October 2015: What are you reading?

[Vertigo]

I finished my indulgent 3 book session of space opera adventures last night with:

The heart of Matter by Evan Currie - the second in his Odyssey One series didn't disappoint. More here.

 

[Vertigo]

Vertigo, they're well worth a look.

They're already on my wish list, but you really don't want to see just how long that is. Also I'm currently part way through at least half a dozen multi book series and I try not to start new ones until I've finished at least one of the existing ones....

 

[thaddeus6th]

I know that feeling.

If I acquired a TARDIS, its primary function would be shelf space.

 

[Vertigo]

I just need to double the length of a day

 

[Mark Ragland]

mike resnick and the Brothers in valour series those are the two recomendations. as for more suggestions lol that's easy
if you want fantastic try elseerian by ben hale, or the books by Patrick rothfuss (the name of the wind, a wise's man fear) or peter v. brett with the painted man series, the princess of mars series by edgar rice burroughs, etc...
if you want conspiracies try Christopher farnsworth with the president's vampire series, daniel suarez with influx and kill decision, jonathan maberry with the joe ledger series, ernest cline with ready player one and armada, Richard phillips second ship series, simon r green secret histories series, charles stross laundry files, larry correia monster hunter series, david lynn golemon event series, ....
if you want military try h paul honsinger honor series, jack campbell lost fleet series, matthew reilly shane schofield series, michael mccollum gilbratar series, mike resnick starship series, mike shepherd kris longknife series, evan currie into the black series, John ringo, danny kollin the unincorporated man series. Stephen w Bennett koban series,david weber, Christopher g nuttall ark royal series...
if you want magic, try laurel k Hamilton, jim butcher, simon r. green...
This is just a beguining and express only my opinion. There are others but this are some of the best if not the best in any gender

Thank you, tobl!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I finished Mother of Eden. Enjoyed it every bit as much as Dark Eden. Absolutely recommend it to anyone.

Review here (and of Becky Chambers')

http://jozebwrites.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/review-long-way-to-small-angry-planet.html

 

[tobl]

I just need to double the length of a day

why don't you try audiobooks?it's a lot easier

 

[tobl]

Thank you, tobl!

no problem mark. if you want anymore just ask lol those are jsut some of the top of my head.
For instance in the conspiracies i didn't put the máster, robert ludlum, because it's not sci-fi understand?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

no problem mark. if you want anymore just ask lol those are jsut some of the top of my head.
For instance in the conspiracies i didn't put the máster, robert ludlum, because it's not sci-fi understand?

? But there were loads of non-sf on the list? Rothfuss, for instance, or Laurel K Hamilton?

 

[tobl]

? But there were loads of non-sf on the list? Rothfuss, for instance, or Laurel K Hamilton?

rothfuss is fantasy and laurel is urban fantasy. both are great. but ludlum is the máster of real conspiracies. any book of his plausible and possible. there are no fantasies there nor even sci-fi lol there are no robots, monsters ou vampires. just people, politics and murder in other words, real life

 

[yorelm]

The Star Rover by Jack London. Recommended to me by Baylor. I never even knew London had written a fantasy novel.

 

[soulsinging]

I keep meaning to have a look at those Wooding books; so much to read and so little time.

On Revelation Space I personally would recommend reading Chasm City first (as have a number of others). Although it's a stand alone I think it gives a much better intro to the universe than Revelation Space itself and I think it is set earlier than the trilogy.

I really enjoy the Wooding series. It gets compared to the tv show Firefly a lot, which I think is fair. If you're big on minutely detailed world building then this series probably isn't for you. If you like a good swashbuckling adventure you'll have a blast.

I read a thread or two on here about the order to read the books and Chasm City was a popular starting place. However, I have started Revelation Space before and got about 100 pages in and am inclined to pick that up again rather than start anew. I didn't find it a struggle really, though I do get the impression I quit right before it really sinks its hooks into people. I'm weird about reading books in the "right" order (I still refuse to buy any copies of the Narnia books until they are numbered in the original order I remember from youth) so my OCD wants to start with RS then go on to CC. I have a bit of time to decide though!

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I'm weird about reading books in the "right" order (I still refuse to buy any copies of the Narnia books until they are numbered in the original order I remember from youth)

What order are they in, these days? I used to rearrange them in my boxed set so that The Magician's Nephew was first, because it comes before The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, which was numbered "one".

 

[soulsinging]

What order are they in, these days? I used to rearrange them in my boxed set so that The Magician's Nephew was first, because it comes before The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, which was numbered "one".

We're on exact opposite sides of that debate then. Lion, Witch SHOULD be number one, because it was published first and the ONLY proper introduction to the series. The way you got to move back and forth in time to discover more of the world was a big draw for me.

I recall it being something like: Lion 1, Caspian 2, Dawn Treader 3, Silver Chair 4, Horse 5, Magician's Nephew 6, and Last Battle 7.

Now, over here, it's Magician's 1, Lion 2, Horse 3, Caspian 4, Treader 5, Silver 6, Last 7

Actual chronological order is overrated!

 

[TheDustyZebra]

My set has it as number one, and that's what always annoyed me. Yes, that's the order mine is in, exactly -- I'm pretty sure, without looking. Do you see it the other way in sets?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

We're on exact opposite sides of that debate then. Lion, Witch SHOULD be number one, because it was published first and the ONLY proper introduction to the series. The way you got to move back and forth in time to discover more of the world was a big draw for me.

I recall it being something like: Lion 1, Caspian 2, Dawn Treader 3, Silver Chair 4, Horse 5, Magician's Nephew 6, and Last Battle 7.

Now, over here, it's Magician's 1, Lion 2, Horse 3, Caspian 4, Treader 5, Silver 6, Last 7

Actual chronological order is overrated!

No, no, no, no, no. You Americans...( ) it must be Magician's first because it's the first book of the story. Where else can you put it? It makes no sense anywhere else. I think we have Horse as number 4 but I think it's pretty fluid. But I read Lion's first and was glad I did. In fact, as I type this I think Magician's could be either 1 or 7 and nothing in between.

Fight?

 

[Mark Ragland]

no problem mark. if you want anymore just ask lol those are jsut some of the top of my head.
For instance in the conspiracies i didn't put the máster, robert ludlum, because it's not sci-fi understand?

I'm taking my second tour of Ludlum. Reading The Holcroft Covenant now.

 

[dask]

Hi, Dask.

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural was first published in the 1940s, edited by Herbert Wise and Phyllis Cerf (later Wagner, I think), not the first but among the first from a major publisher to include stories by Lovecraft ("The Rats in the Walls" and "The Dunwich Horror"). It's been in print in the U.S. from Modern Library pretty much since first publication.

It is still a go-to anthology for older work. Wise and Cerf divided the book into two sections, the first of non-supernaturals stories and the second of supernatural tales. They did seem to have a blind spot for those works that play with the distinction: Wise's introduction dismisses Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatchers" for reasons that strike me as misreading, which also perhaps accounts for not including Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper."


Randy M.

Thanks for the info Randy, I much appreciate it. Cerf, eh? Wonder if she's related to Bennett somehow. Anyway it's on my radar. Sounds like the horror version of Adventures In Time And Space.

 

[Bugg]

I put Novik's Temeraire to one side for the time being - it's a bit too YA for my current mood, and I was being tempted by Christian Cameron's Alexander: God of War and Mary Renault's The King Must Die. After much deliberation I decided to go with the latter.

 

[HareBrain]

it must be Magician's first because it's the first book of the story. Where else can you put it? It makes no sense anywhere else

What?? You can't read Magician's first; there's no context. It makes it so much more enjoyable to realise you're finding explanations for things you already know about and must have wondered about, like the White Witch and the lamppost. I'm with @soulsinging on this.

Just think of it as a massive flashback.

Oh yeah, reading ... Inish Carraig by someone I've just quoted, and Steven Erikson's Deadhouse Gates.