This month so far I've finished Asimov's Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation, Arthur C Clarke's A Fall Of Moondust, and Philip K Dick's A Maze of Death -- interesting books, all of them, but not without flaws when it comes to depicting women -- and I'm currently half-way through Labyrinth, by Kate Mosse, where the predominance of women characters is probably the only thing going for it...
I've been lax in keeping up my reading records here on Chrons, so I might as well fill in the gaps. In August I had another attempt at Neal Asher's The Technician which had defeated me earlier in the year. Although I had problems with the info-dumping and swathes of backstory, and with the hardware and technology descriptions which didn't interest me, I persevered, and in the end liked it enough to buy and read Line War, The Line of Polity and The Voyage of the Sable Keech. I had a few problems with all of them, but not enough to stop me enjoying the stories and characterisation.
More SFF in August and September with Lisa Tuttle's The Silver Bough, Dick's Martian Timeslip and Minority Report -- a collection of his short stories -- Douglas Hulick's Among Thieves, and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. Some detective novels, too: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy L Sayer's Whose Body? and JD Robb's Fantasy in Death, and historical detective/murder mysteries, The Tinner's Corpse by Bernard Knight and Sacrilege, by SJ Parris.
