What are you reading in August?

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Finished Quest for the Future by AE van Vogt. Delightfully dotty time travel nonsense. I like van Vogt for his oddness, and his willingness to contrive a silly tale around his peculiar ideas of human psychology.

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Finished Water for Elephants, which I know isn't sff, but which I found useful structurally. There is a good frame story which improves both story lines, and the ending was satisfying and well built.
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I just finished reading that, too! The frame story was a little too realistic for comfort, showing as it did all the indignities of growing old. The flashbacks to his time with the circus had an authentic flavor of the era as well as the circus. The ending was unexpectedly satisfying.
 
Yes, I was pleased with the ending. Having bought into the eldery storyline I wasn't sure how it could end that I'd be happy with but I was. I found myself confronted with age in a way that raised uncomfortable questions and thought it was good to see a book tackling it well.
 
I decided to re-read Belgarath the Sorcerer by David and Leigh Eddings. I was feeling nostalgic.
 
My wife was going through my S.F. books in storage and I discovered an unread Elizabeth Moon: Trading in Danger.
 
About halfway through The Prometheus Man by Ray Faraday Nelson (1982). It's a near future novel set in a world divided between the few Techs and the many Uns (as in "unemployable") as well as a few folks living in a self-contained ecology in a huge balloon floating above all this, waiting for the destruction to begin. Interesting.
 
Just finished Marcus Sakey's "A Better World" book two in the "Brilliance Saga." This book was a real crackerjack! It's seldom that book 2 beats book 1, but this one does. I've seldom read a book that made so much sense and yet continued to surprise me time after time. Every time I thought I knew where we were heading I was dead wrong. And that's to say nothing of the moral and philosophical quandaries that the book continues to lift up. I'm blown away!
 
The Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum by D L Mackenzie. This is the first 'episode' in a 'trilogy of 12.' Good fun hokum tribute to Wells, Verne etc with some mildly satirical Twainesque humour. Self-published, this first episode is free on Amazon and Barnes & Noble (for epub). More here.

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My wife was going through my S.F. books in storage and I discovered an unread Elizabeth Moon: Trading in Danger.
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First book in her Vatta Series, light semi-military SF, I think you might quite enjoy it, Parson.
 
I'm kind of all over the place this month. I have to admit, I'm a long time fan of R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms, and finished the Last Threshold. From there I read the first Wool (book?). And am now reading The Forever War. Next is Reaper's Gale (book 7 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series).
 
I was originally reading El Perfume.

Then, temporaly dropped it for Gardens of the Moon.
 
I've started Limbo (1952) by Bernard Wolfe. It appears to be a darkly satiric story of a post-nuclear future where folks voluntarily have their limbs replaced by prosthetics. (Before we even find this out, we see a neurosurgeon who fled the war assisting some folks who live on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean with their custom of performing brain surgery on members of their group who are too aggressive.)
 
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