - Wraith Squadron: Iron Fist, by Aaron Allston.

jasper · May 9, 2003

Just finish the power of gold a history of obession.
Started Dream park last night for a fiction break.
Will read the last Han Dunbreck book to say I read all his books. And know how outdated they are.

Zaukrie · May 9, 2003

I'm currently re-reading the Deed of Paksanarrion, the trilogy by Elizbeth Moon. I read it when it first came out, and thought maybe now that I was old and jaded that I might not enjoy it again. I'm 85% through the second book, and if you play D&D and haven't read these, you need to. They are very good books.

Kid Charlemagne · May 10, 2003

I just finished reading "The DaVinci Code," by Dan Brown. It's a potboiler mystery that revolves around the Templars, Religious heresy, and Leonardo DaVinci. Reminds me in a way of "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco (Name of the Rose), though not so dense and literary, if you will.

It's set in modern times, but touches on lots of medieval mysticism. Loads of fun.

Skarp Hedin · May 12, 2003

Cordo said:
You aren't going to read Urth of the New Sun between the two? I'm just starting on Nightside the Long Sun myself.

Ahh, I am. I didn't know about the intervening book when I posted this originally, so while I wait for Urth of the New Sun to arrive from Amazon, I'm reading other stuff.

I just finished Ruled Britannia today, by Harry Turtledove, which is potentially his best yet. If not, quite close.

Assenpfeffer · May 12, 2003

I've just started Michael Scott Rohan's Winter of the World trilogy. I'm about 80 pages in to the first book and enjoying it so far.

Mallus · May 12, 2003

Re-reading: William Gibson's original Sprawl/cyberspace books. Almost done with Count Zero. He is one of best prose writers working in SF, and it amazes me to find his early work is just as polished as his later; and better, characters still carry Braun laser guns {with F/N sights}, the rich live in space mansions, and Rastafarians pilot orbital taxis.

Reading: The Best of Cordwainer Smith. Thirteen stories about the Instrumentality of Man, including The Ballad of Lost C'Mell and Scanners Live in Vain. For my money, he was one of the best prose writers working in/just past the Golden Age of SF --along with the likes of Bester and Vance. He wrote wonderfully mythic, evocative stuff, and felt totally unburdened by the need to explain the details of his future history.