Currently reading 11-22-63. Pretty bloody grim and depressing in places, but good enough to hold my attention.

Finished Locked In by John Scalzi not long prior. Great thought experiment considering it was written long before covid too.

I'm 6 books into expanse series, and I've kind of lost steam with it. Might need a break. Read bobiverse in full just before it. First children of time book was good but didn't know if I wanted to read book 2.

Also loved project hail Mary and the dark Forest/three body trilogy.

Any other suggestions?

Im halfway through The color of magic by Terry Pratchett, I've read a few other discworld books but I thought it was time to start the first book an try to read them all in the "right" order.

Frank Herbert's Dune

Project Hail Mary. Paid more than I liked for a single book but quickly found it is one of my favourite books of all time!

Just finished Leviathan Wakes today. Can't wait for my Amazon delivery of Caliban's War.

I'm about half way through The Fall of Hyperion. It's great

The Bobiverse books were great. Can't wait for more. I've been reading Expeditionary Force which is where the Skippy's come from. Also Rythm of War by Brandon Sanderson.

Wool by hugh howey

Wife and I watched silo and enjoyed it so I thought I'd read the books.

You can buy the books DRM free off his website https://hughhowey.com/books/wool/

Make sure you get all 3. Wool shift and dust.

Children of Time - It's fantastic. Easily digestable space fair about giant intelligent spiders in their war with ants. Humans are involved but I care little for them. Not going to lie, I'm mainly there for the chapters narrated by the spiders and they are expectional.

I'm currently in the middle of Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. I'm only about 15% of the way through so I don't have a great picture of what is going on or what it is about yet. It seems like the main premise is about an archeologist who has been working on an excavation of an ancient species on a distant planet for an extremely long period of time that likely has far reaching implications about the universe. I've definitely never read anything similar to this in the past.

The other book I plan on reading (listening to) is The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers of which I know basically nothing about. I tend to listen to a book whenever I can't read such as when I'm driving or bathing and then read at times that I can like before sleeping. I find it is a good system to get through 2 books at once.

Just finished the first three books for Red Rising. Really loved it. Not sure if I want to start the next part of the series. I just want the main character to be happy. Can't take more of his torture.

I just finished Project Hail Mary and just started The Passage.

Neuromancer, count zero, blade runner (do androids dream…), burning chrome. Lots of cyberpunk stuff lately

Currently reading The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi.

Just started Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie and seems great so far. I have no idea what is going on with how people are gendered in the various languages but I'm looking forward to puzzling it out.

Currently listening to The Dark Tower 7 and about to start The Fall of Hyperion. I’m new to The Hyperion Cantos, but the first book hooked me so I’m looking forward to diving back into it.

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's been a while since I read anything of his and I'm loving it.

I was re-reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein, which I read about 15 years ago and really enjoyed (even bought it for a friend as a gift). On the second read through... I found it much less entertaining (though the connection between the computer and the current LLM/AI hype is interesting), got about half-way through and basically stopped. I probably won't finish it, which is kind of sad. Oh well, tastes change I guess.

"Roadside Picnic" is incredible. The Sttugatskys were prolific Soviet SF writers, and well worth a look; "The Doomed City" is another banger.

I'm on the second book of Hugh Howey 's Silo Trilogy. Loved the show, loving the books even more

Just about to start Memories of Ice, book 3 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.

I recently read "A Memory Called Empire" by Arkady Martine. It's the first book I've read by her and her writing style got me good. Her background as an historian shines through in the Empire she crafted. She won a hugo or nebula for the book but I can't be bothered to look it up at the moment.

The three body problem series is absolutely the best sci fi book series I have ever read. Can’t recommend more. Just finished the last one the other day, and the third book is mind blowing. It was written by a Chinese author so it feels foreign to me as an American, and a lot of cultural differences are very apparent but the translation was masterfully done by the authors son so it stays very true to the original source.

Currently on book 4 of the Horus Heresy. I read a lot of sci-fi and somehow missed out on the 40k universe so I'm trying to make up for it.

Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers.

Such amazing, lovely sci-fi that touches on so many topics.

Last one is based in a really nice intergalactic truck stop. Or like an airport hotel maybe.

And I didn't realise it until my second read-through, but it's basically all about cross-species accessibility/accomodations.

Really beautiful stuff.

I’m finally starting House of Leaves with a book club from work. I have no idea what to expect other than weirdness, and I am very excited!

I just finished The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz. Its so fucking good, amazing worldbuilding, story and message. It really explores all the potential interesting ways that you can envision different future worlds in ways that other SciFi often doesnt. I've never read anything like this before.

I'm stuck in the third trisolaris book. Can't get into it really.

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

It's a surprisingly engaging read, even though the events occurred in the 80s. Computer security was non-existent.

Currently on book 3 of the Bobiverse. Most fun, zany scifi I've read in a while.

Edit: Seveneves was fun too, currently also reading Termination Shock. We really need those "earth suits" I think ...

Currently reading Blindsight, I'm honestly surprised how many people get interested when I tell them I'm reading about space vampires.

Needed it to take a break from all the new to me ideas in three body problem. Learned lots about chinese history. Wasnt ready for the second one.

Blindsight feels like all the scifi trope bundled together.

On vacation and just powered through The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi, Children of Memory - the latest in the Children of Time series - by Adrian Tchaikovsky and Terraformers by Annalee Newitz. All excellent

Finishing off Abbadons Gate. Managed to get back into it after many months long break.

About halfway through Lords of Uncreation, the third book in the Final Architecture trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

They are to space opera what his children series is to hard science fiction. It has imaginative aliens that resist monoculture stereotypes and ominous, seemingly implacable foes. The technology never descends to Star Wars' (for better or worse), but standard tropes like FTL and gravitic control are all fundamental assumptions. However, once those assumptions are made, everything that follows is consistent and reasonable to the setting.

The cast is diverse, interesting and entertaining and the pacing is nothing short of breakneck.

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. Great book, beautiful vocabulary

Just started player of games and I'm really enjoying it! My first Iain Banks book, but definitely not my last.

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. It's my first time reading his work and I am absolutely loving his sense of humor.

I just finished reading "Fair Play", which is a book on the division of unpaid/unseen labor in households. Next up we have "Thriving with Adult ADHD", "The ADHD Effect on Marriage", and "Organizing Solutions for People With ADHD".

Can you guess the current issue in the Porcupine House? 😅

In July, I finished The Lords of Uncreation (and therefore the Final Architect trilogy) by Adrian Tchaikovsky, read the newest Lee and Miller Liaden novel Salvage Right when it arrived, then zoomed through Wool, the first of the Silo books.

Currently, I’m reading a Star Trek novel Agents of Influence by Dayton Ward. It’s a sequel to the excellent Vanguard and Seeker series set in Star Trek’s 23rd century. Not sure what’s next.