May's Marvellously Mysterious Manuscript Meanderings

[Tansy]

Now reading The Desert Spear By Peter V Brett

 

[Connavar]

Conflicts anthology edited Ian Whates.

I dont have as much time as i would like to read novels but i can always find time for a short story here and there. The military SF fan in me find the idea of reading this anthology very thrilling.

 

[Ian Whates]

Conflicts anthology edited Ian Whates.

I dont have as much time as i would like to read novels but i can always find time for a short story here and there. The military SF fan in me find the idea of reading this anthology very thrilling.

Hope you enjoy the book, Con, although, as FE observes in the book's own thread on my sub-forum, it's not all military SF but examines the theme of 'conflict' from a variety of angles.

 

[biodroid]

Ian Whates - are your books available in Kindle format yet?

 

[Connavar]

Hope you enjoy the book, Con, although, as FE observes in the book's own thread on my sub-forum, it's not all military SF but examines the theme of 'conflict' from a variety of angles.

Frankly i dont like military sf for video game like future war action ala Halo books but i like stories that examine conflict from other angles. Political,social side and not for action.

The first story has this Franco character that made me laugh which is weird,not often in a SF story that isnt Douglas Adams.

 

[Lemmy]

I'm just about to start Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Figured it was about time.

 

[elvet]

I had been saving some special books to savor. One is The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie. I started it yesterday and was thrilled to see that it's already living up to my expectations.

 

[Ian Whates]

Ian Whates - are your books available in Kindle format yet?

Biodroid, to date there's an e-book format of just one NewCon Press title available - Shoes, Ships and Cadavers - but I'm actively working on establishing kindle versions for a number of others, and would hope to have the first of these available as early as next week... so watch this space!

 

[Perpetual Man]

Just starting The Scar by China Mieville, having finished Imperial Spy by Mark Robson, and enjoyed it quite thoroughly!

 

[HoopyFrood]

Last autumn I was reading a book about the Enfield 'poltergeist' in 1977 for the script I was writing. Decided to get it from the library again. So I'm reading This House is Haunted by Guy Lyon Playfair, one of the investigators involved.

I'm always skeptical about things like this, but at the same time, I love a good ghost story. And I think the ones that are more successful are things like this, with the reality edge. It's like the stories you'd tell as kids, the ones that were really scary were the ones that happened to 'a friend of a friend'...happening to people only two steps away from you. Too close to home!

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

The Goodbye Look by Ross Macdonald which was a well-written hard-boiled mystery, but marred by a somewhat nondescript PI.

Rogue Male by Geofrey Household - absolutely brilliant thriller about a big-game hunter who decides to hunt down a foreign dictator on what he thinks is a whim, and winds up being hunted down himself.

 

[jojajihisc]

Finished up Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan a few days ago which I liked although not quite as much as Altered Carbon, and now I'm finishing Camouflage by Joe Haldeman which is also quite good and a very quick read.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

Done with A Clash of Kings. Now onto A Storm of Swords. I think I should be able to finish these last two books before July 12th...

 

[J-Sun]

Finished Cobra Strike. It's kind of ironic: I mentioned the episodic nature of Cobra and this one has a much more unified, flowing, novelistic structure, yet lacks focus. In Cobra, Jonny Moreau and his progress through life is the clear, vivid focus. In Cobra Strike, his son, Justin, is becoming a Cobra. Jonny's a politician now. There are other Cobras and other politicians. Rather than fighting Cobras, the Trofts want to hire their services. Blah blah. The mercenary aspect is interesting enough and there's some socio-biological stuff that, regardless of plausibility, could be interesting enough but it just didn't really grab me. I'm also sure I must have read this but, unlike Cobra, it didn't return to me while reading it. It's not awful but it's a definite step down and even the first isn't exactly a classic or anything.

Spoilers:

Also, if you really initially think the objective of this military SF story is to find a peaceful alternative to war then maybe the resolution seems like a success but, if you think it pretty much boils down to a necessary war, then this has pistols on the wall that no one ever fires. So it's an anticlimactic book.

 

[Talysia]

I've been waiting a while, but I'm finally reading Jim Butcher's Side Jobs. Looking forward to this one!

 

[Cayal]

Just finished Haunting Ground by Erin Hart. It was ok.

I am about to start Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler.

 

[Rodders]

Just finished Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet: Fearless now on to Lost Fleet: Courageous.

 

[Talysia]

Finished Side Jobs, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm now moving on to Lian Hearn's Blossoms and Shadows.

 

[HoopyFrood]

Popped to the library and picked up Four Gothic Novels -- as it says on the tin, four novels in one. The first is The Castle of Otranto

Also going to start reading a book on electronics because I want mad skillz...or to just learn something new.

 

[No One]

I thought Time Out of Joint was a brilliant book; utterly confusing until it all comes elegantly together.

Agreed! I enjoyed this a lot more than Stigmata (which was still good).

And yes, the layering of the story, the subtle and not-so subtle creeping paranoia, and the reveal(s), all made for a brilliant book.

Anyway, next up for me is Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. I expect good things.