July 2017: What are you reading?

[Parson]

Just finished listening to Fields of Fire by Marko Kloos. It is very unusual for a series to get better as it goes along but for my taste this one has. Perhaps not everyone would agree because the movement has been slowly away from a post apocalyptic story and more toward a traditional Military S.F. But since that's my sweet zone, I'm happy. No more book to listen to at the moment. I'm finding Terradox by Craig A. Falconer a slog. So far I find the center plot device to be completely unbelievable and most of the characters unappealing at best.

 

[Bick]

I binged on Yellowstone supervolcano books this week. I started with Harry Turtledove's Eruption, which captured the tedious side of surviving a disaster. (I should have consulted the reviews.)

The second supervolcano book I read, Outland by Dennis Taylor, was much more entertaining.

I'm now reading Under Milk Wood, an old favourite.

It must be my age, but for the life of me I can't recall the passages in Under Milk Wood that feature the super volcano. One would have thought it would have stuck in the memory more clearly

 

[TitaniumTi]

It must be my age, but for the life of me I can't recall the passages in Under Milk Wood that feature the super volcano. One would have thought it would have stuck in the memory more clearly

Touché!

 

[Vertigo]

Poseidon’s Wake by Alastair Reynolds - Like my old school reports: could have done much better. More here.

 

[Randy M.]

Re/read a few short stories in The Early Fears by Robert Bloch. Now onto Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory.


Randy M.

 

[ratsy]

@Parson I have the first couple Kloos on my kindle but haven't made it to them yet. I am a little way into Stillhouse Lake, and it's intriguing so far.

I'm still plugging away at The Copper Promise by Jen Williams. I heard it was originally written to be released as 4 separate parts, so that makes sense. Kind of how Michael Sullivans first one felt like more than one story. It is a lot of fun, and has a lot of great fantasy elements I enjoy. Almost half way through.

I reread Explorations: War and have uploaded the final presale file to amazon! It's great, and i'm really happy how it turned out. Beyond that I read two stories from the upcoming Explorations: Colony this weekend too and they were super cool.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I finished Connelly's The Poet and mostly enjoyed it. The one annoyance was the end - I saw the double-bluff twist coming, but the double-double-bluff twist seemed to come out from nowhere with no real foreshadowing. Interesting book, though, and I'll look out for more from this author.

The one curiosity is that there were repeated themes from the Bosch TV series, not least:

Spoiler: Spoiler for Bosch and The Poet

- incest between a father and daughter,
- a serial killer who tries to commit suicide by cop,
- a glass house on the side of the Hollywood hill

 

[Danny McG]

It's 11.25 at night and I've just finished reading Sprout Mask Replica by Robert Rankin so that will be my last book for this month